A Detailed Survey of Digital Watermarking Applications and Its Techniques

Abstract

This paper describes the significance of digital water marking process. Watermarking is a process of hiding information in multimedia content like images and videos.  Now a day it is major research area. Digital watermarking is one of the best solutions to protect content in web, content authentication and managing copyright information. Watermarking has been proposed for a long while to embed the secret information with images to stop reduces unauthorized access of the content. Watermarking and image compression is quiet different area. Rest of this paper we are going to elaborate what are all techniques that are exist so far in watermarking technology and subsequent sections classifies from the different perspectives. Watermarking is not only protecting the content, it increases the value of the content. There are numerous algorithms and procedures available for watermarking of images and videos etc., although this paper limits watermarking with images only.