Investigations on Adaptive Watermarking for Digital Images

Advances in computer networks and communication technologies facilitate the end user in sharing and distributing the huge amount of multimedia data. Similarly advancement in software technology made the end users to carry out unauthorized manipulation of multimedia data very easily. This advancement leads to many problems such as copyright protection, unauthorized manipulation of multimedia data etc. Therefore, a scheme to protect multimedia data for the mentioned problems is highly essential. Digital Watermarking is the elegant and most promising technique to protect copyrights of multimedia data and the research in this direction is in infant stage. Moreover, adaptive watermarking schemes demonstrates that the automatism in inserting watermark is not complete and thus dependency of user is mandatory. This book throws light on digital watermarking schemes for both visible and invisible mode in transform domain. In addition, these watermarking schemes are completely adaptive. The content of the book is explained in a lucid manner, so that a lay man can carry out research in this direction. I trust and hope that the book will be appreciated by the readers.