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A new method improving watermark robustness against both global and local geometrical distortions is presented in this article. The proposed approach is based on a self-reference concept and exploits special autocorrelation features of a spatial template. The template allows identifying both the transformation parameters and translation coordinates. Distortions are estimated and reversed on a level as global as possible to maximize watermark recovery effectiveness and minimize a time needed for that purpose. Experimental results showed that an inserted watermark could be successfully read even after Stirmark attack.
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Bogumił, D. (2004). Reversing Global and Local Geometrical Distortions in Image Watermarking. In: Fridrich, J. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30114-1_3
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