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Authentication and copyright protection watermarking scheme for H.264 based on visual saliency and secret sharing

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Abstract

This paper proposes a video watermarking scheme based on visual saliency and secret sharing, which can be used for both synchronous authentication and copyright protection. Firstly, video is divided into several different scenes, and region of interest (ROI) for each I frames would be extracted automatically using the proto-object based saliency attention model. Secondly, the robust watermark and fragile watermark are generated according to ROI. The robust watermark is synthesized by copyright information and ROI of the first I frame for each video scene, and the edge map of ROI in each I frame is chosen as the fragile watermark. Finally, the robust watermark and fragile watermark are embedded into I frames of video scenes so that it can achieve video authentication and copyright information simultaneously. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust to recompression and frame attack, and is also sensitive to tamper at the same time.

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This work was supported in part by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program) under Grant No. 2012CB316400, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61075007 and the Natural Science Foundation Research Plan of Shaanxi Province of China under Grant No.11JK0900.

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    Lihua Tian, Nanning Zheng, Jianru Xue & Ce Li

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Tian, L., Zheng, N., Xue, J. et al. Authentication and copyright protection watermarking scheme for H.264 based on visual saliency and secret sharing. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 2991–3011 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1765-5

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