FPGA Based Video Watermarking

Abstract

With the availability of web cameras, high resolution mobile phones and animation creating softwares, video contents are easy to be created. Various video contents like movies, video clips, audio-visual chat recordings, games are getting more and more popularity over internet and other networks. Wide usage of video content demands e ective provision of content ownership and copyright protection. An e ective video processing software should process 24 to 30 frames per second and deal with the complexity of video watermarking algorithm to produce outcome with a reliable speed. In real time video applications, coping up with the speed and complexity makes video watermarking a challenging job. Most of the research to date for video watermarking has been performed using general purpose processor, application speci c processors and DSP processors too. However as FPGA's have grown in capacity, improved in performance and de- creased in cost they have become a viable solution for performing computationally in- tensive task with the ability to tackle applications for custom chips and programmable DSP devices. Though this involves intensive research on the hardware implementa- tion of video watermarking algorithm. This project work is mainly based on implementing video watermarking algorithms in FPGA and come up with an e ective embedded solution for video ownership and copyright protection.