Digital Watermarking of MOCAP Data Based on Singular Value Decomposition

Abstract

According to the computer is more and more powerful; the computer animation is widely applied in the game, entertainment, and scientific fields. When making a computer graphics (CG) animation, firstly we build three-dimensional models, and then attach the motion sequences on these models. Either key-frame setup or motions capture systems can help to get the motion data, and both of they need considerable work. Thus, the motion data cost expensive, and need the copyright protection. In this paper, we'll develop the digital watermarking technology for the motion capture (MOCAP) data. When watermarking some characteristics of the MOCAP data such as the physical feature of an articulated link model should be maintained. The requirement of imperceptibility in watermarking motion data is higher than in other watermarking applications such as images or video. For considering both the time varying and joints relations in motion, we adopted the singular value decomposition to resolve the multiple variables problem. In simulation results, some signal processing of motion data has been used to verify the robustness.