Existing Trends of Digital Watermarking and its Significant Impact on Multimedia Streaming: A Survey

Nowadays digital media has reached the general level of resource sharing system and become a convenient way for sharing lots of information among various individuals. However, these digital data are stored and shared over an internet which is an entirely unsecured and most frequently attacked by several attackers, resulting in a massive loss at various parameters and creates severe issues of copyright protection, ownership protection, authentication, secure communication, etc. In recent years, digital watermarking technology has received extensive attention from users and researchers for content protection and digital data authentication. However, before implementing digital watermarking techniques in practical applications, there are still many problems that need to be solved technically and efficiently. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a detailed survey on current research techniques of digital watermarking techniques for all media formats with their applications and operational process. The prime objective of this manuscript is to reveal the research problem and the efficient requirement to implement robust watermarking technique after analyzing the progress of watermarking schemes and current research trend.