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Wavelet packet transform-based robust video watermarking technique

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In this paper, a wavelet packet transform (WPT)-based robust video watermarking algorithm is proposed. A visible meaningful binary image is used as the watermark. First, sequent frames are extracted from the video clip. Then, WPT is applied on each frame and from each orientation one sub-band is selected based on block mean intensity value called robust sub-band. Watermark is embedded in the robust sub-bands based on the relationship between wavelet packet coefficient and its 8-neighbour (D 8) coefficients considering the robustness and invisibility. Experimental results and comparison with existing algorithms show the robustness and the better performance of the proposed algorithm.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor-N9C 1M2, ON, Canada

    GAURAV BHATNAGAR

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

    BALASUBRMANIAN RAMAN

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BHATNAGAR, G., RAMAN, B. Wavelet packet transform-based robust video watermarking technique. Sadhana 37, 371–388 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-012-0081-5

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