An image-feature based second generation watermarking scheme is proposed in this paper. A host image is firstly transformed into wavelet coefficients and features are extracted from the lowest approximation. Then a watermark sequence is inserted in all high frequency coefficients corresponding to the extracted featured approximation coefficients. Original host image is not needed in watermarkin...

Coring is a well-known technique for removing noise from images. The mechanism of coring consists of transforming a noise-degraded image into a frequency-domain representation, followed by a reduction of the image transform coefficients by a (nonlinear) coring function. After inverse transforming the cored coefficients, the noise-reduced image is obtained. In this paper, we show that coring can...

The whole enterprise of spin compositions can be recast as simple enumerative combinatoric problems. We show here that enumerative combinatorics (EC)\citep{book:Stanley-2011} is a natural setting for spin composition, and easily leads to very general analytic formulae -- many of which hitherto not present in the literature. Based on it, we propose three general methods for computing spin multip...

The “D” matrices for all states of the two fundamental representations and octet are shown in the generalized Euler angle parameterization. The raising and lowering operators are given in terms of linear combinations of the left invariant vector fields of the group manifold in this parameterization. Using these differential operators the highest weight state of an arbitrary irreducible represen...

The Clebsch-Gordan formulas for d-function are studied for both nonunitary finite dimensional representation and unitary infinite dimensional representation of the SU (1, 1) group. It is shown that, in addition to the usual Clebsch-Gordan formulas for the above-mentioned two representations, there exists an additional type of Clebsch-Gordan fornmla connecting the nonunitary and unitary d-functi...

We study aspects of the propagation of strings on BTZ black holes. After performing a careful analysis of the global spacetime structure of generic BTZ black holes, and its relation to the geometry of the SL(2, R) group manifold, we focus on the simplest case of the massless BTZ black hole. We study the SL(2, R) Wess-Zumino-Witten model in the worldsheet minisuperspace limit, taking into accoun...

This paper characterizes the first cohomology group H(G,M) where M is a Banach space (with norm || ||M) that is also a left CG module such that the elements of G act on M as continuous C-linear transformations. We study this group for G an infinite, finitely generated group. Of particular interest are the implications of the vanishing of the group H(G,M). The first result is that H(G,CG) imbeds...

E6 is an attractive group for unification model building. However, the complexity of a rank 6 group makes it non-trivial to write down the structure of higher dimensional operators in an E6 theory in terms of the states labeled by quantum numbers of the Standard Model gauge group. In this paper, we show the results of our computation of the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for the products of the 27...

A world-volume model of non-critical 3-brane is quantized in a strong coupling phase where fluctuations of the conformal mode become dominant. This phase, called the conformal-mode dominant phase, is realized at the very high energy far beyond the Planck mass scale. We separately treat the conformal mode and the traceless mode and quantize the conformal mode non-perturbatively, while the tracel...