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

本小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目开发了一种保护多媒体真实性的新方法。因特网允许免费分发各种各样的多媒体产品，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引力。然而，同样的媒体也受到盗窃和盗版版权媒体的困扰。解决这一困境对发明者和版权所有者，乃至整个电子商务的发展都至关重要。只要作者、美工或公司被引用，媒体复制对曝光率至关重要。本研究利用独立分量分析（ICA）盲混合算法在多媒体中嵌入三种标记：可见的标志或广告、不可见的水印和不可见的电子细菌编码。这个标志就像一种“疫苗”，可以防止一种休眠的数字“电子细菌”代码。一旦标识被移除，细菌代码就会觉醒，只会降解多媒体。不可见水印使硬件媒体播放器和跟踪检索成为可能。这项研究的成果是双重的：知识产权和软件工具。收入来源于向内容制作商出售广告空间、IP许可和软件。

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.