Cloud-Based Multimedia Content Protection System

We propose a new design for large-scale multimedia content protection systems. Our design leverages cloud infrastructures to provide cost efficiency, rapid deployment, scalability, and elasticity to accommodate varying workloads. The proposed system can be used to protect different multimedia content types, including videos, images, audio clips, songs, and music clips. The system can be deployed on private and/or public clouds. Our system has two novel components: (i) method to create signatures of videos, and (ii) distributed matching engine for multimedia objects. The signature method creates robust and representative signatures of videos that capture the depth signals in these videos and it is computationally efficient to compute and compare as well as it requires small storage. The distributed matching engine achieves high scalability and it is designed to support different multimedia objects. We implemented the proposed system and deployed it on two clouds: Amazon cloud and our private cloud. Our experiments with more than 11,000 videos and 1 million images show the high accuracy and scalability of the proposed system. In addition, we compared our system to the protection system used by YouTube and our results show that the YouTube protection system fails to detect most copies of videos, while our system detects more than 98% of them.

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Blockchain-Based Multimedia Content Protection: Review and Open Challenges

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11010001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Amna Qureshi ◽

David Megías Jiménez

Keyword(s):

Digital Rights Management ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Future Research ◽

Multimedia Content ◽

Content Protection ◽

Technical Aspects ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Protection Systems ◽

Multimedia Content Protection

In this paper, we provide a holistic survey of multimedia content protection applications in which blockchain technology is being used. A taxonomy is developed to classify these applications with reference to the technical aspects of blockchain technology, content protection techniques, namely, encryption, digital rights management, digital watermarking and fingerprinting (or transaction tracking), and performance criteria. The study of the literature reveals that there is currently no complete and systematic taxonomy dedicated to blockchain-based copyright protection applications. Moreover, the number of successfully developed blockchain-based content protection systems is very low. This points towards a research gap. To fill this gap, we propose a taxonomy that integrates technical aspects and application knowledge and can guide the researchers towards the development of blockchain-based multimedia copyright protection systems. Furthermore, the paper discusses some technical challenges and outlines future research directions.

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Cloud-Based Multimedia Content Protection System

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ◽

10.1109/tmm.2015.2389628 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 420-433 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Mohamed Hefeeda ◽

Tarek ElGamal ◽

Kiana Calagari ◽

Ahmed Abdelsadek

Keyword(s):

Protection System ◽

Multimedia Content ◽

Content Protection ◽

Multimedia Content Protection

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Performance Evaluation of watermarking Schemes to Decide Meaningful Number of Shares

IRA-International Journal of Technology & Engineering (ISSN 2455-4480) ◽

10.21013/jte.icsesd201709 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2 (S)) ◽

pp. 93

Author(s):

Jitendra Saturwar ◽

D.N. Chaudhari

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Digital Watermarking ◽

Image Watermarking ◽

Visual Cryptography ◽

Multimedia Content ◽

Content Protection ◽

Security Issues ◽

Digital World ◽

Protection Systems ◽

Multimedia Content Protection

With the growth in digital world, it is becoming more important to find a method to protect the security of digital media. An image watermarking model based on visual secret sharing (VSS) is proposed for protection of ownership. In the embedding phase, the watermark is first divided by VSS into two parts, a hiding watermark and a secret watermark. Then only the hiding watermark is embedded into the original image and the secret watermark is reserved for watermark extracting by the owner. In the extracting phase, the hiding watermark is extracted from the watermarked image first and then directly superimposed on the secret watermark to recover the watermark information. Digital watermarking has been proposed as a possible brick of such protection systems. However, application of watermarking for multimedia content protection in realistic scenarios poses several security issues. A digital watermarking technique is used to generate meaningful shares. The secret image shares are watermarked with different cover images and are transmitted. At the receiving side, the cover images are extracted from the shares and stacked one by one which reveals the secret image progressively. Digital watermarking using visual cryptography provides improved security for encrypting secret images.

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Multimedia Content Protection Technology

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch130 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 957-964

Author(s):

Shiguo Lian

Keyword(s):

Video Compression ◽

Multimedia Data ◽

Multimedia Content ◽

Network Technology ◽

Or Education ◽

Content Protection ◽

Tv Program ◽

Protection Technology ◽

Multimedia Content Protection ◽

Media Data

Since the beginning of 1990s, some multimedia standards (Joan, Didier, & Chad, 2003) related to image compression, video compression, or audio compression have been published and widely used. These compression methods reduce media data’s volumes, and save the storage space or transmission bandwidth. After the middle of 1990s, network technology has been rapidly developed and widely spread, which increases the network bandwidth. With the development of network technology and multimedia (image, audio, video, etc.) technology, multimedia data are used more and more widely. In some applications related to politics, economics, militaries, entertainment, or education, multimedia content security becomes important and urgent. Some sensitive data need to be protected against unauthorized users. For example, only the customers paying for a TV program can watch the program online, while other customers cannot watch the content, only the administrator can update (delete, insert, copy, etc.) the TV program in the database, while others cannot modify the content, the TV program released over Internet can be traced, and so forth. Multimedia content protection technology protects multimedia data against the threats coming from unauthorized users, especially in network environment. Generally, protected properties include the confidentiality, integrity, ownership, and so forth. The confidentiality defines that only the authorized users can access the multimedia content, while others cannot know multimedia content. The integrity tells whether media data are modified or not. The ownership shows media data’s owner information that is used to authenticate or trace the distributor. During the past decade, various technologies have been proposed to protect media data, which are introduced in this chapter. Additionally, the threats to multimedia data are presented, the existing protection methods are compared, and some future trends are proposed.

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