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DCT Domain Zero-Watermarking based on CRT

CRT 기반의 DCT 영역 제로-워터마킹

  • Received : 2010.11.15
  • Accepted : 2010.12.22
  • Published : 2011.01.28
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Abstract

Zero-watermarking is a digital watermarking technique that can escape from data distortion and quality degradation by no watermark insertion into digital images to be watermarked. This paper proposes DCT0CRT, a CRT-based zero-watermarking technique in the domain of DCT. One of the DC and low-frequency AC coefficients of each DCT block chosen in chaotic way from an image is selected by testing whether it satisfies the CRT-based condition matching with the watermark bit to be embedded. Such selection information forms a key to extract the watermark from the watermarked image. Experimental results show that the image quality watermarked by DCT0CRT is better than that watermarked by any other CRT-based watermarking techniques and the inserted watermark is robust against some common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, and JPEG lossy compression.

제로-워터마킹은 디지털 콘텐츠에 워터마크를 삽입하지 않음으로써 데이터 왜곡과 품질 저하를 피할 수 있는 디지털 워터마킹 기법이다. 이 논문에서는 DCT 영역에서 CRT를 기반으로 한 제로-워터마킹 기법인 DCT0CRT를 제안한다. 무질서한 방식으로 선택된 DCT 블록의 DC 또는 낮은 주파수의 AC 계수들 중에서, 워터마크 정보와 매칭되는 CRT 기반 조건을 만족하는 것을 선택하고, 이러한 선택 정보를 키로 생성함으로써, DCT 영역에서 제로-워터마킹이 가능하도록 지원한다. 이 워터마킹 기법은 이미지에 어떤 변경도 하지 않기 때문에, 이 워터마킹 기법을 적용한 이미지의 품질은 다른 CRT 기반 워커마킹 기법에 비하여 우수하며, 샤프닝, 블러링, JPEG 손실 압축 등을 이용한 공격에도 워터마크가 강인함을 보여준다.

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