Index mapping based hybrid DWT-DCT watermarking technique for copyright protection of videos files

In this paper, we propose a new blind colour video watermarking technique for the copyright protection of multimedia colour videos using index mapping concept. The novelty in the presented approach consists in designing a hybrid Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based digital video watermarking of colour watermark logo using index mapping technique. The distortion caused by watermarking is assessed by using peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and similarity structure index measure (SSIM) and robustness against different types of attacks have been assessed using StirMark. The proposed video watermarking algorithm provides better imperceptibility in harmony with the human visual system and offers higher robustness against signal processing attacks.