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Digital image watermarking techniques for copyright protection have become increasingly robust. The best algorithms perform well against the now standard benchmark tests included in the Stirmark package. However the stirmark tests are limited since in general they do not properly model the watermarking process and consequently are limited in their potential to removing the best watermarks. Here we propose a second generation benchmark for image watermarking which includes attacks which take into account powerful prior information about the watermark and the watermarking algorithms. We follow the model of the Stirmark benchmark and propose several new categories of tests including: denoising (ML and MAP), wavelet compression, watermark copy attack, active desynchronization, denoising, geometrical attacks, and de-noising followed by perceptual remodulation. In addition, we take the important step of presenting results as a function of application. This is an important contribution since it is unlikely that one technology will be suitable for all applications.
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Pereira, S., Voloshynovskiy, S., Madueno, M., Marchand-Maillet, S., Pun, T. (2001). Second Generation Benchmarking and Application Oriented Evaluation. In: Moskowitz, I.S. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45496-9_25
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