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ABSTRACT
Todays world is digital world. Nowadays, in every field there is enormous use of digital contents.Information handled on INTERNET and MULTIMEDIA NETWORK SYSTEM is in digital form.The copying of digital content without quality loss is not so difficult.Due to this,there are more chances of copying of such digital information.So,there is great need of prohibiting such illegal copyright of digital media.Digital watermarking(DWM) is the powerful solution to this problem.Digital watermarking is nothing but the technology in which there is embedding of various information in digital content which we have to protect from illegal copying.This embedded information to protect the data is embedded as watermark.Beyond the copyright protection,Digital watermarking is having some other applications as fingerprinting,owner identification etc.Digital watermarks are of different types as robust,fragile,visible and invisible.Application is depending upon these watermarks classifications.There are some requirements of digital watermarks as integrity,robustness and complexity.
Digital watermarking is created by inserting a digital signal or pattern into digital content. Digital watermarking is nothing but process of conveying information by imperceptiblly embedding it into digital media.The purpose of embedding the information depends upon application and need of user of digital media. Digital watermarking provides the solution for difficult problem of providing guarentee to organiser and consumer of digital content about their legal rights.Copyright protection for multimedia information is nothing but a golden key for multimedia industry.Digital watermarking is a technology that opens a new door for authors,producers,publishers and service providers for protection of their rights and interest in multimedia documents. There are various techniques for prevention of illegal copying.They are described as follows 1. Encryption methods which includes use of public and private keys to encode the data,so that image can decoded only with required key. 2. Site security methods which includes use of firewalls to access the data. 3. Using Thumbnail images.and the most popular and important 4. Digital watermarking which includes robust labelling of an image with Information which is to be prevent from illegal copying and also use of image checksum or other techniques to detect manipulation of image data. In general sense,Digital Watermarking means Author Signature. Digital watermarking is the process of encoding hidden copyright information in an image by making small modifications in its pixel content.In this case watermarking doesnt restrict the accessing image information. The important function of watermarking is to remain present in data for proof of ownership.The use of digital watermarking is not restricted upto copyright
protection.Digital watermarking can also be used for owner identification to identify content of owner,fingerprinting to identify buyer of content,broadcast monitoring and authentification to determine whether the data is changed from its original form or not Finally,the actual meaning of Digital watermarking technique is come to know from following three point of views
1. Work=>A specific song,video,picture or specific copy of such. 2. Content=>Set of all possible works. 3. Watermarking=>The practise of imperceptiblly altering a work to embed
a message about that work. The watermarking solution promise to protect your images by inserting text information and then tracking the images.Digital watermarking distinguishes digital copies and mark documents with owners ID.There are many reasons to embed information in digital content using digital watermarking. The internet boom is one of the reasons.It has become very easy to connect to internet from home computers to obtain or provide various information using World Wide Web(WWW). All information handled on internet is in digital form.Such digital content can be copy such that new file is indistinguishable from original one.Then content can be reproduce in large quantities. .Digital watermarking protecting such illegal copying.A watermark discourage piracy and determines criminals of making illegal copies of digital media.
in collaboration with international registration bodies such as IDDN(Inter Deposite Digital Number). In addition with copyright protection,Digital watermarking is playing a important role in many fields of applications such as broadcast monitoring, owner identification,transaction tracking,proof of ownership,fingerprinting, content authentification,copy control,device control.Digital watermarks can also serve as invisible labels and content link.For example,photo development labs may insert a watermark into the picture to link the print to its negative.so, it is becomes easy to find out negative of a print.All one has to do is to scan the print and extract the information from negative.In a completely different scenario,the digital watermarks may be used as a geometrical reference which may be useful for programs such as Optical Character Recognition(OCR) software.The embedded calibration watermark may improve the detection reliability of the OCR software since it allows the determination of translation,rotation and scaling. Digital watermarking also serves as a means of advertising within the digital media.For instance,the user may download and view a digital image,use a watermark reader to extract the digital signature,then acess a web based directory to find the companys name and up-to-date address,phone number and web and e-mail address.Digital watermarks also serves the purposes of identifying quality and assuring authenticity.A graphic or audio file bearing digital watermark can inform the viewer or listener who owns to the item.
difficult to remove.The watermark should be robust to different attacks. The robustness describes whether watermark can be reliably detected after performing some media operations.
