A robust watermarking framework for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) – Encoded video with blind extraction process

•We propose a robust watermarking framework with a blind extraction process for HEVC encoded video, where a readable watermark is embedded invisibly in intra predicted blocks of the HEVC encoded video.•Our watermarking framework enforces security by exploring the spatio-temporal characteristics of the compressed video and a random key for selection of embedding regions.•We also analyze the strengths of different compressed domain features of HEVC encoded video for implementing the embedding algorithm.•Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed work restrict the increase in video bit rate and degradation of perceptual quality.•The proposed framework can also survive filtering, compressions, and noise additions maintaining good quality and robustness.