Information hiding technique using optical correlators

During the past few years a variety of techniques have emerged to hide specific information within multimedia data for copyright protection, tamper-proofing and secret communication. The schemes for information hiding that have been proposed so far used either digital signal processing software or hardware. So they inevitably have a problem in some applications like automatic copyright control system, which need fast data-extracting scheme. In this paper, we show that the newly proposed optical correlator-based information hiding system has an advantage in that sense. In this scheme it is possible to simultaneously extract all the data hidden in one stego image and furthermore it is also possible to simultaneously extract all the data hidden in several stego images using optical correlators such as matched spatial filter and joint transform correlator.