Data Hiding and Applications: image watermarking and steganography

Rapid evolution of digital technology has improved the ease of access to digital information enabling reliable, faster, and efficient storage, transfer, and processing of digital data. It also has lead to the consequence of making the illegal production and redistribution of digital media easy and undetectable. Hence, the risk of copyright violation of multimedia data has increased due to the enormous growth of computer networks that provide fast and error-free transmission of any unauthorized duplicate and possibly manipulated copies of multimedia information.