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Object based watermarking for H.264/AVC video resistant to rst attacks

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In this paper, a compressed domain video watermarking scheme is proposed which embeds the watermark in the homogeneous moving object within a shot of video sequence to resist geometric attacks such as rotation, scaling etc. Intuitively, object based watermarking results low payload and has the least impact on visual quality since the object area is generally small and highly textured. The proposed work has two main contributions, firstly, an existing compressed domain motion coherent block detection algorithm [7] is extended to detect the moving objects within a video shot and secondly, a watermarking scheme has been proposed by embedding within the moving objects to resist RST attacks. A comprehensive set of experiments has been carried out to justify the applicability of the proposed scheme over the existing literature.

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    Sibaji Gaj, Ashish Singh Patel & Arijit Sur

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This work is under grant for DST (SERC) project “Shot Based Video Watermarking For Very Low Bit Rate Video”

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Gaj, S., Patel, A.S. & Sur, A. Object based watermarking for H.264/AVC video resistant to rst attacks. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 3053–3080 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2422-3

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