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A simple and efficient watermark technique based on JPEG2000 Codec

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In this paper we propose an effective watermark scheme for embedding and extracting based on the JPEG2000 Codec process. Our embedding algorithm applies the torus automorphisms (TA) technique to break up and scramble a watermark. The scrambled watermark was embedded into the quantized bitstreams of JPEG2000 before the entropy coding stage. Distortion reduction (DR) was applied to the compressed image to lessen image degradation caused by the embedding process. Our watermark scheme is simple and easy to implement. Furthermore, it is robust to attacks like blurring, edge enhancement, and other image processing manipulations.

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  1. Department of Information Management, National Taichung Institute of Technology, No. 129 Sec. 3, San-min Rd., Taichung, Taiwan 404, R.O.C.

    Tung-Shou Chen

  2. Department of Computer Science Information Management, HungKuang University, No.34 Chung-chi, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan 433, R.O.C

    Jeanne Chen

  3. Department of Information Management, National Taichung Institute of Technology, No.129, Sec. 3, San-min Rd., Taichung, Taiwan 404, R.O.C

    Jian-Guo Chen

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Chen, TS., Chen, J. & Chen, JG. A simple and efficient watermark technique based on JPEG2000 Codec. Multimedia Systems 10, 16–26 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-004-0133-8

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