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Frontiers in Signal Processing

Robust Video Watermarking against H.264 and H.265 Compression Attacks

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DOI: 10.22606/fsp.2017.11001

Author(s)

  • Nematollah Zarmehi*
    Advanced Communication Research Institute, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2
  • Mohammad Javad Barikbin
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This paper proposes a robust watermarking method for uncompressed video data against H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC compression standards. We embed the watermark data in the midrange transform coefficients of a block that is less similar to its corresponding block in the previous and next frames. This idea makes the watermark robust against the compression standards that use the inter prediction technique. The last two video compression standards also use inter prediction for motion compensation like previous video compression standards. Therefore, the proposed method is also well suited with these standards. Simulation results show the adequate robustness and transparency of our watermarking scheme.

Keywords

Video watermarking, H.264, H.265, inter prediction, discrete cosine transform.

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