• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.461-469
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 t = 2인 3진 BCH 코드를 기반으로 하는 새로운 스테가노그라피 방법을 제시한다. 제안 된 방법에서는 JPEG 영상으로부터 추출된 DCT 계수들에 데이터 은닉을 하기 위해 t = 2인 강력한 BCH 코드를 사용하였다. 제안하는 데이터 은닉 기술은 삼진 BCH 코드(t=2인 경우)에서 다양한 해결책을 찾기 위한 접근으로 제안된 룩업테이블을 사용하였다. 고안된 룩업 테이블 접근법은 데이터 은닉을 위해 수정이 필요한 DCT 계수들의 위치를 빠르고 효율적으로 연산 가능하게 하였다. 제시된 데이터 은닉 기술은 삼진 BCH 코드를 이용하는 최초의 스테가노그라피 기술이다. 실험 결과를 통해 이진 BCH 코드에 비해 삼진 BCH 코드를 사용하는 것이 우수함을 명확하게 증명하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2572-2589
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• 2014

Reversible data hiding is a technique for recovering original images without any distortion after secret data are extracted from the image. The technique continues to attract attention from many researchers. In this paper, we introduce a new reversible data hiding scheme based on the adjacent index differences of vector quantization (VQ) indices. The proposed scheme exploits the differences between two adjacent indices to embed secret data. Experimental results show that our scheme can achieve a lower compression rate than an earlier scheme by Yang and Lin. Our scheme's average compression rate, 0.44 bpp, outperforms that of Yang and Lin's scheme, which averages 0.53 bpp. Moreover, the embedding capacity of our scheme can rise to 1.45 bpi, which also is superior to that of Chang et al.'s scheme [35] (1.00 bpi)Yang and Lin's scheme [27] (0.91 bpi) as well as Chang et al.'s scheme [26] (0.74 bpi).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1521-1537
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• 2021

Through information hiding technique, secret message can be hidden in pictures. Stego-image quality and hiding capacity are two important metrics for information hiding. To enhance these metrics, many schemes were proposed by scholars in recent years. Some of them are effective and successful, but there is still a room for further improvement. A high capacity information hiding scheme (PAMO, Pixel-value Adjustment with Modulus Operation Algorithm) is introduced in this paper. PAMO scheme uses pixel value adjustment with modulus operation to hide confidential data in cover-image. PAMO scheme and some referenced schemes are implemented in Python and experiments are carried out to evaluate their performance. In the experiments, PAMO scheme shows better performance than other methods do. When secret message length is less than 72000 bits, the highest hiding capacity of PAMO can reach 7 bits per pixel, at the same time the PSNR of stego-images is greater than 30 dB.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2007년도 동계학술대회
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• pp.127-133
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• 2007

We propose new reversible watermarking method for images. Being reversibility, original image and watermarked message should be recovered exactly. We propose different technique for hiding data to pairs. We use new type of histogram (pair histogram), which shows frequencies of each pair in image. We use histogram shift method for data embedding to pairs. We also propose improved version of method which allow hiding data with good performance for high capacities. This algorithm has better result compare to Tian's difference expansion method based on the Haar wavelet decomposition. For proposed algorithm capacity is higher under same PSNR.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4624-4642
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• 2014

Image compression is a popular research issue that focuses on the problems of reducing the size of multimedia files. Vector Quantization (VQ) is a well-known lossy compression method which can significantly reduce the size of a digital image while maintaining acceptable visual quality. A locally adaptive scheme (LAS) was proposed to improve the compression rate of VQ in 1997. However, a LAS needs extra indicators to indicate the sources, consequently the compression rate of LAS will be affected. In this paper, we propose a novel method to eliminate the LAS indicators and so improve the compression rate. The proposed method uses the concept of data hiding to conceal the indicators, thus further improving the compression rate of LAS. From experimental results, it is clearly demonstrated that the proposed method can actually eliminate the extra indicators while successfully improving the compression rate of the LAS.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.986-989
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• 2011

Reversible data hiding is a technique that can embed information into cover media (image, video, voice signal) and can recover the original cover media after extracting the embedded information. In this papa, we propose a new reversible data hiding methods that based on block median preservation and the image local characteristic. By using the median value of a block, a high payload can be got and by considering the image local characteristic, a lot of distortion can be avoided and a high PSNR can be got. In the experiment, our methods can generate better result than the previous reversible data hiding methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.170-191
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• 2024

