The unique problems encountered when analyzing weather data sets - that is, measurements taken while conducting a meteorological experiment- have forced statisticians to reconsider the conventional analysis methods and investigate permutation test procedures. The problems encountered when analyzing weather data sets are simulated for a Monte Carlo study, and the results of the parametric and permutation t-tests are compared with regard to significance level, power, and the average coilfidence interval length. Seven population distributions are considered - three are variations of the normal distribution, and the others the gamma, the lognormal, the rectangular and empirical distributions. The normal distribution contaminated with zero measurements is also simulated. In those simulated situations in which the variances are unequal, the permutation test procedure was performed using other test statistics, namely the Scheffe, Welch and Behrens-Fisher test statistics. / Mathematical Sciences / M. Sc. (Statistics)

L'étude présentée dans ce document a pour objet l'étude de différents modes de réduction de vibrations dans les structures avec liaisons. Le premier mode étudié se base sur la dissipation d'énergie apportée par la déformation d' éléments piézoélectriques connectés à un circuit électrique adapté. Le second mode proposé se base sur la propriété de la liaison boulonnée à changer les fréquences propres d'une structure en fonction du serrage appliqué. Cette propriété est utilisée avec plusieurs lois de contrôle du serrage afin d'éviter les plages de fréquences critiques. Ensuite une étude probabiliste est effectuée pour déterminer la robustesse de la réduction de vibrations par rapport à la variation de certains paramètres du modèle. Cette étude de robustesse est effectuée à travers des méthodes stochastiques non-intrusives, parmi lesquelles une méthode originale proposée. Elle permet une réduction de la taille du modèle stochastique à résoudre, ce qui réduit très considérablement le temps de calcul sans perte de qualité significative. / The study presented in this thesis aims to explore other ways of vibration reduction in structures with bolted connections. The first way studied is based on the energy dissipation provided by the deformation of piezoelectric elements connected to an adapted electric circuit. The proposed second way is based on the property of the bolted joint of changing the natural frequencies of a structure according to the applied tightening force. This property is used via several control laws to avoid vibration on critical frequency ranges.Thereafter a probabilistic study is made to determine the robustness of the vibration reduction in relation to a variation of some model parameters. The robustness study is done through non-intrusive stochastic methods, among them a dedicated method that we propose. A stochastic model reduction is allowed which reduces dramatically the computation time without losing quality of stochastic results.

Avec l'avènement des systèmes intégrés complexes, la vérification par assertions(Assertion Based Verification ou ABV) s'est imposée comme une solution pour la vérification semi-formelle des circuits. L'ABV permet de valider qu'un circuit satisfait ou non une propriété(ou assertion). Des travaux antérieurs ont montré qu'il était possible de synthétiser ces propriétés sous la forme de moniteurs matériels. Ces derniers peuvent ainsi être embarqués à demeure sur un circuit afin qu'ils assurent une tâche de monitoring. Avec un objectif de surveillance et de sûreté, l'utilisation de tels moniteurs est un plus. Néanmoins, ces derniers sont aussi sensibles que les circuits surveillés à une dégradation environnementale(tension, température, vieillissement, …). Afin de réduire le risque de dysfonctionnement des moniteurs, initialement conçus comme des circuits synchrones, une variante asynchrone(quasi-insensible aux délais) est proposée dans cette thèse. Ces travaux s'inscrivent dans le cadre du projet ANR SFINCS(Thalès, Dolphin Integration, TIMA) et ont mené à la définition d'une méthode de synthèse de moniteurs asynchrones matériels tirant parti de la robustesse et de la modularité des implémentations asynchrones. Les études menées se focalisent en premier lieu sur la conception d'une bibliothèque de moniteurs élémentaires asynchrones et sur une méthode d'interconnexion ad hoc permettant de constituer des moniteurs complexes. Afin de garantir les bonnes propriétés de robustesse de ces moniteurs, une étude a été menée à l'aide de l'outil de vérification formelle RAT. Il a notamment été prouvé que la connexion d'un moniteur asynchrone avec un circuit synchrone(à surveiller) était un point particulièrement délicat car les hypothèses du circuit synchrone contraignent le moniteur asynchrone. Il a donc été proposé d'introduire un dispositif de contrôle de l'horloge du circuit synchrone, appelé « clock stretching », afin de relaxer les hypothèses temporelles synchrones qui sont appliquées à la partie asynchrone. / With the advent of complex integrated