A method for verifying the integrity, continuity, and availability (ICA) of information displayed on an uncertified display is disclosed. The method includes creating application data for display on the uncertified display device that includes a subliminal symbol that is periodically embedded in a few out of multiple tens of frames and that is camouflaged in the application data using steganography; transmitting the application data to the uncertified display device for display; receiving images of the application data displayed on the display screen; determining whether the subliminal symbol is detected in the captured images by extracting the symbol from the captured images and comparing the extracted symbol to an expected symbol; determining that the application data is not corrupted when the extracted symbol matches the expected symbol; and identifying a loss of ICA when the subliminal symbol is not detected or does not match the expected symbol.

A watermark image may be generated that includes a first set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a first transparency value and a second set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a second transparency value, the second transparency level being different from the first transparency level. The encoded pixels may be distributed among a set of blank pixels such that each encoded pixel neighbors one or more blank pixels in the watermark image, and in particular at least two blank pixels in the watermark image. Herein, each blank pixel may be assigned the second transparency value. The watermark image may be overlaid and blended over a background source image to create an encoded source image. A decoder system may recover encoded information from the encoded source image.

An image processing method for reading additional information from image data obtained by an imaging device capturing an image of a printed product with the additional information embedded therein as an electronic watermark includes acquiring, a plurality of times, distance information about a distance between the imaging device and the printed product, and causing a display to display a predetermined object in such a manner that a display form of the predetermined object changes according to the acquired distance information.

A watermark representing a link to an original video and/or metadata such as haptic metadata associated with the original video is embedded in the original video in such a way that a re-recording to the original video can still preserve the watermark. The watermark can be used to link to the original video or to the metadata related thereto.

An encoding apparatus partitions a digital image into multiple regions for subsequent encoding. A first encryption code is associated with a first region, a second encryption code is associated with a second region and the first code, and a third code is associated with the first code, the second code and a third region. An authentication apparatus authenticates the digital image in an inverse process.

The present disclosure discloses an error modeling method and device for prediction context of reversible image watermarking. A predictor based on omnidirectional context is established; then, the prediction context is self-adaptively error modeled to obtain a self-adaptive error model; and finally, output data from the self-adaptive error model is fed back to the predictor to update and correct the prediction context, so as to correct a prediction value of a current pixel x[i,j]. Since the non-linear correlation between the current pixel and the prediction context thereof, i.e., the non-linear correlation redundancy between pixels can be found by the error modeling of the prediction context of the predictor, the non-linear correlation redundancy between the pixels can be effectively removed. Thus, the embeddable watermarking capacity can be increased.

Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for digitally signing predetermined arrays of digital data. Such a method may provide a secret neural network model trained to classify arrays of digital data in dependence on data content of the arrays. The array of the arrays may be signed by supplying the array to the secret neural network model to obtain an initial classification result; and effecting a modification of data in the array to change the initial classification result to a predetermined, secret classification result, the modification being effected via a backpropagation process in the secret neural network model to progressively modify the array in response to backpropagated errors dependent on a difference between a current classification result for the array and the secret classification result.

Provided is a method for inserting a copyright information indication as a means for protecting the copyright of LF content which can be played back as multi-viewpoint images, wherein the copyright information indication is only inserted in images of a specific viewpoint. A method for generating multi-viewpoint images according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: generating multi-viewpoint images; inserting a specific information indication in images of a specific viewpoint among the generated multi-viewpoint images; and storing the multi-viewpoint images in which the specific information indication has been inserted. Accordingly, the copyright of LF content, which are expensive multi-viewpoint images, can be protected by inserting the copyright information indication only in the images of the specific viewpoint.

The present disclosure relates to advanced image processing and encoded signal processing. One claim currently recites an image processing method comprising the acts: receiving a digital representation of artwork, the artwork having an area of uniform color; generating a two-dimensional data signal that redundantly encodes a plural-bit message, the data signal comprising plural elements, each of which has a single bit value; receiving a two-dimensional synchronization signal comprising plural elements, each of which has a plural-bit value, each element of said data signal having an element of the synchronization signal corresponding thereto; processing the two-dimensional data signal with the two-dimensional synchronization signal and with a gradient function to yield a two-dimensional gradient marking signal; and printing an ink counterpart of the gradient marking signal on a medium with the artwork, said printing comprising printing plural dithered two-dimensional blocks of at least four contiguous elements each, in which one or more elements of each block are printed to be dark. Of course, other claims and combinations are described as well.

In one example, a method for inserting a digital watermark in a signal includes obtaining the signal comprising a plurality of frames, inserting a first digital watermark in a first frame of the plurality of frames, inserting a second digital watermark in a second frame of the plurality of frames, wherein the second digital watermark differs from the first digital watermark in at least one way selected from a group of: a location within a respective frame, a number of bits, a pattern of bits, and a number of bits of a noise, and outputting a watermarked signal including the first digital watermark in the first frame and the second digital watermark in the second frame.