• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.5 s.37
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• pp.103-108
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• 2005

In this Paper, we proposed a novel robust watermarking technique using PIM and 2D barcode for the copyright of the digital images. Because human is impervious to the change in the complex area, the embedding watermark to the selected coefficients using PIM enhances invisibility. A 2D barcode image is used for watermark in this research. The 2D barcode contains more information than conventional ID barcode and includes the error correction algorithm. Therefore the watermarking algorithm using 2D barcode enhances the robustness of watermark. From the experimental results , the proposed algorithm shows better invisibility and robustness performance in a general signal Processing such as JPEG and SPIHT lossy compression.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1723-1729
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• 2016

Digital watermarking is tried to get an optimum tradeoffs between its performance characteristics, robustness, transparency and capacity. This paper is, therefore, suggesting a watermarking technique that builds multiple barcodes in various frequency bands to implement embedded watermarks that is imperceptible and robust against various attacks. Even though a watermark technique with duplicated barcode watermarks embedded in various frequency bands can satisfy robustness as there is high possibility that watermarks embedded in an image remains after various attacks, the duplicated barcode data can weaken imperceptibility. Thus, to satisfy the conflicting characteristic requirements of watermarks, robustness and imperceptibility, different barcode data is embedded in each frequency band. The test shows that ownership authentication with the technique suggested in this thesis does not require specialized hardware, and extracted watermarks can be easily identified through a mobile barcode scanner app, which allows low complexity, low cost and swift identification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.763-764
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• 2017

The use of barcodes in mobile phones has become generalized, and barcodes are widely used in security-sensitive applications, including mobile payment and personal identification. Generally, images photographed by a mobile phone generate geometric distortion due to the shooting angle, resulting in low quality images. Embedding watermark for low quality images makes it difficult to satisfy transparency. To solve such problem, this paper focuses on the technique of embedding barcode images in the image taken by mobile phone and proposes barcode watermarking for protecting mobile-based ownership. The barcode watermark embedded in the image can be used to prove ownership since it is readable by a machine such as illegal copy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.518-519
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• 2010

워터마킹 기술은 디지털 데이터에 대한 소유권을 보호하기 위한 기술로 다양한 방법이 제시되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 웹상에서 실시간 워터마킹을 통해 디지털 데이터를 열람하고 있는 사용자의 정보를 열람하고 있는 이미지에 기록하여 무단 복제, 불법 배포 등의 일이 발생하였을 경우 출처를 찾아낼 수 있도록 하는 방법을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.961-964
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 영상에 쌍직교 웨이블릿 변환(BOWT:Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform)을 사용하여 인간 시각 시스템(Human Visual System)에 덜 민감한 고주파 영역에 워터마크를 삽입한다. 추출 시 워터마크가 삽입된 영상과 워터마크와의 계층적 상관관계(Hierarchical Correlation)를 구하여 임계값 이상이면 영상에 대하여 저작권을 주장할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 사용한 워터마크는 seed값을 갖는 정규분포로부터 무작위로 생성된 실수열의 집합이다. 바코드(Bar-Code)를 워터마크(Watermark)로 사용하므로써 저작권 보호뿐 아니라 바코드가 가지고 있는 바코드 체계를 이용하여 멀티미디어의 컨텐츠를 자동관리 하는데 적합하다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1795-1796
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• 2007

본 논문은 DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)기반의 블라인드 워터마킹 기법을 제안 하였다. DWT를 하였을 때, 두 개의 서브밴드들의 계수 값을 변환하여 워터마크를 삽입한다. 기존에는 워터마크를 로고나 signature등을 많이 사용 하였으나, 여기서는 이차원 바코드인 Data Matrix를 워터마크로 사용 하였다. Data Matrix자체가 오류 검출 및 복원 알고리즘을 가지고 있어, 워터마크 추출 시 비교적 작은 에러는 Data Matrix의 복원 알고리즘에 의해 Data Matrix의 암호화된 정보를 복원 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.97-107
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• 2011