systems, the assertion based verification(ABV) has emerged as a solution for the semi-formal circuits verification. The ABV is used to validate that a circuit satisfies a property(or assertion). Previous work has shown that it is possible to synthesize these properties in the form of hardware monitors. These can then be embeddded permanantly on a circuit so that they provide monitoring task. With a goal of security and surveillance, the use of such monitors is a plus. Nevertheless, they are as sensitive as the monitored circuits to environmental degradation(voltage, temperature, age, ...). To reduce the risk of failure in monitors, originally designed as synchronous circuits, an asynchronous variant(quasi-delay insensitive) is proposed in this thesis. This work is part of the ANR project SFINCS(Thales, Dolphin Integration, TIMA) and led to the definition of a method for synthesizing asynchronous hardware monitors leveraging the robustness and modularity of asynchronous implementations. The studies focus primarily on the design of a library of basic asynchronous monitors and an ad hoc method of interconnection to build complex monitors. To ensure the robustness of these monitors, a study was conducted using formal verification tool RAT. In particular it was proved that the connection of an asynchronous monitor with a synchronous circuit(to watch) was particularly tricky because the timing assumptions of synchronous circuit impact the asynchronous monitor. It was therefore proposed to introduce a devicet, called "clock stretching", for controlling the clock of the synchronous circuit and relax synchronous timing assumptions that are applied to the asynchronous monitor.

La détection de structures fines et orientées dans une image peut mener à un très large champ d'applications en particulier dans le domaine de l'imagerie médicale, des sciences des matériaux ou de la télédétection. Les ouvertures et fermetures par chemins sont des opérateurs morphologiques utilisant des chemins orientés et flexibles en guise d'éléments structurants. Ils sont utilisés de la même manière que les opérateurs morphologiques utilisant des segments orientés comme éléments structurants mais sont plus efficaces lorsqu'il s'agit de détecter des structures pouvant être localement non rigides. Récemment, une nouvelle implémentation des opérateurs par chemins a été proposée leur permettant d'être appliqués à des images 2D et 3D de manière très efficace. Cependant, cette implémentation est limitée par le fait qu'elle n'est pas robuste au bruit affectant les structures fines. En effet, pour être efficaces, les opérateurs par chemins doivent être suffisamment longs pour pouvoir correspondre à la longueur des structures à détecter et deviennent de ce fait beaucoup plus sensibles au bruit de l'image. La première partie de ces travaux est dédiée à répondre à ce problème en proposant un algorithme robuste permettant de traiter des images 2D et 3D. Nous avons proposé les opérateurs par chemins robustes, utilisant une famille plus grande d'éléments structurants et qui, donnant une longueur L et un paramètre de robustesse G, vont permettre la propagation du chemin à travers des déconnexions plus petites ou égales à G, rendant le paramètre G indépendant de L. Cette simple proposition mènera à une implémentation plus efficace en terme de complexité de calculs et d'utilisation mémoire que l'état de l'art. Les opérateurs développés ont été comparés avec succès avec d'autres méthodes classiques de la détection des structures curvilinéaires de manière qualitative et quantitative. Ces nouveaux opérateurs ont été par la suite intégrés dans une chaîne complète de traitement d'images et de modélisation pour la caractérisation des matériaux composite renforcés avec des fibres de verres. Notre étude nous a ensuite amenés à nous intéresser à des filtres morphologiques récents basés sur la mesure de caractéristiques géodésiques. Ces filtres sont une bonne alternative aux ouvertures par chemins car ils sont très efficaces lorsqu'il s'agit de détecter des structures présentant de fortes tortuosités ce qui est précisément la limitation majeure des ouvertures par chemins. La combinaison de la robustesse locale des ouvertures par chemins robustes et la capacité des filtres par attributs géodésiques à recouvrer les structures tortueuses nous ont permis de proposer un nouvel algorithme, les ouvertures par chemins robustes et sélectives. / The detection of thin and oriented features in an image leads to a large field of applications specifically in medical imaging, material science or remote sensing. Path openings and closings are efficient morphological operators that use flexible oriented paths as structuring elements. They are employed in a similar way to operators with rotated line segments as structuring elements, but are more effective as they can detect linear structures that are not necessarily locally perfectly straight. While their theory has always allowed paths in arbitrary dimensions, de facto implementations were only proposed in 2D. Recently, a new