Selective Encryption Method over H.264/AVC Video Bitstream Using AES Encryption Algorithm

Recently, the security and compression in video communications have become essential in commercial and military applications. The video compression standard, H.264/AVC, has improved the compression performance compared with previous standards, greatly. Therefore, in this paper a new selective encryption (SE) method is used to protect H.264/AVC video bitstream so that the format compliant property is also preserved. Also this method has no effect on compression performance. In the proposed SE methods, four syntax elements including the bits of intra prediction modes, the sign bits of motion vector differences, and the sign bits of non-zero coefficients (including sign bits of

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H.264/AVC bitstream , selective encryption , AES encryption algorithm , fast and real-time applications