Fundamentals and Applications of Hardcopy Communication, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Conveying Side Information by Printed Media

This book presents covert, semi-covert and overt techniques for communication over printed media by modifying images, texts or barcodes within the document. Basic and advanced techniques are discussed aimed to modulate information into images, texts and barcodes.

Conveying information over printed media can be useful for content authentication, author copyright, information and piracy product deterrent, side information for marketing, among other applications. 

Practical issues are discussed and experiments are provided to evaluate competitive approaches for hard-copy communication.

This book is a useful resource for researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the field of hard-copy communication by providing the fundamentals, basic and advanced techniques as examples of approaches to address the hard-copy media distortions and particularities. 

Joceli Mayer
Prof. Joceli Mayer, Ph.D.,  is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.  He got his Ph.D. degree  from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Computer Engineering, CSE-UCSC under Prof. Glen G. Langdon. His interests include digital signal processing applications, image processing and computational vision, speech coding and VOIP systems, signal recognition, detection and watermarking of image, video, speech, audio and printed documents. He is an author on more than 100 publications. He also has contributed with solutions in DSP  to the industry partners (Hewlett Packard, Intelbras, AGM, Pixeon, Amplivox). Director of the Laboratory of Research on Processing, Communication and Recognition of Signals – PSILAB at UFSC. 

Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges
Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges, is a Principal Research Scientist and currently leads the Robotics Perception Team at the CSIRO's Autonomous Systems Laboratory, in Brisbane, Australia. He received the B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2007 he received his Ph.D. degree from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and UFSC, followed by a Post-Doc in 2008 at QMUL, before moving to CSIRO in 2009. In 2012-13, he held a visiting scientist appointment at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His current research focuses on computer vision applied to robotics, multi-sensor information fusion and image processing. Aside from his position at CSIRO, Dr. Borges is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Steven J. Simske
Steve Simske is a Professor in Systems and Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. Until 2018, he was a Fellow in HP Labs and Directo