Compressed-encrypted domain JPEG2000 image watermarking

In digital rights management (DRM) systems, digital media is often distributed by multiple levels of distributors in a compressed and encrypted format. The distributors in the chain face the problem of embedding their watermark in compressed, encrypted domain for copyright violation detection purpose. In this paper, we propose a robust watermark embedding technique for JPEG2000 compressed and encrypted images. While the proposed technique embeds watermark in the compressed-encrypted domain, the extraction of watermark can be done either in decrypted domain or in encrypted domain.