Digital video watermarking algorithm based on asymmetric causal spatio-temporal filter

Abstract

Digital video is vulnerable to accidental or malicious destruction in storage, transmission, processing, which damages the legitimate rights and interests of the product owners. Digital video watermarking technology is a mean to protect intellectual property rights. We analyze the basic principle of the 3D-Harris algorithm and Gabor filter method. By considering the temporal causality of the video, the common symmetrical filter is discarded. We design a causal filter which conforms to video characteristics and proposes an asymmetric causal filter in space–time domain. On this basis, an improved video watermarking algorithm is proposed, combining space–time feature points and DCT domain. The experimental results show that proposed algorithm can not only ensure high invisibility, and can effectively resist various attacks in time domain and space domain.

Keywords

• Feature points
• digital video watermarking
• invisibility
• robustness