Digital Watermarking: Pathway to Secure!

The progression in information technology has led to some thoughtful anxieties about the piracy and exclusive rights of digital content. The encounters met in the digital world are many, which could be fixed with some biometric recognition approaches. These methods are incorporated within watermarking technology, steganography, cryptography, and many other security schemes. These methods support in fortifying digital images with the substantiation of their owner. Digital watermarking is extensively used for patents and other alike applications. This chapter details the outline of digital watermarking, numerous categories of digital watermarking, the reason for the watermarking requirement, and several areas where watermarking is applied and benefited. The fundamental principle of watermark embedding and watermark withdrawal is also discussed. The parameters of watermarking classification are highlighted in this chapter. Finally, the trends in multimedia watermarking techniques are summarized in this chapter.