implementation was proposed enabling the computation of efficient d-dimensional path operators. However this implementation is limited in the sense that it is not robust to noise. Indeed, in practical applications, for path operators to be effective, structuring elements must be sufficiently long so that they correspond to the length of the desired features to be detected. Yet, path operators are increasingly sensitive to noise as their length parameter L increases. The first part of this work is dedicated to cope with this limitation. Thus, we will propose an efficient d-dimensional algorithm, the robust path operators, which use a larger family of flexible structuring elements. Given an arbitrary length parameter G, path propagation is allowed if disconnections between two pixels belonging to a path is less or equal to G and so, render it independent of L. This simple assumption leads to a constant memory bookkeeping and results in a low complexity. The developed operators have been compared qualitatively and quantitatively to other efficient methods for the detection of line-like features. As an application, robust path openings have been integrated into a complete chain of image processing for the modelling and the characterization of glass fibers reinforced polymer. Our study has also led us to focus our interest on recent morphological connected filters based on geodesic measurements. These filters are a good alternative to path operators as they are efficient at detecting the so-called "tortuous" shapes in an image which is precisely the main limitation of path operators. Combining the local robustness of the robust path operators with the ability of geodesic attribute-based filters to recover "tortuous" shapes have enabled us to propose another original algorithm, the selective and robust path operators.

L'objectif de cette thèse est l'étude d'un descripteur d'images adapté à une grande variété d'applications. Nous cherchons à obtenir un descripteur robuste et discriminant, facile à adapter et peu coûteux en calcul et en mémoire.Nous définissons un nouveau descripteur, composé de valeurs du Laplacien à différentes échelles et de valeurs d'une transformée de Fourier radiale, calculées à partir d'une pyramide Gaussienne. Ce descripteur capture une information de forme multi-échelle autour d'un point de l'image. L'expérimentation a montré que malgré une taille mémoire réduite les performances en robustesse et en pouvoir discriminant de ce descripteur sont à la heuteur de l'état de l'art.Nous avons expérimenté ce descripteur avec trois types de tâches différentes.Le premier type de tâche est la mise en correspondance de points-clés avec des images transformées par rotation, changement d'échelle, floutage, codage JPEG, changement de point de vue, ou changement d'éclairage. Nous montrons que la performance de notre descripteur est au niveau des meilleurs descripteurs connus dans l'état de l'art. Le deuxième type de tâche est la détection de formes. Nous avons utilisé le descripteur pour la création de deux détecteurs de personnes, construits avec Adaboost. Comparé à un détecteur semblable construit avec des histogrammes de gradients (HOG) nos détecteurs sont très compétitifs tout en utilisant des descripteurs sensiblement plus compacts. Le dernier type de tâche est la détection de symétries de réflexion dans des images "du monde réel". Nous proposons une technique de détection d'axes potentiels de symétries en miroir. Avec cette tâche nous montrons que notre descripteur peut être genéralisé à des situations complexes. L'expérimentation montre que cette méthode est robuste et discriminante, tout en conservant un faible coût en calcul et en mémoire. / In this thesis we explore a new image description method composed of a multi-scale vector of Laplacians of Gaussians, the Laplacian Profile, and a Radial Fourier Transform. This method captures shape information with different proportions around a point in the image. A Gaussian pyramid of scaled images is used for the extraction of the descriptor vectors. The aim of this new method is to provide image description that can be suitable for diverse applications. Adjustability as well as low computational and memory needs are as important as robustness and discrimination power. We created a method with the ability to capture the image signal efficiently with descriptor vectors of particularly small length compared to the state of the art. Experiments show that despite its small vector length, the new descriptor shows reasonable robustness and discrimination power that are competitive to the state of the art performance.We test our proposed image description method on three different visual tasks. The first task is keypoint matching for images that have undergone image transformations like rotation, scaling, blurring, JPEG compression, changes in viewpoint and changes in light. We show that against other methods from the state of the art, the proposed descriptor performs equivalently with a very small vector length. The second task is on pattern