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that the CAR-STDM approach achieves the security
against such kind of BSS attacks, with higher level
of transparency and robustness against AWGN and
Salt&Peper attacks.
As for future enhancements, we plan to execute the
theoretical proof of the security analysis and to in-
clude further improvements by exploring new secure
subspaces to embed the watermark.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work is partially funded with support from the
National Council for Scientific Research in Lebanon
CNRS-L, the Hubert Curien CEDRE programme, the
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie AUF-PCSI
programme, and the Labex ACTION program (con-
tract ANR-11-LABX-01-01).
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