Motion compensated compressed domain watermarking

Abstract

The security has become an important issue in multimedia applications. The embedding of watermark bits in compressed domain is less computationally expensive as full decoding and re-encoding is not required. The motion coherency is an essential property to resist temporal frame averaging based attacks. The design of motion compensated embedding method in compressed domain is a challenging task. As far we know, no such embedding method is explored yet. In this paper, we propose a motion compensated compressed domain embedding method within a short video neighborhood that gives acceptable visual quality, embedding capacity, and robustness. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.