With the proliferation of digital media such as DVDs and MP3s, pirated versions of copyrighted material have escalated. Authors, songwriters, movie-makers, and all types of publishers are clamouring for ways to safeguard their investments and income from this digital thievery. Digital watermarking is a technology for authenticating copyright as well as original authorship and publication. In this work, security experts learn which types of media and applications are best-suited for digital watermarking, as well as how to prevent forgery and theft of digital watermarks. It includes in-depth coverage of advances in this field, especially watermarking audio content.
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978-1-58053-111-5 (9781580531115)
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Michael Arnold heads the digital watermarking group at Fraunhofer-IGD, Darmstadt, Germany. He earned a master's degree in physics at Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany. Martin Schmucker works for Fraunhofer-IGD, Darmstadt, Germany and earned a master's degree in computer science at the University of Ulm, Germany. Stephen D. Wolthusen heads the information assurance group at Fraunhofer-IGD, Darmstadt, Germany and earned a master's degree in computer science at the University of Darmstadt.
Digital watermarking; applications of digital watermarking; digital watermarking for still images; digital watermarking for audio data; digital watermarking for other media; attacks, benchmarks and standardization; other content protection mechanisms; integrated content protection solutions; conclusion.
