Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding

Recent advancements in high resolution scalable video coding have significantly increased the computational complexities of watermarking solutions for real-time video encoding systems. This paper proposes a human visual system based watermarking algorithm for spatial scalable coding based on the H.2...

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Main Authors: Buhari, A., Ling, Huo Chong, Baskaran, V., Wong, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29507
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author Buhari, A.
Ling, Huo Chong
Baskaran, V.
Wong, K.
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Ling, Huo Chong
Baskaran, V.
Wong, K.
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description Recent advancements in high resolution scalable video coding have significantly increased the computational complexities of watermarking solutions for real-time video encoding systems. This paper proposes a human visual system based watermarking algorithm for spatial scalable coding based on the H.264/SVC standard. The proposed algorithm extracts textural feature from a set of 7 high energy quantized coefficients in 4×4 luma INTRA-predicted blocks of all slices and embeds watermark into the highly textured block which has at least one non-zero coefficient in 6 selected locations. The same embedding process is performed for all layers of the video to improve robustness against common video processing attacks. Experiments were conducted by embedding up to 8192 watermark bits into a four-layer spatial scalable coded video. Results suggest that the proposed scheme produces watermarked video with an average visual quality degradation of ~0.36 dB at the expense of 2.18% bitrate overhead. In addition, the proposed watermarking scheme achieves an average detection rate of 0.98, 0.97 and 0.71 against re-encoding, recompression and Gaussian filtering attacks, respectively, using the base layer, and above 0.97, 0.94 and 0.66, respectively when using any of the enhancement layer.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-295072017-09-13T15:26:00Z Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding Buhari, A. Ling, Huo Chong Baskaran, V. Wong, K. Recent advancements in high resolution scalable video coding have significantly increased the computational complexities of watermarking solutions for real-time video encoding systems. This paper proposes a human visual system based watermarking algorithm for spatial scalable coding based on the H.264/SVC standard. The proposed algorithm extracts textural feature from a set of 7 high energy quantized coefficients in 4×4 luma INTRA-predicted blocks of all slices and embeds watermark into the highly textured block which has at least one non-zero coefficient in 6 selected locations. The same embedding process is performed for all layers of the video to improve robustness against common video processing attacks. Experiments were conducted by embedding up to 8192 watermark bits into a four-layer spatial scalable coded video. Results suggest that the proposed scheme produces watermarked video with an average visual quality degradation of ~0.36 dB at the expense of 2.18% bitrate overhead. In addition, the proposed watermarking scheme achieves an average detection rate of 0.98, 0.97 and 0.71 against re-encoding, recompression and Gaussian filtering attacks, respectively, using the base layer, and above 0.97, 0.94 and 0.66, respectively when using any of the enhancement layer. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29507 10.1016/j.image.2016.06.003 restricted
spellingShingle Buhari, A.
Ling, Huo Chong
Baskaran, V.
Wong, K.
Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title_full Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title_fullStr Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title_full_unstemmed Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title_short Fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
title_sort fast watermarking scheme for real-time spatial scalable video coding
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29507