A robust content-dependent algorithm for video watermarking

A watermarking method that relies on informed coding and informed embedding is presented. Our method uses a subset of various codewords to represent the 0 and 1 message bits to be embedded. We propose a codeword generation scheme that keeps control of the distance between codewords in order to secure fidelity and robustness of the watermark. When compared to existing video watermarking schemes, our method yields superior robustness to video compression.