Review of Robust Video Watermarking Methods for Copyright Protection Application

In the digital world, due to the ease of creating, publishing and tampering of works, copyright protection became a major issue. This issue is much significant in movie industry which cause millions of dollars loses. With new technologies, almost everybody is able to produce, edit and share videos. Thanks to the Internet the sharing of works also, become a breeze. Hence, there should be a mechanism to prove the ownership and make sure of the integrity. Watermarking is one of the effective ways to help copyright protection. The aim of this work is exploring through the current watermarking solutions for copyright protection of digital video. For this purpose, foundations of video watermarking are explained firstly. Then a review on robust video watermarking methods for copyright protection application is proposed. Index Term— video watermarking; copyright protection; ownership identification