On the intractability of inverting geometric distortions in watermarking schemes

  • Authors:
  • Maciej Liśkiewicz;Ulrich Wölfel

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany;Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IH'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information Hiding
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We examine the problem of watermarking schemes robust against geometric distortions from a complexity theoretic point of view. The main results presented are polynomial time reductions showing that the inversion of geometric distortions is computationally intractable.