Abstract: Real-time video authentication is a major concern for surveillance video cameras. In this thesis, I present a secure, low power and low hardware video watermarking system that inserts an invisible semi-fragile watermark into the video stream for real-time surveillance video authentication during the commonly used MPEG-4 encoding process with insignificant video quality degradation. The watermark embedding is processed in the discrete cosine transform domain. To achieve high performance, the proposed system architecture employs pipeline structure and uses parallelism.
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