A Lossy JPEG2000-based Data Hiding Method for Scalable 3D Terrain Visualization

International audienceThe data needed for 3D terrain visualization consists, essentially, of a texture image and its corresponding digital elevation model (DEM). A blind data hiding method is proposed for the synchronous unification of this disparate data whereby the lossless discrete wavelet transformed (DWTed) DEM is embedded in the tier-1 coded quantized and DWTed Y component of the texture image from the lossy JPEG2000 pipeline. The multiresolution nature of wavelets provides us the scalability that can cater for the diversity of client capacities in terms of computing, memory and network resources in today's network environment. The results have been interesting and for a bitrate as low as $0.012$ bit per pixel (bpp), a satisfactory visualization was realized. We compare the obtained results with those of a previous method that interrupt the lossless JPEG2000 codec immediately after the DWT step and embeds lossless DWTed DEM in the reversibly DWTed Y component of texture. The proposed method proved to be more effective in the sense that for the same bitrate one observed lesser quality loss for respective resolutions

Recent Advances in Signal Processing

The signal processing task is a very critical issue in the majority of new technological inventions and challenges in a variety of applications in both science and engineering fields. Classical signal processing techniques have largely worked with mathematical models that are linear, local, stationary, and Gaussian. They have always favored closed-form tractability over real-world accuracy. These constraints were imposed by the lack of powerful computing tools. During the last few decades, signal processing theories, developments, and applications have matured rapidly and now include tools from many areas of mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering. This book is targeted primarily toward both students and researchers who want to be exposed to a wide variety of signal processing techniques and algorithms. It includes 27 chapters that can be categorized into five different areas depending on the application at hand. These five categories are ordered to address image processing, speech processing, communication systems, time-series analysis, and educational packages respectively. The book has the advantage of providing a collection of applications that are completely independent and self-contained; thus, the interested reader can choose any chapter and skip to another without losing continuity