Title: Robustness attack on copyright protection scheme for H.264/AVC and SVC

Authors: Grace C-W. Ting; Bok-Min Goi; Sze-Wei Lee

Addresses: Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), 43000 Kajang, Malaysia ' Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), 43000 Kajang, Malaysia ' Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARUC), 53300 KL, Malaysia

Abstract: Digital content protection is vital because nowadays video sharing via social media and mobile messaging plays an important role in our society. As such, there exist many digital watermarking schemes that enable owners to prove the ownership of their shared content. This paper presents an attack on the watermarking-based copyright protection scheme proposed by Park and Shin. We show that their scheme unfortunately is not able to achieve the design objective of proof of ownership. We also include analytical results showing why our attack works and empirical results demonstrating that attacked outputs are of acceptable quality. This type of robustness attack is an essential part of a copyright protection designer's consideration. Therefore, it is important that designers and security practitioners are aware of whether such attacks exist on any proposed copyright protection schemes, to prevent future designs from inheriting their weaknesses.

Keywords: copyright protection; robustness; watermarking; video sharing; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2022.122919

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2022 Vol.18 No.1/2, pp.193 - 203

Accepted: 15 Oct 2019
Published online: 17 May 2022 *

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