The performance of spread-transform dither modulation (ST-DM) watermarking in the presence of two important classes of non additive attacks, such as the gain attack plus noise addition, and the quantization attack are evaluated. The analysis is developed under the assumption that the host features are independent and identically distributed Gaussian random variables, and that a minimum distance criterion is used to decode the hidden information. The theoretical bit-error probabilities are derived in closed form, thus permitting to evaluate the impact of the considered attacks on the watermark at a theoretical level. The analysis is validated by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. In addition to the validation of the theoretical analysis, Monte Carlo simulations permitted to abandon the hypothesis of normally distributed host features, in favor of more realistic models adopting a Laplacian or a generalized Gaussian probability density function. The general result of our analysis is that the excellent performance of ST-DM are confirmed in all cases with the only noticeable exception of the gain attack.

Performance Analysis of ST-DM Watermarking in Presence of Nonadditive Attack / M. BARNI; F. BARTOLINI; A. PIVA. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. - ISSN 1053-587X. - STAMPA. - 52, no. 10:(2004), pp. 2965-2974. [10.1109/TSP.2004.833868]

Performance Analysis of ST-DM Watermarking in Presence of Nonadditive Attack

PIVA, ALESSANDRO
2004

Abstract

The performance of spread-transform dither modulation (ST-DM) watermarking in the presence of two important classes of non additive attacks, such as the gain attack plus noise addition, and the quantization attack are evaluated. The analysis is developed under the assumption that the host features are independent and identically distributed Gaussian random variables, and that a minimum distance criterion is used to decode the hidden information. The theoretical bit-error probabilities are derived in closed form, thus permitting to evaluate the impact of the considered attacks on the watermark at a theoretical level. The analysis is validated by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. In addition to the validation of the theoretical analysis, Monte Carlo simulations permitted to abandon the hypothesis of normally distributed host features, in favor of more realistic models adopting a Laplacian or a generalized Gaussian probability density function. The general result of our analysis is that the excellent performance of ST-DM are confirmed in all cases with the only noticeable exception of the gain attack.
2004
52, no. 10
2965
2974
M. BARNI; F. BARTOLINI; A. PIVA
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