Image watermarking

Dach des Hochzeitsturms in Darmstadt vor blauem Himmel, zur Hälfte mit sichtbarem Bildrauschen überlagert – symbolisiert die unsichtbare, robuste Wasserzeichen-Technologie für Bildschutz und Individualisierung des Fraunhofer SIT.

Our image watermarking technology invisibly embeds additional information into image content. The embedded watermark can be used for copyright protection and image individualization. For example, embedding a User-ID as watermark into image makes each image copy a unique one. If a pirate copy is found, the source of pirate can be identified by the embedded watermark.

Features

SITMark Image (»ImageMark«) is available as command-line software as well as library SDK for Windows and Linux operating systems. ImageMark supports most of popular image formats, e.g. JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF. The image watermarking tool can be directly integrated into other applications using library SDK.

The embedded watermark is transparent but robust against various image processing and attacks, e.g.

  • JPEG compression
  • Scaling
  • Rotation
  • Cropping
  • Format conversion
  • Color/grayscale conversion

Licensing

We are offering this image watermarking technology in different varieties to customers. If you are interested in licensing or evaluating our image watermarking technology, feel free to contact us.

Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
Media Security and IT Forensics
Phone +49 6151 869-349