detection. We use the proposed descriptor to create two different Adaboost based detectors for people detection in images. Compared to a similar detector using Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG), the detectors with the proposed method show competitive performance using significantly smaller descriptor vectors. The last task is on reflection symmetry detection in real world images. We introduce a technique that exploits the proposed descriptor for detecting possible symmetry axes for the two reflecting parts of a mirror symmetric pattern. This technique introduces constraints and ideas of how to collect more efficiently the information that is important to identify reflection symmetry in images. With this task we show that the proposed descriptor can be generalized for rather complicated applications. The set of the experiments confirms the qualities of the proposed method of being easily adjustable and requires relatively low computational and storage requirements while remaining robust and discriminative.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work proposes two vector control schemes for permanent magnet synchronous motors. They are destined to speed and position control, respectively, and are based on a control law called VS-RMRAC. Not being yet applied to the electric machines control, the VS-RMRAC control law presents robustness features that are potentially advantageous from the point of view of the closed loop PMSM dynamics. It also presents well established design and robust stability conditions, which makes its digital implementation easier. Both control structures are described and its respective design methods are presented. From simulation results, the behavior and performance of both structures are analyzed in face of load disturbances and parameter uncertainties. The speed control scheme and its simulation results are validated experimentally. This scheme is digitally implemented with fixed-point arithmetic using a TMS320F2812 DSP. Both schemes with its potentialities and limitations are then discussed. / Este trabalho propõe duas estratégias de controle vetorial para motores síncronos a ímãs permanentes (MSIP s). Destinam-se ao controle de velocidade e de posição, respectivamente, e são baseados em uma lei de controle chamada VS-RMRAC. Não tendo sido aplicado ainda ao controle de máquinas elétricas, a lei de controle VS-RMRAC apresenta características de robustez que são potencialmente vantajosas do ponto de vista da dinâmica em malha fechada de MSIP s. Também apresenta condições de projeto e estabilidade robusta bem estabelecidas para o tempo discreto, o que facilita sua implementação digital. Ambas as estruturas de controle são descritas e suas respectivas metodologias de projeto são apresentadas. A partir de resultados de simulação, o comportamento e desempenho de ambas são analisados frente a perturbações de carga e incertezas paramétricas. O esquema de controle de velocidade e seus resultados de simulação são validados experimentalmente. Este esquema é implementado digitalmente com aritmética de ponto fixo utilizando DSP TMS320F2812. As potencialidades e limitações de ambos os esquemas são, por fim, discutidos.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EricoCB_DISSERT.pdf: 1960043 bytes, checksum: 7c0ebefa8d09683721a890c3c7d00bbb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-26 / The Methods for compensation of harmonic currents and voltages have been widely used since these methods allow to reduce to acceptable levels the harmonic distortion in the voltages or currents in a power system, and also compensate reactive. The reduction of harmonics and reactive contributes to the reduction of losses in transmission lines and electrical machinery, increasing the power factor, reduce the occurrence of overvoltage and overcurrent. The active power filter is the most efficient method for compensation of harmonic currents and voltages. The active power filter is necessary to use current and voltage controllers loop. Conventionally, the current and voltage control loop of active filter has been done by proportional controllers integrative. This work, investigated the use of a robust adaptive control technique on the shunt active power filter current and voltage control loop to increase robustness and improve the performance of active filter to compensate for harmonics. The proposed control scheme is based on a combination of techniques for adaptive control pole placement and variable structure. The advantages of the proposed method over conventional ones are: lower total harmonic distortion, more flexibility, adaptability and robustness to the system. Moreover, the proposed control scheme improves the performance and improves the transient of active filter. The validation of the proposed technique was verified initially by a simulation program implemented in C++ language and then experimental results were obtained using a prototype three-phase active filter of 1 kVA / Os m?todos para compensa??o de correntes e tens?es harm?nicas v?m sendo