A new robust reference watermarking scheme based on DWT-SVD

This paper presents a new semi-blind reference watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform(DWT) and singular value decomposition(SVD) for copyright protection and authenticity. We are using a gray scale logo image as watermark instead of randomly generated Gaussian noise type watermark. For watermark embedding, the original image is transformed into wavelet domain and a reference sub-image is formed using directive contrast and wavelet coefficients. We embed watermark into reference image by modifying the singular values of reference image using the singular values of the watermark. A reliable watermark extraction scheme is developed for the extraction of watermark from distorted image. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed scheme is able to withstand a variety of attacks. We show that the proposed scheme also stands with the ambiguity attack also.     

基于SIFT特征区域的支持向量机数字水印方法

针对传统水印算法抵抗几何攻击和组合攻击弱的缺点,提出基于SIFT特征区域的支持向量机数字水印方法.根据SIFT提取的特征点选取合适的特征区域,利用回归型SVM较好地建立特征区域内邻域像素之间的关系模型,并通过调整模型的输出值与中心像素值之间的大小关系来自适应地嵌入或提取水印.实验结果表明,该方法对一般几何攻击和组合攻击...     

A robust video watermarking based on feature regions and crowdsourcing

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Video watermarking technique aims at resolving insecurity problems. Recently, many approaches have been proposed in order to satisfy the new constraints of video...     

Geometrically robust video water-marking based on wavelet transform

1 Introduction Compared with relevant analog data, digital media (digital audio, image, video, etc.) have some significant properties: high quality, easy manipulation, perfect copying and easy transmission. Because of these good properties, the development and application of digital media are growing explosively. However, these properties also pose a threat of unauthorized possession and illegal usage of digital media. An additional threat is the illegal tampering and modification of digital m…     

MCDCT-TF based video watermarking resilient to temporal and quality scaling

Heterogeneity among the end using display devices and corresponding varying system requirements make scalable version of H.264/AVC standard more popular. Existing watermarking based authentication system may not be suitable well for this new extension, because the scalability property of the codec may itself is perceived as an attack popularly known as content adaptation attack. In this paper, a blind scalable video watermarking scheme is proposed, which is robust against quality and temporal scalability. In the proposed scheme, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based temporal filtering and wavelet based spatial filtering is used for choosing suitable watermark embedding zone. Experimental evidences are provided to justify the improved robustness of the proposed scheme over existing related watermarking schemes. The visual quality of the watermarked video has also been evaluated to show the efficiency of the proposed scheme.     

基于可信赖第三方的鲁棒性的图像水印方案

图像水印技术主要是用来保护图像的版权。提出了一个鲁棒性的基于可信赖第三方的图像水印方案，这种方法有两大优点。方案中的水印和原图像是同一种类型，例如灰度级图像。方案满足水印技术的要求。由于引入了可信赖第三方，用户无法觉察和破坏图像中的水印。它能够抵抗各种图像改变算法的攻击，包括滤波、有损压缩和旋转等。     

A robust image watermarking scheme in hybrid transform domains resisting to rotation attacks

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Image watermarking provides a promising solution to digital media copyright protection. However, the robust performance of the watermarking scheme should be...     

An SVD-based screen-shooting resilient watermarking scheme

Multimedia Tools and Applications - This paper proposes a new watermarking scheme that is screen-shooting resilient. We try to design a watermarking scheme that can resist the distortion generated...     

Simple and robust watermarking scheme based on square-root-modulus technique

In this paper, we present a simple and robust watermarking scheme for color images. The scheme is based on the square-root-modulus technique employed in the integer wavelet domain, which allows a large number of data bits to be embedded in a host image. Simulations confirmed that marked images generated by the proposed scheme are tolerant to various attacks such as blurring, brightness, contrast, cropping, edge sharpening, inversion, JPEG/JPEG2000 compressions, noise-additions, and truncation. Additionally, the payload of the proposed method is significantly larger than that of existing watermarking techniques and the resulting perceived quality is not bad. Because the code is quite simple, it is suitable for the proposed method implemented in the mobile equipments or smart devices.     

