ABSTRACT
With the rapidly increasing number of electronic commerce web sites and applications, intellectual property protection is an extremely important concern for content owners who exhibit digital representations of photographs, books, manuscripts, and original artwork on the Internet. Moreover, as available computing power continues to rise, there is an increasing interest in protecting video files from alteration. Digital watermarking’s application is widely spread across electronic publishing, advertisng, merchandise ordering and delivery, picture galleries, digital libraries, online newspapers and magazines, digital video and audio, personal communication, and more.
