Objective
The main objective of the VIVA project (Visual Identity Verification Auditor) is to investigate and demonstrate a professional broadcast surveillance system.
Broadcast material will be pre-encoded with an invisible unique watermark identifier. By automatically monitoring television broadcasts and registering which assets have been pre-encoded, a mechanism for IPR protection will be provided.
In this project algorithms for digital watermark embedding and extraction will be developed and implemented in hardware and embedded software using existing components. Field trials will demonstrate the feasibility of the system.
The applications of such a system include copyright protection and proof of ownership, verification of commercial transmissions, assessment of sponsorship effectiveness, protection against illegal transmission, statistical data collection and analysis of broadcast content.
The watermarking technology to be developed in this project by Philips Research will be optimized for the high picture quality needed in the broadcast environment and will avoid the introduction of visible artifacts into the picture. At the same time, the watermark should survive signal processing operations which routinely occur in broadcasting systems, such as digital to analogue conversion, editing, compression and standards conversion.
WTN and Philips BTS intend to exploit the results of the project by setting-up a global automated monitoring system for copyright protection surveillance using detection of the embedded watermark as a unique identifier.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering signal processing
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5656 AA Eindhoven
Netherlands
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