Watermark Competition

The fourth watermark competition had been conducted under the evaluation criteria disclosed by the IHC committee. There were 2 submissions for image, 2 submission for video, and 2 submission for audio. Their evaluation results were revealed at the Special Session of IWDW2015.



The detail of the competition is explained below.

The deadline of the submission for the second watermark competition was July 12, 2015. Among the submitted schemes, the IHC committee certified granted schemes for each categories at the Special Session of IWDW2015.

Image category:  2 submissions, 2 granted schemes

  1. Watermarking Method using Concatenated Code for Scaling and Rotation Attacks
    Nobuhiro Hirata and Masaki Kawamura (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
  2. DCT-OFDM Based Watermarking Scheme Robust against Clipping, Rotation, and Scaling Attacks
    Hiroaki Ogawa*, Minoru Kuribayashi+, Motoi Iwata* and Koichi Kise* (*Osaka Prefecture University, +Kobe University, Japan)


Video category:  2 submission, 1 granted scheme

  1. Robust Imperceptible Video Watermarking for MPEG Compression and DA-AD Conversion Using Visual Masking
    Sang-Keun Ji, Wook-Hyung Kim, Han-Ul Jang, Seung-Min Mun and Heung-Kyu Lee (KAIST, Korea)


Audio category:  2 submission, 2 granted schemes

  1. Detection of frequency-scale modification using robust audio watermarking based on amplitude modulation
    Akira Nishimura (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
  2. Audio Watermarking Using Different Wavelet Filters
    Toshiki Ito*, Hyunho Kang*, Keiichi Iwamura*, Kitahiro Kaneda+ and Isao Echizen# (*Tokyo University of Science, +Osaka Prefecture University, #NII, Japan)


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