Title
Collusion-resistant fingerprinting for multimedia
Abstract
Digital fingerprinting is an effective method to identify users who might try to redistribute multimedia content, such as images and video. These fingerprints are typically embedded into the content using watermarking techniques that are designed to be robust to a variety of attacks. A cheap and effective attack against such digital fingerprints is collusion, where several differently marked copies of the same content are averaged or combined to disrupt the underlying fingerprint. In this paper, we study the problem of designing fingerprints that can withstand collusion, yet trace colluders. Since, in antipodal CDMA-type watermarking, the correlation contributions only decrease where watermarks differ, by constructing binary code vectors where any subset of k or fewer of these vectors have unique overlap, we may identify groups of k or less colluders. Our construction of such anti-collusion codes (ACC) uses the theory of combinatorial designs, and for n users requires O(√n) bits. Further, we explore a block matrix structure for the ACC that reduces the computational complexity for identifying colluders and improves the detection capability when colluders belong to the same subgroup.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/ICASSP.2002.5745361
ICASSP), 2002 IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
combinatorial design,weaving,computational complexity,user requirements
Digital watermarking,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Combinatorial design,Antipodal point,Collusion,Pattern recognition,Binary code,Fingerprint,Multimedia,Block matrix,Computational complexity theory
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4
1520-6149
0-7803-7402-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
1.64
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Trappe172138.85
Min Wu22703190.18
K. J. Ray Liu310390743.86