Proposing Forensic Watermarking Techniques for Detecting Movie Piracy Through Camcorders

Movie piracy proliferates through numerous means, where camcorders and video cameras play a predominant role. Our area of specialization lies in understanding and examining the environment of theatres, human reaction time, filmmaker's requirements and proposing robust forensic watermarking techniques that can be employed to battle such movie piracy attacks, which takes place through camcorder reproduction. We analyzed the resilience and retentivity of watermarking after compression, modification and distortion attacks. Considering an ideal theatrical scenario, we have also taken into account the noise and interference that could be present in the sound and light channels of a reproduced video. The methods of analysis and research are majorly seated and orbit along the fields of Computer Vision, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Statistical Analysis. The goal is to embed a sturdy enough watermark which can survive a camcorder reproduction and have as minimal information loss as possible.