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Rich-information watermarking scheme for 3D models of oblique photography

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The security issues of copyright information arise rapidly along with the widely application of 3D models of oblique photography. In this paper, a reversible watermarking scheme is proposed for 3D models of oblique photography, aiming at robustness enhancing and rich-information watermark embedding. To realize the goal of rich-information watermark embedding, an encoding method of original copyright information is designed based on QR code, which can shorten significantly the length of the final watermark data without affecting the copyright expression. A 3D point grouping method is designed and both watermark embedding and extraction are completed group by group, so that the robustness of this scheme under certain attacks can be enhanced, e.g., model segmentation, data compression, point randomly deleting, etc. Moreover, watermarks are embedded into spherical coordinates of 3D points so that the ability of the proposed scheme in resisting geometric transformation can be improved. Results of simulation experiments have demonstrated that the proposed scheme can support rich-information watermark embedding, and it has a satisfying robustness under common geometric and non-geometric attacks.

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This research is supported by the Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (Grant No. 2017ZX07603001) and the Talent Start-up Project of NIGLAS (Grant No. Y8SL031001-NIGLAS2018QD07).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Yinguo Qiu, Hongtao Duan & Juhua Luo

  2. School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Hehe Gu & Jiuyun Sun

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Qiu, Y., Gu, H., Sun, J. et al. Rich-information watermarking scheme for 3D models of oblique photography. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 31365–31386 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-07982-7

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