There has been a rapid development in the growth of multimedia and communications in the
past few years. With the widespread use of the networks, intellectual properties can be …

Watermarking, which belong to the information hiding field, has seen a lot of research
interest. There is a lot of work begin conducted in different branches in this field …

With the widespread use of networks, intellectual properties can be obtained and
reproduced easily. This creates a high demand for content protection technique like …

Digital watermarking is the act of hiding a message related to a digital signal (ie an image,
song, video) within the signal itself. It is a concept closely related to steganography, in that …

Digital watermarking techniques have been developed to protect the copyright of media
signals. This chapter aims to provide a universal review and background about the …

Editing, reproduction and distribution of the digital multimedia are becoming extremely
easier and faster with the existence of the Internet and the availability of pervasive and …

This paper presents a literature survey on Digital Watermarking within an image. It describes
the early work carried out on digital watermarks, including the brief analysis of various …

Due to high speed computer networks, the use of digitally formatted data has increased
many folds. The digital data can be duplicated and edited with great ease which has led to a …

Due to advances in ICT, most information is kept electronically. Consequently, the security of
information has become a fundamental issue. Besides cryptography, steganography can be …

It is our great pleasure to present in this volume the proceedings of the 7th International
Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) which was held in Busan, Korea, during …