Abstract- H.264/AVC is becoming a popular video codec for

its better compression ratio, lower distortion and applicability

to portable electronic devices. Thus, issues of copyright

protection appropriate for this standard become very

important. In this paper, a new blind SVD (Singular Value

Decomposition) - DCT combined video watermarking scheme

for the ".264 standard is proposed. The proposed method is a

blind watermarking algorithm as the hidden information can be

extracted without the original video and the original singular

values. To reduce visual quality degradation caused by

coefficients modifying, the perceptual model and block selection

mechanism are introduced to control the modification strength.

The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated with

respect to imperceptibility, robustness and data payload.

Experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme achieves

enough robustness while preserving the perceptual quality.-Abstract- H.264/AVC is becoming a popular video codec for

its better compression ratio, lower distortion and applicability

to portable electronic devices. Thus, issues of copyright

protection appropriate for this standard become very

important. In this paper, a new blind SVD (Singular Value

Decomposition)- DCT combined video watermarking scheme

for the ".264 standard is proposed. The proposed method is a

blind watermarking algorithm as the hidden information can be

extracted without the original video and the original singular

values. To reduce visual quality degradation caused by

coefficients modifying, the perceptual model and block selection

mechanism are introduced to control the modification strength.

The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated with

respect to imperceptibility, robustness and data payload.

Experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme achieves

enough robustness while preserving the perceptual quality.