• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2012

영상의 위변조를 탐지하거나 무결성을 인증하기 위해서는 가역 워터마킹 기법은 유용하다. 기존 워터 마킹 연구들은 원본 복원이 불가능하였으나, 가역 워터마킹은 워터마크를 검출한 후, 아무런 손상없이 영상을 원본 상태로 복원할 수 있는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 차이값 히스토그램에 기반한 가역 워터 마킹을 통해 위변조된 영역을 탐지하는 블록단위 인증 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저, 영상 각 블록에 대하여 영상의 특징값을 추출하고, 사용자의 정보와 결합하여 인증 코드를 생성한다. 생성된 인증코드는 가역 워터마킹을 통하여 콘텐츠 자체에 직접 삽입한다. 영상의 인증을 위해서는 추출된 인증코드와 새로 생성된 인증코드의 비교를 수행한다. 다양한 영상들에 대하여 비교 분석하였고, 그 결과 제안한 알고리즘은 완전한 가역성과 함께 낮은 왜곡을 유지하면서도 97% 이상 인증률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.876-879
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• 2014

디지털 워터마킹을 위하여 강인성, 연성 등 특징을 갖는 다양한 기술들의 개발이 완료된 상태이다. 그러나 원본 콘텐츠의 품질을 중요시하는 분야에서 가역 워터마킹 기술에 대한 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 현재 다양한 분야에서 가역 워터마킹의 기술에 대한 다양한 연구 개발이 진행 중이며, 본 논문에서는 아직 많은 연구들이 이루어지지 않은 의료영상에 대한 가역 워터마킹에 대해 연구한다. 본 연구팀이 보유하고 있는 추정 오차 확장 및 오류 예측 보정을 통한 다양한 고용량 가역 워터마킹 기술들을 의료영상에 변형하여 적용함으로서 삽입용량과 영상품질을 측정하였다. 이에 따르면 차이값 추정 오차가 적은 보간 기술을 사용한 방법이 삽입용량 대비 PSNR이 좋은 성능을 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.34-37
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 가역변환 (reversible transform)에 기반을 둔 가역 워터마킹 기법에 관해 기술한다. 워터마크를 삽입한 후 원본 데이터에 영구적으로 남아있는 기존의 워터마킹 기법과는 달리 가역 워터마킹 기법의 경우, 컨텐츠의 인증이 이루어진 후 삽입되었던 워터마크 신호를 컨텐츠로부터 제거함으로써, 원 영상을 화소단위로 무손실 복원할 수 있는 특징이 있다. 본 논문에서는 가역 변환인 Haar 웨이블릿 변환(Haar Wavelet Transform) 이용하여 원 영상을 변환한 후 웨이블릿 계수를 이용하여 워터마크를 삽입 및 추출한다. 이러한 가역워터마킹 기법은 판사 목적의 영상 혹은 의료영상과 같은 민감한 영상신호처리가 요구되는 분야로 응용될 수 있을 것이다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2012

Many audio watermarking researches which have been adapted to authenticate contents can not recover the original media after watermark removal. Therefore, reversible watermarking can be regarded as an effective method to ensure the integrity of audio data in the applications requiring high-confidential audio contents. Reversible watermarking inserts watermark into digital media in such a way that perceptual transparency is preserved, which enables the restoration of the original media from the watermarked one without any loss of media quality. This paper presents a new interval-based audio integrity authentication algorithm which can detect malicious tampering. To provide complete reversibility, we used differential histogram-based reversible watermarking. To authenticate audio in parts, not the entire audio at once, the proposed algorithm processes audio by dividing into intervals and the confirmation of the authentication is carried out in each interval. Through experiments using multiple kinds of test data, we prove that the presented algorithm provides over 99% authenticating rate, complete reversibility, and higher perceptual quality, while maintaining the induced-distortion low.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.417-429
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• 2010

Reversible watermarking inserts watermark into digital media in such a way that visual transparency is preserved and then enables to restore the original media from the marked one without any loss of media quality. This watermarking can be applied to quality-sensitive imaging such as medical imaging, military imaging, remote-sensing imaging, and precious artwork, where the original media should be preserved during image processing and analysis. In this paper, a reversible image watermarking technique that embeds message bits by modifying the differential histogram of adjacent pixels is presented. In order to satisfy both high embedding capacity and visual quality, the proposed technique exploits the fact that adjacent pixels in the image have highly spatial correlation. Also, we prevent overflow/underflow problem and salt-and-pepper artifacts by employing a predicted error compensation scheme. Through experiments using various test images, we prove that the presented technique provides perfect reversibility and high embedding capacity, while maintaining the induced-distortion low.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.6
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• pp.355-364
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• 2011

