International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 02 Issue: 03 | June-2015 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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AN EFFICIENT VIDEO WATERMARKING USING COLOR HISTOGRAM
ANALYSIS AND BITPLANE IMAGE ARRAYS
G Prakash
1
,TVS Gowtham Prasad
2,
T.Ravi Kumar Naidu
3
1
MTech(DECS) student, Department of ECE, sree vidyanikethan engg college,tirupathi,Andhra Pradesh,India
2
Assistant professor, Department of ECE, sree vidyanikethan engg college,tirupathi,,Andhra Pradesh,India
3
Assistant professor, Department of ECE, sree vidyanikethan engg college,tirupathi,Andhra Pradesh,India
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Abstract - The paper presents video watermarking
technology based on color histogram analysis and
luminance value adjustment in according to watermark
bitplane image arrays. The main objective of this
approach is to minimize the error at high data hiding
capacity in order to preserve the quality of video. By
considering this, the watermarking process will be
handled in luminance plane and frame selection is
based on changes of RGB histogram bins. This
technology is used to hide copyright information to
protect original contents from video tampering,
broadcasting and for other authentication.
Implementation of this method involves watermark
bitplane image conversion, color histogram based
changes detection in video scenes and luminance value
adjustment. Before the watermark embedding, the
original watermark pixels intensities will be converted
into bitplanes. Then by using RGB space histogram
variation between the successive two frames, the
relevant frame will be selected. After selecting the
frame, each bit of bitplane image will be embedded into
luminance plane of corresponding frame. The desired
pixels will be selected from the 8x8 non overlapping
blocks of luminance plane. At each block, seven bits of
bitplane image are hidden under the luminance values
chosen by data hider. This process is continued for all
remaining watermark bits. At watermark recovery,
continue same process handled in embedding stage.
The simulated results shows that watermarking using
color histogram and luminance adjustment provides
better performance interms of preserving original
video quality and accuracy in recovered watermark
during extraction. The performance measures such as
smean square error and peak signal to noise ratio are
evaluated to evaluate the system performance.
Key Words: video watermarking, bit-plane images
1. INTRODUCTION
The multimedia data which is available in the internet
is all in the form of digital. If the data is in analog form
then we cannot produce as it is. But the data which is in
the form of digital can be reproduce as it is without any
error. Due to the advancements in digital technology. So,
the owners of content are suffering with illegal copying of
their data. The traditional copyright protection methods
like encryption etc. are not sufficient. Because, the content
can be protected only while during transmission. After
receiving the data, if once the decrypted then the data
cannot be protected. To overcome this problem
watermarking technology is developed.
Robustness, fidelity and data payload are the three
parameters of watermarking. There exists a complex trade
off between these parameters. Robustness of watermark
refers to the ability to withstand non-malicious
distortions. Fidelity is the visual similarity between the
stego image and its cover image. Data payload is the
encoded message size of a watermark in an image. The
simplest form of watermark has no payload. These three
parameters are conflicting and tradeoff has to be found
which is often tied to the targeted application.
Digital watermarking is an effective method to protect
the authenticity by hiding the copyright information in the
original content. Applications of digital watermarking
include Digital rights management, copyright protection,
authentication, tamper detection and localization,
Broadcast monitoring, device control,, communication
enhancement. Video contains large amount of redundant
data.
Based on the embedding watermark, video
watermarking can be classified into 3 types as follows.
1. Watermark embedding in compressed bit stream.
2. Watermark embedding in the quantization
coefficients during encoding the video.
3. Watermark embedding into original video.
The first method does not require encoding and
decoding of video. And also not affect the video quality.
But, the algorithm is not easy to design. In the second
method, the algorithm is easy to design and bit rate of
video will not increased. But, the video quality will
decrease.
In this paper we propose a new blind video
watermarking algorithm. The grey scale image is used as
watermark image. The grey scale image decomposed into
8-bitplane images and each bit plane is embedded into
different scenes of video sequence. The bit planes of
watermark image are embedded only in the Y-channel.
Some of luminance values from video frames are selected
and divided into groups. By adjusting the relative
relationship of the member in each group, watermark is
embedded. Only a sufficient number of bits has to be