IEEE Standard for Evaluation Method of Robustness of Digital Watermarking Implementation in Digital Content

Abstract

An evaluation method to assess the robustness of invisible watermarking implementations in unstructured digital content, including images, video, audio, documents, and webpages, is described in this standard. Also described are distortion inferences that may result in the compromise of the watermark information embedded in digital content. Furthermore, the metrics used for evaluation and test cases for assessing the robustness against different distortion inferences are specified. This standard does not specify the evaluation for the robustness of the watermarking implementations in structured content, for example, a database. The risks faced with watermarking implementations in structured content are different from those of unstructured content and need different test cases.