• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1488-1492
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• 2004

The digital signal has been replaced the analog signal in most of every field of multimedia including still image, animation, and audio due to the enormous extension of computer supply and the fast development of computer network. The consumers of information are able to enjoy the abundance of information because of one of the digital signal traits that very easy to regenerate the original data. Because of the trait, however, it is very hard for the producers of information to keep the copyright with the merit of original copy in quality excellency. In this paper, the watermarking technology which inserts a RGB color watermark in color image using the visual characteristics of wavelet coefficient was proposed. As a result, the PSNR value of image was varied depending on perceptual parameter, but we can obtain 32dB as a whole.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.261-264
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• 2001

최근 디지털 기술의 발전으로 인해 여러 디지털 컨텐츠들의 불법복제가 확산되고 있다. 따라서 저작권 보호와 불법복제를 막기 위한 다양한 기술들이 연구되고 있다. 그 중 디지털 워터마킹 기법은 디지털 컨텐츠 내부에 사용자가 원하는 정보를 보이거나 들리지 않게 숨기는 것을 말하며, 이때 삽입되는 정보를 워터마크(Watermark)라 한다. 디지털 워터마크를 삽입하는 방법으로는 크게 PN시퀀스를 삽입하는 방법, 위상을 변화시키는 방법, 반향신호를 삽입하는 방법이 있다. 이러한 워터마크는 다양한 공격에서도 검출할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문은 미국음반산업협회(RIAA)에서 제안한 SDMI(Secure Digital Music Initiative) Phase II Screening 중 다운 믹싱에 강인한 워터마킹 방법에 대해서 연구하였으며, 시뮬레이션과 청취 실험을 통하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.464-467
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 워터마킹을 응용한 동적 캐릭터 기술을 제안한다. 오디오 신호에 임의의 동작을 위한 일련의 동작코드를 들리지 않게 삽입하면, 이 캐릭터는 선행 처리된 오디오 파일이 재생될 때 마이크를 통해 얻은 소리를 처리하고 은닉된 코드를 추출함으로써 그 코드에 지정된 행동을 할 수 있다. 예를 들어 로봇이 동작코드가 은닉된 음악에 맞추어 지시된 춤을 출 수 있는 것이다. 이를 위해 우리는 워터마킹 기술을 적절히 응용하였으며, 제안된 기술은 공기(air)를 매질로 삼는 아날로그 채널에서 발생하는 잡음, 로봇과 음원의 거리에 따른 음의 감쇄, 그리고 동기화 등과 같은 문제들을 해결하였다. 여러 가지 상황에 따른 제안된 기술의 실험을 통해 제안된 기술의 성능을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.1431-1437
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• 2011

This paper proposes a novel watermarking algorithm that protects digital copyrights and is robust to attacks. Watermarks are embedded in the subband including the significant part of the signal such as a pitch. Generally, the subband containing the pitch has the biggest energy. In order to find this subband, wavelet packet transform is used to decompose the subbands and their energy are calculated. The signal of the selected subbands is transformed in frequency domain using FFT. The watermarks are embedded using QIM for samples higher than a certain threshold. The blind detection uses the Euclidean distance. The proposed method shows less than 5% BER in the audio watermark benchmarking.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1112-1119
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• 1999

Digital watermarking is to embed imperceptible mark into image, video, audio and text data to prevent the illegal copy of multimedia data, arbitrary modification, and also illegal sales of the copes without agreement of copyright ownership. The DCT(discrete Cosine Transforms) transforms of original image is conducted in this research and these DCT coefficients are expanded by Fourier series expansion algorithm. In order to embed the imperceptible and robust watermark, the Fourier coefficients(lower frequency coefficients) can be calculated using sine and cosine function which have a complete orthogonal basis function, and the watermark is embedded into these coefficients, In the experiment, we can show robustness with respect to image distortion such as JPEG compression, bluring and adding uniform noise. The correlation coefficient are in the range from 0.5467 to 0.9507.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.214-219
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• 2009

