Digital Dathid Water W/ App

Data-hiding and watermarking technology are poised to become the foundation for secure multimedia systems. This book presents an introduction to the basics followed by a discussion of various applications, including their varying and contradictory constraints. Topics include: hiding and steganography, data-hiding capacity, different types of watermarking, issues in watermark design, signal processing approaches to watermark encoding, decoding, and detection, protocols for watermarking, and applications to secure media systems. The book contains an extensive list of computer projects that facilitate understanding of the implementational issues.