• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1276-1281
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• 2006

In this paper, We proposed a robust blind digital watermarking algorithm using variance and DCT domain. The proposed method embedded watermark signals into DC components of $8{\times}8$ block DCT using valiance, texture regions and smooth regions. In the digital watermarking algorithms using DCT domain, more robustness can be achieved if watermarks are embedded in DC components since DC components have much larger perceptual capacity than AC components. Experiment showed that robustness of the proposed method better than that of the conventional methods in JPEG quality and scaling attack.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.5
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• pp.479-484
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• 2003

We propose a blind watermarking method that embeds a binary pseudo-random sequence (watermarks), (-1, 1), into wavelet dc components, while most watermarking techniques embed watermarks in the middle frequency range for robustness and fidelity. In our scheme, the watermarks are embedded into particular locations to be selected by a key, where some watermark embeddings are skipped to avoid severe degradation in quality. Our robustness is compared to some results registered to the ChechMark [1] that is one of the most popular benchmarking tools.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05d
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• pp.867-872
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• 2002

본 논문은 디지털 컨텐츠의 저작권 보호를 위한 공간영역기반 워터마킹을 다루고 있다. 특히, 기존 연구 중 Lee[1]의 방법에서 nonblind 워터마킹의 한계를 확장시켜 원 영상과 워터마크 없이도 삽입된 워터마크를 추출할 수 있는 blind 워터마킹을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 기존기법에서 다루어진 다양한 공격에서 동등이상의 성능을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.864-871
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• 2006

With the advancement of the digital broadcasting and popularity of Internet, there is an increasing demand for digital data. Recently, several studies have been made on the digital watermarking for copyright protection of digital data. We propose a blind video watermarking using minimum modification of motion vectors. Conventional methods based on motion vectors do watermarking using modification of motion vectors. However, change of motion vectors results in the degradation of video quality. Thus, our proposed algorithm minimizes modification of the original motion vectors to avoid degradation of video quality using simple embedded conditions. Besides, our scheme guarantees the amount of embedded watermark data using the adaptive threshold considering the human visual characteristic. In addition, this is compatible with current video compression standards without changing the bitstream. Experimental result shows that the proposed scheme obtains better video quality than other previous algorithms by about $0.5{\sim}1.0\;dB$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.9C
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• pp.1289-1297
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• 2004

Digital watermarking is a technique which blends intellectual property right with security Blind watermarking 1S one of the difficult watermark technique because original data or inserted watermark is not needed. In this paper, we propose a new blind watermarking method using energy quantization in wavelet domain to insert watermark. The proposed method is robust for various attacks and attack strength because watermark strength is adaptively changed for energy variation of attacks. Simulation results show the proposed method is robust to various attacks such as noise addition, cropping, blurring, sharpening, maintaining imprescriptibility.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.108-114
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed robust blind watermarking algorithm using texture block coefficient based on discrete cosine transform(DCT). The proposed method embedded all of watermark signals into DC component of $8\times8$ block DCT in order to robust various external attack The texture block coefficient was composed absolute value of DCT coefficients. Experiment showed that the proposed method better than conventional methods in the invisibility and various attack such as dithering, cropping, and scaling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.169-174
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 패치워크 방식을 변형한 공간영역상의 블라인드 이미지 워터마킹을 제안한다. 패치워크 알고리즘에 기반한 기존의 방식에서는 샘플당 화소수가 1로 제한되었으나, 여기서 제시한 알고리즘에서는 1 보다 큰 샘플당 화소수를 가질 수 있도록 샘플 확장계수를 도입하여 기존 방식을 개선하였다. 또한 이미지 특성에 따라 워터마크를 삽입하기 위해 샘플군의 평균값에 비례하도록 워터마크 삽입강도를 조절하였다. 샘플 확장계수에 의해 샘플당 4화소 이상을 할당하는 다양한 조건하에서 모의실험을 수행하였고, 샘플 확장계수의 도입으로 인한 성능개선을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.99-107
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• 2010

In this paper a blind watermarking algorithm for digital image is presented. The proposed method operates in wavelet domain. The watermark is decomposed into 2D-IMFs using BEMD which is the 2-dimensional extension of 1 dimensional empirical mode decomposition. The CDMA based on SS technique is applied to watermark embedding and detection process. In the watermark embedding process, each IMF of watermark is embedded into middle frequency subimages in wavelet domain, so subimages just include partial information about embedded watermark. By characteristics of BEMD, when the partial information of watermark is synthesized, the original watermark is reconstructed. The experimental results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm is imperceptible and moreover is robust against JPEG compression, common image processing distortions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.331-342
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an efficient watermarking algorithm using block indexing. The proposed algorithm is a novel blind watermarking scheme using the indexed watermark value based on the spread spectrum method. The watermark insertion is allocated into index value of each block after dividing original image into sub-blocks. The watermark embedded in mappinged with index values of blocks, And the mappinged blocks convert to DCT and then the PN sequence embedded to middle frequency band. Consequently the watermark is expressed by index value of sub-blocks. The watermark extracted from the correlation of between PN sequence and watermarked image. Experimental results demonstrate that the watermarked image has a good quality in terms of imperceptibility and is robust against various attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.489-497
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• 2009

Most of existent blind watermarking methods in frequency domain use coefficient relationship to detect the watermark without original image. But the change in coefficient values occurred when the original image was attacked by lossy JPEG compression or noise addition. So robustness of watermark detection was weaken. In order to solve these problems, this paper presents a robust watermarking method, which enables multiple watermark insertion. Also, in order to reduce errors in the detected value of watermarks according to small changes in the coefficient relationship when detecting watermarks, it set the change guard value for variation of the coefficients. The experimental results show that the proposed method has good image quality and is robust to various attacks such as the JPEG lossy compression, noise addition, etc.