Watermarking space curves

This paper describes an imperceptible, non-blind, fragile watermarking technique for space curves. The proposed technique employs a wavelet-based approach, and computes a multi-resolution representation of the space curve to embed a watermark so that it has widespread presence in the curve. A variety of wavelet families are exploited and experimental results provide a comparison of the performance of different wavelets in terms of the watermark's imperceptibility and tolerance to attacks. To quantify space curve distortion, a signal-to-noise ratio is used, and a linear correlation measure is employed to determine the resistance of the watermark to modifications.

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