A Fast Method for Robust Video Watermarking Based on Zernike Moments

Abstract

Watermarking by Zernike moments has been proven to be effective in providing high rotational resistance. However, due to the high computational complexity, the conventional video watermarking methods using Zernike moments are developed for videos with low resolution. Moreover, according to the properties of Zernike moments, only the matrices of equal height and width can be calculated since the inscribed circle of the original image matrix is selected as the area to be processed, but most of the available videos on the Internet do not meet such requirement. To solve the above problem, this paper proposes a fast watermarking method based on Zernike moments for high resolution videos to resist various attacks. In the proposed method, the frames of a video sequence are firstly grouped, from which a certain number of frame pairs are then selected for watermark embedding. For each frame pair to be embedded, we partition one frame into a set of disjoint blocks and apply singular value decomposition to each block to obtain a square feature matrix. Thereafter, by calculating all the Zernike moments, secret information is embedded into the selected Zernike moments to achieve superior robustness while keeping imperceptibility. Finally, according to the video encoding framework, we overwrite the frame difference of the frame pair by the watermark to resist compression and transcoding attacks. Furthermore, we propose two optional methods for compensating the special cases of rotation and scaling attacks during watermark detection. Experiments demonstrate the advantage of our method over the existing robust watermarking methods.