The transmission of confidential data using cover media is called steganography. The three requirements of any effective steganography system are high embedding capacity, security, and imperceptibility. The text file's structure, which makes syntax and grammar more visually obvious than in other media, contributes to its poor imperceptibility. Text steganography is regarded as the most challenging carrier to hide secret data because of its insufficient redundant data compared to other digital objects. Unicode characters, especially non-printing or invisible, are employed for hiding data by mapping a specific amount of secret data bits in each character and inserting the character into cover text spaces. These characters are known with limited spaces to embed secret data. Current studies that used Unicode characters in text steganography focused on increasing the data hiding capacity with insufficient redundant data in a text file. A sequential embedding pattern is often selected and included in all available positions in the cover text. This embedding pattern negatively affects the text steganography system's imperceptibility and security. Thus, this study attempts to solve these limitations using the Part-of-speech (POS) tagging technique combined with the randomization concept in data hiding. Combining these two techniques allows inserting the Unicode characters in randomized patterns with specific positions in the cover text to increase data hiding capacity with minimum effects on imperceptibility and security. Format-preserving encryption (FPE) is also used to encrypt a secret message without changing its size before the embedding processes. By comparing the proposed technique to already existing ones, the results demonstrate that it fulfils the cover file's capacity, imperceptibility, and security requirements.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권9A호
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• pp.1339-1345
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 랜덤시퀀스와 Hadamard 행렬을 이용하여 다중 정보를 은폐시킬 수 있는 새로운 디지털 제안하였다. 기존의 디지털 정보은폐에 사용된 기법은 하나의 랜덤시퀀스를 정보신호에 직접 곱하여 정보신호에 에너지 레벨을 매우 낮춤으로서 불법 이용자로 하여금 은폐된 정보의 검출이나 교란을 어렵게 하였다. 그러나 여러 개의 정보를 동일한 디지털 영상에 은폐시킬 경우에는 직교성이 보장되는 은폐코드를 사용해야 하기 때문에 어느 정도 상관성을 갖는 랜덤시퀀스만으로는 정보은폐가 어렵다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 랜덤시퀀스의 장점과 더불어 직교성을 갖을 수 있도록 같은 행렬을 곱할 때만 정확한 신호로 추출되는 Hadamard 행렬을 랜덤시퀀스와 함께 사용하여 다수의 은폐정보에 대해서도 정확하게 은폐된 신호를 추출할 수 있는 새로운 디지털 정보은폐 방법을 제안하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.404-421
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• 2020

A reversible data hiding scheme in JPEG compressed bitstreams is proposed, which could avoid decoding failure and file expansion by means of removing of bitstreams corresponding to high frequency coefficients and embedding of secret data in file header as comment part. We decode original JPEG images to quantified 8×8 DCT blocks, and search for a high frequency as an optimal termination point, beyond which the coefficients are set to zero. These blocks are separated into two parts so that termination point in the latter part is slightly smaller to make the whole blocks available in substitution. Then spare space is reserved to insert secret data after comment marker so that data extraction is independent of recovery in receiver. Marked images can be displayed normally such that it is difficult to distinguish deviation by human eyes. Termination point is adaptive for variation in secret size. A secret size below 500 bits produces a negligible distortion and a PSNR of approximately 50 dB, while PSNR is also mostly larger than 30 dB for a secret size up to 25000 bits. The experimental results show that the proposed technique exhibits significant advantages in computational complexity and preservation of file size for small hiding capacity, compared to previous methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1020-1042
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• 2019

Reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) provides some real-time cloud applications; i.e. the cloud, acting as a data-hider, automatically embeds timestamp in the encrypted image uploaded by a content owner. Many existing methods of RDHEI only satisfy user privacy in which the data-hider does not know the original image, but leaks owner privacy in which the receiver can obtains the original image by decryption and extraction. In the literature, the method of Zhang et al. is the one providing weak content-owner privacy in which the content-owner and data-hider have to share a data-hiding key. In this paper, we take care of the stronger notion, called strong content-owner privacy, and achieve it by presenting a new reversible data hiding in encrypted images. In the proposed method, image decryption and message extraction are separately controlled by different types of keys, and thus such functionalities are decoupled to solve the privacy problem. At the technique level, the original image is segmented along a Hilbert filling curve. To keep image privacy, segments are transformed into an encrypted image by using random permutation. The encrypted image does not reveal significant information about the original one. Data embedment can be realized by using pixel histogram-style hiding, since this property, can be preserved before or after encryption. The proposed method is a modular method to compile some specific reversible data hiding to those in encrypted image with content owner privacy. Finally, our experimental results show that the image quality is 50.85dB when the averaged payload is 0.12bpp.