Towards real-time video watermarking for system-on-chip

In the past few years, much research on watermarking has been focused on improving robustness to attacks. The starting point of the present study was an R & D non optimised algorithm for still images but offering a good trade-off in terms of capacity, visibility and robustness, and working in a full blind manner. We focused on adapting it to video and on optimising it to the world of embedded terminals such as digital still cameras, digital television, wireless terminals, where the computing power and storage resources of a Pentium are not available. This work is the result of a close collaboration between the Eurecom research institute and STMicroelectronics.