An automatic scheme for stereoscopic video object-based watermarking using qualified significant wavelet trees
Authors: Ntalianis, Klimis 
Doulamis, Anastasios 
Kollias, Stefanos 
Doulamis, Nikolaos 
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2002
Conference: 2002 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002), 22-25 September 2002, Rochester, New York, USA 
Book: Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Image Processing 
Volume: 3
Abstract: 
In this paper a fully automatic system for embedding visually recognizable watermark patterns to video objects is proposed. The architecture consists of 3 main modules. During the first module unsupervised video object extraction is performed, by analyzing stereoscopic pairs of frames. Then each video object is decomposed into three levels with ten subbands, using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and three pairs of subbands are formed (HL3, HL2), (LH3, LH2) and (HH3, HH2). Next Qualified Significant Wavelet Trees (QSWTs) are estimated for the specific pair of subbands that contains the highest energy content compared to the other two pairs. QSWTs are derived from the Embedded Zerotree Wavelet (EZW) algorithm and they are high-energy coefficient paths within the selected pair of subbands. Finally during the third module, visually recognizable watermark patterns are redundantly embedded to the coefficients of the highest energy QSWTs and the inverse DWT is applied to provide the watermarked video object. The performance of the proposed video object watermarking system is tested under various signal distortions such as JPEG lossy compression, sharpening, blurring and adding different types of noise. Experimental results on real life stereoscopic images are presented to indicate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed scheme.
ISBN: 0-7803-7622-6
ISSN: 1522-4880
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/2816
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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