In most applications requiring high-confidential images, reversible watermarking is an effective way to ensure the integrity of images. Many watermarking researches which have been adapted to authenticate contents cannot recover the original image after authentication. However, reversible watermarking inserts the watermark signal into digital contents in such a way that the original contents can be restored without any quality loss while preserving visual quality. To detect malicious tampering, this paper presents a new block-based image authentication algorithm using differential histogram-based reversible watermarking. To generate an authentication code, the DCT-based authentication feature from each image block is extracted and combined with user-specific code. Then, the authentication code is embedded into image itself with reversible watermarking. The image can be authenticated by comparing the extracted code and the newly generated code and restored into the original image. Through experiments using multiple images, we prove that the presented algorithm has achieved over 97% authentication rate with high visual quality and complete reversibility.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.4
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• pp.275-286
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• 2010

Reversible watermarking which can preserve the original quality of the digital contents and protect the copyright has been studied actively. Especially, in medical, military, and art fields, the need for reversible watermarking is increasing. This paper proposes a high-capacity reversible watermarking through predicted error expansion and error estimation compensation. Watermark is embedded by expanding the difference histogram between the original value and the predicted value. Differently from previous methods calculating the difference between adjacent pixels, the presented method calculates the difference between the original value and the predicted value, and that increases the number of the histogram value, where the watermark is embedded. As a result, the high capacity is achieved. The inserted watermark is extracted by restoring the histogram between the original value and the predicted value. To prove the performance, the presented algorithm is compared with other previous methods on various test images. The result supports that the presented algorithm has a perfect reversibility, a high image quality, and a high capacity.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.841-851
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• 2013

The infectious information hiding system(IIHS) is proposed for secure distribution of high quality video contents by applying optimized watermark embedding and detection algorithms to video codecs. And the watermark as infectious information is transmitted while target video is displayed or edited by codecs. This paper proposes a fast and effective reversible watermarking and infectious information generation for IIHS. Our reversible watermarking scheme enables video decoder to control video quality and watermark strength actively for by adding control code and expiration date with the watermark. Also, we designed our scheme with low computational complexity to satisfy it's real-time processing in a video codec, and to prevent time or frame delay during watermark detection and video restoration, we embedded one watermark and one side information within a macro-block. Experimental results verify that our scheme satisfy real-time watermark embedding and detection and watermark error is 0% after reversible watermark detection. Finally, we conform that the quality of restored video contens is almost same with compressed video without watermarking algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.665-668
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• 2012

멀티미디어 콘텐츠는 디지털 데이터의 특성상 수정과 복제가 쉽고, 이에 따라 불법 유통과 위 변조 등의 문제가 발생할 수 있으므로 콘텐츠 보안의 중요성이 높아지고 있고 가역 워터마킹 방법은 하나의 솔루션이다. 본 논문에서는 JPEG 압축 표준에서 사용할 수 있는 가역 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. JPEG 압축 과정 중 비손실 과정에서 유지되는 양자화 DCT 블록 데이터에 대하여 인접 블록의 계수간 차이값의 히스토그램을 계산하고, 히스토그램 쉬프팅을 통하여 가역 워터마크를 삽입한다. 디코딩 과정에서 영상에 삽입된 워터마크를 추출함과 동시에 원본 JPEG 표준 영상의 품질을 복원한다. 제안 알고리즘의 성능 평가를 위해 다양한 영상을 대상으로 영상 품질과 압축률을 평가하였다. 삽입된 영상의 PSNR과 압축률은 32.33dB과 89.69%로, 표준 JPEG 압축된 영상 대비 각 3.24dB의 PSNR 차이와 2.58%의 압축률 차이를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.151-156
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• 2018

In this paper, an efficient reversible watermarking algorithm is proposed. By using the proposed algorithm, it is possible to increase the amount of copyright-related information to be embedded in cover image. Depending on the spatial locality and surface characteristics, it is possible to precisely predict the pixel value using neighboring pixels. If the predicted pixel value almost the same as the pixel value of the cover image, the differential value between the predicted pixel value and the pixel value of cover image is very small. So, the frequency is increased greatly at the peak point of histogram of difference sequence. Thus, it is possible to increase greatly the amount of secret data to be embedded in cover image. The experimental results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm is superior to the previous algorithms.