• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.485-488
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• 2020

In this paper, a technique for securely concealing the watermark, which is intellectual property information, in the image pixel LSB using spatial encryption is proposed. The proposed watermarking technique can be effectively used to protect intellectual property of images. The proposed technique can be used to extract watermark without loss from the stego-image, which is a hidden image of spatially encrypted watermark. The experimental results confirmed the superiority of the proposed technique. As a result of performing watermarking using the proposed technique, the image quality of the stego-image is higher than 51 dB, so humans cannot visually recognize the presence of a watermark. Due to the watermark is spatially encrypted, the security of the watermark is excellent.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.507-513
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• 2018

Steganography is a technique that uses hidden messages to prevent anyone apart from knowing the existence of a secret message, except the sender and trusted recipients. This paper applies 24 bit color image as cover medium. And a 24-bit color image has three components corresponding to red, green and blue. This paper proposes an image steganography method that uses Triple-A algorithm to hide the secret (Hangul) message by arbitrarily selecting the number of LSB bits and the color channel to be used. This paper divides the secret character into the chosung, jungsung and jongsung, and applies crossover, encryption and arbitrary insertion positions to enhance robustness and confidentiality. Experimental results of the proposed method show that insertion capacity and correlation are excellent and acceptable image quality level. Also, considering the image quality, it was confirmed that the size of LSB should be less than 2.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.9
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• pp.778-786
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• 2012

Sensors that are used on wireless sensor networks can be divided into two types: directional sensors, such as PIR, image, and electromagnetic sensors; and non-directional sensors, such as seismic, acoustic and magnetic sensors. In order to guarantee the line-of-sight of a directional sensor, the installation location of the sensor must be higher than ground level. Among non-directional sensors, seismic sensors should be installed on the ground in order to ensure the maximal performance. As a result, seismic sensors may have network connectivity problems due to communication failure. In this paper, we propose a 3D node deployment method to maximize the coverage and the network connectivity considering the sensor-specific properties. The proposed method is for non-directional sensors to be placed on the ground, while the directional sensor is installed above the ground, using trees or poles, to maximize the coverage. As a result, through the topology that the detection data from non-directional sensors are transmitted to the directional sensor, we can maximize the network connectivity. Simulation results show that our strategy improves sensor coverage and network connectivity.

• 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 Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.145-147
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• 2005

인터넷의 사용이 나날이 증가됨으로써 않은 양의 데이터들이 서로 공유되어지고 있으며, 데이터의 양도 나날이 증가되고 있는 추세이다. 이렇게 많은 양의 데이터들이 공유되어짐에 따라 정보보호에 대해 인지를 해야만 한다. 최근 정보보호 시스템으로 전송 매체에 비일 데이터를 직접 삽입하는 스테가노그래피 알고리즘에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 스테가노그래피는 데이터를 텍스트, 이미지, 오디오등 커버 데이터라 불리는 전송 매체에 숨겨 전송하는 방법으로 제 3자는 데이터가 숨겨져 있다는 사실 자체를 알지 못하도록 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 정지영상에 스테가노그래피 기법을 사용하던 기존 방식에서 좀 더 발전된 움직이는 영상에서 프레임에 데이터를 삽입하여 전송하는 방법을 제시한다. 동영상에 영향을 미치지 않는 선에서 정보를 삽입하여 제 3자는 이를 전혀 눈치채지 못하도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.33-38
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• 2008

최근 컴퓨터비전이나 로봇 공학 분야에서 가격이 저렴한 웹캠을 이용한 영상, 즉 2차원 영상으로부터 물체를 인식하는 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 로봇이나 비전에서 물체를 찾아내는 여러 가지 방향들이 제시되고 있으며, 지속적으로 로봇은 사람과 유사해져가고 있다. 이를 실현하기 위해서는 사람이 사과를 보고 사과라고 알기 때문에 사과라고 인식하듯이 로봇 또한 미리 알고 있어야 한다는 가정 하에 내용기반의 물체인식이 필요하다. 그러나 엄청난 양의 내용의 데이터베이스가 필요하다. 그래서 용량은 하드웨어기술로 커버가 가능하지만 화면상에 있는 물체들을 빠르게 데이터베이스상의 자료와 매칭이 되어야한다. 본 논문에서는 이미지를 SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)알고리즘으로 BTS(Binary Search Tree)로 트리구조의 데이터베이스를 구축하여 많은 양의 데이터베이스 중 빠르게 검색하여 화면에 있는 물체를 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1035-1038
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• 2004

스테가노그라피는 비밀 정보를 이미지나 오디오, 비디오 또는 텍스트 등 커버(cover) 라고 불리는 다른 미디어에 숨겨서 전송하는 방법으로 제 3자는 정보가 숨겨져 있다는 사실 자체를 알지 못하도록 하는 것이다. 대부분 영상 데이터를 이용하고 있으나, 제한된 색으로만 구성된 이진 영상 및 다치 영상의 경우 비시각적으로 비밀 정보를 숨기는 것이 일반 컬러 또는 그레이 영상에 비해 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 가중치 테이블을 사용하여 영상의 한 블록에 최대 2비트만을 변경시키면서 많은 양의 정보를 숨기는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.269-274
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• 2021

In secret communication, steganography is the sending and receiving of secret messages without being recognized by a third party. In the spatial domain method bitwise information is inserted into the virtual bit plane of the decomposed pixel values of the image. That is, the bitwise secret message is sequentially inserted into the least significant bit(LSB) of the image, which is a cover medium. In terms of application, the LSB is simple, but has a drawback that can be easily detected by a third party. If the upper bit plane is used to increase security, the image quality may deteriorate. In this paper, I present a method for concealing Hangul secret messages in image steganography based on the lo-th bit plane and the decomposition of modified pixel intensity values. After decomposing the Hangeul message to be hidden into choseong, jungseong and jongseong, then a shuffling process is applied to increase confidentiality and robustness. PSNR was used to confirm the efficiency of the proposed method. It was confirmed that the proposed technique has a smaller effect in terms of image quality than the method applying BCD and Fibonacci when inserting a secret message in the upper bit plane. When compared with the reference value, it was confirmed that the PSNR value of the proposed method was appropriate.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.561-566
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• 2019

In the Internet space, integrity and security must be maintained for secure and confidential communication, which ensures reliability between sender and receiver. Cryptography is an important factor in maintaining robustness against external attacks. For this purpose, encryption and steganography methods are used. Steganography is a method of hiding confidential information without making statistically significant changes to digital media. I propose a method of transforming the Hangul-Jamo consisting of choseong, jungseong and jongseong, and inserting them into RGB pixel values of the cover image. In order to improve security, a new blending method was used to hide the altered information in the lowest region. In this case, a mixture of LSB and LDR techniques was applied. PSNR was calculated for image quality. The PSNR of the proposed method is 43.225dB, which satisfies the lowest level.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.684-690
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a new method of the steganography based on bit plane using similarity. Applying a fixed threshold, the insert information into all bit planes showed different image quality. Therefore, we first defined the bit plane of block similarity to solve the fixing threshold problem. We then proposed a new method using the Bit Plane complexity and similarity to insert information into bit planes of block. In the experiment, we inserted information into the standard images with the same image quality and same insertion capacity. Finally analyzed the insertion capacity and image quality. As a result, the proposed method increased the insertion capacity of about 6% and improved the image quality of about 3.3dB than fixing threshold method.