Nowadays there are a lot of issues about copyright infringement in the Internet world because the digital content on the network can be copied and delivered easily. Indeed the copied version has same quality with the original one. So, copyright owners and content provider want a powerful solution to protect their content. The popular one of the solutions was DRM (digital rights management) that is based on encryption technology and rights control. However, DRM-free service was launched after Steve Jobs who is CEO of Apple proposed a new music service paradigm without DRM, and the DRM is disappeared at the online music market. Even though the online music service decided to not equip the DRM solution, copyright owners and content providers are still searching a solution to protect their content. A solution to replace the DRM technology is digital audio watermarking technology which can embed copyright information into the music. In this paper, the author proposed a new audio watermarking algorithm with two approaches. First, the watermark information is generated by two dimensional barcode which has error correction code. So, the information can be recovered by itself if the errors fall into the range of the error tolerance. The other one is to use chirp sequence of CDMA (code division multiple access). These make the algorithm robust to the several malicious attacks. There are many 2D barcodes. Especially, QR code which is one of the matrix barcodes can express the information and the expression is freer than that of the other matrix barcodes. QR code has the square patterns with double at the three corners and these indicate the boundary of the symbol. This feature of the QR code is proper to express the watermark information. That is, because the QR code is 2D barcodes, nonlinear code and matrix code, it can be modulated to the spread spectrum and can be used for the watermarking algorithm. The proposed algorithm assigns the different spread spectrum sequences to the individual users respectively. In the case that the assigned code sequences are orthogonal, we can identify the watermark information of the individual user from an audio content. The algorithm used the Walsh code as an orthogonal code. The watermark information is rearranged to the 1D sequence from 2D barcode and modulated by the Walsh code. The modulated watermark information is embedded into the DCT (discrete cosine transform) domain of the original audio content. For the performance evaluation, I used 3 audio samples, "Amazing Grace", "Oh! Carol" and "Take me home country roads", The attacks for the robustness test were MP3 compression, echo attack, and sub woofer boost. The MP3 compression was performed by a tool of Cool Edit Pro 2.0. The specification of MP3 was CBR(Constant Bit Rate) 128kbps, 44,100Hz, and stereo. The echo attack had the echo with initial volume 70%, decay 75%, and delay 100msec. The sub woofer boost attack was a modification attack of low frequency part in the Fourier coefficients. The test results showed the proposed algorithm is robust to the attacks. In the MP3 attack, the strength of the watermark information is not affected, and then the watermark can be detected from all of the sample audios. In the sub woofer boost attack, the watermark was detected when the strength is 0.3. Also, in the case of echo attack, the watermark can be identified if the strength is greater and equal than 0.5.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.93-98
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• 2016

A large number of victims or witnesses to incidents and accidents should visit a police station and fill the decree stated. Stated decree workaround discomfort and hygienic problems in unnecessary step process using the fingerprint after you modify the modified portion when due modify the request as of the import or typos recognized that modifications and police in the. Stated decree in the investigation phase when creating KICS and electronic Resources investigation into the identity of the one-touch fingerprint reader linked with the introduction table system and thinning, which can simplify the day of the procedure.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.97-103
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new digital watermarking technique. The main idea of the proposed algorithm relies on the assumption that any real number can be expressed as a summation of the exponential form with base of 2 and if only consider the first few summations some numbers can be expressed in the same form. Therefore, we can be sure that some amount of changes does not affect the first few summations. The algorithm decomposes a host image in wavelet domain and intensity of the significant wavelet coefficient is expressed in exponential form with base of 2. Multiple barcode watermarks are then embedded by modifying the parity of the exponent. The proposed scheme is semi-blind and also offers either objective or subjective deteew su as well. From extracted watermarks, more accurate watermark is obtained by merging technique as a final watermark. As a simulation result, the proposed algorithm could resist most cases of salt and pepper noise, Gaussian noise and JPEG compression.