Blind MPEG-2 video watermarking robust against geometric attacks: a set of approaches in DCT domain

Author

Wang, Yulin ; Pearmain, Alan

Author_Institution

Int. Sch. of Software, Wuhan Univ., China

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1536

Lastpage

1543

Abstract

A set of robust MPEG-2 video watermarking techniques is proposed, focusing on commonly used typical geometric processing for bit-rate reduction, cropping, removal of any rows, arbitrary-ratio downscaling, and frame dropping. Both the embedding and the extraction of watermarks are done in the compressed domain, so the computational cost is low. Moreover, the watermark extraction is blind, i.e., no original unwatermarked MPEG-2 video is needed for watermark extraction. The presented technique is applicable not only to MPEG-2 video, but also to other DCT-based coding videos. Selected experimental results validate our techniques.

Keywords

data compression; discrete cosine transforms; geometric codes; video coding; watermarking; DCT domain; arbitrary-ratio downscaling; bit-rate reduction; blind MPEG-2 video watermarking; frame dropping; geometric attacks; video coding; Application software; Computational efficiency; Data mining; Discrete cosine transforms; Image coding; Redundancy; Robustness; Transform coding; Video compression; Watermarking; Data hiding; MPEG-2 video processing; watermarking; Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Computer Security; Data Compression; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Patents as Topic; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Product Labeling; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Video Recording;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7149

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIP.2006.873476

Filename

1632207