Robust Video Watermarking using Hessenberg Decomposition Blocks Selection Based on the Fourier Transform
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https://doi.org/10.65568/gujes.2026.020205Keywords:
Fourier transform-entropy analysis-lifting wavelet transform-watermarking-Hessenberg decompositionAbstract
This study proposes a new robust blind video watermarking technique for copyright protection that combines the Fourier transform, entropy analysis, Hessenberg decomposition, and lifting wavelet transform (LWT). The host video is divided into frames, the RGB channel of each frame is then isolated, and the 2-level LWT is applied to the R channel. The FFT coefficients are divided into 4x4 non-overlapping blocks after the FFT is applied to the high-frequency sub-band of the 2-level LWT. The watermark is then hidden in the first row and first column element of the upper Hessenberg matrix after each selected block has been subjected to Hessenberg decomposition. The proposed technique is extremely invisible and resilient to attacks, as demonstrated by numerous simulated experiments. Comparisons with similar scheme show that the proposed watermarking scheme outperforms the others in terms of invisibility and robustness.
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