Attack modelling : towards a second generation benchmark

Article Article scientifique Article Attack modelling : towards a second generation benchmark eng 2001 author Voloshynovskyy Svyatoslav 514089 author Pereira Shelby 122013 author Iquise Mier Victor Max 94779 author Pun Thierry 22776 1177-1214 10.1016/S0165-1684(01)00039-1 0165-1684 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168401000391 Digital image watermarking techniques for copyright protection have become increasingly robust. The best algorithms perform well against the now standard benchmark tests included in the Stirmark package. However the stirmark tests are limited since in general they do not properly model the watermarking process and consequently are limited in their potential to removing the best watermarks. Here we propose a stochastic formulation of watermarking attacks using an estimationbased concept. The proposed attacks consist of two main stages: a) watermark or cover data estimation; b) modification of stego data aiming at disrupting the watermark detection and of resolving copyrights, taking into account the statistics of the embedded watermark and exploits features of human visual system. In the second part of the paper we propose a "second generation benchmark". We follow the model of the Stirmark benchmark and propose the 6 following categories of tests: denoising attacks and wavelet compression, watermark copy attack, synchronization removal, denoising/compression with following perceptual remodulation, denoising and random bending. Our results indicate that even though some algorithms perform well against the Stirmark benchmark, almost all algorithms perform poorly against our benchmark. This indicates that much work remains to be done before claims about "robust" watermarks can be made. We also propose a new method of evaluating image quality based on the Watson metric which overcomes the limitations of the PSNR. Special Issue: Information Theoretic Issues in Digital Watermarking, 2001. V. Cappellini, M. Barni, F. Bartolini, Eds. Watermarking Digital watermarking Watermarking attacks Benchmarking: Stochastic image modeling Estimation Decoding Dewey 025.063 13 Centre universitaire d'informatique 0D3 32 Département d'informatique 18 false 895 Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory 725 Multimodal Interaction Group 933 Stochastic Information Processing Group Signal processing 81 6 5fce732b-e1cf-476f-acc8-43a71b33408e Article (Published version) Public VoloshynovskiyPereiraIsquizPun_SP2001.pdf 890915 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre universitaire d'informatique Faculté des sciences / Département d'informatique

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