Fast watermarking of MPEG-1/2 streams using compressed-domain perceptual embedding and a generalized correlator detector

A novel technique is proposed for watermarking of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compressed video streams. The proposed scheme is applied directly in the domain of MPEG-1 system streams and MPEG-2 program streams (multiplexed streams). Perceptual models are used during the embedding process in order to avoid degradation of the video quality. The watermark is detected without the use of the original video sequence. A modified correlation-based detector is introduced that applies nonlinear preprocessing before correlation. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed scheme is able to withstand several common attacks. The resulting watermarking system is very fast and therefore suitable for copyright protection of compressed video

Multiplexing video traffic using frame-skipping aggregation technique.

by Alan Yeung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-[56]).Abstract also in Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- MPEG Overview --- p.5Chapter 3 --- Framework of Frame-Skipping Lossy Aggregation --- p.10Chapter 3.1 --- Video Frames Delivery using Round-Robin Scheduling --- p.10Chapter 3.2 --- Underflow Safety Margin on Receiver Buffers --- p.12Chapter 3.3 --- Algorithm in Frame-Skipping Aggregation Controller --- p.13Chapter 4 --- Replacement of Skipped Frames in MPEG Sequence --- p.17Chapter 5 --- Subjective Assessment Test on Frame-Skipped Video --- p.21Chapter 5.1 --- Test Settings and Material --- p.22Chapter 5.2 --- Choice of Test Methods --- p.23Chapter 5.3 --- Test Procedures --- p.25Chapter 5.4 --- Test Results --- p.26Chapter 6 --- Performance Study --- p.29Chapter 6.1 --- Experiment 1: Number of Supportable Streams --- p.31Chapter 6.2 --- Experiment 2: Frame-Skipping Rate When Multiplexing on a Leased T3 Link --- p.33Chapter 6.3 --- Experiment 3: Bandwidth Usage --- p.35Chapter 6.4 --- Experiment 4: Optimal USMT --- p.38Chapter 7 --- Implementation Considerations --- p.41Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.45Chapter A --- The Construction of Stuffed Artificial B Frame --- p.48Bibliography --- p.5

Customized television: Standards compliant advanced digital television

This correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement such a scenario by building the following services: an advanced EPG, Weather Forecasting, and Stock Exchange/Flight Information

Platforms for handling and development of audiovisual data

Estágio realizado na MOG Solutions e orientado por Vítor TeixeiraTese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informátca e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200

Everything You Wanted to Know About MPEG-7: Part 1

Part I of this article provides an overview of the development, functionality, and applicability of MPEG-7. We ll first present the role of MPEG-7 within the context of past MPEG standards. We then outline ideas of what should be possible using MPEG-7 technology. In Part II, we ll discuss the description of MPEG-7 s concepts, terminology, and requirements. We ll then compare MPEG-7 to other approaches on multimedia content description

Stream Objects : dynamically-segmented scalable media over the Internet

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 90).by Steven Niemczyk.M.Eng

A new charging scheme for ATM based on QoS

PhDNew services are emerging rapidly within the world of telecommunications. Charging strategies that were appropriate for individual transfer capabilities are no longer appropriate for an integrated broadband communications network. There is currently a range of technologies (such as cable television, telephony and narrow band ISDN) for the different services in use and a limited number of charging schemes are applicable for each of the underlying technologies irrespective of the services used over it. Difficulties arise when a wide range of services has to be supported on the same integrated technology such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM); in such cases the type of service in use and the impact it has on the network becomes much more important. The subject of this thesis, therefore, is the charging strategies for integrated broadband communications networks. That is, the identification of the requirements associated with ATM charging schemes and the proposal of a new approach to charging for ATM called the “quality of service based charging scheme”. Charging for ATM is influenced by three important components: the type and content of a service being offered; the type of customer using the services; and the traffic characteristics belonging to the application supporting the services. The first two issues will largely be dependent on the business and regulatory requirements of the operators. The last item, and an essential one for ATM, is the bridge between technology and business; how are the resources used by a service quantified? Charging that is based on resource usage at the network level was the prime focus of the research reported here. With the proposed charging scheme, a distinction is first made between the four different ATM transfer capabilities that will support various services and the different quality of service requirements that may be applicable to each of them. Then, resources are distributed among buffers set-up to support the combination of these transfer capabilities and quality of services. The buffers are dimensioned according to the M/D/1/K and the ND/D/1 queuing analysis to determine the buffer efficiency and quality of service requirements. This dimensioning provides the basis for fixing the price per unit of resource and time. The actual resource used by a connection is based on the volume of cells transmitted or peak cell rate allocation in combination with traffic shapers if appropriate. Shapers are also dimensioned using the quality of service parameters. Since the buffer 4 efficiency is dependent on the quality of service requirements, users (customers) of ATM networks buy quality of service. The actual price of a connection is further subjected to a number of transformations based on the size of the resource purchased, the time of the day at which a connection is made, and the geographical locality of the destination switch. It is demonstrated that the proposed charging scheme meets all the requirements of customers and of network operators. In addition the result of the comparison of the new scheme with a number of existing, prominent, ATM charging schemes is presented, showing that the performance of the proposed scheme is better in terms of meeting the expectations of both the customers and the network operators