3. Introduction
Digital Watermarking describes methods and technologies that hide
information, for example a number or text, in digital media, such as images,
video.
Watermarking is the insertion of imperceptible and inseparable information
into data for data integrity.
4. History
More than 700 years ago, watermarks were used in Italy to indicate the paper
brand and the mill that produced it.
By the 18th century watermarks began to be usedas Anticounterfeiting
measures on money andother documents. The term watermark wasintroduced
near the end of the 18th century.
The first example of a technology similar to digital watermarking is a patent
filed in 1954 by Emil Hem Brooke.
In 1988, Komatsu and Tominaga appear to be thefirst to use the term "digital
watermarking".
5. Digital Watermark
Digital watermark is a message which is embedded into digital content that
can be extracted or detected later.
7. Invisible Watermarking
Invisible watermark is embedded into the data in such a way that the changes
made to the pixel values are perceptually not noticed. Invisible watermark is
used as evidence of ownership and to detect misappropriated images.
8. Visible Watermarking
Visible watermark is a translucent overlaid into an image and is visible to the
viewer. Visible watermarking is used to indicate ownership and for copyright
protection.
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12. Dual Watermarking
Dual watermark is the combination of visible and invisible watermark. An
invisible watermark is used as a backup for the visible watermark.
15. Security
In case the key used during watermark is lost anyone can read the watermark
and remove it.
In case the watermark is public, it can be encoded and copyright information
is lost.