A 2D Vector Maps Watermarking Algorithm Resistant to Simplification Attack

Vector maps are valuable asset of data producers. How to protect copyright of vector maps effectively using digital watermarking is a hot research issue. In this paper, we propose a new robust and blind watermarking algorithm resilient to simplification attack. We proof that spatial topological relation between map objects bears an important property of approximate simplification invariance. We choose spatial topological relations as watermark feature domain and embed watermarks by slightly modifying spatial topological relation between map objects. Experiment shows that our algorithm has good performance to resist simplification attack and tradeoff of the robustness and data fidelity is acquired.