VIPER joins WatermarkingWorld's partner program

October 15, 2001

Professor Ed. Delp from Purdue University, USA, joins the WatermarkingWorld partner program with his Video and Image Processing Laboratory - VIPER. We are very glad about this event since Prof. Delp is one of the leading experts in the field of digital watermarking. His group has provided significant scientific contributions related to image and video watermarking. Prof. Delp has various activities highly appreciated by the watermarking community, including organizing and chairing watermarking sessions during conferences.

WatermarkingWorld Mirrors Stirmark and Checkmark Benchmark Pages

October 10, 2001

Stirmark and Checkmark, two complementary benchmarking suites for watermarking technologies, have obtained a dedicated place on the WatermarkingWorld web pages. These benchmark suits provide important and necessary tools for everyone active in the watermarking field. We are very happy that the authors agreed on having WatermarkingWorld mirroring partial information of the original web pages.

Certimark links to WatermarkingWorld

Mai 15, 2001

Thanks to the efforts of Prof. Thierry Pun and his watermarking team, including Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Shelby Pereira, and Maribel Madueno, the official WWW pages of the European project Certimark promote WatermarkingWorld by linking to various pages on our site. We are really glad about this decision and would like to express our thanks to all parties involved. As is well known, the goal of WatermarkingWorld is to encourage communication in the digital watermarking community and provide means and services to accelerate and facilitate watermarking related research. The decision of Certimark to share information with WatermarkingWorld is an excellent example of how to initiate and build on international collaboration. We hope that this example is just the begining.

Microsoft Research participates in WatermarkingWorld

November 30, 2000

WatermarkingWorld is proud to announce the participation of Microsoft Research. It shows the interest and activity of Microsoft in the area of digital watermarking and rights management and expresses their support for worldwide research to find new solutions and concepts. We would also like to use this opportunity and thank Fabien Petitcolas, of Microsoft Research, for his efforts in this issue.

Philips Research joins the WatermarkingWorld

November 28, 2000

Digital WatermarkingWorld is glad to announce a new partnership with Philips Research. Thanks to the efforts Jean-Paul Linnartz, a renowned researcher and the fields of communications and signal processing, Philips has agreed to become a partner of the Digital WatermarkingWorld and support our activities to contribute to the digital watermarking community. Philips has an expertise in digital video watermarking and belongs to the top companies in this filed. Furthermore, Philips has invested in important amount of money into Digimarc and together they work now on efficient solutions for copyright protection and monitoring of video.

CUI joins the WatermarkingWorld

August 5, 2000

The Computer Vision Group of the University of Geneva, headed by Professor Thierry Pun, joins the WatermarkingWorld as a partner. We are really proud about this partnership because CUI is one of the leading laboratories in the field of digital Watermarking. Serveral key concepts and ideas, such as the use of log-polar maps for robust watermarking, have been developed at CUI. Our new partner will mainly work on the upcoming watermarking newsletter and the watermarking digest.

EPFL joins the WatermarkingWorld

August 2, 2000

The Signal Processing Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology became a partner of the WatermarkingWorld. The signal processing laboratory, directed by Prof. Murat Kunt, is one of the leading laboratories in digital image processing and has provided important constitutions to the development of image, video, and image watermarking. One key concept is for example the watermark self-reference, a method which allows watermark recovery after affine transformations.

WatermarkingWorld goes online

August 1, 2000

Digital WatermarkingWorld has been founded. The goal of the WatermarkingWorld is to provide means and services to scientists and companies active in the field of digital watermarking.