Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications

Mauro Barni is Associate Professor, Information Engineering Department, University of Siena, Italy. The author of more than 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings, he is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for which he serves as member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP-TC). He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He received the B.S. degree (1991) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree (1995) in informatics and telecommunications from the University of Florence, Italy. Franco Bartolini is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy. The author or coauthor of numerous professional publications, he holds three patents. His research interests include image sequence processing for machine vision and video coding, image and video watermarking, and the development of secure protocols for trading copyrighted materials. He received the B.Sc. degree (1991) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree (1996) from the University of Florence, Italy.