The improved sign bit encryption of motion vectors for H.264/AVC

In this paper, an improved video encryption method for encrypting the sign bit of motion vectors is proposed based on H.264/AVC, which belongs to selective encryption. This method improves upon previous work involving the sign bit encryption of motion vectors by ensuring the four candidates for the encrypted motion vectors are always located in two orthogonal lines. The improved method can provide a much more effective scrambling effect while keeping the encrypted stream format-compliant and the compression ratio unchanged. The combination of the proposed method with encryption of intra prediction modes can further enhance the scrambling effect, especially for the first few frames which are left clear when only the motion vectors are encrypted.

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