A blind video watermarking scheme based on ICA and shot segmentation

With the development of network and multimedia techniques, the digital video copyright protection issues have become more and more important as digital video can be easily pro- duced, replicated, accessed and distributed. Digital video watermark is the ma…     

基于感兴趣区域的可伸缩性容错编码

为了在低带宽的条件下提高视频质量并获得更高的编码效率,提出一种基于感兴趣区域(ROI)实现可伸缩容错编码的方法.在编码时结合基于ROI对象的动态FMO,满足了编码效率和容错性能的折衷.同时,结合FMO特性实现对增强层的感兴趣区域的优先传输,提高了视频质量和码流的可伸缩性.实验结果表明,该方法对于带宽受限条件下的图像传输具有很好的差错鲁棒性,图像PSNR可以提高2.5 dB左右,能为图像感兴趣区域提供有效保护,提高图像质量.     

A geometrically robust multi-bit video watermarking algorithm based on 2-D DFT

The development of the Internet, together with the progress of multimedia processing techniques, has led to the problems of data piracy, data tampering and illegal dissemination. Digital watermarking is an effective approach to data authentication and copyright protection. This paper proposes a geometrically robust multi-bit video watermarking algorithm based on 2-D DFT (two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform). While most of the existing video watermarking schemes require synchronization to extract the watermark from rotated or scaled videos, which is time-consuming and affects the accuracy, the proposed method can do direct extraction without performing synchronization for videos attacked by rotation, scaling or cropping. For embedding the watermark, circular templates in DFT domain are transformed into spatial masks and added to the video frames in spatial domain. A perceptual model based on local contrast is applied to keep the fidelity of the watermarked video. We also propose an accurate and efficient extraction method which is based on the cross-correlation between the Wiener-filtered DFT magnitude and the stretched template sequence in polar coordinates. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is robust against various kinds of attacks, such as compression, filtering, rotation, scaling, cropping, frame averaging and frame rate changing.

     

基于深度图的3D-HEVC鲁棒视频水印算法

针对多视点加深度格式的3D视频中深度图鲁棒性不足的问题,提出了一种基于深度图的3D鲁棒视频水印算法。首先,将深度图不重叠的划分为4×4大小的块,计算每一块像素域的均方差,并设置一个阈值来区分纹理块和平坦块;其次,对纹理块计算区域块的能量值,根据计算的能量值设置一个阈值来选择性嵌入水印比特位;最后,获取每个块变换量化后的DC系数,根据获取的DC系数值构造3×3的可逆矩阵,对可逆矩阵进行QR分解,将水印嵌入在分解后的Q矩阵中。所提算法保证了平均峰值信噪比不变,且不同量化参数（QP）值（25、30、35、40）的重编码攻击下的平均误码率为14.9%。从测试的结果来看,该算法具有较好鲁棒性和嵌入容量,同时对视频的质量影响很小。     

A robust digital audio watermarking scheme based on DWT and Schur decomposition

The vulnerability of digital audio signals for different types of risks requires an imperceptible and robust digital audio watermarking scheme. In this research, we propose creating one such imperceptible and robust hybrid watermarking scheme based on a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and Schur decomposition hybrid method. The proposed scheme embeds the foreground bits of the watermarking image into the least significant bit of the diagonal coefficients of the triangular matrix S generated from Schur decomposition. Schur decomposition is applied on the second sub-band HL₂ generated from applying a second-level 2D-Haar DWT on the first channel of the original audio signal. We analyze the proposed digital audio watermarking scheme’s performance in terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR), objective difference grades (ODG), and subjective difference grades (SDG) that resulting 81.43, 4.78 and 0.184, respectively. The resulting of payload capacity, NC, and BER are as high as 319.29 bps, 0.9911, and 0.0135, respectively. Experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme is inaudible and robust against common types of attacks such as Gaussian noise, re-quantization, re-sampling, low-pass filter, high-pass filter, echo, MP3 compression, and cropping. In comparison with state-of-the-art audio watermarking schemes, the proposed scheme’s performance is superior in term of imperceptibility, robustness, and data payload size.

