• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

Digital watermarking techniques are attracting attention as a proper solution to protect copyright for multimedia data. This paper proposes a new audio watermarking method based on Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) and Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) for copyright protection. In our proposed watermarking method, the original audio is transformed into DCT domain and divided into two parts. Synchronization code is applied on the signal in first part and 2 levels DWT domain is applied on the signal in second part. The absolute value of DWT coefficient is divided into arbitrary number of segments and calculates the energy of each segment and middle peak. Watermarks are then embedded into each middle peak. Watermarks are extracted by performing the inverse operation of watermark embedding process. Experimental results show that the hidden watermark data is robust to re-sampling, low-pass filtering, re-quantization, MP3 compression, cropping, echo addition, delay, and pitch shifting, amplitude change. Performance analysis of the proposed scheme shows low error probability rates.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.387-400
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• 2021

The increase in number of streaming platforms and contents thereof, owing to an advancement of cloud environment, has triggered the rapid proliferation of illegally replicated contents as well as legal contents. This necessitates the development of technology capable of discriminating the copyright infringement of various contents. The Korea Copyright Protection Agency operates a video content demonstration system using AI, but it has limitations on distortions such as resolution changes. In this paper, we propose the powerful mechanism using skeleton, which is resistant against distorted video contents and capable of discriminating copyright infringement of platforms streaming illegal video contents. The proposed mechanism exploits the calculation of Hamming distance to the original video by converting collected data into binary ones for the efficient calculation. As a result of the experiment, the proposed mechanism have demonstrated the discrimination of illegally replicated video contents with an accuracy of 94.79% and average magnitude of 215KB.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1067-1078
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• 2020

With the development of internet technology, a lot of content is produced, and the demand for it is increasing. Accordingly, the number of contents in circulation is increasing, while the number of distributing illegal copies that infringe on copyright is also increasing. The Korea Copyright Protection Agency operates a illegal content obstruction program based on substring matching, and it is difficult to accurately search because a large number of noises are inserted to bypass this. Recently, researches using natural language processing and AI deep learning technologies to remove noise and various blockchain technologies for copyright protection are being studied, but there are limitations. In this paper, noise is removed from data collected online, and keyword-based illegal copies are searched. In addition, the same heavy uploader is estimated through profiling analysis for heavy uploaders. In the future, it is expected that copyright damage will be minimized if the illegal copy search technology and blocking and response technology are combined based on the results of profiling analysis for heavy uploaders.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.118-130
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• 2008

Today, Numbers of "0" and "1" which are represented as a digital code have a role of communicating with various media, result in the development of IT technology. With the changes of the times, new media is created and various contents and media are formed. There is convergence between exiting contents and media at the same time and also is in the rapid progress of unification and collapse between the boundary of the data. Under these digital circumstance, the amount of many data which are created and disappeared is rapidly changed as much as the remarkable growth of the digital technology. The purpose of this thesis is to make a classified method of a effective data component related to data management, data recycling and data copyright in 3D animation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.769-777
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• 2014

With the rapid interest in Geographic Information System (GIS) contents, a large volume of valuable GIS dataset has been distributed illegally by pirates, hackers, or unauthorized users. Therefore the problem focus on how to protect the copyright of GIS vector map data for storage and transmission. At this point, GIS security techniques focusing on secure network and data encryption have been studied and developed to solve the copyright protection and illegal copy prevention for GIS digital map. But GIS vector map data is very large and current data encryption techniques often encrypt all components of data. That means we have encrypted large amount of data lead to the long encrypting time and high complexity computation. This paper presents a novel selective encryption scheme for GIS vector map data protection to store, transmit or distribute to authorized users using K-means algorithm. The proposed algorithm only encrypts a small part of data based on properties of polylines and polygons in GIS vector map but it can change whole data of GIS vector map. Experimental results verified the proposed algorithm effectively and error in decryption is approximately zero.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.9-11
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• 2022

In order to sustain and revitalize the fourth industrial revolution and data economy, the world's first 'data basic law' has been enacted and implemented in Korea.,However, the law prioritizes the activation of data industry and the activation of data production, distribution and use that deals with the protection of data assets, so it can be applied and interpreted more than the Personal Information Protection Act or the Copyright Act.,In this paper, the main contents of the data basic law are examined and the personal information issue is considered.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.582-593
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• 2010

Recently the commercial value of GIS(geographic information system) has been increased with growing application demands of spatial information in life space. Also, GIS has been expanded to the integrated information system that provides the ease access to map information by public users and also the combined service of GIS map data and various multimedia contents. But several security problems of GIS map data have brought up at GIS industries, such as the illegal copy and distribution of GIS map data. Furthermore, the copyright protection of GIS map data has not been researched yet compared with image and video contents. This paper presents a polyline based watermarking scheme for the copyright protection of GIS vector map. The proposed scheme analyzes the structure of vector map and embeds adaptively the watermark by using the distance distribution of polyline components. From experimental results, we verified that the proposed scheme satisfies the invisibility and the robustness of geometrical attacks.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.385-395
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• 2007

As the growth of performance of the computer and the development of the Internet are exponential, sharing and using the information illegally have also increased to the same proportion. In this paper, we proposed a novel method on the vector map data among digital contents. Vector map data are used for GIS, navigation and web-based services etc. We embedded watermark into the coordinate of the vector map data using bit operation and extracted the watermark. This method helps to protect the copyright of the vector map data. This watermarking method is a spatial domain method and it embeds the watermark within an allowable error. Our experiment shows that the watermark produced by this method is resistant to simplification and translation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.6190-6213
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• 2019

For small-scale vector data, restrictions on watermark scheme capacity and robustness limit the use of copyright protection. A watermarking scheme based on robust geometric features and capacity maximization strategy that simultaneously improves capacity and robustness is presented in this paper. The distance ratio and angle of adjacent vertices are chosen as the watermark domain due to their resistance to vertex and geometric attacks. Regarding watermark embedding and extraction, a capacity-improved strategy based on quantization index modulation, which divides more intervals to carry sufficient watermark bits, is proposed. By considering the error tolerance of the vector map and the numerical accuracy, the optimization of the capacity-improved strategy is studied to maximize the embedded watermark bits for each vertex. The experimental results demonstrated that the map distortion caused by watermarks is small and much lower than the map tolerance. Additionally, the proposed scheme can embed a copyright image of 1024 bits into vector data of 150 vertices, which reaches capacity at approximately 14 bits/vertex, and shows prominent robustness against vertex and geometric attacks for small-scale vector data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.314-321
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• 2003

Recently, many studies about digital watermarking have been doing, and their purpose is to protect copyright of multimedia data. In this paper, the performances of digital watermarkings, in order to hide information of copyright into digital images, are analyzed. The watermarks embedded in subbands on wavelet transform domain are transformed by the processing such as image compression, and the degree of the transformation in each subband depend on its statistical characteristics. That says, we must consider the characteristics of subbands for better watermarking.