Temporal watermarking of digital video

2003-04-11
A video watermarking method is presented, based on the temporal sensitivity of Human Visual System (HVS). The method exploits the temporal contrast thresholds of HVS to determine the spatio-temporal locations, where the watermark should be embedded, and the maximum strength of watermark, which still gives imperceptible distortion after watermark insertion. The robustness results indicate that the proposed scheme survives video distortions, such as additive Gaussian noise, ITU H.263+ coding at medium bit rates, frame dropping and frame averaging without any perceptual artifacts.

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Citation Formats
A. Koz and A. A. Alatan, “Temporal watermarking of digital video,” 2003, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48204.