A Low Complexity Video Watermarking in H.264 Compressed Domain

被引:100
作者
Mansouri, Azadeh [1 ]
Aznaveh, Ahmad Mahmoudi
Torkamani-Azar, Farah
Kurugollu, Fatih [2 ]
机构
[1] Shahid Beheshti Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Elect & Comp Engn Fac, GC, Tehran 1983963113, Iran
[2] Queens Univ Belfast, Inst Elect Commun & Informat Technol, Belfast BT3 9DT, Antrim, North Ireland
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Bit-rate increase; compressed domain watermarking; discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients analysis; H.264; readable/detectable watermark; temporal quality; video watermarking; DIGITAL VIDEO;
D O I
10.1109/TIFS.2010.2076280
中图分类号
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号
081202 ;
摘要
In this paper, a new blind and readable H. 264 compressed domain watermarking scheme is proposed in which the embedding/extracting is performed using the syntactic elements of the compressed bit stream. As a result, it is not necessary to fully decode a compressed video stream both in the embedding and extracting processes. The method also presents an inexpensive spatiotemporal analysis that selects the appropriate submacroblocks for embedding, increasing watermark robustness while reducing its impact on visual quality. Meanwhile, the proposed method prevents bit-rate increase and restricts it within an acceptable limit by selecting appropriate quantized residuals for watermark insertion. Regarding watermarking demands such as imperceptibility, bit-rate control, and appropriate level of security, a priority matrix is defined which can be adjusted based on the application requirements. The resulted flexibility expands the usability of the proposed method.
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页码:649 / 657
页数:9
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