A Channel Model for Watermarks Subject to Desynchronization Attacks
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چکیده
One of the most important practical problems of blind Digital Watermarking is the resistance against desynchronization attacks, one of which is the Stirmark random bending attack in the case of image watermarking. Recently, new blind digital watermarking schemes have been proposed which do not suffer from host-signal interference. One of these quantization based watermarking scheme is the Scalar Costa Scheme (SCS). We present an attack channel for SCS which tries to model typical artefacts of local desynchronization. Within the given channel model, the maximum achievable watermark rate for imperfectly synchronized watermark detection is computed. We show that imperfect synchronization leads to inter-sample-interference by other signal samples, independent from the considered watermark technology. We observe that the characteristics of the host signal play a major role in the performance of imperfectly synchronized watermark detection. Applying these results, we propose a resynchronization method based on a securely embedded pilot signal. The watermark receiver exploits the embedded pilot watermark signal to estimate the transformation of the sampling grid. This estimate is used to invert the desynchronization attack before applying standard SCS watermark detection. Experimental results for the achieved bit error rate of SCS watermark detection confirm the usefullness of the proposed resynchronization algorithm.
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