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On the Intractability of Inverting Geometric Distortions in Watermarking Schemes

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We examine the problem of watermarking schemes robust against geometric distortions from a complexity theoretic point of view. The main results presented are polynomial time reductions showing that the inversion of geometric distortions is computationally intractable.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

    Maciej Liśkiewicz & Ulrich Wölfel

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy

    Mauro Barni

  2. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Rbla del Poblenou, 156, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí

  3. Philips Research Europe, Information and System Security, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Stefan Katzenbeisser

  4. Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones ETSI Telecom., Universidad de Vigo, 36200, Vigo,  

    Fernando Pérez-González

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Liśkiewicz, M., Wölfel, U. (2005). On the Intractability of Inverting Geometric Distortions in Watermarking Schemes. In: Barni, M., Herrera-Joancomartí, J., Katzenbeisser, S., Pérez-González, F. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3727. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558859_14

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