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Digital Watermarking Using Watermark Reordering Based on Discrete Cosine Transform

DCT 기반의 워터마크 재정렬을 이용한 디지털 워터마킹

  • 배성호 (동명정보대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
  • Published : 2002.10.01
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Abstract

Watermarking is embedding a digital signal called as watermark into images to claim the ownership. In this paper, a new digital watermarking algorithm based on DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) which enhances invisibility and robustness is proposed to improve contentional digital watermarking method using DCT. In the proposed method, it is possible to enhance invisibility and robustness using watermark reordering in which the relative significance of original DCT coefficients can be preserved in watermarked DCT coefficients, and the distortions of original DCT coefficients can be minimized. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves invisibility approximately 9～12[dB] and is more robust to various attacks than the conventional method.

워터마킹은 소유권을 주장하기 위하여 워터마크라는 디지털 신호를 영상에 첨가하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 DCT를 이용한 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 개선하여 비가시성과 견고성을 동시에 향상시키는 새로운 DCT 기반의 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 원 DCT 계수의 상대적 중요성이 워터마킹된 DCT 계수에서도 보존되며, 원 DCT 계수의 왜곡을 최소화시키는 워터마크 재정렬 방법을 이용함으로서 비가시성과 견고성을 향상시킨다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법은 기존의 워터마킹 방법보다 비가시성을 약 9～12[dB] 향상시키며, 다양한 공격에 대해 견고성이 월등히 우수함을 확인하였다.

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