2. Perceptual transparency=>This property describes that whether
watermark is visible or invisible to human sensor organ.Perceptible watermarks are visible to human while imperceptible are not.Imperceptible watermarks are such that content remains same after applying digital watermarking technique.
3. Security=>Security property describes that how easy to remove a waterm-
information that can be embedded within the content.The important point is that more data is used in watermark,watermark will become less robust. In addition to these properties,watermarks are having some extra properties as unambiguity,tamper resistance,inseperable from the works and able to undergo some transformation as works.
3.2Classification=>
Digital watermarks are classified according to their applications. The watermarks are classified as perceptible watermarks and imperceptible watermarks, robust and fragile, public and private. This classification of watermarks is broadly described in following sections.
1. Perceptible watermarks and imperceptible watermarks=>
Perceptible watermarks are visible to human eye while imperceptible watermarks are invisible.The perceptible watermarks are useful for primary application i.e. for statement ownership or authorship.So for this reason it should be visible. .On the other hand imperceptible watermarks are useful for complex applications such as document identification in which content being watermarked must appear in unchanged form Examples of visible(perceptible) watermarks are logos on TV,IBMs watermark and that of invisible(imperceptible) watermarks are ATT,NEC/MIT,UU etc. Perceptible watermarks i.e. visible one are extension of the concept of logos.They are applicable to images only.These watermarks are embedded into
image.They are applicable in maps,graphics and software user interface.Imperceptible watermarks i.e.invisible one remains hidden in the content.They can be detectrd only by authorized agency.These watermarks are useful for content or author authentication and for detecting unauthorized copier.
2. Robust watermarks and fragile watermarks=>
Robust or fragile is nothing but degree to which watermarks can withstand any modifications of any types caused due to the transmission or lossy compression.Perceptible watermarks are more robust in nature than imperceptible one.But meaning of this is not that imperceptible watermarks are fragile one. Robust watermarks are those watermarks which are difficult to remove from the object in which they are embedded.Fragile watermarks are those watermarks which can be easily destroyed by any attempt to tamper with them.Fragile watermarks are destroyed by data manipulation.
3. Private watermarks and public watermarks=>
Private watermarks requires atleast original data to recover watermark information Public watermarks requires neither original data nor embedded watermarks to recover watermark information.Private watermarks are also known as secure watermarks.To read or retrieve private watermark,it is necessary to have secret key.Public watermark can be read or retrieve by anyone using specialized algorithm.In this sense public watermarks are not secure.Public watermarks are useful for carrying IPR information.They are good alternatives to labels.
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The generic approach consists of watermark embedder and watermark detector. 1 The watermark embedder is having two inputs i.e.cover work and watermark message and its output is watermarked work which is input to watermark detector.Then after performing some operations detector gives detected watrmark message. Inputs to insertion unit are original image(i.e.any digital content),the watermark and user key to obtain watermarked image.The output of insertion unit is watermarked object.The input to extraction unit consits of watermarked image and key used during insertion unit If,object has not been altered,since it was marked and correct key is used,output of extraction unit is watermark.If, the object has been altered or wrong key is used,the extraction procedure outputs an error message.
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The inputs to detection units are watermarked object(may be alter), the watermark that was inserted into object and the key.The detection process then indicates whether the object contains a mark that is close to the original watermark.The meaning of close depends on the type of alterations that a marked object might undergo the course of normal use. Watermark inserion unit integrates the input image and watermark to form output watermarked image.watermark extraction uncovers the watermark in watermarked images,a technique usually applicable in verification watermarks. Watermark detection detects presence of ID .e.g. in robust watermarks presence of specified ID (watermarks) can be detected using predefined threshold;i.e. answering to question either YES or NO indicates whether ID is present or not.
Figure no.3 shows what actual process is carried out during embedding and extraction process.Original data and watermark on submitting to embedding alorithm gives watermarked data.During extraction,this watermarked data is then given to extraction algorithm gives extracted watermark.
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5.1.1
Information hiding=>
Information hiding is also called as Data hiding. The hiding is concerned with making information imperceptible or keeping its existence secrete.Information hiding means encompassing wide range of problems beyond that of embedding messages in content.Information hiding deals with communication security.It consists of encryption and traffic security.Encryption protects the content during distribution over an open network such as internet.The traffic security is related to concealing its sender,its receiver.Thus,here an attempt is made to have secrete communication between each two parties where existence is unknown to attacker.
