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This paper introduces a data-abstracted zero-bit watermarking scheme based on the document quality. It can be applied to various kinds of structured documents and guarantees that the document quality is preserved by the watermarking process. The scheme is blind, robust and fast. It is described as local manipulations of small parts of the document: the so-called sites. As a proof of concept, it is applied to geographical documents and relational databases, extending two existing methods. The general scheme allows to compute the resilience level in terms of sites modifications. It is then possible to tune the sites definition and manipulations in order to obtain a given confidence depending on the document type and on the transformations the watermark must resist to.
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Bazin, C., Le Bars, JM., Madelaine, J. (2008). A Novel Framework for Watermarking: The Data-Abstracted Approach. In: Matsuura, K., Fujisaki, E. (eds) Advances in Information and Computer Security. IWSEC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89598-5_13
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