In traditional watermarking algorithms, the insertion of watermark into the original signal inevitably introduces some perceptible quality degradation. Another problem is the inherent conflict between imperceptibility and robustness. Zero-watermarking technique can solve these problems successfully. But most existing zero-watermarking algorithm for audio and image cannot resist against some signal processing manipulations or malicious attacks. In the paper, a novel audio zero-watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is proposed, which is more efficient and robust. The experiments show that the algorithm is robust against the common audio signal processing operations such as MP3 compression, re-quantization, re-sampling, low-pass filtering, cutting-replacement, additive white Gaussian noise and so on. These results demonstrate that the proposed watermarking method can be a suitable candidate for audio copyright protection
Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information to be encrypted in such a way that the decryption can be performed by the human visual system, without the aid of computers. This paper proposes a schema of information hiding within the method of visual cryptography. The gray image is changed into two halftone images via the different dither matrixes respectively, and the secret binary pixels are encoded into shares. The secret information can be restored by stacking the different shared halftone images together. Simulation results show that the secret binary image can be decoded efficiently.
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