• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1224-1228
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• 2003

The use of digital imaging technique and digital contents based on internet has grown rapidly for last several years, and the needs of digital image protection become more important. For the purpose of copyright protection on digital image, the verification of authentication techniques like content authentication, ownership authentication, illegal copy and etc are needs. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermarking into image, the sophisticated perceptual information should be used for providing transparency and robustness of images on watermarking process. In this paper, we implement the algorithm for preventing forged attack. ownership protection and authentication by transforming the wavelet algorithms in frequency domain in terms of human visual system.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1510-1519
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• 2005

We proposed a digital watermarking method that it is possible to identify the copyright because the watermark is detected in the first print-scan and to protect a forgery because the watermark is not detected in the second print-scan. The proposed algorithm uses LPM and DFT transform for the robustness to the distortion of pixel value and geometrical distortion. This methods could improve watermark detection performance and image quality by selecting maximum sampling radius in LPM transform. After analyzing the characteristics of print-scan process, we inserted the watermark in the experimentally selected frequency bands that survives robustly to the first print-scan and is not detected in the second print-scan, using the characteristic of relatively large distortion in high frequency bands of DFT As the experimental result, the original proof is possible because average similarity degree 5.13 is more than the critical value 4.0 in the first print-scan. And the detection of forgery image is also possible because average similarity degree 2.76 is less than the critical value 4.0 in the second print-scan.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

Video contents in the mobile environment are processed with the low bit-rate relative to normal video contents due to the consideration of network traffic; hence, it is necessary to protect the copyright of the low bit-rate video contents. The algorithm for watermarking appropriate for the mobile environment should be developed because the performance of the mobile devices is much lower than that of personal computers. This paper suggested the invisible spread spectrum watermarking method to the low bit-rate video contents, considering the low performance of the mobile device in the M-Commerce environment; it also enables to track down illegal users of the video contents to protect the copyright. The robustness of the contents with watermark is expressed with the correlation of extraction algorithm from watermark removed or distorted contents. The results of our experiment showed that we could extract the innate frequencies of M-Sequence when we extracted M-Sequence after compressing the contents with watermark easily. Therefore, illegal users of the contents can be tracked down because watermark can be extracted from the low bit-rate video contents.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.630-637
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• 2003

This paper proposed a new watermarking algorithm using chaotic sequence instead of conventional M-sequence for protecting copyright to the author. Robustness and security is very important for watermarking process. We use multi-threshold value according to the human visual system for improving robustness of watermarking to each subband images coefficient differently after wavelet transform. And then, we embedded watermark image to original image by multi-watermark weights which are made by random sequence generator. We detect watermark image from the difference data which is made from each wavelet subband images. We also simulate the efficiency from the various possible attacks. Chaotic sequence is better than M-sequence, because the one is very easy to make sequence and the chaotic sequence is changed easy according to the initial value. So, the chaotic sequence has the better security than the conventional M-sequence.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1755-1759
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• 2004

Digital watermarking technology is one of method of protecting property from the illegal reproduction of digital data. This technology inserts the specific data in a certain file to identify the property, that is an author and rights, not for human to be seen and heard. In this paper, the watermarking technology which inserts a RGB color watermark in a JPEG2000 color image using the visual characteristics of wavelet coefficient was proposed. After applying various attack at a watermarked image according to proposed technology, the likeness between the original image, the watermark and the extracted watermark was measured and investigated. As a result, the PSNR value of image was varied depending on perceptual parameter, but we can obtain 32dB as a whole.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1161-1167
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 칼라 영상에 대한 인간 시각 특성과 무채색으로부터 정보를 추출하여 칼라 정지 영상에 효과적으로 워터마크 신호를 삽입하는 방법을 제안하였다. 워터마크는 이진 워터마크를 사용하였으며, 일반적으로 인간 시각 체계 특성에서 무채색(achromatic) 신호보다 유채색(chromatic) 신호에 대한 변별력이 떨어지는 특성을 이용하여 입·출력 장치로 획득된 RGB 좌표계의 칼라 정지 영상을 무채색 성분과 유채색 성분으로 완벽히 분리되는 다른 좌표계로 변환하여 워터마크를 유채색 포화도 성분에 삽입한다. 워터마크를 검출하는 과정은 원영상을 사용하지 않고 유채색 포화도 성분의 변경 형태를 추정하여 삽입된 워터마크를 검출 가능하였다. 실험 결과 특히 비가시성 특성 부분에서는 기존 방법들과 비교할 때 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며 강인성 또한 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.53-62
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• 2000

