Object based dual watermarking for video authentication

Video cameras have been widely installed in public facilities for the surveillance applications. So, video authentication has becoming increasingly attractive. This paper presents a dual watermarking for video authentication based on moving objects. For each frame, the frame index, as a watermark is first embedded into the moving objects of the corresponding frame using a reversible watermarking method, aiming to detect the temporal tampering. Then the principle content and the details of the moving objects combined with the authentication code, as the other watermark, are embedded into the frame for spatial tampering location and recovery. Specially, a synthesized frame method is proposed for lossless recovery of moving objects and effective extraction of frame index. Statistical analysis and experiment results show that the proposed method can locate spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal tampering accurately. The spatial tampered regions can be recovered approximately and the moving objects can be restored completely when the tampered area is limited.