SBIR Phase I: Protecting Multimedia Authenticity with Vaccination Of Electronic Bacteria Watermarks

SBIR 第一阶段：通过电子细菌水印疫苗保护多媒体真实性

• 批准号: 0128846
• 负责人: Joseph Landa
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: BriarTek Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0128846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Protecting; Multimedia; Authenticity

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project develops a novel method to protect the authenticity of multimedia. The Internet allows cost-free distribution of multimedia products of all sorts, from simple documents to music, video, or virtual reality. Free product samples become the gravity for snowballing success. Yet the same medium is plagued with theft and piracy of copyrighted media. The resolution of this dilemma is critical for inventors and copyright holders, and indeed for the growth of e-commerce as a whole.Media duplication is critical for exposure as long as the author, artist or company is cited. This novel research embeds three markings in multimedia by an independent component analysis (ICA) blind mixing algorithm: a visible logo or advertisement, an invisible watermark, and an invisible electronic bacteria code. The logo serves as a "vaccination" against a dormant digital "electronic bacteria" code. Once the logo is removed the bacteria code awakens and degrades only the multimedia. The invisible watermark enables retrieval by hardware media players and tracking.The product of this research is twofold: intellectual property and software tools. Revenue originates from the sale of advertisement space, IP licensing, and sale of software to the content producers.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目开发了一种保护多媒体真实性的新方法。互联网允许免费分发各种多媒体产品，从简单的文档到音乐、视频或虚拟现实。免费的产品样品成为滚雪球式成功的重力。然而，同样的媒体也受到版权媒体盗窃和盗版的困扰。解决这一难题对发明人和版权持有人至关重要，实际上对整个电子商务的发展也至关重要。只要作者、艺术家或公司被引用，媒体复制就对曝光至关重要。这项新的研究通过独立分量分析（伊卡）盲混合算法在多媒体中嵌入三个标记：可见的标志或广告，不可见的水印和不可见的电子细菌代码。该标志作为一种“疫苗”，以对抗休眠的数字“电子细菌”代码。一旦徽标被移除，细菌代码就会唤醒并仅降解多媒体。隐形水印使得硬件媒体播放器能够检索和跟踪。本研究的产品是双重的：知识产权和软件工具。收入来源于向内容制作者出售广告空间、知识产权许可以及销售软件。