Watermarking

The digital tag to fight against leaks, diversions and falsification of sensitive data

Indistinguishable

The presence of a tag is indistinguishable for the users

Versatile

Watermarking does not interfere with uses

Robust

Watermarking resists to common use but also malevolent acts

Watermarking lies on the imperceptible insertion of a message or a watermark into a host document (e.g., an image, a database, a document). The aim of this message may vary depending on the applicative context and it depends on the relation between the protected content and the message. This message may serve the protection of the owner rights, data integrity, data traceability (e.g., concealing of client or user identifiers into the host document), etc. By definition, the host content can be accessed while still being protected by the embedded message. Protection is independent from the storage format and it does not hinge the usage of the content. This versatility makes of watermarking a really attractive solution in the sensitive information protection framework.

Next figure presents an example of the use of watermarking in the protection of the digital rights of an image.

 

Regarding its concurrents in the watermarking domain, WaToo offers data and document protection and tracking solutions based on reversible watermarking. The reversibility property warrants that it is possible to retrieve the original document once the watermark has been extracted from the watermarked document.