Watermarking: how secure is the DM-QIM embedding technique?

Basava R. Matam, David Lowe

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Abstract

Evaluation of the security of data hiding methods has gained considerable interest recently. The security ofquantisation index modulation (QIM) based watermark embedding methods has previously been investigated for different classes of attacks including known-message attack, known-original attack and watermark-only attack. In this paper, an extreme case of the watermark-only attack scenario is discussed wherein only a single instance of a set of watermarked content is available. We challenge the security of the dither modulation (DM)QIM based embedding method by examining feature space embeddings for time series and images, using a distributionfree algorithm to discover the primary key embedding parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDSP 2009: 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Proceedings
Place of PublicationPiscataway (US)
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-3297-4
ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-3298-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2009
Event16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing - Santorini, Greece
Duration: 5 Jul 20097 Jul 2009

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing
Abbreviated titleDSP 2009
Country/TerritoryGreece
CitySantorini
Period5/07/097/07/09

Keywords

  • DM-QIM
  • security

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