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Rate-Distortion-Preserving Forensic Watermarking Using Quantization Parameter Variation

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Hannes Mareen *
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Martijn Courteaux
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Johan De Praeter
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Asikuzzaman, Md
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Glenn Van Wallendael
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Peter Lambert
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2984354delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Watermarking enables the identification of digital pirates that illegally redistribute copyright-protected videos. One of the main challenges is for the watermark to be imperceptible, while not increasing the video bit rate. Additionally, the system should be robust to attacks that attempt to remove the watermark. Therefore, this paper proposes a robust watermarking technique that does not degrade the video quality nor negatively affect the video bit rate. In other words, it preserves the video encoder & x2019;s compression efficiency or rate-distortion performance. For watermark embedding, the quantization parameters are varied during video compression. As a result, different compression artifacts are introduced, although they do not distort the video more than those that occur during ordinary video compression. The collection of artifacts represents the watermark and is used for watermark detection. The experimental results prove that the proposed approach retains the rate-distortion performance better than state-of-the-art techniques. Furthermore, the watermarks are robust to recompression and noise attacks. In conclusion, the proposed method enables content providers to perform forensic watermarking without affecting the compression efficiency.
Keywords:
Video watermarking
imperceptibility
compression efficiency
video security

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IEEE Access
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Ghent University
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interuniversity microelectronics centre
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