In November 1997, the first version of StirMark was published as a generic tool for simple robustness testing of image watermarking algorithms. It introduced random bilinear geometric distortions to de-synchronise watermarking algorithms. Then several versions followed improving the original attack but also introducing a longer lists of tests. In January 1999 we discussed the urgent need for fair evaluation procedures for watermarking systems and a first benchmark was made possible with the release of StirMark 3.1.

The natural extension to this work was an automated independent public service with extended evaluation profiles to evaluate quickly watermarking libraries. This was the goal of the StirMark Benchmark Service project.

A first brick for this tool was the new StirMark Benchmark evaluation engine that you can download from this page. The previous version of StirMark has been completely ... Читать дальше »