This paper proposes a watermarking algorithm considering the frequency characteristics of Haegeum sounds for copyright protection of digital Haegeum sound contents. The harmonics of Haegeum sounds commonly have large magnitude values in 1500Hz~2000Hz and 2800Hz~3500Hz so that those bands are selected to embed a watermark. The proposed method computes the FFT (fast Fourier transform) of the original sound signal and embeds the watermark bits generated by PN (pseudo noise) sequence into the harmonics in the selected bands. Furthermore, the proposed method is robust to lowpass filter, bandpass filter, cropping, noise addition, MP3 compression attacks and the maximum BER (bit error rate) is 1.41% after lowpass filter attack. To measure the quality of the watermarked sound, subjective listening test, MUSHRA (multiple stimuli with hidden reference and anchor), was conducted. The mean value of MUSHRA listening test is bigger than 98 and 96.67 for every Haegeum sounds and Korean classical music with Haeguem, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.389-395
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• 2000

Digital Watermarking is a research area which aims at hiding secret information in digital multimedia content such as images, audio, and video. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method with visually recognizable symbols into the digital images using wavelet transform, spread spectrum method and multilevel threshold value in considering the wavelet coefficients. The information of watermark can be extracted by subtracting wavelet coefficients with the original image and the watermarked image. The results of this experiment show that the proposed algorithm was superior to other similar watermarking algorithms. We showed Watermarking algorithm in JPEG lossy compression, resizing, LSB(Least Significant Bit) masking, and filtering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 오디오 워터마킹 기술을 이용하여 중앙방송국과 지방방송국간의 방송전환을 용이하게 할 수 있는 시스템을 구현하였다. 방송전환을 위한 동기화 시스템에서의 오 검출은 방송사고를 일으키기 때문에, 오디오 워터마크기술을 이용할 때 신뢰성이 매우 높아야 한다. 달 논문에서는 방송동기화 시스템에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있는 오디오 워터마킹 알고리즘을 개발하고, 이를 실시간으로 적용하여 방송전환에 사용할 수 있는 시스템을 구현하였다. 개발된 오디오 워터마킹 알고리즘에 의해서 워터마크가 삽입된 방송신호의 SNR은 66.1dB로서 워터마크 삽입전의 방송신호와의 구분이 어려웠다. 강인성 테스트에서는 96kbps와 128kbps의 MP3 압축을 하였을 때에도 $100\%$의 검출율을 보였으며, -50dB 이하의 잡음첨가에 대해서도 $100\%$ 검출율을 보였다. 구현된 시스템은 240시간의 실제 방송상황에서 워터마크가 삽입된 방송신호에 대한 검출율이 $100\%$이고, 오검출율이 $0\%$로 방송시스템으로서의 신뢰성을 확보하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.378-387
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• 2003

Digital watermarking is the technique that embeds invisible signalsincluding owner identification information, specific code, or pattern into multimedia data such as image, video and audio. Watermarking techniques can be classified into two groups; robust watermarking and fragile(semi-fragile) watermarking. The main purpose of the robust watermarking is the protection of copyright, whereas fragile(semi-fragile) watermarking prevents image or video data from illegal modifications. To achieve this goal watermark should survive from unintentional modifications such as random noise or compression, but it should be fragile for malicious manipulations. In this paper, an invertible semi-fragile watermarkingalgorithm for authentication and detection of manipulated location in MPEG-2 bit-stream is proposed. The proposed algorithm embeds two kinds of watermarks, which are embedded into quantized DCT coefficients. So it can be applied directly to the compressed bit-stream. The first watermark is used for authentication of video data. The second one is used for detection of malicious manipulations. It can distinguish transcodingin bit-stream domain from malicious manipulation and detect the block-wise locations of manipulations in video data. Also, since the proposed algorithm has an invertible property, recovering original video data is possible if the watermarked video is authentic.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.5
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• pp.579-586
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• 2001

Digital watermarking is to embed imperceptible mark into image, video, audio, and text data to prevent the illegal copy of multimedia data. arbitrary modification, and also illegal sales of the copies without agreement of copyright ownership. In this paper, we study for the embedding and extraction of watermark key using wavelet in the luminance signal in order to implement the system to protect the copyright for image MPEG. First, the original image is analyzed into frequency domain by discrete wavelet transform. The RSA(Rivest, Shamir, Aldeman) public key of the coded target is RUN parameter of VLD(variable length coding). Because the high relationship among the adjacent RUN parameters effect the whole image, it prevents non-authorizer not to possess private key from behaving illegally. The Results show that the proposed method provides better moving picture and the distortion more key of insert than direct coded method on low-frequency domain based DCT.