Apply semi-fragile watermarking to authentication of compressed video data

Abstract

This paper proposes an effective technique which can detect malicious manipulations under video lossy compressing data (e.g. H.263) and still-image lossy compressing data (e.g. JPEG). A block-classification strategy is used to divide DCT-blocks into the flat-blocks and the normal-blocks. Simple features of the both blocks are embedded invisibly. For later authentication, the watermarked frame is then put back into the compressed bit-streams. The proposed method can detect and locate alterations of the tampered frame whether it is stored again into original bit-streams or not. This goal is for detecting tamper area and surviving most video lossy compression. Experimental results show that the proposed technique can detect various tampered areas and hence provides an effective image authentication for lossy compressed image and video in DVR (Digital Video Recorder) System. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.