• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2411-2414
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a digital image authentication using semi-fragile watermarking techniques. The algorithm is robust to innocuous manipulations while detecting malicious manipulations. Specifically, the proposed method is designed for the purpose of the real time authentication of an image frame captured from a digital camera due to its easy H/W implementation, security and visible verification. To achieve the semi-fragile characteristics that survive a certain amount of compression, we employ the invariant property of DCT coefficients' quantization proposed by Lin and Chang [1]. The binary watermark bits are generated by exclusive ORing the binary logo with pseudo random binary sequences. Then watermark bits are embedded into the LSBs of pre-quantized DCT coefficients in the medium frequency range. Verification is carried out easily due to visually recognizable pattern of the logo extracted by exclusive ORing the LSBs of the embedded DCT coefficient with pseudo random number seeded by a secret key. By the experiment results, this method is not only robust to JPEG compression but also it detects powerfully alterations of the original image, such as the tempering of images.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.2375-2380
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• 1997

The need for developing effective coding techniques for various multimedia services is increasing in order to meet the demand for image data. In this paper, a zeroblock coding algorithm is proposed for progressive transmission of images. The zeroblock coding algorithm is constructed as an embedded coding so that the encoding and decoding process can be terminated at any point and allowing reasonable image quality. Some features of zeroblock coding algorithm are 1) coding of subband images by prediction of the insignificance of blocks across subband leels, 2) aset of sate transition rules for representing the significance map of blocks, and 3) block coding by vector quantization using a multiband codebook consisting of several subcodebooks dedicated for each subband at a given threshold.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 웨이블렛 변환에 기반한 EZW알고리즘을 적용하여 효율성 있는 영상 압축방법을 제시하였다. 이 방법은 영상을 Daubechies 필터에 의하여 웨이블렛 변환하고 대역간 웨이블렛 계수들의 상관관계를 이용하여 제로트리 부호화하는 EZW 알고리즘을 적용하여 웨이블렛 계수의 크기가 임계값이상이면 POS, NEG 심볼로 분류하고 임계값 이하이면 IZ, ZTR 심볼로 분류하여 주 부호화과정과 종속 부호화과정을 수행하며 임계값을 반으로 줄이면서 부호화과정을 반복하는 영상압축방법이다. 본 연구에서 제시한 방법을 수행하여 영상압축한 결과를 정지영상압축방법에 사용되는 JPEG알고리즘에 의하여 수행한 영상압축결과와 비교한 결과 본 연구에서 제시한 영상압축결과가 부호화 복호화에서 원하는 비트율로 조절할 수 있고 낮은 비트에서 우수한 PSNR값을 나타내며 블록현상이 발생하지 않아 JPEG의 영상압축방법보다 우수하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.857-860
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• 2000

This paper presents a new watermarking method based on wavelet transform. Embedding algorithm call define robust area by varying thresholds and gives a watermark image the priority of significance by analyzing spatial correlation of the watermark image. Detector can adjust thresholds to the distorted watermarked image. Also detector can extract the embedded data without an original image. A new measurement for detecting the correct watermark is suggested. Simulation results show that the embedded watermark is robust against various signal processing and compression attacks.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.231-234
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a robust watermarking technique based on a DCT-domain watermarking approach and an order statistic(OS) filter. The proposed technique inserts one watermark into each of four coefficients within a 2 ${\times}$ 2 block which is scanned on DCT coefficients in the zig-zag ordering from the medium frequency range. The detection algorithm uses an adaptive trimmed mean operator as a local estimator of the embedded watermark to obtain the desired robustness in the presence of additive Gaussian noise and JPEG compression attacks. The performance is analyzed through statistical analysis and numerical experiments. It is shown that the robustness properties against additive noise and JPEG compression attacks are more enhanced than the previous techniques.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

