Paper-based Watermark Extraction with Image Processing

The following are refreneces used in the study project, we will be happy to know if you are working in this field but your name is not in the list below, please cantact us - updated 22/11/2005

• Adobe (2005), Adobe SVG Viewer, URL: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html
• AHDS (2005), AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) project, URL: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/
• Allison, R. (1999), Dylux Proofing Paper, http://abacus.bates.edu/Faculty/wmarchive/Dylux.html
• Allison, R. (2001), Watermarks, Paper and Paper Making, URL: http://abacus.bates.edu/Faculty/wmarchive/Information.html
• Anderson, R. J., and Petitcolas, F. (1998), On the limits of steganography, IEEE journal of selected areas in communications, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 474-481.
• Anton, H., Bivens, I., and Davis, S. (2002), Calculus, 7th edition, Wiley, New York, Chichester.
• Ash, N. (1982), Recording Watermarks By Beta-Radiography and Other Means, URL: http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v01/bp01-02.html
• Badke, D. (2001), Paper-based watermarks and Beta-radiography method, URL: http://gateway.uvic.ca/lydgate/lydgatems/pages/manuscript/watermarks/watermarks.htm
• Bourke, P. (1988), Minimum Distance between a Point and a Line, URL: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/pointline/
• Canny, J. (1986), A Computational Approach to Edge Detection, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 8(6), pp 679-698.
• Clelland, C., Risca, V., and Bancroft, C. (1999), Hiding messages in DNA microdots, Nature, vol. 399, pp. 533-534.
• Douglas, D., and Peucker, T. (1973), Algorithms for the reduction of the number of points required to represent a digitized line or its caricature, The Canadian Cartographer, 10(2), pp 112-122.
• Dupont (2005), DuPont Corporation, URL: www.dupont.com
• Eberly, D. (2001), Polyline Reduction, URL: http://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/PolylineReduction.pdf
• Gants, D. (1994), Pictures for the Page: Techniques in Watermark Reproduction, Enhancement and Analysis, URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/gants/BibSocUVa/paper.html
• Gants, D. (1996), A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments, URL: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/gants/
• Garvell, T. (1990), The Wizard Of Watermarks, URL: http://ada.cath.vt.edu:591/dbs/gravell/wizard/wizard.html
• Gonzalez, R., Woods, R. (2002), Digital Image Processing, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., USA.
• Haralick, R., and Shapiro, L. (1992), Computer and Robot Vision, Volume I, Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, USA.
• Herrero et al. (2005), Visualisation: Using SVG for the Representation of Interactive Maps, Proceedings International Conference on Multimedia, Image Processing, and Computer Vision (IADAT-micv2005), pp 156-160
• Hershberger J., and Snoeyink J. (1992), Speeding Up the Douglas-Peucker Line-Simplification Algorithm, Proceedings 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, vol.1, Charleston, SC, pp 134-143.
• Hiary, H. (2003), Using Fractal Coding Techniques in Data Hiding, M.Sc. thesis, University of Jordan.
• Hiary, H., and Ng, K. (2005a), Optical imaging for watermark: digitisation, segmentation, and vectorisation in: Proceedings International Conference on Multimedia, Image Processing, and Computer Vision (IADAT-micv2005). pp 178-182.
• Hiary, H., and Ng, K. (2005b), Watermark: From Paper Texture to Digital Media, accepted for publishing in the Automating Production of Cross Media Content
  for Multi-channel Distribution conference - AXMEDIS 2005, 30 November - 2 December 2005, Florence, Italy.
• Hiary, H., and Ng, K. (2005c), Automated Tracing of Paper-based Watermark Graphical Features, submitted to the IADAT Journal of Advanced Technology.
• Huang, C., and Wu, J. (2004), Attacking visible watermarking schemes, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 6(1), pp 16-30.
• IPH (1997), International Paper Historians, URL: http://www.paperhistory.org/standard.htm
• IPST (2004), Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech, URL: http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/education/watermark/watermarks.htm
• Johnson, N.F. and Jajodia, S. (1998), Exploring Steganography: Seeing the unseen, IEEE Computer, 31(2), pp 26-34.
