Robust HEVC video watermarking scheme based on repetition-BCH syndrome code

Abstract

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) was recently introduced two years ago as the new standard for video coding. This new codec will be the most widely prevalent standard. Because of the industry needs for authentication and copyright protection methodologies the robustness of this standard is required to be developed. This paper presents the first robust digital watermarking method for the HEVC based on Repetition- BCH syndrome code technique without intra-frame distortion drift. The objective of this article is to implement a new technique that can offer high robustness against noise channel errors and increase the error detection rate in the HEVC video sequences transmitted over noisy communication channels. The proposed technique does not significantly affect the video quality, nor does it escalate the bitrate. The results show that the proposed technique offers greater robustness against noise channel while preserving good quality for extracted watermark. The proposed technique significantly contributes to the performance of the error detection and correction. In addition, this technique can recover the watermark when the watermarked frames dropping rate is less than 20%.