Copyright Protection for E-Learning Videos Using Digital Watermarking

Abstract

E-Learning system provides a new platform for learning and is becoming more and more popular nowadays. As part of E-Learning, digital multimedia contents like video lectures, seminar talks are made available to the learners through the internet. The teachers or the authority upload videos in the file repositories of E-learning systems. It is not so difficult to copy such files without quality loss. Any user can obtain the copies of these videos and upload and claim it as their own. So the security plays an important role in ELearning. Digital watermarking is a strong solution for this problem. In this paper we propose a method for digital watermarking in which frequency domain transforms (Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)) are used for the data insertion. The decoding is based on the side information which produced at the time of watermarking. We have compared the Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and Bit Error Rate (BER) of the results. The testing includes applying of spatial attacks and compression attacks on the watermarked video. The result shows that the method using wavelet transform is more efficient.