On the security of the schur-based watermarking schemes

Abstract

This paper presents a security analysis of robust watermarking methods based on Schur decomposition in a general scenario. The security is defined as the difficulty to remove the watermark and to estimate the secrets used in the embedding process, supposing that the adversary possesses several watermarked digital contents. The theoretical analysis and extensive experimental results carried out prove that these schemes fail to secure the digital contents against malicious attacks.