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Steganography=>
It is nothing but sub-discipline of information hiding. Here secrete information is hidden in harmless message,which is also known as cover message.steganography is used to avoid drawing suspictions to transmission of hidden message so as to remain undetected.The idea behind this is that to hide message in envolope or
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5.1.3
Cryptography=>
This technique is related with data protection. It is commonly used for protecting digital information.Once,data is decrypted,it cant remain protected for long time i.e. there may be more chances of illegal copying of this data.So, there is great need of cryptography technique.Watermarking is special case of cryptography. Cryptography involves some suitable and complicated techniques so that no unauthorized user is allowed to access the data to protect.Authorisation of user is checked by certain keys or signature.
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Watermarking=>
Watermarking is technology derived from steganography. It is also sub-discipline of information hiding.Watermarking is process of embedding secrete and robust idintifier inside audio,video content.The purpose of watermarking is to establish the copyright of content creator.In this sense watermarks are also known as the hidden copyright messages.watermarking secures the content,thus any attempt to modify the content can be easily detected.The watermarking can trace the path followed by content in distribution chain.This helps in tracing malicious users.
5.2 Attacks=>
Due to some reasons, there is need of adding, altering or removing false watermarks.Attacks on watermarks may be accidental or intentional.Accidenatal attcks may caused due to the standard image processing or due to the compression
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procedures.Intentional attacks includes cryptanalysis,steganalysis,image processing techniques or other attempts to overwrite or remove existing watermarks. Folloewing are the methods of attacks vary according to robustness and Perceptability.
5.2.1
Mosaic attack=>
Mosaic attack is the method in which pictures are displayed so as to confuse watermark-searching program, known as Web Crawler. Mosaic is created by subdividing the original image into randomly sized small images and displaying the resulting image on webpage.
Figure no.1 shows the example of mosaic schemes.The aim is to confuse the web crawler into thinking that there is no watermark within the picture because it has been sub divided into smaller separate pictures.This form of attack becomes to a large degree obsolete due to new improved methods of watermarking and more intelligent web crawlers.
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5.2.2
Geometric attack=>
images,documents and audio files.This attack is futher classified as-
Subtractive attack=>
It involves the attacker in the area of located watermark if imperceptible and then Removing the mark by cropping or digital editing.
Distortive attack=>
In this attack, attacker attempts to make some uniform distortive changes in the images such that mark becomes unrecognizable. These two watermark attacks are usually performed on robust watermark.
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Stirmark attack=>
Stirmark is generic tool developed for simple robustness techniques of image Marking algorithms and steganographic techniques.In its simplest version, stirmark simulates resampling process in which it introduces same kind of errors into an image to print it on high quality printer and scanning it again with high quality scanner.It includes minor geometric distortion. This testing tool is an effective program to remove fairly robust watermarks in images and become a form of attack on its own.
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5.2.4
Forgery attack=>
Forgery attack is also known as Additive attack in some cases. Forgery attack include the attacker who can add his or her own watermark overlaying the original image and marking the content as their own.
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Inversion attack=>
Inversion watermark render the watermark information ambiguous.Ihe idea behind the invesion attack that attacker who receives watermarked data can claim that data contains his watermark also by declaring part of data as his watermark. The attacker can easily generate the original data by substracting the claimed watermark.
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Cryptanalysis=>
It is mostlly associated with cryptography. It is a method in which attacker attempts to find the decryption key for an encrypted pieces of information so that it can be made useful again. Attacker can remove licensing watermark that decrypts tha data ,attacker would use cryptanalysis to find decryption key so that data can use in decrtpted form free from its watermark.
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Intelligent web browsers. Law enforcement for chain of evidence. Some special watermarking technique uses color separation.So,watermarks appears in only one of the color bands.therefore,watermarks becomes strongly invisible.whenever,the colors are separated from printing then watermarks becones visible.This approach is advantageous to journaliststo inspect digital pictures from a photo stockhouse before buying an un-watermarked versions. There is an important advantage of invisible fragile watermarks.With such invisible fragile watermarks,implementation of web based image authentication This web based authentication includes watermark embedding and authentication system.In case of watermark embedding system,it is installed in server as application software that any authorized user who access to server can generate watermark image.The distribution can be done through any network as FTP, e-mail etc.Once,image is distributed to externally,client can get authentification web page to get verification of images. Digital watermarking techniques is having advantages as we seen earlier. It also have some limits also.
