Signal Rich Art: Object Placement, Object Position Modulation and Other Advances

Abstract

Signal rich art is an alternative paradigm for watermarking, in which we embed a signal in an image or software application such as a website or app as a visible artistic pattern. In this paper we present a new algorithm for generating signal carrying patterns from a dictionary of objects which we call object placement. In an alternative approach, called object position modulation, we locally perturb the positions of objects in a given pattern to embed the signal. We also present advances in previous techniques.