Digital Watermarking and Steganography: Fundamentals and Techniques, 2nd Edition

This book intends to provide a comprehensive overview on different aspects of mechanisms and techniques for information security. It is written for students, researchers, and professionals studying in the field of multimedia security and steganography. Multimedia security and steganography is especially relevant due to the global scale of digital multimedia and the rapid growth of the Internet. Digital watermarking technology can be used to guarantee authenticity and can be applied as proof that the content has not been altered since insertion. Updated techniques and advances in watermarking are explored in this new edition. The combinational spatial and frequency domains watermarking technique provides a new concept of enlarging the embedding capacity of watermarks. The genetic algorithm (GA) based watermarking technique solves the rounding error problem and provide an efficient embedding approach. Each chapter provides the reader with a fundamental, theoretical framework, while developing the extensive advanced techniques and considering the essential principles of the digital watermarking and steganographic systems. Several robust algorithms that are presented throughout illustrate the framework and provide assistance and tools in understanding and implementing the fundamental principles.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Classification In Digital Watermarking
Chapter 3: Mathematical Preliminaries
Chapter 4: Digital Watermarking Fundamentals
Chapter 5: Watermarking Attacks And Tools
Chapter 6: Combinational Domain Digital Watermarking
Chapter 7: Watermarking Based On Genetic Algorithms
Chapter 8: Adjusted-Purpose Watermarking
Chapter 9: High-Capacity Watermarking
Chapter 10: Reversible Watermarking
Chapter 11: Steganography And Steganalysis
Chapter 12: Steganography Based On Genetic Algorithms And Differential Evolution