Robust video watermarking using a hybrid DCT-DWT approach

Abstract

In order to solve the limitations of the digital video watermarking algorithm, this paper proposes a new robust video watermarking algorithm using combining discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) techniques. First of all, the video frames are randomly selected and then the DCT algorithm is applied to the selected video frames. After that, the first column of the selected video frames is scrambled using the Arnold algorithm. Furthermore, every column with 4 direct current (DC) coefficients is reshaped and transformed into four different sub-bands using the DWT technique. Next, the watermark is embedded into the approximation (LL) sub-band. The proposed algorithm is easy to carry out because it provides random frames with no special requirements for video frames. The experiment results indicate that this algorithm can resist against different kinds of watermarking attacks, such as the Gaussian filter attack and sharpen attack. In addition, it also illustrates that the proposed algorithm has a better result than some other watermarking algorithms.

Keywords

• Discrete cosine transform (DCT)
• Discrete wavelet transform (DWT)
• Video-watermarking