bastante utilizados, visto que esses m?todos permitem reduzir a n?veis aceit?veis as distor??es harm?nicas nas tens?es ou correntes em um sistema el?trico de pot?ncia, e ainda, compensar reativos. A redu??o de harm?nicas e reativos contribuem para: a diminui??o das perdas nas linhas de transmiss?o e nas m?quinas el?tricas, o aumento do fator de pot?ncia e a redu??o de ocorr?ncias de sobretens?es e sobrecorrentes. O filtro ativo de pot?ncia ? o m?todo mais eficiente para compensa??o de correntes e tens?es harm?nicas. No filtro ativo de pot?ncia ? necess?ria a utiliza??o de controladores para as malhas de corrente e tens?o. Convencionalmente, o controle dessas malhas tem sido feito por controladores proporcionais integrativos. Neste trabalho, ? investigado o uso de uma t?cnica de controle adaptativo robusto nas malha de corrente e tens?o, do filtro ativo de pot?ncia em paralelo trif?sico, para aumentar a robustez e melhorar o desempenho desse filtro ativo na compensa??o de harm?nicos. A t?cnica de controle proposta ? baseada na combina??o das t?cnicas de controle adaptativo por posicionamento de p?los e de estrutura vari?vel. As vantagens do m?todo proposto sobre os convencionais s?o: menor taxa de distor??o harm?nica, maior flexibilidade, capacidade de adapta??o e robustez para o sistema. Al?m disso, a t?cnica de controle proposta aumenta o desempenho e melhora o transit?rio do filtro ativo. A valida??o da t?cnica proposta foi verificada inicialmente atrav?s de um programa de simula??o implementado em linguagem C ++ e em seguida foram obtidos resultados experimentais usando um prot?tipo de um filtro ativo trif?sico de 1 kVA

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Technological advances in electromechanical sensor and actuators, energy storage, data processing and control methodology made possible the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The quadrotor has emerged as one of these research platforms due to its mechanical simplicity, high maneuverability, as well as its capability of hovering and perform vertical take-off and landing. However, such vehicle presents some challenging issues to control area, like: nonlinearity, time-varying behavior, in addition it belongs to the class of underactuated mechanical systems, and it is subject to aerodynamics disturbances and parametric uncertainties. Therefore, this dissertation has as main objective, contribute to development and control strategies implementation to solve the positioning and path tracking problems of unmanned aerial vehicles, focusing on an underactuated mechanical system. In order to obtain a dynamic model that represents the aerial vehicle properly and realistically, the motion equations were developed based on the physics laws that define the mechanical system. The model we obtained is decoupled, thus we consider the presence of two subsystems, the rotational and the translational ones. A cascade control strategy was implemented, so that, a model predictive control (MPC) was developed to the altitude and orientation control of the aerial vehicle. However, the positioning control along the xy axis was performed through a proportional integral derivative control (PID). Such strategies allowed a smooth path tracking, beyond the possibility of dealing with physical constraints of the system. In order to assess the robustness of the control structure shown, we performed flight simulations under the presence of aerodynamics disturbances and parametric uncertainties. / Avanços tecnológicos em sensores e atuadores microeletromecânicos, no armazenamento de energia, no processamento de informações e em metodologias de controle possibilitaram o desenvolvimento dos veículos aéreos não tripulados (VANT s). O quadricóptero tem emergido como uma destas plataformas de pesquisa devido a sua simplicidade mecânica, a alta manobrabilidade, bem como a capacidade de realizar pairagem e decolagens e pousos verticais. Contudo, tal veículo apresenta algumas características desafiadoras para a área de controle, como: não linearidades, comportamento variante no tempo, além de pertencer à classe dos sistemas mecânicos subatuados e estar sujeito a distúrbios aerodinâmicos e incertezas paramétricas. Desta forma, este trabalho possui como principal objetivo contribuir para o desenvolvimento e a implementação de estratégias de controle para solucionar os problemas de posicionamento e rastreamento de trajetória em veículos aéreos não tripulados, focando em um sistema mecânico subatuado. Com o intuito de obter um modelo dinâmico que represente de forma apropriada e realista o veículo aéreo, suas equações de movimento foram desenvolvidas baseando-se nas leis físicas que regem o sistema mecânico. O modelo obtido é desacoplado, portanto, consideramos a existência de dois subsistemas, o rotacional e o translacional. Uma estratégia de controle em cascata foi implementada, de modo que, um controle preditivo baseado em modelo (CPBM) foi desenvolvido para o controle da altitude e da orientação do veículo aéreo. Já o controle de posicionamento no eixo xy foi efetuado através de um controlador proporcional integral derivativo (PID). Tais estratégias permitiram um rastreamento de trajetória suave, além da possibilidade de lidar com as restrições físicas do sistema. Com o intuito de avaliar a robustez da estrutura de controle apresentada, foram realizadas simulações de voo na presença de distúrbios aerodinâmicos e incertezas paramétricas. / Mestre em Ciências

