• Title/Summary/Keyword: Color image watermarking

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The Effect of Mean Brightness and Contrast of Digital Image on Detection of Watermark Noise (워터 마크 잡음 탐지에 미치는 디지털 영상의 밝기와 대비의 효과)

  • Kham Keetaek;Moon Ho-Seok;Yoo Hun-Woo;Chung Chan-Sup
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.305-322
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    • 2005
  • Watermarking is a widely employed method tn protecting copyright of a digital image, the owner's unique image is embedded into the original image. Strengthened level of watermark insertion would help enhance its resilience in the process of extraction even from various distortions of transformation on the image size or resolution. However, its level, at the same time, should be moderated enough not to reach human visibility. Finding a balance between these two is crucial in watermarking. For the algorithm for watermarking, the predefined strength of a watermark, computed from the physical difference between the original and embedded images, is applied to all images uniformal. The mean brightness or contrast of the surrounding images, other than the absolute brightness of an object, could affect human sensitivity for object detection. In the present study, we examined whether the detectability for watermark noise might be attired by image statistics: mean brightness and contrast of the image. As the first step to examine their effect, we made rune fundamental images with varied brightness and control of the original image. For each fundamental image, detectability for watermark noise was measured. The results showed that the strength ot watermark node for detection increased as tile brightness and contrast of the fundamental image were increased. We have fitted the data to a regression line which can be used to estimate the strength of watermark of a given image with a certain brightness and contrast. Although we need to take other required factors into consideration in directly applying this formula to actual watermarking algorithm, an adaptive watermarking algorithm could be built on this formula with image statistics, such as brightness and contrast.

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Color Image Digital Watermarking based on a Luminance-Chrominance Signal (휘도-색차 신호 기반의 컬러 영상 디지털 워터마킹)

  • Seo Jung-Hee;Lim Young-Jin;Han Eun-Young;Park Hung-Bog
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.565-568
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    • 2006
  • In the luminance and chrominance signal, luminance signal creates gray images, and is capable of making each color component compatible with monochrome system. And color components of luminance and chrominance signals are useful to encode or convert the signal because they have low correlation. Each color signal has low correlation statistically, but they are not independent of one another. Therefore, this paper proposes the watermark inserting algorithm for luminance and chrominance signal in the domain of frequency founded on wavelet, considering the interdependent characteristics of color components. Therefore, it can guarantee the robustness and invisible of digital watermark.

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Digital Watermarking on the Color coordinate (칼라 좌표계에서의 디지털 워크마킹)

  • Lee Chang-Soon;Jung Song-Ju
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 2005
  • CIELAB coordinate is represented by one lightness component and two chromaticity components and similar to human visual system. Visual devices such as computer monitor display images using RGB coordinate. We propose a technique for inserting the watermark of visually recognizable mark into the middle frequency domain of image. RGB coordinate image is transformed into CIELAB coordinate, which include the characteristics of Human vision and then a* component is transformed into DFT(Discrete Fourier transform) transform.

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Image Watermarking for Copyright Protection of Images on Shopping Mall (쇼핑몰 이미지 저작권보호를 위한 영상 워터마킹)

  • Bae, Kyoung-Yul
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.147-157
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    • 2013
  • With the advent of the digital environment that can be accessed anytime, anywhere with the introduction of high-speed network, the free distribution and use of digital content were made possible. Ironically this environment is raising a variety of copyright infringement, and product images used in the online shopping mall are pirated frequently. There are many controversial issues whether shopping mall images are creative works or not. According to Supreme Court's decision in 2001, to ad pictures taken with ham products is simply a clone of the appearance of objects to deliver nothing but the decision was not only creative expression. But for the photographer's losses recognized in the advertising photo shoot takes the typical cost was estimated damages. According to Seoul District Court precedents in 2003, if there are the photographer's personality and creativity in the selection of the subject, the composition of the set, the direction and amount of light control, set the angle of the camera, shutter speed, shutter chance, other shooting methods for capturing, developing and printing process, the works should be protected by copyright law by the Court's sentence. In order to receive copyright protection of the shopping mall images by the law, it is simply not to convey the status of the product, the photographer's personality and creativity can be recognized that it requires effort. Accordingly, the cost of making the mall image increases, and the necessity for copyright protection becomes higher. The product images of the online shopping mall have a very unique configuration unlike the general pictures such as portraits and landscape photos and, therefore, the general image watermarking technique can not satisfy the requirements of the image watermarking. Because background of product images commonly used in shopping malls is white or black, or gray scale (gradient) color, it is difficult to utilize the space to embed a watermark and the area is very sensitive even a slight change. In this paper, the characteristics of images used in shopping malls are analyzed and a watermarking technology which is suitable to the shopping mall images is proposed. The proposed image watermarking technology divide a product image into smaller blocks, and the corresponding blocks are transformed by DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform), and then the watermark information was inserted into images using quantization of DCT coefficients. Because uniform treatment of the DCT coefficients for quantization cause visual blocking artifacts, the proposed algorithm used weighted mask which quantizes finely the coefficients located block boundaries and coarsely the coefficients located center area of the block. This mask improves subjective visual quality as well as the objective quality of the images. In addition, in order to improve the safety of the algorithm, the blocks which is embedded the watermark are randomly selected and the turbo code is used to reduce the BER when extracting the watermark. The PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) of the shopping mall image watermarked by the proposed algorithm is 40.7~48.5[dB] and BER(Bit Error Rate) after JPEG with QF = 70 is 0. This means the watermarked image is high quality and the algorithm is robust to JPEG compression that is used generally at the online shopping malls. Also, for 40% change in size and 40 degrees of rotation, the BER is 0. In general, the shopping malls are used compressed images with QF which is higher than 90. Because the pirated image is used to replicate from original image, the proposed algorithm can identify the copyright infringement in the most cases. As shown the experimental results, the proposed algorithm is suitable to the shopping mall images with simple background. However, the future study should be carried out to enhance the robustness of the proposed algorithm because the robustness loss is occurred after mask process.

