Systems and methods for the application of adaptive video watermarks

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
• receiving a video frame, wherein a first predetermined region of the video frame includes a first set of pixels and a second predetermined region of the video frame includes a second set of pixels, the second set of pixels having luminance and/or chrominance values that are selected based on luminance and/or chrominance values of pixels of a third predetermined region of the video frame to create a blending effect that reduces a perceptibility of a watermark encoded into the first set of pixels of the video frame;
• detecting a watermark in the first predetermined region of the video frame;
• identifying, within the first set of pixels, one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a first pixel value and one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a second pixel value;
• assigning a first symbol to the one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a first pixel value and a second symbol to the one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a second pixel value;
• and
• generating, based on the first pixel value and the second pixel value, a first sequence of symbols.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:

• receiving a video frame, wherein a first predetermined region of the video frame includes a first set of pixels and a second predetermined region of the video frame includes a second set of pixels, the second set of pixels having luminance and/or chrominance values that are selected based on luminance and/or chrominance values of pixels of a third predetermined region of the video frame to create a blending effect that reduces a perceptibility of a watermark encoded into the first set of pixels of the video frame;
• detecting a watermark in the first predetermined region of the video frame;
• identifying, within the first set of pixels, one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a first pixel value and one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a second pixel value;
• assigning a first symbol to the one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a first pixel value and a second symbol to the one or more contiguous subsets of pixels that correspond to a second pixel value;
• and
• generating, based on the first pixel value and the second pixel value, a first sequence of symbols.