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A recent survey on image watermarking techniques and its application in e-governance

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This survey presents a brief discussion of different aspects of digital image watermarking. Included in the present discussion are these general concepts: major characteristics of digital watermark, novel and recent applications of watermarking, different kinds of watermarking techniques and common watermark embedding and extraction process. In addition, recent state-of-art watermarking techniques, potential issues and available solutions are discussed in brief. Further, the performance summary of the various state-of-art watermarking techniques is presented in tabular format. This survey contribution will be useful for the researchers to implement efficient watermarking techniques for secure e-governance applications.

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Kumar, C., Singh, A.K. & Kumar, P. A recent survey on image watermarking techniques and its application in e-governance. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 3597–3622 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-5222-8

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