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Copyright Protection in Video DeliveryNetworks by Watermarking ofPre-Compressed VideoFrank Hartung Bernd GirodTelecommunications InstituteUniversity of Erlangen-NurembergCauerstrasse 7, D|91058 Erlangen, Germanyhartung@nt.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de in: S. Fdida, M. Morganti (Eds.)Multimedia Applications, Servicesand Techniques - ECMAST 97,Springer Lecture Notes in ComputerScience, Vol. 1242, pp. 423-436Springer, Heidelberg, 1997. AbstractDigital video data can be copied repeatedly without loss of quality.Therefore, copyright protection of video data is a more important issuein digital video delivery networks than it was with analog TV broadcast.One method of copyright protection is the addition of a \watermark tothe video signal which carries information about sender and receiver ofthe delivered video. Therefore, watermarking enables identication andtracing of dierent copies of video data. Applications are video distribu-tion over the World Wide Web (WWW), pay-per-view video broadcast,or labeling of video discs and video tapes. In the mentioned applicati-ons, the video data is usually stored in compressed format. Thus, thewatermark must be embedded in the compressed domain. We present ascheme for robust watermarking of MPEG-2 encoded video. The schemeis of much lower complexity than a complete decoding process followed bywatermarking in the pixel domain and re-encoding. Although an existingMPEG-2 bitstream is partly altered, the scheme avoids drift by addinga drift compensation signal. The scheme has been implemented and theresults conrm that a robust watermark can be embedded into MPEGencoded video which can be used to securely transmit arbitrary binaryinformation at a data rate of several bytes/second. The scheme is easilyapplicable to other video coding schemes like MPEG-1, H.261, and H.263.1 IntroductionWith the advent of digital video and digital broadcasting, issues of copyrightprotection have become more important, since the duplication of digital video doe