Authors:
Maria Chroni
;
Angelos Fylakis
and
Stavros Nikolopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Ioannina, Greece
Keyword(s):
Watermarking Techniques, Intellectual Property Rights, Teaching IP, Educational Tools, Visual Representations, Learning Process, Color Images, 2D-representations of Permutations, Algorithms.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Groupware Tools
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract:
Our work proposes a watermarking system for supporting the teaching process for educating students to respect
intellectual property rights. In particular, we propose an educational tool, which we named WaterIP,
that can be efficiently used by students to enable them to perceive how to protect their own ideas and how
to respect others’ intellectual property. Our system uses an efficient technique for watermarking images by
exploiting certain properties of a specific 2D representation of permutations, it has a friendly graphical user
interface and shows interesting performance figures. The system provides students with two main working
levels: (I) the student creates a secret key, i.e., the watermark, and embeds it into his own image, and (II) he
makes the marks of a watermarked image visible in order to later extract the watermark from it using only,
for pedagogical reasons, a ruler and a pencil. The watermarking method behind WaterIP can be applied to all
educational levels beginning
from early childhood up to preliminary and high schools. We demonstrate the
educational effectiveness of ourWaterIP system by presenting ways of how it can be applied in class and show
that WaterIP helps to understand what intellectual property rights really stand for.
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