A Digital Watermarking and Perceptual Model Based Video Quality Measurement

Author

Wang, Sha ; Zheng, Dong ; Zhao, Jiying ; Tam, Wa James ; Speranza, Filippo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont.

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

16-19 May 2005

Firstpage

1729

Lastpage

1734

Abstract

This paper presents an objective MPEG-2 video quality measurement method based on fragile digital image watermarking. Based on the DWT-based watermarking scheme, this paper presents a fragile digital video watermarking scheme that can work as an automatic quality monitoring system. We embed watermark in the DWT domain of the I-frames of an original video, and the DWT coefficients for embedding are carefully selected so that the degradation of the watermark can reflect the degradation of the video quality. This scheme can track the change of the PSNR value and the Watson JND value. The Watson perceptual model is taken into account to weight the quality measurement according to the human visual system. The evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme against MPEG-2 compression and noise pollution

Keywords

data compression; discrete wavelet transforms; image coding; watermarking; MPEG-2 compression; Watson perceptual model; automatic quality monitoring; digital image watermarking; discrete wavelet transforms; fragile digital video watermarking; noise pollution; video quality measurement; Computerized monitoring; Degradation; Digital images; Discrete wavelet transforms; Humans; PSNR; Pollution measurement; Video compression; Watermarking; Weight measurement; DWT; MPEG-2; PSNR; digital watermarking; quality measurement; watson model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2005. IMTC 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8879-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604466

Filename

1604466