This book describes the need of copyright protection for multimedia objects and develops an invisible image watermarking scheme to serve the purpose of copyright protection. Here intelligent systems are introduced to generate a better visual transparency with increased payload.
Mr. Subhrajit Sinha Roy received his B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in 2012 and M. Tech. in Telecommunication from RCC Institute of Information Technology (under West Bengal University of Technology), Kolkata, India, in 2015. At present he is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Global Institute of Management and Technology, Krishnagar, West Bengal, India. He has also been enrolled in the Department of Radio Physics and Electronics under Calcutta University for Ph.D in Engineering and Technology. Till date he has six research publications in international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes to his credit. His field of interest spans digital image processing, information hiding, FPGA based system design, low power VLSI design and quantum computing.
Dr. Abhishek Basu received his B. Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in the year 2005, M. Tech. in VLSI Design from Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India in 2008 and Ph. D (Engg) from Jadavpur University, India in 2015. He is currently the Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering department of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as under graduate Program coordinator in the above mentioned Dept. during 30th march 2016 to 1st January, 2017. He is co-editor of a book and has more than 40 research publications in international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes to his credit. He is the hospitality chair of International Conference on Intelligent Control, Power and Instrumentation (ICICPI 2016), during October 21th -23th, 2016. He is the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. His research interests include digital image processing, visual information hiding, IP protection technique, FPGA based system design, low power VLSI Design and embedded system design. Dr. Basu is a life member of Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability, India.
Dr. Avik Chattopadhyay received his B. Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in the year 2006, M. Tech. (in VLSI Design) and Ph. D. (Tech.) from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Prior to this, he served as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India almost for two years. He is co-author of a book-chapter and has more than 20 research publications in international journals, and conference proceedings to his credit. His research interests include design and analysis of novel structures of MOSFETs, study of post-CMOS devices for low power VLSI applications, and designing of FPGA based system.
