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Digital Image Watermarking using Subband Correlation Wavelet Domain

웨이블릿 영역의 부대역 상관도를 이용한 디지털 영상 워터마킹

  • Published : 2003.11.01
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Abstract

The watermarking is the technique that embeds or extracts the certain data without the change of the original data for the copyright protection of the multimedia contents. Watermark-embedded contents must not be distinguished by human's eye and must be robust to the various image processing and the intentional distortions. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique applied in the wavelet domain which has both the spatial and frequency information of a image. For both the robustness and the invisibility, the positions for embedding the watermark is selected with the multi-threshold. We search the similarity between highly correlated coefficients in the each subband and decide the mark space after verifying the significance in the specified subband. The similarity is represented by the coefficient difference between the subbands and its distribution is used in the watermark embedding and extracting. The embedded watermark can be extracted without the original image using the relationship of the subbands. By these properties the proposed watermarking algorithm has the invisibility and the robustness to the attacks such as JPEG compression and the general image processing.

워터마킹(Watermarking) 기법은 멀티미디어 컨텐츠의 저작권 보호를 위해서 특정 데이터를 저작물의 품질이나 데이터 크기의 변화 없이 삽입하고, 필요시 이를 검출하는 기술이다. 워터마크가 삽입된 컨텐츠는 사람의 육안이나 청각으로 구별할 수 없어야 하고 여러 종류의 변환 또는 고의적 공격에 강인성을 가져야한다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 공간 영역과 주파수 영역에 대한 정보를 함께 갖는 웨이블릿(Wavelet) 변환영역에서 워터마킹을 수행하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 강인성과 비가시성을 동시에 만족하기 위해 다중 임계값을 사용하였다. 워터마크 삽입 위치는 상관도가 높은 부대역 계수들의 유사성을 조사하고 관련 주파수 대역에서 계수의 중요도를 검증한 뒤 워터마크를 삽입할 위치로 결정하였다. 이 때 유사성의 표현은 부대역간의 계수 값 차를 이용하였고, 이 차들의 분포는 워터마크를 삽입하고 검출하는데 사용한다. 워터마크의 검출은 부대역간의 특성을 이용함으로써 원래의 영상을 사용하지 않고 검출할 수 있다. 이러한 특성들 때문에 제안한 워터마킹 알고리즘은 JPEG 압축 공격 등을 비롯한 일반적인 영상처리에 대해 비가시성과 강인성을 동시에 만족함을 보였다.

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