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Determination of a segmentation of a digital signal for inserting watermarking signals and the associated insertion

US6819774B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 8, 2001
Grant dateNov 16, 2004
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/327
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns a method of determining a segmentation into distinct regions of a set of coefficients representing at least part of an image (IM) in order to insert a set of watermarking signals with a predetermined cardinal, characterized in that it includes the steps of:generating (E2) a set of acceptable segmentations,calculating (E3), for each acceptable segmentation, a probability of error on the detection of the watermarking signals inserted in said each acceptable segmentation, andselecting (E3) a segmentation in the set of acceptable segmentations, by minimizing, on all the acceptable segmentations, the probability of error subject to a constraint on the cardinal of the regions of the selected segmentation, with respect to the cardinal (C) of said set of watermarking signals.

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