In recent years, the tremendous advancement of digital technology has increased the ease with which digital multimedia files are stored, transmitted, and reproduced. Because traditional copyright methods are unsuitable for establishing ownership, digital watermarking is considered one of the best solutions to prevent illegal and malicious copying and distribution of digital media.
Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking: Image, Video and Audio Applications introduces readers to state-of-the-art research in multimedia watermarking. Covering new advancements in digital image watermarking and techniques for implementation and optimization across different media, this book is a valuable companion for professionals and researchers working in areas such as document watermarking, multimedia fingerprinting, information hiding, secured e-commerce, copyright protection, and hardware implementation of real-time multimedia watermarking.
About the Author
Ali Al-Haj received his first university degree in Electrical Engineering from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 1985. He then pursued his higher studies in Japan, and received the M.Sc degree in Electronics Engineering from Tottori University in 1988 , and the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering from Osaka University in 1993. He then worked as a research associate at ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, until 1995. He joined Princess Sumaya University, Jordan, in October 1995, where he is now an associate professor. Al-Haj has published numerous papers in areas such as parallel processing, dataflow computing, parallel information retrieval, VLSI digital signal processing, neural networks, and multimedia watermarking.
