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A new buyer-seller watermarking protocol without multiple watermarks insertion

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Tzung-Her ChenAuthors Info & Claims

Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 76, Issue 7

Pages 9667 - 9679

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3573-1

Published: 01 April 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Watermarking protocols are designed for tracing illegal distributors when unauthorized copies are found. So far, most of the proposed schemes set up two or more watermarks embedded to a copy by the seller before it was sold. The main potential concerns of multiple watermarking are the image quality would be damaged and any earlier embedded watermarks would be destroyed as well. Thanks to visual cryptography which encodes the secret image into two shares, and recovers the secret by collecting these two shares. Therefore, a new buyer-seller watermarking protocol is proposed in this paper by applying the technique of visual cryptography to Lei et al.'s scheme so as to free from the disadvantages of multiple-watermarking insertion.

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Frattolillo F(2018)Watermarking protocolsInternational Journal of Information Security10.1007/s10207-017-0386-917:5(587-601)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10207-017-0386-9

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Multimedia Tools and Applications Volume 76, Issue 7

Apr 2017

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Wang BChen TJeng FChen T(2019)On the security of threshold random grid-based visual secret sharingMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-018-6478-378:8(10157-10180)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-018-6478-3
Song CSang JSudirman S(2018)A buyer-seller watermarking protocol for digital secondary marketMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-016-4247-877:1(225-249)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-016-4247-8
Frattolillo F(2018)Watermarking protocolsInternational Journal of Information Security10.1007/s10207-017-0386-917:5(587-601)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10207-017-0386-9

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