Watermarking research

• Individuals, research groups at universities and corporate researchers (in arbitrary order)
  • Alessandro Piva at Florence U, Italy and his excellent watermarking pages.
  • Fred Jordan and Martin Kutter at EPFL, Switzerland (Prof. Murat Kunt).
  • Frank Hartung, Jonathan Su, Joachim Eggers and Prof. Bernd Girod at U Erlangen, Germany.
  • Ray Wolfgang and Prof. Ed Delp at Purdue U.
  • Juan Ramón Hernández Martín at Universidad de Vigo, Spain.
  • Neil F. Johnson, Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University.
  • Mahalingam Ramkumar and Prof. Ali N. Akansu at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
  • J.-P. Linnartz at Berkeley, USA, and Philips, Netherlands.
  • Jana Dittmann at GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Scott Craver (Intel Corporation).
  • Minerva M. Yeung (Intel Corporation).
  • Prof. Nasir Memon at Northern Illinois University.
  • The group at UC Louvaine, Belgium (Prof. Macq)(see also the crypto group).
  • Jian Zhao and the SysCoP Project at Fraunhofer CRCG, Providence, RI.
  • Ingemar Cox, Harold Stone and others at NEC Research Institute, Princeton .
  • Gerhard C. Langelaar at TU Delft, The Netherlands (Prof. Biemond).
  • The group at U Thessaloniki, Greece (Prof. Pitas).
  • M. Swanson, Bin Zhu and others at U Minnesota (Prof. Tewfik).
  • The Data Hiding group at MIT.
  • Joshua R. Smith at MIT and his PixelTag technique.
  • Brian Chen and Prof. Gregory W. Wornell at MIT.
  • Houng-Jyh Wang and Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo at University of Southern California.
  • Josep Vidal and Prof. Elisa Sayrol at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain.
  • Maria Paula Queluz at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Boon-Lock Yeo at IBM Research.
  • Mei Kobayashi at U of Tokyo and IBM Japan.
  • Jack Brassil at Bell Labs.
  • Max Sandford and Theo Handel at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • Lintian Qiao, Sergio Servetto and Prof. Klara Nahrstedt at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Stephane Roche at EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
  • B. Tao at Princeton U (Prof. Dickinson).
  • Richard Barnett at University of Essex.
  • Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng and Min Wu at Princeton U (Prof. Bede Liu).
  • Marc Schneider at Columbia U.
  • Fabien Petitcolas and Ross Anderson (U Cambridge, UK), featuring the annotated bibliography on data hiding.
  • Stefan Katzenbeisser at Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Joseph O'Ruanaidh at U Geneve, Switzerland.
  • Ron van Schyndel and Dr. Andrew Tirkel at Monash U, Australia.
  • Tuomas Aura at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
  • The group at SHANG Lab, North Carolina State University.
  • Deepa Kundur at U Toronto, Canada.
  • Chiou-Ting Hsu at Communication and Multimedia Laboratory, National Taiwan University
  • Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia at U of Delaware.
  • Thomas Demuth at FernUni Hagen, Germany.
  • Simon Godsill at University of Cambridge, UK.
  • Jiri Fridrich at SUNY Binghamton.
  • Hal Berghel at U of Arkansas.
  • Weili Tang at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Mohan S. Kankanhalli at National University of Singapore.
• Collaborative Research
  • European joint RACE project M1005 - ACCOPI.
  • European joint ACTS project AC019 - TALISMAN (another link).
  • European joint ACTS project P119 - OCTALIS.
  • European joint ACTS project AC051 - OKAPI.
  • European joint ESPRIT project 20676 - IMPRIMATUR (another link).

Companies & Products

• Alpha Tec Ltd., Greece (EIKONAmark).
• ARIS Technologies, Inc. (protection of music on the Internet).
• AT&T - security software.
• Blue Spike Inc.
• Cognicity Inc.
• CRL (Great Britain).
• datamark (Great Britain).
• The DICE Company.
• Digimarc Corp.
• Entrust Technologies (Canada) (including former r3 security engineering ag, Switzerland).
• IBM - IBM Digital Libraries, IBM Japan Data Hiding Page, electronic copyrights management system CRYPTOLOPE.
• Informix / NEC.
• IP2 - Intellectual Protocols.
• Macrovision Corporation.
• MediaSec Technologies LLC.
• Signafy Inc., Princeton.
• Signum Technologies (previously Highwater FBI Ltd., UK). .

Attacks on watermarks

• The StirMark Software by Fabien Petitcolas and Markus G. Kuhn (software designated to test/remove watermarks).
• The UnZign Software page (software designated to test/remove watermarks). -- link broken
• Richard Barnett's attack software (runs unfortunately only under Windows95). -- link broken

Conferences (past & future)

• Watermarking Workshop, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, October 5/6, 1999, Erlangen, Germany (only on invitation).
• Watermarking Workshop, DMI ENS Paris, October 22/23, Paris.
• 3rd Workshop On Information Hiding, 29 September - 1 October 1999, Dresden, Germany. (Paper submission deadline: June 1, 1999)
• IEEE ICMCS'99 - IEEE Multimedia Systems '99, International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Firenze, Italy, 7-11 June 1999 (with a special session on watermarking).
• Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, 23-29 January '99, San Jose, CA, USA.
• IEEE 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, December 7-9, 1998, Los Angeles (with a session on watermarking).
• EUSIPCO 98 (with two sessions on watermarking), Sept 8-11 1998, Rhodos, Greece.
• Workshop on Information Hiding, Portland, Oregon, USA, 15 - 17 April 1998.
• IEEE ICIP 97 (with a regular session on watermarking), October 26-29, 1997, Santa Barbara, California.
• IEEE ICIP 96 (with a special session on watermarking), September 16-19, 1996, Lausanne, Switzerland..
• Program of DICTA 95, December 1995.

U.S. Patents

Links to related information

• The watermarking mailing list at EPFL, Switzerland
• Possible Technology-based Solutions for the Display and Distribution of Copyrighted Electronic Images
• http://www.crypto.com/
• http://www.cryptography.com/
• Digital Copyright Protection & Digital Watermarking Technology
• Information on Steganography I.
• Information on Steganography II.
• Steganography References.
• Query ALTAVISTA on watermarking WWW pages.
• Query ALTAVISTA on watermarking USENET articles.
• SCAM - Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism.
• Intellectual Property Law.
• Internet security in general
• Book: Computer System and Network Security.
• SESAME V4 Cryptographic Application Developers' Guide.
• Copyright and Information Services in the Context of the National Research and Education Network.
• About copyright legal issues - very complete !.
• Spread Spectrum I
• Spread Spectrum II
• Security & Cryptology
• RSA cryptography.
• Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Cryptography and Information Security".
• The Cypherpunks archive - steganography software.