Title
Improved watermark synchronization based on local autocorrelation function
Abstract
An autocorrelation function (ACF) to synchronize watermarks has been adopted in practical applications because of its robustness against affine transforms. However, ACFs are vulnerable to projective transform, which commonly occurs during the illegal copying of cinema footage due to the angle of the camcorder relative to the screen. The cinema footage that is captured by camcorders both is projected and has undergone digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion (D-A/A-D conversion). We present a novel watermarking scheme that uses a local autocorrelation function (LACF) that can resist projective transforms as well as affine transforms. A watermark also used for synchronization is designed and additively embedded in the spatial domain. The embedded watermark is extracted in a blind way after recovering from distortions. The LACF scheme with a mathematical model is proposed to synchronize the watermark against distortions. On various video clips, experimental results show that the presented scheme is robust against projective distortions as well as D-A/A-D conversion. (C) 2009 SPIE and IS&T. [DOI: 10.1117/1.3134121]
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1117/1.3134121
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
mathematical model,affine transformation,autocorrelation function,distortion,embedded system,digital watermarking
Affine transformation,Computer vision,Synchronization,Digital watermarking,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Watermark,Artificial intelligence,Distortion,Autocorrelation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min-Jeong Lee121114.49
Kyung-Su Kim219617.05
Tae-Woo Oh3715.83
Hae-Yeoun Lee428723.04
Heung-kyu Lee5101687.53