Watermarking and ownership problem: A revisit

Husrev T. Sencar*, Nasir Memon

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Watermarking technologies have been envisioned as a potential means for establishing ownership on digital media objects. However, achievable robustness and false-positive rates of the state-of-the-art watermarking techniques raise doubts about applicability of watermarking to ownership problem. With this perspective, we address the security weaknesses common to most watermarking techniques and assess the role of watermarking in construction of ownership assertion systems. We identify the requirements of a watermarking based ownership assertion system. Also, we provide a basic functional outline of a practical version of such a system and identify its potential vulnerabilities. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, we aim at reducing the false positive rate of the watermark detection scheme. For this purpose, we propose embedding multiple watermarks as opposed to single watermark embedding while constraining the embedding distortion. The crux of the proposed method lies in watermark generation which deploys a family of one-way functions. We incorporate the multiple watermark embedding idea with the additive watermarking technique [1] and present results to illustrate the potential of this approach in reducing the false-positive rate of the watermark detection scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDRM'05 - Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management
Pages93-101
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventDRM'05 - 5th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management - Alexandria, VA, United States
Duration: 7 Nov 20057 Nov 2005

Publication series

NameDRM'05 - Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management

Conference

ConferenceDRM'05 - 5th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAlexandria, VA
Period7/11/057/11/05

Keywords

  • Additive watermarking
  • Counterfeit ownership
  • Ownership
  • Ownership deadlock
  • Theft of ownership
  • Watermarking

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