Watermarks

From Christy Ann Conlin, the critically acclaimed and award winning author of Heave, comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever. In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live in exile if he is to live at all. A woman coming to terms with her eccentric childhood in a cult on the Bay of Fundy shore. A master of North Atlantic Gothic, Christy Ann Conlin expertly navigates our conflicting self-perceptions, especially in moments of crisis. She illuminates the personality of land and ocean, charts the pull of the past on the present, and reveals the wildness inside each of us. These stories offer a gallery of both gritty and lyrical portraits, each unmasking the myth and mystery of the everyday.

Watermarking techniques involve the concealment of information withina text or images and the transmission of this information to thereceiver with minimum distortion. This is a very new area ofresearch. The techniques will have a significant effect on defence, business, copyright protection and other fields where informationneeds to be protected at all costs from attackers.This book presents the recent advances in the theory andimplementation of watermarking techniques. It brings together, for thefirst time, the successful applications of intelligent paradigms(including comparisons with conventional methods) in many areas. Theaccompanying CD-Rom provides readers with source codes and executablesto put into practice general topics in watermarking

"Fictional story about Mina McInnis returning to her childhood home on Mikinaak Island after a twenty year absence. The story unravels the incidents that caused her family's disintegration and she is determined to uncover the truth about the tragedy from her past, and the presence that dwells in the cold, dark waters of Lake Huron."--

Every day millions of people capture, store, transmit, and manipulate digital data. Unfortunately free access digital multimedia communication also provides virtually unprecedented opportunities to pirate copyrighted material. Providing the theoretical background needed to develop and implement advanced techniques and algorithms, Digital Watermarking and Steganography: Demonstrates how to develop and implement methods to guarantee the authenticity of digital media Explains the categorization of digital watermarking techniques based on characteristics as well as applications Presents cutting-edge techniques such as the GA-based breaking algorithm on the frequency-domain steganalytic system The popularity of digital media continues to soar. The theoretical foundation presented within this valuable reference will facilitate the creation on new techniques and algorithms to combat present and potential threats against information security.

Multimedia security has become a major research topic, yielding numerous academic papers in addition to many watermarking-related companies. In this emerging area, there are many challenging research issues that deserve sustained study towards an effective and practical system. This book explores the myriad of issues regarding multimedia security, including perceptual fidelity analysis, image, audio, and 3D mesh object watermarking, medical watermarking, error detection (authentication) and concealment, fingerprinting, digital signature and digital right management.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2015. The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: digital forensics; steganography and steganalysis; digital watermarking; reversible data hiding; and visual cryptography.

"The book discusses new aspects of digital watermarking in a worldwide context"--Provided by publisher.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, IWDW 2002, held in Seoul, Korea in November 2002. The 19 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals, new algorithms, watermarking unusual content, fragile watermarking, robust watermarking, and adaptive watermarking.