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State-of-the-Art Techniques of Image Watermarking: New Trends and Future Challenges

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Medical Image Watermarking

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This chapter provides an extensive view about the state-of-the-art watermarking techniques for different applications and environments. It includes watermarking for e-health, cloud computing and multi-cores environment, cryptography, biometric watermarking, watermarking for mobile devises, 3D model watermarking and other perspectives. The chapter also reviews several aspects about digital watermarking in different domain. Meanwhile, it discusses the requirements and potential challenges that the watermarking process face. Finally, summary of various watermarking techniques is presented in tabular format.

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    Amit Kumar Singh

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    Basant Kumar

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, India

    Ghanshyam Singh

  4. Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India

    Anand Mohan

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Singh, A.K., Kumar, B., Singh, G., Mohan, A. (2017). State-of-the-Art Techniques of Image Watermarking: New Trends and Future Challenges. In: Singh, A., Kumar, B., Singh, G., Mohan, A. (eds) Medical Image Watermarking. Multimedia Systems and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57699-2_10

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