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Abstract During the last few decades, digital watermarking techniques have gained a lot of interest. Such techniques enable hiding imperceptible information to images; information which can be extracted later from those images. As a result, digital watermarking techniques have many interesting applications for example in Internet distribution. Contents such as images are today manipulated mainly in digital form; thus, traditionally, the focus of watermarking research has been the digital domain. However, a vast amount of images will still appear in some physical format such as in books, posters or labels, and there are a number of possible applications of hidden information also in image printouts. In this case, an additional level of challenge is introduced, as the watermarking technique should be robust to extraction from printed output. In this thesis, methods are developed, where a watermarked image appears in a printout and the invisible information can be later extracted using a scanner or mobile phone camera and watermark extraction software. In these cases, the watermarking method has to be carefully designed because both the printing and capturing process cause distortions that make watermark extraction challenging. The focus of the study is on developing blind, multibit watermarking techniques, where the robustness of the algorithms is tested in an office environment, using standard office equipment. The possible effect of the background of the printed images, as well as compound attacks, are both paid particular attention to, since these are considered important in practical applications. The main objective is thus to provide technical means to achieve high robustness and to develop watermarking methods robust to printing and scanning process. A secondary objective is to develop methods where the extraction is possible with the aid of a mobile phone camera. The main contributions of the thesis are: (1) Methods to increase watermark extraction robustness with perceptual weighting; (2) Methods to robustly synchronize the extraction of a multibit message from a printout; (3) A method to encode a multibit message, utilizing directed periodic patterns and a method to decode the message after attacks; (4) A demonstrator of an interactive poster application and a key based robust and secure identification method from a printout. / Tiivistelmä Digitaalinen vesileimaus on parin viime vuosikymmenen aikana runsaasti huomiota saanut tekniikka, jonka avulla kuviin voidaan piilottaa aistein havaitsematonta tietoa. Tämä tieto voidaan myöhemmin poimia esiin, minkä vuoksi sovelluskohteita esimerkiksi Internetin kautta tapahtuvassa jakelussa on useita. Perinteisesti vesileimaustekniikat keskittyvät pelkästään digitaalisessa muodossa pysyvään tietoon. Kuitenkin iso osa kuvainformaatiosta saa yhä vielä myös fyysisen muodon esimerkiksi kirjoissa, julisteissa ja etiketeissä. Myös vesileimauksella on useita sovelluskohteita painettujen kuvienkin osalta. Vesileimausta ajatellen painatus tuo kumminkin omat erityishaasteensa vesileimaustekniikoille. Tässä väitöskirjassa kehitetään menetelmiä, jotka mahdollistavat piilotetun tiedon säilymisen painetussa kuvassa. Piilotettu tieto voidaan lukea käyttämällä skanneria tai matkapuhelimen kameraa tiedon digitalisointiin. Digitalisoinnin jälkeen vesileimausohjelma osaa lukea piilotetun tiedon. Vesileimauksen osalta haasteellisuus tulee vääristymistä, joita sekä kuvien tulostus sekä digitalisointi aiheuttavat. Väitöstyössä keskitytään monibittisiin vesileimaustekniikoihin, joissa alkuperäistä kuvaa ei tarvita vesileimaa poimittaessa. Väitöstyössä kehitetyt menetelmät on testattu toimistoympäristössä standardi toimistolaitteita käyttäen. Käytännön sovelluksia ajatellen, testeissä on kiinnitetty huomiota myös yhdistelmähyökkäysten sekä painetun kuvan taustan vaikutukseen algoritmin robustisuudelle. Ensisijainen tavoite on kehittää menetelmiä, jotka kestävät printtaus ja skannaus operaation. Toinen tavoite on tiedon kestävyys luettaessa tietoa matkapuhelimen kameran avulla. Väitöskirjassa tarkastellaan ja kehitellään ratkaisuja neljälle eri osa-alueelle: (1) Ihmisaisteja mallintavien menetelmien käyttö vesileimauksen kestävyyden lisäämiseksi; (2) Robusti synkronointi luettaessa monibittistä tietoa painotuotteesta; (3) Suunnattuja jaksollisia kuvioita käyttävä menetelmä, joka mahdollistaa monibittisen tiedon koodaamisen ja dekoodaamisen hyökkäysten jälkeen; (4) Sovellustasolla tarkastellaan kahta pääsovellusta: interaktiivinen juliste sekä kestävä ja turvattu avaimen avulla tapahtuva painotuotteen identifiointi.