Title
360-Degree VR Video Watermarking Based on Spherical Wavelet Transform
Abstract
AbstractSimilar to conventional video, the increasingly popular 360\(\) virtual reality (VR) video requires copyright protection mechanisms. The classic approach for copyright protection is the introduction of a digital watermark into the video sequence. Due to the nature of spherical panorama, traditional watermarking schemes that are dedicated to planar media cannot work efficiently for 360\(\) VR video. In this article, we propose a spherical wavelet watermarking scheme to accommodate 360\(\) VR video. With our scheme, the watermark is first embedded into the spherical wavelet transform domain of the 360\(\) VR video. The spherical geometry of the 360\(\) VR video is used as the host space for the watermark so that the proposed watermarking scheme is compatible with the multiple projection formats of 360\(\) VR video. Second, the just noticeable difference model, suitable for head-mounted displays (HMDs), is used to control the imperceptibility of the watermark on the viewport. Third, besides detecting the watermark from the spherical projection, the proposed watermarking scheme also supports detecting watermarks robustly from the viewport projection. The watermark in the spherical domain can protect not only the 360\(\) VR video but also its corresponding viewports. The experimental results show that the embedded watermarks are reliably extracted both from the spherical and the viewport projections of the 360\(\) VR video, and the robustness of the proposed scheme to various copyright attacks is significantly better than that of the competing planar-domain approaches when detecting the watermark from viewport projection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3425605
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
360 degrees VR video, watermarking, spherical wavelet, just noticeable difference
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1551-6857
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanwei Liu17014.92
Jinxia Liu26011.61
Antonios Argyriou331943.57
Siwei Ma42229203.42
Liming Wang5138.75
Zhen Xu62117.33