System Architecture for Digital Hologram Video Service (디지털 홀로그램의 비디오 서비스를 위한 시스템 설계)

  • Lee, Yoon-Hyuk;Seo, Young-Ho;Kim, Dong-Wook
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.590-605
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this paper is to propose a service system for a digital hologram video, which has not been published yet. This system assumes the existing service framework for 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional image/video, which includes data acquisition, processing, transmission, reception, and reconstruction. This system includes acquisition of color and depth image pairs from a image acquisition system with vertical rigs, rectification of acquired image pairs and generating digital hologram. Also it is designed to reduce the CGH (computer-generated hologram) generation time to 1/3. It also includes some additional and optional functions such as watermarking, compression, and encryption.

Watermarking in Spatial-Domain using Image Color (색상정보를 이용하는 공간영역에서의 워커마킹기법)

  • Lee, Man-Seok;Choi, Jin-Ku
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.10c
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    • pp.548-551
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    • 2006
  • 본 논문에서는 최근 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 디지털 워터마크의 삽입 기법이 영상의 공간영역에서 효과적으로 이루어질 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 워터마킹 방법은 각 색상정보의 히스토그램을 구하여 영상에 가장 밀접한 관계를 가지는 색상별로 워터마크를 색상화소의 최하위 비트에 워터마크를 합성한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 워터마킹은 공간영역의 합성방법에서 지적되었던 워터마크의 다양한 정보를 저장할 수 없던 문제점을 극복하였다. 또한 잡음이나 신호의 변화 에도 강인하면서도 속도는 주파수영역의 워터마킹에 비해 매우 빠르다. 본 논문에서는 주파수 영역과 공간영역에서의 합성방법과 비교하는 실험을 통해 다른 방법에 비해 높은 강인성과 주파수 영역의 연산에 비해 60% 정도의 연산속도를 가짐을 검증하여 분석하였다.

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The Watermarking Technic using Hadamard Transform in Color Image (칼라영상에서의 하다마드 변환을 이용한 워터마킹 기법)

  • Oh, Whi-Vin;Kim, Ki-Young;Chae, Duck-Jae;Rhee, Sang-Burm
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2003
  • 본 논문에서는 저작권 보호를 위하여 칼라 영상에서의 하다마드 변환을 이용한 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 하다마드 변환은 간단한 행렬값으로 사용할 수 있고, 고속변환이 가능하여 영상적용에 용이한 변환이다. 제안한 알고리즘은 RGB 영상을 YIQ 영역으로 전환한 후, Y 영상을 $8{\times}8$의 크기를 갖는 블록으로 나누어서 $H_{3}$ 행렬값을 사용하여 하다마드 변환을 한 후, PN-Code를 이용하여 좌표를 결정하여 워터마킹 알고리즘에 의하여 워터마크를 삽입한다. 실험결과 압축이나 이미지 영상처리 공격에 대해서 강인하게 워터마크가 추출되었고, 추출된 워터마크의 왜곡정도가 양호하여 시각적으로인지가 가능하였다.

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Digital Image Watermarking using Key and Color Characteristics of Human Vision (인간시각의 칼라특성과 키를 이용한 디지털 이미지 워터마킹)

  • Jung, Song-Gyun;Kim, Jeong-Yeop;Hyun, Ki-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.655-658
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    • 2003
  • 멀티미디어 기술과 인터넷의 급속한 발전으로 인해 영상 데이터의 복사가 더욱 쉬워지고 있다. 이러한 작품들을 보호하기 위해 데이터 안에 저작권을 표시할 수 있는 기술들이 필요해지고 지난 몇 년간 데이터에 다른 정보를 삽입할 수 있는 많은 기법들이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 RGB 칼라 영상을 인간 시각 특성을 나타내는 I.UV 좌표계로 변화하여 인간 시각에 둔감한 U영역에 키를 이용하여 랜덤하게 워터마크를 삽입하고 추출하는 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 또한 웨이브릿(Wavelet) 변환을 사용하였으며 비교적 공격에 강한 고주파수 영역에 삽입하였고 추출시는 삽입한 키 값을 이용하여 워터마크를 추출한다. 제안한 워터마킹 기법은 시각적으로 보이지 않고, 가우시안 노이즈(Gaussian Noise) 및 필터링(filtering)에도 견고함을 보인다.

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Steganography on Android Smart Devices (안드로이드 스마트기기에서의 스테가노그래피 연구)

  • Jung, Ki-Hyun;Lee, Joon-Ho;Yoo, Kee-Young
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.99-105
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    • 2015
  • As increasing the use of smart phones, the interest of iOS and Android operating system is growing up. In this paper, a novel steganographic method based on Android platform is proposed. Firstly, we analyze the skia based image format that is supporting 2D graphic libraries in Android operating system. Then, we propose a new data hiding method based on the Android bitmap image format. The proposed method hides the secret data on the four true color areas which include Alpha, Red, Green, Blue. In especial, we increase the embedding capacity of the secret data on the Alpha area with a less image distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a higher embedding capacity and less distortion by changing the size of the secret bits on the Alpha area.