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360-Degree VR Video Watermarking Based on Spherical Wavelet Transform

Authors:

Antonios Argyriou,

Zhen XuAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 17, Issue 1

Article No.: 38, Pages 1 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/3425605

Published: 16 April 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Similar to conventional video, the increasingly popular 360

virtual reality (VR) video requires copyright protection mechanisms. The classic approach for copyright protection is the introduction of a digital watermark into the video sequence. Due to the nature of spherical panorama, traditional watermarking schemes that are dedicated to planar media cannot work efficiently for 360

VR video. In this article, we propose a spherical wavelet watermarking scheme to accommodate 360

VR video. With our scheme, the watermark is first embedded into the spherical wavelet transform domain of the 360

VR video. The spherical geometry of the 360

VR video is used as the host space for the watermark so that the proposed watermarking scheme is compatible with the multiple projection formats of 360

VR video. Second, the just noticeable difference model, suitable for head-mounted displays (HMDs), is used to control the imperceptibility of the watermark on the viewport. Third, besides detecting the watermark from the spherical projection, the proposed watermarking scheme also supports detecting watermarks robustly from the viewport projection. The watermark in the spherical domain can protect not only the 360

VR video but also its corresponding viewports. The experimental results show that the embedded watermarks are reliably extracted both from the spherical and the viewport projections of the 360

VR video, and the robustness of the proposed scheme to various copyright attacks is significantly better than that of the competing planar-domain approaches when detecting the watermark from viewport projection.

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1. Security and privacy
  1. Security services
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Published: 16 April 2021

Accepted: 01 September 2020

Revised: 01 August 2020

Received: 01 March 2020

Published in TOMM Volume 17, Issue 1

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