Perdue Done (Watermarked) It (was Re: Edupage, February 1, 2002)

[Ben Laurie]

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
> 
> At 5:54 PM -0700 on 2/1/02, EDUCAUSE wrote:
> 
> > DIGITAL WATERMARKING MAKES INTERNET VIDEO SPLASH
> > Purdue University researchers have found a way to ensure
> > Internet-delivered video maintains its watermark and keeps
> > channel disturbance to a minimum, protecting the content from
> > copyright infringement and hackers. Purdue professor of computer
> > engineering Edward Delp said the technique allows for
> > resynchronization at the receiving end that can decipher and
> > piece together Internet video streams that are often chopped
> > and mixed up while traveling over noisy networks. The result,
> > said Delp, is the integrity of the watermark and image, while
> > the stream is still delivered in real time. Traditional methods
> > of piecing together Internet-delivered content largely do not
> > work for audio and video, he added. The technique also helps
> > guard against hackers because of the way it controls channel
> > disturbance, and could also be used to decipher terrorist
> > messages embedded in Internet-delivered video.
> > (NewsFactor Network, 31 January 2002)

Yeah right, and it makes coffee and will prevent kiddyporn, too. Oh, did
they mention that it also does biometrics through your mouse?

Cheers,

Ben.

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