Signal rich art: enabling the vision of ubiquitous computing

Advances in networking and mobile computing are converging with digital watermarking technology to realize the vision of Ubiquitous Computing, wherein mobile devices can sense, understand, and interact with their environments. Watermarking is the primary technology for embedding signals in the media, objects, and art constituting our everyday surroundings, and so it is a key component in achieving Signal Rich Art: art that communicates its identity to contextaware devices. However, significant obstacles to integrating watermarking and art remain, specifically questions of incorporating watermarking into the process of creating art. This paper identifies numerous possibilities for research in this arena.