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As H.264 receives many applications, it becomes more and more important to develop copyright protection methods for the new standard. Watermarking technology combined with video codec is considered a possible solution. In this paper we propose a new robust watermarking scheme for H.264, which makes the following contributions: 1) embed the watermark in a H.264 new syntax element named reference index; 2) propose a modifying the current block algorithm to improve the robustness of the scheme; 3) modify the current block by means of a geometry method, which makes the modifying algorithm degrade the video quality as slightly as possible. Experimental results have demonstrated the good performance of our scheme.
This work was supported by NSFC (90604008, 60633030), 973 Program (2006CB303104) and NSF of Guangdong (06023191).
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Li, J., Liu, H., Huang, J., Zhang, Y. (2009). A Robust Watermarking Scheme for H.264. In: Kim, HJ., Katzenbeisser, S., Ho, A.T.S. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5450. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04438-0_1
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