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Improved Video Watermarking Using Nested Watermark, Wavelets and Geometric Warping

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Trends in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 204))

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The advancements in communication software and hardware is increasing the amount of information in the form of text, image, audio and video being shared. This increase arise the issue of protecting the intellectual property. This paper studies the protection of video signals through watermarking. The system proposed uses a combination of visual cryptography and wavelets to create a nested watermark which is embedded into the raw uncompressed video signal using a geometric warping technology. To improve robustness against compression, the method embeds the watermark in relevant area using a block selection method. The experimental results prove that the proposed system is efficient in terms of capacity and robustness against various attacks.

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    T. Jayamalar & V. Radha

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Jayamalar, T., Radha, V. (2011). Improved Video Watermarking Using Nested Watermark, Wavelets and Geometric Warping. In: Nagamalai, D., Renault, E., Dhanuskodi, M. (eds) Trends in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. CCSEIT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 204. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24043-0_14

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