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Watermarking and Fingerprinting

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An important task in media synchronisation is to find out the playback position of a running media stream. Only based on this information, it is possible to provide additional information or additional streams synchronised to that running stream. This chapter gives an overview of two techniques for solving this basic task: watermarking and fingerprinting. In the former, synchronisation information is embedded imperceptibly in the media stream. In the latter, an excerpt of the media stream is identified based on an index of compact representations of known media content. In both cases, there are specific approaches for audio, image, and video signals. In all cases, the robustness of the methods may be increased by using error correcting codes.

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Bardeli, R. (2018). Watermarking and Fingerprinting. In: Montagud, M., Cesar, P., Boronat, F., Jansen, J. (eds) MediaSync. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65840-7_22

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