Adaptive digital watermarking using RDWT and SVD

This paper proposes a new scheme for secure digital watermarking and copyright protection of videos. The approach presented here is based on redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). The video frames and the watermark are decomposed by RDWT, and the watermark is embedded into the subbands of the I-frames. The singular values of the I-frames are modified with the singular values of the visual watermark. Meanwhile, the watermark embedding strength is adjusted adaptively using the noise visibility function (NVF) with local properties. The approach is efficient and appropriate for real-time applications. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach has good performance in preserving high quality of the video, and the watermark can be extracted accurately after various attacks.