A real-time video watermarking system with buffer sharing for video-on-demand service

Real-time watermarking for streaming video (such as VOD service) requires significant amounts of computing resources. To address this issue, we present a scalable watermarking scheme integrated in a parallel MPEG-2 engine. A content-based block selection algorithm is proposed to efficiently embed the pseudo-random watermark signatures into DCT blocks. Our watermark scheme also provides a robust way to synchronize the watermarked video to the original source at detectors and is very resilient against cumulative and temporal attack.