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A Lossless Watermarking Technique for Halftone Images

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3682))

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In this paper, a lossless watermarking technique in dealing with halftone images is proposed to achieve both copyright protection and exact recovery of the original halftone image with legal authorization. Experimental results show that pattern substitution along with an appropriate block cutting on a halftone image makes possible the positive recovery of the original halftone image after the extraction of a watermark.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Cheng-Shiu University, No. 840, ChengCing Rd., NiaoSong Township, Kaohsiung County, 833, Taiwan

    Ping-Sung Liao

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, 415 Chien-Kung Road, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan

    Jeng-Shyang Pan, Yen-Hung Chen & Bin-Yih Liao

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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Liao, PS., Pan, JS., Chen, YH., Liao, BY. (2005). A Lossless Watermarking Technique for Halftone Images. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3682. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552451_81

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