Robust adaptive watermarking in video for protecting intellectual properties

The most common method used to protect the intellectual property rights of videos is ‘Video Watermarking’, where the watermark can be perceptual or non-perceptual. The aim of this research is to develop a strong watermarking algorithm for a video output and in addition to provide an algorithm that is adaptive so that under no circumstance dropping of the watermark takes place either by cropping, re-scaling or frame dropping. The algorithm deals with selection of random frames to minimize the noise and to maintain robustness, and selection the best position to place watermark and maintaining the transparency to ensure the perceptual quality (unobtrusiveness).