Digital watermarking has been considered as an important technique to protect the copyright of digital content. It is essential that a watermark embedded in a still or moving image resists against various attacks ranging from compression, filtering to cropping. In particular, as JPEG is a dominant still image compression standard for Internet applications, digital watermarking methods that are robust against the JPEG compression are especially required. Most digital watermarking methods proposed so far work by modulating pixels/coefficients without considering the quality level of JPEG, which renders watermarks readily removable. In this paper, we proposed a new digital watermarking method as follows. For providing the robustness against JPEG, the quality level of JPEG is used as parameter on watermarking so as to compute the loss of image caused by JPEG compression and we compute the difference of an original image resulted from JPEG compression. Also in proposed method, we compute the visual components that are derived from the information of edge within image and consideration of brightness discrimination which is one of human visual system's properties. Thus, we proposed new watermarking scheme that after constructing a watermark by considering the loss of image resulted from JPEG compression and visual components derived from the human visual system, the watermark is embedded into the image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2016

인터넷 사용의 발달로 디지털 미디어 영상에 대한 불법 복제, 불법 배포 등의 문제가 완연해짐에 따라 영상의 제작자의 소유권과 저작권을 보호할 수 있는 워터마크 기법이 많이 연구되고 있다. 워터마크 시스템은 워터마크 삽입 후, 삽입정보를 알 수 없어야하는 비가시성 특성과 여러 공격에도 훼손되지 않고 추출될 수 있는 강인함을 가지고 있어야 한다. 이에 본 논문은 이산 웨이블릿 변환(DWT)으로 생성되는 부대역의 점유 주파수대역 특성과 공격이 이 부대역들에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 이를 사용하여 디지털 워터마킹을 수행하였을 때 추출률을 최고로 하기 위해서는 변환된 부대역이 특정 범위내의 해상도를 가져야 한다는 것을 보인다. 본 연구는 실험적 방법으로 모든 부분연구는 실험에 의해서 결정된다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1885-1888
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 인쇄물의 위조방지를 위해 에러에 강한 디지털 워터마킹을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 워터마크 삽입을 위해 먼저 원영상을 웨이브릿 변환하여 근사(approximation) 이미지를 얻고, 워터마크는 근사 이미지의 DC계수를 제외한 중요한 DCT계수에 삽입된다. 워터마크의 강건도 향상을 위해 에러정정코드와 반복을 적용하고, 디지털 기기사이의 변환에 의한 차이를 줄이기 위해 CIE Lab 칼라 공간을 사용하였다. 표준 칼라 영상을 사용하여 실험한 결과, 기존 방법에 비하여 적은 반복으로도 비트에러가 발생을 감소하였으며, 알고리즘은 1차의 프린트 스캔에서는 robust 하고 2차의 프린트 스캔에서는 fagile 한 성격을 나타내었다, 본 알고리즘은 여권, 지폐, 신분증, 면허증등과 같은 인쇄물의 위조방지에 이용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.138-140
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 단일시점의 텍스처 영상과 깊이영상을 수신 측에 전송하여 수신 측에서 원하는 시점을 생성하여 시청하는 2D 또는 3D 시스템을 가정하고, 이에 대한 영상 콘텐츠의 소유권을 주장할 수 있는 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 따라서 이 방법에서는 기존의 영상에 대한 공격 뿐 아니라 시점이동도 공격으로 간주한다. 시점이동 공격에 대해 본 논문에서는 송신된 시점으로 시점을 재변환하여 워터마크 데이터를 추출하는 방법을 사용하며, 여기에는 미리 학습된 자료(NCC(normalized cross-correlation) 값)를 사용한다. 워터마크 데이터를 삽입하는 방법은 기존에 가장 흔히 사용되는 방법, 즉 원 영상의 특정영역을 DCT하여 특정 부대역에 데이터를 삽입하는 방법을 사용한다. 실험을 통하여 시점이동된 영상에서의 워터마크 데이터 추출의 어려움을 보이며, 원시점으로 이동한 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우 추출한 워커마크 데이터의 차이도 보인다.