• Karnaukhov, A., Merzlyakov, N., Milyukova, O., Karnaukhov, V., Wenger, E., and Aizenberg, I., (2001), Digital Restoration of Watermark Images, Proceedings of EVA’01, Moscow, Centre PIC of Ministry Culture of Russia, STG, Moscow, pp. 196-199.
• Katzenbeisser, S. and Petitcolas, F. (2000), Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking, Artech House Edition, Boston, USA.
• Lim, J. (1990), Two-dimensional signal and image processing, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA.
• LIMA (2005), LIMA: Literary Manuscript Analysis, URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/publications/lima/paper/describing/reproduction/
• MATLAB (2005), Documentation of Image Processing Toolbox, URL: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/images/
• Minerva (2005), MINERVA project, URL: http://www.minervaeurope.org/
• Mosser, D., and Sullivan, E. (2005), The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive, URL: http://www.gravell.org/
• MUSICNETWORK (2005), EU IST MUSICNETWORK project, URL: http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/
• Paper watermarks (2004), URL: http://www.watermarks.info/indexi.htm
• Petitcolas, F., Anderson, R. J, and Kuhn, M. G. (1999), Information hiding, a survey, IEEE Proceedings - Special Issue on Protection of Multimedia Content, vol. 87, no. 7, pp. 1062-1078.
• Phase One (2005), Phase One PowerPhase FX+, URL: http://www.phaseone.com
• Piccard (2002), Piccard online, URL: http://pan.bsz-bw.de/piccard/struktur.php
• Pulman (2004), PULMAN project, URL: http://www.pulmanweb.org/
• Rauber, C., O'Ruanaidh, J.J.K., and Pun, T. (1997a), Secure distribution of watermarked images for a digital library of ancient papers, Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'97), July 23-26, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, pp 123-130.
• Rauber, C., Tschudin, P., and Pun, T. (1997b), Retrieval of images from a library of watermarks for ancient paper identification, EVA'97 - Elektronische Bildverarbeitung und Kunst, Kultur, Historie, November 12-14, Vol. 14.
• Rauber, C., Tschudin, P., Startchik, S., and Pun, T. (1996), Archival and retrieval of historical watermark images. In Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Lausanne, IEEE Press, pp 773-776.
• Russ, J. (1995), The image processing handbook, 2nd edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA.
• SHREW (2004), A Shape Retrieval System for Watermarking Images project, URL:  http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/wmarks/wmarks.html
• Solar (2004), APIS (Advanced Paper Imaging System) by Solar Imaging Ltd, URL: http://www.solar-imaging.com/
• Sonka, M., Hlavac, V., and Boyle, R. (1999), Image Processing: Analysis and Machine Vision, 2nd edition, PWS Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA; London, UK.
• Sunday, D. (2004), Polyline Simplification, URL: http://softsurfer.com/Archive/algorithm_0205/algorithm_0205.htm
• SVG Specification (2003), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/index.html
• Wayner, P. (2003), Disappearing cryptography, Information hiding: Steganography and watermarking, second edition, Morgan Kaufmann Edition, San Francisco, USA.
• Wenger, E., Karnaukhov, V., Haidinger, A., Merzlyakov, N., van Thienen, G., Oukhanova, E., and Erastov, D. (2001), A Distributed Database and Processing System for Watermarks: an INTAS Project, Proceedings of EVA’01, Moscow, Centre PIC of Ministry Culture of Russia, STG, Moscow, pp. 200-206.
• Whelan, P.F., Soille, P., and Drimbarean, A. (2001), Real-time registration of paper watermarks, Real-Time Imaging, 7(4), pp 367-380.
• WILC (2005), Watermarks in incunabula printed in the low countries at National library of the Netherlands, URL: http://watermark.kb.nl/
• WZMA (2005), Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters, URL: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/wz/wzma2.htm