Techniques and Applications of Digital Watermarking and Content Protection

Whether you need to quickly come up to speed on the state of the art in digital watermarking or want to explore the latest research in this area, such as 3-D geometry watermarking, this timely reference gives you the hands-on knowledge you need for your work. This book covers the full range of media -- still images, audio data, video, 3-D geometry data, formatted text, music scores, and program code -- that you can protect with digital watermarking.

Michael Arnold is head of the watermarking group in the security technology department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany. He received his degree in physics from the Julius-Maximilians University of Wurzburg Martin Schmucker works in the security technology department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany. His prior experience included working in the field of telematics and traffic control systems. His research interests include content protection and digital watermarking Stephen D. Wolthusen is the deputy department head of the security technology department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany. He has been involved in computer security and information assurance research since 1993