The copyright protection of Digital Cinema requires the insertion of forensic watermarks during exhibition playback.
This paper presents a low-complexity exhibition watermarking method based on quantization index modulation (QIM)
and embedded in the DCI compliant decoder. Watermark embedding is proposed to fit in the JPEG2000 decoding
process, prior to the inverse wavelet transform and such as it has a minimal impact on the image quality, guarantying a
strong link between decompression and watermarking. The watermark is embedded by using an adaptive-Spread
Transform Dither Modulation (STDM) method, based on a new multi-resolution perceptual masking to adapt watermark
strength. Watermark detection is thereafter performed over the wavelet transformation of the recovered images. The
proposed approach offers a wide range of channel capacities according to robustness to several kinds of distortions while
maintaining a low computational complexity. Watermarking detection performance on Digital Cinema pictures captured
with a video camera from a viewing room has been preliminary assessed, showing very promising results. The proposed
approach provides high levels of imperceptibility, yet good robustness to degradations resulting from camcorder
exhibition capture, to common signal processing operations such as filtering or re-sampling, and to very high
compression.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.