A combined DWT and DCT based watermarking technique of low frequency watermarking with weighted correction is proposed. The DWT has excellent spatial localization, frequency spread and multi-resolution characteristics, which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system (HVS). The DCT based watermarking techniques offer compression while DWT based watermarking techniques offer scalability. These desirable properties are used in this combined watermarking technique. In the proposed method watermark bits are embedded in the low frequency band of each DCT block of selected DWT sub-band. The weighted correction is also used to improve the imperceptibility. The extracting procedure reverses the embedding operations without the reference of the original image. Compared with the similar approach by DCT based approach and DWT based approach, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm apparently preserves superiori mage quality and robustness under various attacks such as JPEG compression, cropping, sharping, contrast adjustments and so on.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1020-1026
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• 2016

Motion estimation (ME) algorithms supporting quarter-pixel accuracy have been recently introduced to retain detailed motion information for high quality of video in the state-of-the-art video compression standard of H.264/AVC. Conventional sub-pixel ME algorithms in the spatial domain are faced with a common problem of computational complexity because of embedded interpolation schemes. This paper proposes a low-complexity sub-pixel motion estimation algorithm in the transform domain utilizing shifting matrix. Simulations are performed to compare the performances of spatial-domain ME algorithms and transform-domain ME algorithms in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the number of bits per frame. Simulation results confirm that the transform-domain approach not only improves the video quality and the compression efficiency, but also remarkably alleviates the computational complexity, compared to the spatial-domain approach.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.689-694
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• 2011

Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems, which provide the basis for the synthesis of complex emergent behavior. This paper proposes a new algorithm of digital watermarking based on cellular automata transform (CAT). The idea of two-dimensional CAT is introduced into the algorithm. After the original image is disassembled with 2D CAT, the watermark information is embedded into the Middle-frequency of the carrier picture. Cellular automata have a huge number of combinations, such as gateway values, rule numbers, initial configuration, boundary condition, etc. Using CAT, the robustness of the watermark will be tremendous strengthened as well as its imperceptibility. Experimental results show that this algorithm can resist some usual attacks such as compression, sharpening and so on. The proposed method is robust to different attacks and is more security.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1331-1344
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• 2017

In this paper, data hiding algorithm using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Arnold Transform is proposed. The secret data is scrambled using Arnold Transform to make it secure. Wavelet subbands of a cover image are obtained using DWT. The scrambled secret data is embedded into significant wavelet coefficients of subbands of a cover image. The proposed algorithm is robust to a variety of attacks like JPEG and JPEG2000 compression, image cropping and median filtering. Experimental results show that the PSNR of the composite image is 1.05 dB higher than the PSNR of existing algorithms and capacity is 25% higher than the capacity of existing algorithms.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.33-43
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 이산 웨이블릿 변환(Discrete Wavelet Transform, DWT) 기반의 영상 압축기와 연동하여 동작할 수 있는 실시간 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 워터마크 위치 결정을 위한 계산량을 줄이기 위해 이산 웨이블릿 변환의 특징인 부대역간의 에너지 상관도를 이용하여 통계적으로 형성한 룩-업 테이블을 사용한다. 즉, 레벨-1 부대역의 에너지 값에 의해 레벨-3 부대역의 임계치를 룩-업 테이블에서 찾아 그 이상의 계수들에 워터마크를 삽입한다. 따라서 DWT 기반의 영상 압축을 위한 연산에 영향을 미치지 않고 워터마킹을 위한 연산이 병렬적으로 이루어짐으로써 실시간 워터마킹이 가능하다. 또한 손실 압축인 양자화 과정과 허프만 코더에서의 압축율을 고려하여 워터마크를 삽입함으로써 워터마크의 손실과 영상 압축기의 성능을 향상시켰다. 삽입되는 워터마크는 시각적으로 인지가 가능한 특정 로고 형태의 이진 영상을 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안되는 기법은 실험 및 결과를 통해서 워터마킹의 요구조건인 강인함(Robustness)과 비인지성(Imperceptibility)를 만족시킴을 확인하였다.