DocumentCode :
91825
Title :
Imperceptible and Robust Blind Video Watermarking Using Chrominance Embedding: A Set of Approaches in the DT CWT Domain
Author :
Asikuzzaman, Md ; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir ; Lambert, Andrew J. ; Pickering, Mark R.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Volume :
9
Issue :
9
fYear :
2014
fDate :
Sept. 2014
Firstpage :
1502
Lastpage :
1517
Abstract :
Illegal distribution of a digital movie is a significant threat to the film industries. With the advent of high-speed broadband Internet access, a pirated copy of a digital video can be easily distributed to a global audience. Digital video watermarking is a possible means of limiting this type of digital distribution. In existing watermarking methods, the watermark is usually embedded into the luminance channel of a video frame, which affects imperceptibility. In addition, none of the existing techniques are robust to the combination of commonly used attacks, such as compression, upscaling, rotation, cropping, downscaling in resolution, frame rate conversion, and camcording. In this paper, we initially propose a basic blind digital video watermarking algorithm, where the watermark is embedded into one level of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform of the chrominance channel to provide high quality watermarked video and extracted using the same key that was used for embedding. This algorithm is robust to compression, upscaling, rotation, and cropping. An extension of this method extracts the watermark from any level(s) of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform depending on the resolution of the downscaled version of the watermarked frame rather than only from the embedding level to survive downscaling to an arbitrary resolution. Finally, the watermark of a frame is extracted from the information of that frame without using the key that was used during watermark embedding to provide robustness to temporal synchronization attacks, such as frame rate conversion. This scheme is also robust to compression, camcording, watermark estimation remodulation, temporal frame averaging, multiple watermark embedding, downscaling in resolution, and other geometric attacks, such as upscaling, rotation, and cropping.
Keywords :
feature extraction; video watermarking; wavelet transforms; DT CWT domain; blind digital video watermarking algorithm; camcording; chrominance channel; chrominance embedding level; data compression; digital movie illegal distribution; dual-tree complex wavelet transform; frame extraction; frame rate conversion; geometric attacks; high-speed broadband Internet access; imperceptible blind video watermarking; luminance channel; multiple watermark embedding; robust blind video watermarking; temporal frame averaging; temporal synchronization attacks; watermark estimation remodulation; watermarked frame; Arrays; Continuous wavelet transforms; Decoding; Motion pictures; Robustness; Streaming media; Watermarking; Watermarking; downscaling in resolution; dual-tree complex wavelet transform; robustness; temporal synchronization;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1556-6013
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TIFS.2014.2338274
Filename :
6853371
Link To Document :
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