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Recently, it is very popular to convert image or video to different format. For example, copy a color printed paper to gray scale paper or show video with different devices. This paper proposes a fast removable watermark generating method. The watermark disappears after the watermarked image converts to another format. As a gray image can be generated from different color images with same converting approach, the goal of this paper has been achieved. An example shows that it is possible to create recoverable contour style watermark by control hue and saturation properly. A vision quality optimum approach also presented. The advantages of proposed method includes the recover image is identical to the converted image without watermark, people can remove the watermark without computer or the computational cost is very low. The result of this paper is useful for secret removing or demo video transmitting.
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Fang, WP., Huang, YF., Li, LH., Pan, YR. (2018). Using Color Converting to Hide Image Information. In: Pan, JS., Tsai, PW., Watada, J., Jain, L. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. IIH-MSP 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 81. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63856-0_37
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