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Blind Digital Watermarking of Low Bit-Rate Advanced H.264/AVC Compressed Video

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Digital Watermarking (IWDW 2009)

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H.264/AVC is becoming a popular video codec for its better compression ratio, lower distortion and applicability to portable electronic devices. Thus, issues of copyright protection and authentication that are appropriate for this standard become very important. In this paper, a blind video watermarking algorithm for H.264/AVC is proposed. The watermark information is embedded directly into H.264/AVC video at the encoder by modifying the quantized DC coefficients in luminance residual blocks slightly. The watermark embedded in the residuals can avoid decompressing the video and to decrease the complexity of the watermarking algorithm. To reduce visual quality degradation caused by DC coefficients modifying, block selection mechanism is introduced to control the modification strength. Experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme can achieve enough robustness while preserving the perceptual quality.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China

    Dawen Xu & Jicheng Wang

  2. CKC software lab, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Rangding Wang

  3. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, 315016, China

    Dawen Xu

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Anthony T. S. Ho

  2. New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, 07102-1982, Newark, NJ, USA

    Yun Q. Shi

  3. Multimedia Security Lab, Korea University, Science Campus, 136-701, Seoul, Korea

    H. J. Kim

  4. Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Mauro Barni

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Xu, D., Wang, R., Wang, J. (2009). Blind Digital Watermarking of Low Bit-Rate Advanced H.264/AVC Compressed Video. In: Ho, A.T.S., Shi, Y.Q., Kim, H.J., Barni, M. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5703. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03688-0_11

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