Visible Watermarking for Content Protection

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 112, No. 2-3, pp. 81–89
Abstract: Various digital rights management (DRM) techniques have been proposed for protecting digital content, ranging from denial technologies, such as encryption, to traceability technologies like fingerprint watermarking. This paper proposes a novel approach to DRM: a visible watermark embedded into image/video material, securing the content for preview purposes, done in a cryptographically secure manner that is also completely reversible. Knowledge of a key and a small amount of additional secret information allows the visible watermark to be removed, yielding an exact copy of the original, bit for bit. As well as discussing how visible watermarking can be performed, this paper examines various new business/security models resulting from adoption of visible watermarking.
Publication Date: 2003-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/J12414
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J12414
Author(s): Andrew Taylor
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Andrew Taylor joined Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe in 2001 as a research and development engineer working on digital cinema and visible watermarking. He received a B.Eng. in electrical and electronic engineering from Aston University in 1998.
Richard Foster
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Richard Foster has worked for Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe for the last five years. During this time, he has been involved with a number of research projects including video effects, metadata systemization, and networked video servers. He currently leads a team researching digital rights management solutions. Foster received an HND in computer studies from Southampton Institute in 1987.
Jason Pelly
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Jason Pelly joined Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe, in Basingstoke, U.K., in 1999, and is currently leading a team developing watermarking, digital cinema, and digital rights management technologies. While at Sony, he has been involved with several data compression algorithms, including studio profile for MPEG-4. Pelly received a B.A. and M.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1996 and 1997, respectively.
Copyright: © 2003 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), www.csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes . EXTERNAL
2. Reports on the DVD encryption hack, http://zdnet.com.com/2102-11-528729.html , www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/05/dvd.hack.idg . EXTERNAL
3. MPEG-2 video specification, ISO/IEC 13818-2. EXTERNAL
4. SMPTE 356M-2001—Television—Type D-10 Stream Specifications MPEG-2 4:2:2P@ML for 525/60 and 625/50. EXTERNAL

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