• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1347-1358
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• 2008

A blind video watermarking scheme for providing safety, authenticity, and copyright protection is proposed in this paper, which is robust to MPEG-4 SVC and multimedia transcoding. In proposed method, embedding and detecting of watermark is performed based on base layer with considering spatial SVC. To be robust from temporal SVC, our method embeds repeatedly a permutated character with ordering number per one frame. Also for robustness from multimedia transcoding and FGS, the method is embedded watermark in low middle frequency of each frame adaptively based on DCT in ROI. Through experimental results, invisibility of the watermark is confirmed and robustness of the watermark against the spatial SVC, temporal SVC, FGS and video transcoding between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 SVC is also verified.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.12
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• pp.97-106
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• 1999

We propose a new watermarking method to embed a label in a video which is robust against the change of the group of picture. The proposed method embeds labels in the pixel domain, but detects the label in the DCT frequency domain. For embedding a label, the size of watermark based on the human visual system is calculated to keep a quality of videos. A lookup table haying the pixel patterns and the sequences of a sign of DCT coefficients is used for detecting a label in the DCT frequency domain. In this paper, we analyze bit error rates for labels of videos compressed by MPEG2 using the central limit theorem and compare the simulation results with previous methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.474-485
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• 2001

This paper proposes a user-key-based fragile watermarking for detecting image modification. The embedding data in a form of binary image for authentication are inserted to the DCT coefficients of each block of the given image. To minimize possible exposure of being watermarked and the location of insertion, it is proposed to utilize a user-specific key in randomizing those information. Each DCT block hides one bit of data, all of which represent the user-specific authentication data. Experiments with 5 real images demonstrate that the proposed method not only detects whether there is modification or not, but also the actual location of modification with minimal visual deterioration. However, the proposed method has room for improvement against its loss of watermark by an attack of compression by more than 50%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.3 s.309
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• pp.68-75
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an adaptive video watermarking method using human visual system(HVS) and characteristics of three-dimensional cosine transform (3D-DCT) cubes. We classify 3D-DCT cubes into three patterns according to the distribution of coefficients in the 3D-DCT cube: cube with motion and textures, cube with high textures and little motion, and cube with little textures and line motion. Images are also classified into three types according to the ratio of these patterns: images with motion and textures, images with high textures and little motion, and images with little textures and little motion. The proposed watermarking method adaptivelyinserts the watermark on the coefficients of the mid-range in the 3D-DCT cube using the appropriately learned sensitivity table and the proportional constants depending on the patterns of 3D-DCT cubes and types of images. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance in terms of invisibility and robustness than the previous method.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2020

The digital content's security and authentication are important in the field of digital content application. There are some methods to perform the authentication. The digital watermarking is one of authentication methods. Paper presents a digital watermark authentication method that works in the application of digital image. The proposed watermark has the triple status information and performs the embedding and the detection without original Content. When authenticating the owner information of digital content, an autocorrelation function is used. In addition, a spread spectrum method is used to be adaptive to the signal of the original content in the frequency domain(DWT Domain). Therefore, the possibility of errors occurring in the detection of hidden information was reduced. it also has a advantage what Watermarking in DWT has faster embedding and detection time than other transformation domains(DFT, DCT, etc.). if it has a an image of size N=mXm, the computational amount can be reduced from O(N·logN) to O(N). The particular advantage is that it can hide more information(bits) per bit.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.311-315
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed a robust watermarking algorithm based on fuzzy inference and human visual system. In the first, discrete wavelet transform(DWT) is involved to calculate additive energy strength, then we devised fuzzy inference, which was established by computing contrast and texture degree in gray-level image. Watermark is embeded into the coefficients of 3-level DWT so as to consider a spatial effects. Visual recognizable patterns such as binary image were used as a watermark Consequently, experimental results showed that proposed algorithm is robust in JPEC compression.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.341-351
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• 2003

Digital image watermarking is the method that can protect the copyright of the image by embedding copyright information, which is called watermark. Watermarking must have robustness to intentional or unintentional data changing, called attack. The conventional watermarking schemes are robust to waveform attacks such as image compression, filtering etc. However, they are vulnerable to geometrical attacks such as rotation, scaling, translation, and cropping. Accordingly, this paper proposes new watermarking scheme that is robust to geometrical attacks by using invariant centroid. Invariant centroid is the gravity center of a central area in a gray scale image that remains unchanged even when the image is attacked by RST including cropping and proposed scheme uses invariant centroids of original and inverted image as the template. To make geometrically invariant domain, template and angle compensated Log -Polar Map(LPM) is used. Then Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT) is performed and the watermark is embedded into the DCT coefficients. Futhermore, to prevent a watermarked image from degrading due to interpolation during coordinate system conversion, only the image of the watermark signal is extracted and added to the original image. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is especially robust to RST attacks including cropping.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.105-111
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• 2007

This paper is concerned with fuzzy inference-based optimal sub-bands decision scheme which is to be embedded the watermark. It concentrated not only on design of fuzzy inference algorithm but also on human visual parameters (HVP), such as contrast sensitivity, texture degree. In the first, such human visual parameters as contrast sensitivity, texture degree as well as statistical characteristics are involved to select the optimal coefficients region. Secondly, fuzzy if - then rule which can be able to adapt the wide variety of environments is developed. The performance of proposed approach is evaluated with respect to the imperceptibility and correctness of watermark. According to some experimental results, contrast sensitivity function is superior in smooth image. On the other hand, statistical characteristics provide good results in rough images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.653-656
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• 2019

현대 사회에서의 생체인식 기술의 발전을 통해 홍채, 지분 등의 정보를 사용하여 사용자의 신원확인 등이 가능하게 되었으며, 생체정보의 유출/위조 방지에 대한 중요성이 높아지면서 관련 연구가 활발히 이루어 지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 홍체 전체의 이미지에 삽입하거나 동공의 중심에 가까운 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)영역에 삽입방법, 동공 중심과 눈매의 영역을 검출하여 거리 및 DC 계수를 통하여 삽입 위치를 선택하는 방법 등 홍채영상 속 워터마크를 삽입하여 유출/위조된 홍채 영상을 검출하는 방법에서의 워터마크 삽입위치에 관한 방법을 연구하고, CASIA Irisimage Database ver 4.0의 워터마크를 삽입하여 NC(Normalized Correlation)의 값을 비교하여 워터마크 삽입 실험을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.551-561
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• 2014

Since the depth and texture images have been widely used for generating 3-dimensional stereoscopic image, the security of them have been focused. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique for copyright of stereo and multiview images which is generated in an arbitrary viewpoint by depth and texture image. After the mark space is selected for preserving watermark through DIBR (depth-image-based rendering) process which uses 3D warping, the texture image is transformed to the frequency coefficient using 2D DCT (discrete cosine transform). Some parts of them are quantized, which is the corresponding process to watermarking. The embedded watermark is not conformed by eyes, so we identified the invisibility of the proposed method. In case of appling attacks of general image process, we also identified the robustness of it.