Digital Watermarking Techniques and Trends [Paperback]

This book presents the state-of-the-arts application of digital watermarking in audio, speech, image, video, 3D mesh graph, text, software, natural language, ontology, network stream, relational database, XML, and hardware IPs. It also presents new and recent algorithms in digital watermarking for copyright protection and discusses future trends in the field.

Today, the illegal manipulation of genuine digital objects and products represents a considerable problem in the digital world. Offering an effective solution, digital watermarking can be applied to protect intellectual property, as well as fingerprinting, enhance the security and proof-of-authentication through unsecured channels.

Preliminary on Watermarking Technology.- Audio Watermarking.- Speech Watermarking.- Image Watermarking.- Video Watermarking.- Three Dimensional (3D) Watermarking.

This book introduces many watermarking techniques, applied to a wide range of media, and discusses the tradeoffs between different techniques. & it will serve as a great introductory resource for anyone (both researchers and practitioners) who is a beginner in this field and wants to familiarize themselves with the available techniques. Each chapter has an extensive references section that can then be used as a guide for more in-depth study. (Andrew Kalafut, Computing Reviews, January, 2017)

Dr. Mohammad Ali Nematollahi was born in 1986 in Shiraz, Iran. He received his B.S. in computer engineering (software) from Yazd University, Iran in 2008. He completed his master's degree in computer engineering (software) at the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Dubai, UAE in 2011, where he was also a lecturer from 2010 to 2011. He holds a Ph.D in computer and embedded systems engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He has published numerous articles in international journals. His research interests include digital signal processing, speaker recoglˆ