Efficient FPGA implementation of corrected reversible contrast mapping algorithm for video watermarking

Abstract This paper analyses and rectifies the shortcomings of reversible contrast mapping (RCM) algorithm for invisible watermarking. The proposed corrected RCM algorithm is tested by taking a gray scaled video input. The quality of services and structural similarity index matrix (SSIM) of each frame of the input video are tested in software environment. The video is obtained by OV7670 camera through Zed-board in fully field programmable gate array (FPGA) based hardware environment. FPGA devices based corrected high level synthesis of the proposed algorithm is presented. The suggested system engages pipeline structure and practices parallelism to achieve high performance. The quality of services and SSIM are also tested using FPGA devices and the comparative results with software implementations are explained. To process thirty (640 × 480) image blocks with 150 MHz clock we obtain a latency of 876.626 ns with throughput 62.328 Mbps. The critical path for single cycle is 5.992 ns. The number of resources essential is similar for watermark decoding with an improved schedule. The results acquired after implementation on Xilinx Virtex 7-XC7V2000T and programmable system-on-chip (Zynq - XC7Z030) FPGA devices confirm the practicability of real-time use with low cost and great speed.

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