     

A new robust reference logo watermarking scheme

In this paper, a new yet simple reference logo watermarking scheme based on fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed. The core idea of the proposed scheme is to segment host image into non-overlapping blocks by the means of Hilbert space filling curve and a reference image is formed by considering Human visual system (HVS). First, reference image is transformed into FrFT domain and embedding is done by modifying singular values of the reference image using singular values of watermark. After embedding, modified reference image is segmented into blocks and these modified blocks are mapped into their original places for constructing watermarked image. For extraction, a reliable watermark extraction scheme is proposed. The experimental results demonstrate better visual imperceptibility and resiliency of the proposed scheme against intentional or un-intentional variety of attacks.     

鲁棒视频水印研究进展

数字视频在当前通信世界中被认为是一种重要而有效的媒体,广泛应用于新闻、短视频和有线网络广播视频节目中。随着计算机与互联网技术的发展,数字视频内容容易被侵权使用者肆意复制和传播,如何保护视频版权日益成为人们关注的问题。鲁棒视频水印是实现视频版权保护的一种有效手段。作为数字视频水印的分支,鲁棒视频水印是一种通过特定算法在需要被保护的视频对象中嵌入秘密信息——水印来证明版权归属的技术。本文对当前的视频水印技术进行了概述,对视频水印的概念、应用场景、分类方式、设计要求、发展历程和相关经典方法进行了介绍和梳理。本文归纳总结了2016—2021年鲁棒视频水印相关研究工作,包括基于内容的、基于码流的、基于深度学习和其他类型视频水印,并对其中部分工作进行了相应的性能比较和分析。其中,基于内容的视频水印方法将视频看做帧序列,由于在每一帧上应用水印算法,不考虑视频的编解码过程,这类方法实现简单,计算效率高;基于码流的视频水印方法将水印嵌入到编码比特流中,该方案更快速,故可支持实时视频水印应用;基于深度学习的方法取代了依靠手工设计的特征来提高水印的性能。最后分析了鲁棒视频水印的未来发展趋势。     

A robust watermarking scheme using self-reference image

In this paper, a robust watermark scheme for copyright protection is proposed. By modifying the original image in transform domain and embedding a watermark in the difference values between the original image and its reference image, the proposed scheme overcomes the weak robustness problem of embedding a watermark in the spatial domain. Besides, the watermark extraction does not require the original image so it is more practical in real application. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme provides not only good image quality, but is also robust against various attacks, such as JPEG lossy compression, filtering and noise addition.     

A new robust video watermarking algorithm based on SURF features and block classification

In this paper, we propose a robust block classification based semi-blind video watermarking algorithm using visual cryptography and SURF (Speed-Up Robust Features) features to enhance the robustness, stability, imperceptibility and real-time performance. A method of selecting the best frames in each shot and the best regions or blocks within best frames is proposed to avoid employing frame–by-frame method for generating owner’s share in order to enhance robustness as well as reducing time complexity. In our method, Owner’s share is generated using the classification of selected robust blocks within the chosen frames along with corresponding watermark information. In extraction process, the SURF features are employed to match the feature points of selected frames with all frames to detect selected frames. Moreover, we resynchronize the embedded regions from distorted video to original sequence using SURF feature points matching. Afterwards, based on these matched feature points, rotation and scaling parameters are estimated next, selected blocks are retrieved using side information being stored eventually, watermark information is reconstructed successfully. Selecting Best frames, best regions, and employing surf features make our method to be highly robust against various kinds of attacks including image processing attacks, geometrical attacks and temporal attacks. Experimental results confirm the superiority of our scheme in case of being applicable in the real world, enhancing robustness and exploiting idea imperceptibility, over previous related methods.