Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Outline -- Part I: Restoration -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO RESTORATION -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Scope of Part I -- 1.3 Overview of Part I -- CHAPTER 2. MODELING AND CODING -- 2.1 Modeling for image restoration -- 2.2 Image restoration and storage -- CHAPTER 3. INTENSITY FLICKER CORRECTION -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Estimating and correcting intensity flicker in stationary sequences -- 3.3 Incorporating motion -- 3.4 Practical issues -- 3.5 Experiments and results -- 3.6 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 4. BLOTCH DETECTION AND CORRECTION -- 4.1 System for blotch detection and correction -- 4.2 Overview of existing techniques -- 4.3 Improved blotch detection by postprocessing -- 4.4 Blotch detection with increased temporal aperture -- 4.5 Fast, good quality interpolation of missing data -- 4.6 Results and conclusions -- CHAPTER 5. NOISE REDUCTION BY CORING -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Noise reduction techniques -- 5.3 Coring image sequences in wavelet and subband domains -- 5.4 MPEG2 for noise reduction -- 5.5 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 6. EVALUATION OF RESTORED IMAGE SEQUENCES -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Assessment of restored image sequences -- 6.3 Experiments and results -- APPENDIX A. HIERARCHICAL MOTION ESTIMATION -- APPENDIX B. DERIVATION OF CONDITIONALS -- APPENDIX C. OPTIMAL QUANTIZERS FOR ENCODING NOISY IMAGE SEQUENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART I -- Part II: Watermarking -- CHAPTER 7. INTRODUCTION TO WATERMARKING -- 7.1 The need for watermarking -- 7.2 Watermarking requirements -- 7.3 Brief history of watermarking -- 7.4 Scope of Part II -- 7.5 Overview of Part II -- CHAPTER 8. STATE-OF-THE-ART IN IMAGE AND VIDEO WATERMARKING -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Correlation based watermark techniques -- 8.3 Extended correlation-based watermark techniques -- 8.4 Non-correlation-based watermarking techniques -- 8.5 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 9. LOW COMPLEXITY WATERMARKS FOR MPEG COMPRESSED VIDEO -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Watermarking MPEG video bit streams -- 9.3 Correlation-based techniques in the coefficient domain -- 9.4 Parity bit modification in the bit domain -- 9.5 Re-labeling resistant bit domain watermarking method -- 9.6 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 10. DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY WATERMARKS (DEW) -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The DEW concept for MPEG/JPEG encoded video -- 10.3 Detailed DEW algorithm description -- 10.4 Evaluation of the DEW algorithm for MPEG video data -- 10.5 Extension of the DEW concept for EZW-coded images -- 10.6 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 11. FINDING OPTIMAL PARAMETERS FOR THE DEW ALGORITHM -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Modeling the DEW concept for JPEG compressed video -- 11.3 Model validation with real-world data -- 11.4 Label error probability -- 11.5 Optimal parameter settings -- 11.6 Experimental results -- 11.7 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 12. BENCHMARKING THE DEW WATERMARKING ALGORITHM -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Benchmarking methods -- 12.