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Improved techniques for watermarking halftone images

Sherry et al., 2004

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6113561790878959549
Author
Sherry P
Savakis A
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Publication venue
2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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Watermarking schemes that have been developed for continuous tone images cannot be directly applied to halftone images. Many of these watermarking methods require characteristics implicit in continuous tone images but absent from halftones. With this in …
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