Optimal keyframe selection-based lossless video-watermarking technique using IGSA in LWT domain for copyright protection

Roop Singh,Raju Pal,Himanshu Mittal

doi:10.1007/s40747-021-00569-6

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-021-00569-6

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Abstract

Video piracy is a challenging issue in the modern world. Approximately 90% of newly released films were illegally distributed around the world via the Internet. To overcome this issue, video watermarking is an effective process that integrates a logo in video frames as a watermark. Therefore, this paper presents an efficient lossless video-watermarking scheme based on optimal keyframe selection using an intelligent gravitational search algorithm in linear wavelet transform. This technique obtains color motion and motionless frames from the cover video by the histogram difference method. One-level linear wavelet transform is performed on the chrominance channel of motion frames and a low-frequency sub-band LL opts for watermark embedding. The performance of the proposed technique has been evaluated against 12 video processing attacks in terms of imperceptibility and robustness. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed technique outperforms five state-of-the-art schemes on the considered attacks.

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In recent years, the unauthorized users can access the digital media content
This paper presents a lossless efficient video-watermarking technique based on an optimal keyframes selection using intelligent gravitational search algorithm (IGSA) and Hessenberg transform (HT) in the linear wavelet transform (LWT) domain
IGSA algorithm acquires a set of multiple scaling factors (MSF) which maintains the equilibrium between imperceptibility and robustness

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Introduction

The unauthorized users can access the digital media content (image, audio, and video). DWT is often employed due to its multiresolution capabilities This domain methods accomplish high payload capacity, imperceptibility, robustness, and more secure [6]. The LWT-based video-watermarking schemes are resistant to both image processing attacks and temporal video attacks such as impulse noise, Gaussian noise, filtering, compression attacks, but fails against geometric attacks [25,26,27,28,30] To attain a better equilibrium between imperceptibility and robustness, the integration of video-watermarking schemes with multiple scaling factors (MSF) is a promising solution [20,21,22,24,32].

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