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be got around in future,in the meantime,the possibility of erasing the watermark or its part ,once its content is known must be taken into account when designing a copyright protection system. As a matter of fact,if any one is allow to read the watermark,then anyone can erase it by knowing the embedding algorithm.In some researches,the conclusion comes that not all watermarking techniques will be useful in resolving ownership disputes.Watermarking doesnt prevent image copying as much as it simply makes copied images easier to track down and detect ownership. Some watermarks vanish if someone manipulates the image in a program like photoshop.The watermarks have been known to weaken or disappear by the time the images were processed for the Internet. Resizing, compressing and converting images from one file type to another may add noise to an image or diminish its watermark in such a manner that the watermark becomes unreadable.
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This method uses JPEG images. It alters the algorithm used to record the difference between the pixels,which is basis for JPEG encoding.If you use more bits for encoding the watermark,either the image is larger or low quality will be there. Some algorithms used in this method encode the message so well that the image can be printed out, scanned back in, and the copyright can still be read.
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Masking=>
A watermark is processed and placed over the original, so that if a difference file is made of the two, the watermark stands out to the human eye. . Dithering the mask can also make the alteration of the photo less noticable, as it removes sharp edges of change. This alters the image characteristics rather than bits, so it could be considered to fall under the Transform Domain. Text watermarks can be of three basic kinds: text line coding, which is when the text lines of a certain document page are shifted up or down very slightly that is cannot be noticed; Word space coding, which is when the spacing between words in a line of justified text is altered and; Character coding, which is when a feature such as the endline at the top of a letter is extended so that the altered text goes unnoticed. In the case of watermarking video, it is difficult to do because it is a sequence of images, and would be time consuming to process each frame. You could process only every other frame, but then the watermark could be destroyed by eliminating or modifying every second frame, and overall quality would not be
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overly damaged. Therefore it is better to use the Transform Domain encoding methods.
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protection of bills with digital watermarks. Various companies have projects in this direction solutions will soon be available. In addition to technological developments, marketing and business issues are extremely important and require in-depth analysis and strategic planing. It is very important to prepare the industry to the usage of digital watermarks and and it is very likely that fully functioning to convince them of the added value their products can gain if they employ digital watermarking technologies.
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9.2 Encoding=>
According to the thinking of major music companies and major video studios,
encoding happens at mastering level of sound recording.In such downstream, transactional watermarks are also considered.Each song is assigned with unique ID from the identifier database.After completion of all mastering processes,ID is encoded in sound recording.To enhance encoding of audio or video recordings requiring special processing,the human-assisted watermark key is available.
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CONCLUSION
The large need of networked multimedia system has created the need of COPYRIGHT PROTECTION.It is very important to protect intellectual properties of digital media.Internet playing an important role of digital data transfer.Digital watermarking is the great solution of the problem of how to protect copyright. Digital watermarking is the solution for the protection of legal rights of digital content owner and customer.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION WHAT IS AND WHY TO USE DWM? 2.1 WHAT IS IT? 2.2 WHY TO USE IT? PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF DWM 3.1 PROPERTIES 3.2 CLASSIFICATION WORKING OF DIGITAL WATERMARKING RELATIVE CONCEPTS AND ATTACKS 5.1 RELAVENT TERMS 5.1.1 INFORMATION HIDING 5.1.2 STEGANOGRAPHY 5.1.3 CRYPTOGRAPHY 5.1.4 WATERMARKING 5.2 ATTACKS 5.2.1 MOSAIC ATTACK 5.2.2 GEOMETRIC ATTACK 5.2.3 STIRMARK ATTACK 5.2.4 FORGERY ATTACK 5.2.5 INVERSION ATTACK 5.2.6 CRYPTANALYSIS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DWM 6.1 ADVANTAGES 6.2 DISADVANTAGES DIGITAL WATERMARKING TECHNIQUES 7.1 IMAGE DOMAIN ENCODING 7.2 TRANSFER DOMAIN 7.3 MASKING
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FUTURE OF DIGITAL WATERMARKING APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL WATERMARKING. 9.1 BROADCAST MONITORING 9.2 ENCODING 9.3 COPY AND PLAYBACK CONTROL 9.4 CONTENT AUTHENTICATION CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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