Interactive watermarking environments

The article addresses one major security demand in digital marketplaces: copyright protection. Our goal is to present interactive tools which strengthen the producers' acceptance to use digital watermarking techniques to offer their data in a more secure way in the digital marketplace. Though security is recognized as an important issue in multimedia it is, ironically mostly not presented by most of the new media. Our intentions are based on the lack of media support and our focus is on the definition of new design criteria for digital watermarking in multimedia environments. The paper gives a short introduction to digital watermarking techniques, their robustness criteria, the security risks and visual interactive handling support essential for user acceptance. Furthermore, we describe four prototype tools as parts of an interactive multimedia watermarking environment for digital data: the two LabellingEditors for images and video, the 3D-Watermark and the ObjectTrackingEditor.