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dc.contributor.advisorJiang, Jianmin
dc.contributor.advisorIpson, Stanley S.
dc.contributor.authorNasir, Ibrahim A.*
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-20T14:21:13Z
dc.date.available2010-09-20T14:21:13Z
dc.date.issued2010-09-20T14:21:13Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/4432
dc.description.abstractWith the rapid growth of the internet and digital media techniques over the last decade, multimedia data such as images, video and audio can easily be copied, altered and distributed over the internet without any loss in quality. Therefore, protection of ownership of multimedia data has become a very significant and challenging issue. Three novel image watermarking algorithms have been designed and implemented for copyright protection. The first proposed algorithm is based on embedding multiple watermarks in the blue channel of colour images to achieve more robustness against attacks. The second proposed algorithm aims to achieve better trade-offs between imperceptibility and robustness requirements of a digital watermarking system. It embeds a watermark in adaptive manner via classification of DCT blocks with three levels: smooth, edges and texture, implemented in the DCT domain by analyzing the values of AC coefficients. The third algorithm aims to achieve robustness against geometric attacks, which can desynchronize the location of the watermark and hence cause incorrect watermark detection. It uses geometrically invariant feature points and image normalization to overcome the problem of synchronization errors caused by geometric attacks. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms are robust and outperform related techniques found in literature.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>.en
dc.subjectDigital mediaen
dc.subjectDigital imagesen
dc.subjectImage watermarking algorithmsen
dc.subjectDigital content protectionen
dc.subjectDigital rights managementen
dc.subjectCopyrighten
dc.titleDigital Watermarking of Images towards Content Protection.en
dc.type.qualificationleveldoctoralen
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Bradfordeng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Computing, Informatics & Mediaen
dc.typeThesiseng
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen
dc.date.awarded2010
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-19T03:54:24Z


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