Quantization index modulation: a class of provably good methods for digital watermarking and information embedding
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We consider the problem of embedding one signal (e.g., a digital watermark), within another "host" signal to form a third, "composite" signal. The goal is to achieve efficient rate-distortion-robustness trade-offs. We introduce a new class of embedding methods called distortion-compensated quantization index modulation. In several different contexts involving both intentional and unintentional attacks, capacity-achieving methods exist within this class, while in other contexts these methods achieve provably better rate-distortion-robustness performance than previously proposed spread-spectrum and generalized low-bit(s) modulation methods.
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Moulin, P., & O'Sullivan, J. A. (n.d.) · 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Cat. No.00CH37060) · doi:10.1109/isit.2000.866309
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- Authors
- Chen, B., & Wornell, G. W.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Cat. No.00CH37060)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2002-11-07
- Pages
- 46
- OpenAlex
- W4255994408
- Semantic Scholar
- 91f0624446a323b7642d06ea2a8a6bcda80165f9
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 4.02
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Data Compression Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
- Keywords
- quantization index modulation, digital watermarking, information hiding, rate-distortion tradeoff, robustness to attacks, spread spectrum
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