Jean-Luc Dugelay, Multimedia Communications dept of EURECOM and Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Microsoft Research

Abstract:
This tutorial will give an introduction to digital watermarking (image, audio and video) and its applications and explain the seminal solutions adopted by several researchers. It will also cover the general problem of robustness and evaluation and look at possible alternatives: 

- Introduction: underlying problem, brief historic foundations, history, important definitions (different types of watermarks) and notations, general framework and possible applications;
- Digital rights management;
- Key requirements to watermarking: what researchers try to achieve;
- Survey of some seminal techniques which led to the state of the art;
- Robustness and evaluation: why are there so many ideas but so few real commercial implementations;
- Possible alternatives to digital watermarking in the context of copyright protection.

Detailed description:
Copy protection - Copy protection problem; Solution based on cryptography; Watermarking as a complement
Information hiding - Brief history of information hiding; General model, Terminology; Applications
Basic techniques - Basic principles; Statistical method; Relationship in D.C.T. coefficients; Direct sequence spread spectrum
Robustness - Basic attacks; StirMark
Advanced techniques - Content authentication; Video watermarking; (Pre)-formatting of the watermark; Invariant workspace; Compensation of random geometric attacks; Self-(re)synchronization
More attacks - Bit rate limitation; Counterfeiting marks; Removal attacks; Other attacks & system architecture issues
Evaluation - Rationale & scope of evaluation; Detailed analysis; Robustness evaluation (benchmarking)
TBC: Theory - Overview of different attempts to formalise this very young area of research.

Biographies:
Jean-luc Dugelay received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from Rennes University, France. He is currently a Research Associate in the Multimedia Communications department of the EureCom Institute and a
Visiting research at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His research interests include image processing and coding, watermarking and indexing, video communications, virtual reality and 3D imaging.

He is a member of the editorial board of the "Multimedia Tools and Applications" journal, and an Associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is involved in several major national and European projects related to watermarking (e.g., R.N.R.T. Aquamars and I.S.T. Certimark). He is author of several patents, publications and technical demonstrations related to image watermarking, and is a consultant for several major companies in this field.

Fabien A. P. Petitcolas received his Ph.D. on information hiding and its application to copyright protection from the University of Cambridge, England. He is currently with Microsoft Research and his research interests include robustness, testing and evaluation of digital watermarking, information hiding (steganography) and computer security.

He is the editor of the first book on information hiding and digital watermarking and is involved in several conferences on the topic.