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A robust H.264/AVC video watermarking algorithm without intra distortion drift is proposed in this paper for the copyright protection of digital videos. The classic distortion drift-free method limits the size of watermark image because of limited capacity. The improved intra distortion drift free method proposed in this paper enlarges the capacity and promote the visual quality with a reasonable classification according to intra prediction modes of H.264. Embedding pretreated watermarks into middle-frequency coefficient-pairs of \(4\,\times \,4\) luminance blocks, which makes the scheme achieve robustness. Experimental results show that our algorithm achieve high robustness and good visual quality without huge bit-rate increasing. The capacity of proposed scheme is doubled than the classic scheme as well.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the grant No. U1536110.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the grant No. U1536110.
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Li, Y., Wang, HX. (2018). Robust H.264/AVC Video Watermarking Without Intra Distortion Drift. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11066. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00015-8_36
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