What is WatermarkingWorld
The Digital WatermarkingWorld is a non profit information forum with the goal to provide means and services to researchers and scientists in the field of digital watermarking.
Scientists distributed all over the world are conducting research in the filed of digital watermarking. For high quality research and development, communication among professionals and exchange of information is very important. Based on this we felt that it would be time to set up a forum with the goal to facilitate communication between researchers and scientists all over the world and provide them with up to date information in the field of digital watermarking. Currently the WatermarkingWorld provides the following services:
- Watermarking mailing-list: The mailing list has been created in 1998 by Martin Kutter. Initially the mailing-list started with about 20 subscribers. The number rapidly increased and nowadays over 600 people have subscribed to the list.
- Watermarking Links: An extensive collection of watermarking and watermarking related links.
- Watermarking Webring: A mechanism to link watermarking related WWW sites.
The following services are in preparation and will be going online soon:
- Watermarking FAQ: A well assembled FAQ will provides answers to most common questions one may ask related to digital watermarking.
- Online Publications: An online collection of publications related to digital watermarking. It will be possible to submit your publications online and have them added to the site.
- Watermarking Digest: A monthly newsletter providing cutting edge information on digital watermarking research, companies, as well as questions and answers.
- Online discussion forum.
- Watermarking software.
- Benchmarking Software.
- Test data collection.
Who is WatermarkingWorld
The initiative to create the digital WatermarkingWorld has come from Martin Kutter in early 2000. Quickly, several other researchers got excited by the concept and idea. Some month passed before the work got really started. In August 2000, the first version of the site was finished and ready to go online. After the first release of the site other people joined the team. Currently the following people are actively contributing to the web presence of the WatermarkingWorld:
- Martin Kutter (martin.kutter@watermarkingworld.org )
- Fred Jordan (fred.jordan@watermarkingworld.org )
- Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy (svolos@watermarkingworld.org )