MPEG-4 AVC robust video watermarking based on QIM and perceptual masking

Author

Belhaj, Maher ; Mitrea, Mihai ; Prêteux, Françoise ; Duta, Sorin

Author_Institution

ARTEMIS Dept., Telecom SudParis, Paris, France

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 June 2010

Firstpage

477

Lastpage

480

Abstract

The present paper advances a new watermarking method featuring robustness against noise addition, transcoding and the StirMark (geometric) attacks. The mark is inserted into the MPEG-4 AVC quantisation indexes selected according to an energy-based selection criterion validated by information theory basic concepts. The insertion procedure combines the QIM principles and a perceptual mask obtained by adapting the popular Watson results. The video corpus consists of 7 video sequences (2 hours). The transparency is exhibited by both subjective and objective evaluations.

Keywords

data compression; quantisation (signal); transcoding; video coding; watermarking; MPEG-4 AVC quantisation; QIM; StirMark attacks; masking; noise addition; quantisation index modulation methods; transcoding; video sequences; video watermarking; Automatic voltage control; DVD; Information theory; MPEG 4 Standard; Noise robustness; Quantization; Streaming media; Video compression; Video on demand; Watermarking; H.264; Perceptual shaping; QIM; Stirmark;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (COMM), 2010 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6360-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCOMM.2010.5509026

Filename

5509026