Video watermark technique in motion vector

In this paper, we propose a video watermarking technique to hide copyright information in MPEG motion vector. In this method, watermark is embedded in larger value motion vectors, and specially in the less phase angle changed component. Then, the motion vector is modified into a new bitstream from which the watermark information can be easily retrieved. From the experimental results, it indicates that to embed watermark in motion vector has the advantage of little degrading the video quality, little influence on the MPEG decoding speed, capability to embed watermark in a short video sequence, and can be used to watermark on both the uncompressed and compressed video sequence.