SUBJECTIVE VERIFICATION OF PERCEPTUAL METRICS FOR IMAGE WATERMARKING FIDELITY

Franco Del Colle, Juan Carlos Gómez

2008

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of several state-of-the-art watermark perceptual transparency metrics is evaluated through subjective assessment. Simulation results show that a metric based on S-CIELAB distortion maps proved to be better correlated to the subjective tests than other objective metrics available in the literature. The paper focus on Image Adaptive Watermarking methods in the Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain since they yield better results regarding robustness and transparency than other watermarking schemes.

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Del Colle F. and Carlos Gómez J. (2008). SUBJECTIVE VERIFICATION OF PERCEPTUAL METRICS FOR IMAGE WATERMARKING FIDELITY . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-60-9, pages 397-400. DOI: 10.5220/0001940903970400


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap08,
author={Franco Del Colle and Juan Carlos Gómez},
title={SUBJECTIVE VERIFICATION OF PERCEPTUAL METRICS FOR IMAGE WATERMARKING FIDELITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={397-400},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001940903970400},
isbn={978-989-8111-60-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)
TI - SUBJECTIVE VERIFICATION OF PERCEPTUAL METRICS FOR IMAGE WATERMARKING FIDELITY
SN - 978-989-8111-60-9
AU - Del Colle F.
AU - Carlos Gómez J.
PY - 2008
SP - 397
EP - 400
DO - 10.5220/0001940903970400