摘要:
The invention relates to embedding a spread spectrum watermark in a data signal as well as to detection of the embedded watermark. A data signal (4) is encrypted (15) or received in the form of an encrypted data signal (9), the signal being encrypted by modifying (3) it in accordance with one or more entries of a look-up-table (2) in which an encryption table (6) is stored. The encryption is carried out by a first computing device (15) such as a server device. The watermark is actually embedded while decrypting (13) the signal. This takes place in a second computing device (16), possibly in a client device, in a similar manner The client device employs a decryption table (8), which is a modified (i.e. watermarked) version of the encryption table (6). The decryption table may generated by the server and securely communicated to the client. The data signal is decrypted in accordance with entries of a look-up-table (12). The look-up-tables (2,12) in server and client are addressed by the same sequence of pointers generated by respective index generators (1). The mismatch between encryption table (6) and decryption table (8) causes the de-signal (14) to have an embedded watermark.
摘要:
The invention relates to a watermark generation method for generating watermarks to be embedded in digital media, where said watermark is generated by combining at least two watermark patterns from a set of watermark patterns. The set of watermark patterns are divided into at least two subsets of watermark patterns, and the subsets are hierarchically related and the watermark patterns in said watermark are directly related watermark patterns. Directly related means that the watermark patterns are related like parent and child in a hierarchical structure e.g. a tree structure. Further, the invention relates to an apparatus adapted to generate watermarks to be embedded in media.
摘要:
A system and a method for secure remote informed watermark detection making use of a side-information. The system in overview comprises a remote detector and a server computing system wherein a database with side-information assigned to specific descriptors of data signals is stored at the server computing system and wherein a remote detector intending to identify the watermark of a data signal will derive the descriptor of the data signal and subsequently contact the trusted server computing system in order to obtain the necessary side-information for the informed watermark detection.
摘要:
Disclosed are a method and a system for secure watermark embedding in a server-client configuration (60,70). The method comprises encrypting (210) the data signal (x) and generating (240) a decryption key wherein a watermark (Wi) is included. The client decrypts (420) the encrypted data signal in order to obtain a watermarked data signal (xw). In accordance with the invention, the encryption mechanism and decryption key are made dependent on a perceptual mask (m1,m2) so as eventually make the embedded watermark more robust.
摘要:
A lighting system and a method for a operating a lighting system, enabling to obtain an identification tag (7) comprised in lighting design data (5) directly from an output beam (3), i.e. from the emitted light of the at least one lighting unit (2). It is thus possible to trace any unauthorized distribution of a lighting design by monitoring the emitted light without the need to directly access the controller or any other part of the lighting system.
摘要:
A basic idea of the present invention is to selectively employ one of at least two different feature extraction processes when generating a biometric template of an individual. An individual offers a physiological property, such as a fingerprint, an iris, an ear, a face, etc., from which biometric data can be derived, to a sensor of an enrolment authority. In the following, the property to be discussed will be fingerprints, even though any suitable biometric property may be used. From the fingerprint, a positional reference point of the biometric data is derived. The derivation of the positional reference point may be accomplished using any appropriate method out of a number of known methods. Such a reference point could be the location of a core, a delta, a weighted average of minutiae coordinates, or alike. Typically, the reference point includes a core of a fingerprint expressed as a three-dimensional coordinate denoted by means of xr, yr, and angle αr. A contribution indicator is calculated for the derived positional reference point, and it is determined whether the derived positional reference point can be considered reliable. Depending on the reliability of the derived reference point, one of the two different feature extraction processes is selected; either the first feature set is extracted using a method which is invariant of the derived reference point, or a method is used taking into account the derived reference point. The better the estimation of the reference point is, the more reliable the reference point-dependent extraction method is. Finally, the biometric template is generated using the extracted first feature set.
摘要:
A method of generating a watermark signal, embedding the watermark signal within a multimedia signal, and subsequently detecting the watermark signal is described. The watermark signal is the sum of two sequences of values, the second sequence of values being a circularly shifted version of the first sequence.
摘要:
Method and apparatus are described for compensating for time offset in a received signal, so as to correctly align the frame sequence of a received signal to a sequence of transmitted symbols. Each symbol extends over Ts signal samples. The received signal is first divided into a sequence of frames of length Ts, and then each framedivided into a multiplicity of Nb sub-frames. Subsequently, Nb sequences of values are formed, where every successive value in each sequence is derived from the corresponding sub-frame within each successive frame. Each of the Nb sequences is an estimate for the correctly aligned sequence of transmitted symbols.
摘要:
Method and apparatus are described for compensating for a linear time scale change in a received signal, so as to correctly rescale the frame sequence of the received signal. Firstly, an initial estimate of the sequence of symbols is extracted from the received signal. Successive estimates of correctly time scaled sequences of the symbols are then generated by interpolating the values of the initial estimates.
摘要:
The invention relates to a system for verifying the identity of an individual by employing biometric data features associated with the individual, which system comprises at least one or more hardware components, an enrollment means, and a verifying means, wherein said enrollment means are arranged in deriving a first biometric template data, said first biometric template data being secret and associated with a first set of first biometric data features of said individual, and in receiving a further set of first biometric data features of said individual, and in deriving a further biometric template data associated with said further set of first biometric data, and wherein said verifying means are arranged in comparing the first biometric template data with the further biometric template data to check for correspondence, wherein the identity of the individual is verified if correspondence exists. The invention aims to provide a solution to the above identified drawbacks and thereto at least one of said hardware components is provided with at least one component specific data feature associated therewith and wherein said enrollment means are arranged in associating at least one of said component specific data features with said biometric template data.