Geographically watermarked imagery and methods
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1. A method comprising digitally watermarking an image with a payload that represents at least two position coordinates for a point depicted within the image.
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An image is digitally watermarked to convey position data about the subject of the image, such as latitude, longitude and elevation of a point depicted therein. Additional information, e.g., about camera attributes, camera angle, and 3D warp-characterizing polynomial coefficients, can also be included.
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- 1. A method comprising digitally watermarking an image with a payload that represents at least two position coordinates for a point depicted within the image.
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7. A method comprising digitally watermarking an image with a payload that includes first and second portions, said watermarking using a tiled approach, wherein uniformly-sized patches of the image are processed in accordance with the payload, wherein the first portion is unchanging across all of said tiles, but the second portion changes between tiles, so that position information about each tile can be determined therefrom.
- 8. A method comprising digitally watermarking different regions of an image with different watermark payload data, wherein a first region of the image is watermarked with payload data relating to an elevation of terrain depicted in said first region, and a second region of the image is watermarked with payload data relating to an elevation of terrain depicted in said second region.
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