Fair Watermarking Techniques
| dc.contributor.author | Qu, Gang | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wong, Jennifer L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Potkonjak, Miodrag | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-10T18:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-04-10T18:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Many intellectual property protection (IPP) techniques have been proposed. Their primary objectives are providing convincible proof of authorship with least degradation of the quality of the intellectual property (IP), and achieving robustness against attacks. These are also well accepted as the most important criteria to evaluate different IPP techniques. The essence of such techniques is to limit the solution space by embedding signatures as constraints. One key issue that should be addressed but has not been discussed is the fairness of the techniques: what is the quality of the solution subspace for different signatures, that is, how large the solution subspace is (uniqueness), and how difficulty it is to get a solution from such subspace (hardness)? In this paper, we introduce fairness as one of the metrics for good IPP techniques and post the challenge problem of how to design fair watermarking techniques. We claim that all fair techniques have to be instanceoriented and due to the complexity of the problem itself, we propose an approach that utilizes the statistical information of the problem instance. We use the satisfiability (SAT) problem as an example to illustrate how fairness could be achieved. We make the observation that the unfairness of the previous watermarking techniques comes from the global embedding of the signature and propose fair watermarking techniques. We test the uniqueness and hardness on a model with full knowledge of the solution and real life benchmarks as well. The experimental results show fairness can be achieved. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | G. Qu , J.L. Wong, and M. Potkonjak. "Fair Watermarking Technique," IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 55-60, January 2000. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9048 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | IEEE | en |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | A. James Clark School of Engineering | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Electrical & Computer Engineering | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, MD) | en_us |
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| dc.rights.license | Copyright © 2000 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Maryland's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it. | |
| dc.subject | intellectual property | en |
| dc.subject | intellectual property protection (IPP) | en |
| dc.subject | watermarking | en |
| dc.title | Fair Watermarking Techniques | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |