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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Robust Multi-Bit Watermarking for Free-View Television Using Light Field Rendering

Huawei TIAN, Yao ZHAO, Zheng WANG, Rongrong NI, Lunming QIN

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With the rapid development of multi-view video coding (MVC) and light field rendering (LFR), Free-View Television (FTV) has emerged as new entrainment equipment, which can bring more immersive and realistic feelings for TV viewers. In FTV broadcasting system, the TV-viewer can freely watch a realistic arbitrary view of a scene generated from a number of original views. In such a scenario, the ownership of the multi-view video should be verified not only on the original views, but also on any virtual view. However, capacities of existing watermarking schemes as copyright protection methods for LFR-based FTV are only one bit, i.e., presence or absence of the watermark, which seriously impacts its usage in practical scenarios. In this paper, we propose a robust multi-bit watermarking scheme for LFR-based free-view video. The direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) watermark is constructed according to the multi-bit message and embedded into DCT domain of each view frame. The message can be extracted bit-by-bit from a virtual frame generated at an arbitrary view-point with a correlation detector. Furthermore, we mathematically prove that the watermark can be detected from any virtual view. Experimental results also show that the watermark in FTV can be successfully detected from a virtual view. Moreover, the proposed watermark method is robust against common signal processing attacks, such as Gaussian filtering, salt & peppers noising, JPEG compression, and center cropping.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E96-D No.12 pp.2820-2829
Publication Date
2013/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.E96.D.2820
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Image Processing and Video Processing

Authors

Huawei TIAN
  Beijing Jiaotong University
Yao ZHAO
  Beijing Jiaotong University
Zheng WANG
  Beijing Jiaotong University
Rongrong NI
  Beijing Jiaotong University
Lunming QIN
  Beijing Jiaotong University

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