A digital watermark for vector-based fonts

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Thiemert;Martin Steinebach;Patrick Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IPSI;Fraunhofer IPSI;Fraunhofer IPSI

  • Venue:
  • MM&Sec '06 Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Multimedia and security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present a blind watermarking scheme for vector-based fonts. The scheme can be used for authenticating the copyright holder as well as for identifying customers of fonts. We slightly modify the symmetry between curve pairs to embed a binary message. The watermark is invisible and robust against conversion into other vector-based font formats. An implementation for TrueType-Fonts was evaluated by typeface designers.Based on the blind watermarking scheme we discuss an extension to a non-blind watermark, which is in addition robust against uniform scaling.