<div dir="ltr">Fourier watermarking is highly susceptible to being destroyed during resize operations, as the image scale and frequencies all shift pretty heavily.<div><br></div><div>Wavelets aren't patented per se, I think, but I still don't know that they are going to solve OP's question.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want a truly invisible watermark, don't share the image. If you _must_ have something to "protect" you, then don't share the full resolution or raw file (you can always produce a higher resolution image or raw file to "prove" ownership.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, creatively add your watermark directly into the image somewhere that won't be easy to notice, but might survive further editing.</div><div><br></div><div>Better still - maybe don't use a watermark at all? :)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:29 AM Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Simon,<br>
<br>
Photoshop have a tool to watermark photo before to publish this on the<br>
web. It's in relation with a web service to identify a copyright photo<br>
everywhere though the web.<br>
<br>
Of course the service is not free...<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.digimarc.com/application/photography" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.digimarc.com/application/photography</a><br>
<br>
Gilles<br>
<br>
2017-05-12 18:16 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <<a href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com" target="_blank">freisim93@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> I don't know anything about how it works, I just had a hunch that this<br>
> would be something that could be in G'MIC - and it was. You best ask the<br>
> G'MIC folks about it.<br>
><br>
> Honestly, I don't really consider this very useful in the real world.<br>
> The party where you proclaim a copyright breach has to use G'MIC digiKam<br>
> to recover the copyright information, which they probably won't, and a<br>
> simple proof of ownership by comparing to an "original" (higher res,<br>
> raw, ...) picture is probably sufficient. If your picture is that<br>
> valuable, the "thief" will probably also go trough the trouble of<br>
> removing your notice from the fourier domain (which probably is<br>
> possible, as it is fourier and the original transformation<br>
> implementation is known).<br>
><br>
> On 12/05/17 15:17, Sveinn í Felli wrote:<br>
>> Maybe something similar to image steganography could be used?<br>
>> That is a process where one can embed encrypted message/image into a<br>
>> picture. Pixelknot is such an OSS-application for Android, see<br>
>> <<a href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/pixelknot/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://guardianproject.info/apps/pixelknot/</a>><br>
>><br>
>> Simon, do you know how well the Fourier markings survive through<br>
>> modifications by image sharing services?<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Sveinn í Felli<br>
>><br>
>> Þann fös 12.maí 2017 12:38, skrifaði Louis A. Turk:<br>
>>> On 05/12/2017 07:05 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
>>>> Very interesting. Please comment this entry in bugzilla accordingly :<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268981" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268981</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thanks in advance<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Gilles Caulier<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> 2017-05-12 12:03 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <<a href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com" target="_blank">freisim93@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>>>>> There is a G'MIC filter that embeds text in the fourier domain, it is<br>
>>>>> called "Fourier watermark" (and "Fourier analysis" to retrieve the<br>
>>>>> info): <a href="https://gmicol.greyc.fr/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gmicol.greyc.fr/</a><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On 12/05/17 11:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
>>>>>> You cannot. Invisble watermark use wavelets encoding methods which<br>
>>>>>> are<br>
>>>>>> patented in US and impossible as i know to code in open source...<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Best<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Gilles Caulier<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> 2017-05-12 10:42 GMT+02:00 Louis A. Turk<br>
>>>>>> <<a href="mailto:louisaturk@firmanelohim.org" target="_blank">louisaturk@firmanelohim.org</a>>:<br>
>>>>>>> How can I do invisible digital watermarking with digikam5 as<br>
>>>>>>> mentioned<br>
>>>>>>> here:<br>
>>>>>>> <a href="https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-dam.html#using-dam-copyright" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-dam.html#using-dam-copyright</a><br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> How can I do a regular watermark?<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> drl<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Thank you Gilles and Simon. Hopefully, the impossible may be possible<br>
>>> after all.<br>
>>><br>
>>> drl<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
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