| Name: | Digital Watermarking |
| Invention: | First related publications date back to 1979. However, it was only in 1990 that it gained a large international interest. |
| Definition: | Imperceptible insertion of information into multimedia data. |
| Concept: | Insertion of information, such as a number or text, into the multimedia data through slight modification of the data. |
| Requirements: | Imperceptible. Robust or fragile, depending on application. |
| Applications: | Copyright protection, labelling, monitoring, tamper proofing, conditional access. |
| Commercial potential: | Unsure. Although many watermarking companies exist, non of them seem profitable for the moment (status August 2000). |
