Re: [WM]: watermarking future

[Ron van Schyndel <ronvs@cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Dead, is it?

Here are some applications of watermark technologies that I have heard of:

1.  Dual interconnected watermarks, one fragile for authentication or user-desirable payload, one robust for identification.
2.  Partial watermarks - protocol bring pieces together in controlled ways.
3.  Dynamic video watermarks - made on-the-fly (this is old).  Requires protocol to synchronise.  Payload is another video.


There are also some ways that I have heard about in which the ideas behind watermarking can be used in other ways.  For example:

Structured signal detection
1.  A person looks at a watermarked video.  A computer looks at his brain. Using the watermark to help map visual field 'element' to
brain 'element' via watermark 'element'.
2.  Similarly, A cochlear implant is 'tuned' using watermarked sound to cause the elements to resonate in RF in detectable ways.

Social Engineering
1.  Using DRM technology in a world of 'compliant' players to produce an audit trail of music use for marketing.
2.  Subliminal watermarking - No detector.  'Nuff said.
3.  Using watermark payload to associate product with medium (eg embedded URL, ...) 4.  Using watermarks like RFID tags to identify
objects for the blind.  Detector is in the glasses.

I grow tired of this.  There's plenty more applications that can be thought of.  It does require a reasonable grounding in the
basics and that is the first part of your PhD.

Look for problems that watermarking addresses (solves?).

Use watermarking solutions to attack other problems that can be reframed as a watermark problem.

Good luck.



farzin yaghmaee wrote:
> hello watermarkers
>  
> I am a computer student and want to work on image watermarking for ms or PHD thesis.
>  
> one of my professors told me that watermarking is a dead project and 
> most ideas in this
>  
> field are presented.
>  
> and now I want you help me that if she/or he is right? what you will tell her/him if u was her student??
>  
> thank you
> f_yaghmaee@yahoo.com
>  
>  
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Cheers, Ron

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Ron van Schyndel,  Lecturer,
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