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Robust template matching for affine resistant image watermarks

Published inIEEE transactions on image processing, vol. 9, no. 6, p. 1123-1129
Publication date2000
Abstract

Digital watermarks have been proposed as a method for discouraging illicit copying and distribution of copyrighted material. This paper describes a method for the secure and robust copyright protection of digital images. We present an approach for embedding a digital watermark into an image using the Fourier transform. To this watermark is added a template in the Fourier transform domain to render the method robust against general linear transformations. We detail a new algorithm based on polar maps for the accurate and efficient recovery of the template in an image which has undergone a general affine transformation. We also present results which demonstrate the robustness of the method against some common image processing operations such as compression, rotation, scaling, and aspect ratio changes.

Keywords
  • Fourier transforms
  • Copyright
  • data compression
  • decoding
  • image coding
  • image matching
  • security of data
  • transform coding
Citation (ISO format)
PEREIRA, Shelby, PUN, Thierry. Robust template matching for affine resistant image watermarks. In: IEEE transactions on image processing, 2000, vol. 9, n° 6, p. 1123–1129. doi: 10.1109/83.846253
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