Efficient video watermarking based on singular value decomposition in the discrete wavelet transform domain

Author:  Osama S. Faragallah

Abstract:
This paper presents an efficient, robust, and imperceptible video watermarking technique based on singular value decomposition (SVD) performed in the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain. In the proposed DWT-based SVD video watermarking method, the video frames are transformed with the DWT using two resolution levels. The high frequency band HH and the middle frequency bands LH and HL are SVD transformed and the watermark is hidden in them. The proposed DWT-based SVD video watermarking method is characterized by two improvements: (1) a cascade of two powerful mathematical transforms; the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based SVD using additive method, and (2) an error correction code is applied and embeds the watermark with spatial and temporal redundancy. The aim of these improvements is to increase robustness against attacks based on video characteristics and the robustness against image processing attacks, realize high security level, protect the watermark against bit errors and obtain good perceptual quality. The proposed DWT-based SVD video watermarking method has been tested in the presence of video and image processing attacks and experimental results proved that the proposed DWT-based SVD video watermarking method survives attacks based on video characteristics and image processing techniques.

Keywords:
DWT
Digital watermarking
SVD
Spatial and temporal redundancy
Multi-resolution
Wavelet decomposition
Attacks resilience

Published in: AEÜ-International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Volume 67, Issue 3, March 2013)

Publisher: Elsevier

ISSN Information: 1434-8411

Efficient video watermarking based on singular value decomposition in the discrete wavelet transform domain

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