Twin Peaks: The Histogram Attack to Fixed Depth Image Watermarks

In this paper we present an attack to fixed depth image watermarks. The attack is based on histogram analysis of a watermarked image. With this attack, the watermark can often be reconstructed from just a few images, without using the detector.

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