• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

A wavelet-based image watermarking scheme is proposed, based on the insertion of pseudo-random codes in the frequency domain. The original image is required for the watermark detection. The "strength" of the signature to be embedded depends on the image to be marked, thus fitting signal capacity. The experimental results prove that the method is more tamper resistant and less perceptible for any type of images than other well-known private methods in the frequency domains.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1469-1474
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• 2004

A wavelet-based image watermarking scheme is proposed, based on the insertion of pseudo-random codes in the frequency domain. The original image is required for the watermark detection. The 'strength' of the signature to be embedded depends on the image to be marked, thus fitting signal capacity. The experimental results prove that the method is more tamper resistant and less perceptible for any type of images than other well-known private methods in the frequency domains.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.4
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• pp.307-314
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• 2008

This paper presents a new robust watermarking method for curves that uses informed-detection. To embed watermarks, the presented algorithm parameterizes a curve using the B-spline model and acquires the control points of the B-spline model. For these control points, 2D mesh are created by applying Delaunay triangulation and then the mesh spectral analysis is performed to calculate the mesh spectral coefficients where watermark messages are embedded in a spread spectrum way. The watermarked coefficients are inversely transformed to the coordinates of the control points and the watermarked curve is reconstructed by calculating B-spline model with the control points. To detect the embedded watermark, we apply curve matching algorithm using inflection points of curve. After curve registration, we calculate the difference between the original and watermarked mesh spectral coefficients with the same process for embedding. By calculating correlation coefficients between the detected and candidate watermark, we decide which watermark was embedded. The experimental results prove the proposed scheme is more robust than previous watermarking schemes against print-scan process as well as geometrical distortions.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.4 s.88
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• pp.74-80
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• 2004

네트워크 환경의 발전과 디지털 미디어 저작툴의 발전으로 이미지, 오디오, 비디오, 전자 문서 등의 멀티미디어 데이터는 시공간적 차이 없이 인터넷에서 빠르게 배포되고 있다. 품질의 손실 없이 무한 복제가 가능한 디지털 콘텐츠의 특성 및 저작권에 대한 의식의 부족 때문에 이들 데이터의 불법 복제 및 무단 배포가 일어나고 있다. 이와 동시에 디지털 콘텐츠의 저작권 정보를 보호하기 위한 워터마킹 기술도 연구개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 또한 워터마킹 기술의 취약성을 밝히는 워터마크 공격 기술도 워터마킹 기술의 발전과 더불어 개발되고 있는 상황이다. 본 고에서는 다양한 워터마킹 기술들의 성능을 검증하기 위해 어떠한 워터마크 공격 기술과 워터마크 평가 기술이 있는지 동향을 파악하고 이러한 기술의 내용을 살펴본다. 또한 워터마크 공격 기술과 평가 기술에 관련된 최근의 국제 표준화 현황도 살펴본다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.863-867
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• 2021

In this paper, in order to hide the watermark in the LSB of the color image, a color image watermarking technique with high security is proposed by using the adjacent pixels of the image and the spatial encryption technique. According to the technique proposed in this paper, the quality of the stego-image generated by hiding the watermark in the LSB of the color image is so excellent that the difference from the original image cannot be recognized, and the original watermark can be extracted from the stego-image without loss. If the watermark is hidden in the image using the proposed technique, the security of the watermark is maintained very high because the watermark hidden in the stego-image is multi-encrypted. The proposed watermarking technique can be used in applications such as military and intellectual property protection that require high security.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.149-156
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• 2016

We proposed a blind watermarking scheme using singular vectors based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT) combined with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for copyright protection application. We replaced the 1st left and right singular vectors decomposed from cover image with the corresponding ones from watermark image to overcome the false-positive problem in current watermark systems using SVD. The proposed scheme realized the watermarking system without a false positive problem, and shows high fidelity and robustness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.302-305
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• 2011

멀티미디어 콘텐츠는 디지털 데이터의 특성상 위 변조 또는 불법유통 등의 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 특히 의료 및 군사, 예술 분야 등 많은 부분에서 멀티미디어 데이터의 보안성이 중요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기술적 요구에 맞추어 이미지의 무결성을 인증할 수 있는 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 JPEG 이미지 압축 과정에서 추가적인 처리를 통해 이미지에 인증코드를 삽입하고, 디코딩 과정에서 삽입 인증코드 추출 및 비교 인증코드 재생성을 통해 이미지의 원본 여부를 블록 단위로 판단할 수 있다. 제안 알고리즘을 통해 생성된 JPEG 이미지 표준 인코딩 이미지 대비 2.44dB 의 화질 저하를 보였고 1.63%의 압축률 차이를 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.42 no.3 s.303
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• pp.73-82
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• 2005

Recently, The wide range of the Internet applications and the related technology developments enabled the ease use of the digital multimedia contents (fixed images, movies, digital audios). However, due to the replay ability which the contents may be easily duplicated and not only the duplicates are capable of providing the same original quality. There are mainly the encipher techniques and the watermarking techniques which are studied and used as solutions for the above problem in order to protect the license holders' rights. To the protection of the IP(Intellectual Property) rights of the owner, digital watermarking is the technique that authenticates the legal copyrighter. This paper proposed the watermarking algorithms to watermark the 256 gray logo image and the color image by applying the wavelet transformation to the color stand-still images. The proposed algorithms conducted the watermark insertion at the LH frequency region among the wavelet transformation regions (LL, LH, HL, HH). The interleaving algorithms which applied in data communication was applied to the watermark. the amount of watermark increased which consequently caused the PSNR to decrease but this might provide the perseverance against the external attacks such as extraction, filtering, and crop.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.113-122
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a multi-watermarking algorithm to satisfy two purposes: fragility against malicious attacks and robustness against non-malicious attacks. The algorithm can be used for image authentication using coefficients of Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT). In the proposed method, watermarks are generated by combining binary image with some features extracted from the subband LL3, and then they are embedded into both the spatial and frequency domain. That is, on the spatial domain they are embedded into the Least Significant Bit(LSB) of all pixels of image blocks, and on the frequency domain the coefficients of the subband LH2 and HL2 are adjusted according to the watermarks. Thus the algorithm not only resists malicious attack but also permits non-malicious attacks such as blurring, sharpening, and JPEG compression.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.937-942
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• 2002

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 needed. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermark 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.