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Published in: Wireless Personal Communications 4/2021

23-02-2021

Robust Digital Watermarking Techniques for Copyright Protection of Digital Data: A Survey

Authors: Poonam Kadian, Shiafali M. Arora, Nidhi Arora

Published in: Wireless Personal Communications | Issue 4/2021

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Abstract

Digital watermarking has emerged as a potential solution to the copyright protection related issues of digital data. This paper presents key paradigms of research in robust watermarking techniques for copyright protection, copy protection, and authentication of digital multimedia. The main issues that derive research in robust watermarking schemes are imperceptibility, security, and robustness. The purpose of this paper is to provide a gist of robust watermarking schemes in the transform domain with the help of some brief theories proposed in the literature. Frequency transformation techniques such as DCT, DFT, and DWT, RDWT have been the most widely used methods to develop robust watermarking algorithms in the transform domain. The general framework of the watermarking system, recent application areas, characteristics, classification of information hiding methods, and various performance evaluation parameters considered by researchers have also been presented in this review. Broadly, this study reviews and compare performance summary of the several state-of-art robust watermarking methods available. This survey paper will be beneficial for the researchers keen to contribute to the field of robust digital watermarking particularly in the transform domain.
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Metadata
Title
Robust Digital Watermarking Techniques for Copyright Protection of Digital Data: A Survey
Authors
Poonam Kadian
Shiafali M. Arora
Nidhi Arora
Publication date
23-02-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Wireless Personal Communications / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0929-6212
Electronic ISSN: 1572-834X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08177-w

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