| This project consist in the development of a benchmarking platform for certification of watermarking algorithms at an european level. It will also address the creation of a technical task force on watermarking technologies in order to end up with panel of robust techniques for a number of applications.
The project is articulated on six workpackages.
- WP1 will define a set of quantitative measurements and validation mechanisms that will be finally applied by the benchmarking system to rate different watermarking algorithms for a specific set of applications, which will be preliminarily defined.
- WP2 aims at designing and developing an international benchmarking platform for evaluation, and certification of the watermarking algorithms. Interfaces will be specified so that any algorithm can be plug-in easily into the platform for evaluation. The evaluation process will be as automatic as possible apart from the subjective evaluation procedure. This procedure will specify all conditions for estimating quality of watermarked images.
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WP3 will de devided into three main tasks : research on attacks and manipulations, execution of the benchmark and pre-certification ofthe algorithms.
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WP4 will be devoted to the creation of a European technical task Force on watermarking techniques in order to have consensual basic research in difficult issues on watermarking technologies such as robustness to attacks, security and channel capacity. This WP will end up with a panel of robust techniques for a number of applications.
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In WP5 the procedure for a watermarking algorithm certification will be defined, with delivery of a reference software suite and a series of test images. The organisation and standardisation bodies will also be addressed in this WP.
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Finally, profiles for future watermarking certification authorities will be specified.
- WP6 is dedicated to the management of the project.
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