With the advent of information era, issues about video copyright continue to emerge. In the grey industrial chain of piracy, the film industry is a major disaster area so far. The current protection schemes for video copyright are inefficient and costly so that video industry still has to face the infringement. Research on a simple and efficient protection technology of video copyright is urgent. To address the inefficiency and irregularity of the current protection schemes for video copyright, this paper proposes a simple and efficient protection scheme for video copyright based on video zero-watermarking and blockchain. The results show that key-frames extraction and key-frames zero-watermarking based on NSCT-SVD in the proposed video zero-watermarking algorithm perform well and achieve low-cost protection for video copyright in practical environment. In addition, video zero-watermarking algorithm of proposed scheme works well with blockchain. Proposed scheme improves some extent on database centralization and evidential difficulties of traditional video zero-watermarking schemes, and it is more reliable, simpler and more effective than traditional video zero-watermarking schemes without blockchain.
Keywords: Video copyright, Blockchain, Zero-watermarking, Privacy, Key-frames extraction