Multiresolution video watermarking using perceptual models and scene segmentation

We introduce a watermarking procedure to embed copyright protection into digital video. Our video dependent watermarking procedure directly exploits the masking and temporal properties to embed an invisible and robust watermark. The watermark consists of static and dynamic temporal components that are generated from a temporal wavelet transform of the video scenes. To generate the watermark, the resulting wavelet coefficient frames are modified by a perceptually shaped pseudo-random sequence representing the author. The noise-like watermark is statistically undetectable to thwart unauthorized removal. Furthermore, the author representation resolves the deadlock problem. The multiresolution watermark may be detected on single frames without knowledge of the location of the frames in the video scene. We demonstrate the robustness of the watermarking procedure to several video distortions