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With the advent of internet, every aspect of life is going online. From online working to watching videos, everything is now available on the internet. With the greater business benefits, increased availability and other online business advantages, there is a major challenge of security and ownership of data. Videos downloaded from an online store can easily be shared among non-intended or unauthorized users. Invisible watermarking is used to hide copyright protection information in the videos. The existing methods of watermarking are less robust and imperceptible and also the computational complexity of these methods does not suit low power devices. In this paper, we have proposed a new method to address the problem of robustness and imperceptibility. Experiments have shown that our method has better robustness and imperceptibility as well as our method is computationally efficient than previous approaches in practice. Hence our method can easily be applied on low power devices.
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Ishtiaq, M., Jaffar, M.A., Khan, M.A., Jan, Z., Mirza, A.M. (2009). Robust and Imperceptible Watermarking of Video Streams for Low Power Devices. In: Ślęzak, D., Pal, S.K., Kang, BH., Gu, J., Kuroda, H., Kim, Th. (eds) Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. SIP 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10546-3_22
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