• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.2149-2154
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• 2015

This paper proposes a novel watermarking method to discover the tampers and localize it in digital image. The image which is to be used to generate a watermark is first wavelet decomposed and the edge feature from the sub bands of high frequency coefficients are retrieved to generate a watermark (Edge Feature Image) and which is to be embed on the cover image. Before embedding the watermark, the pixels of cover image are disordered through the Arnold Transform and this helps to upgrade the security of the watermark. The embedding of generated edge feature image is done only on the Least Significant Bit (LSB) of the cover image. The invisibleness and robustness of the proposed method is computed using Peak-Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Normalized Correlation (NC) and it proves that the proposed method delivers good results and the proposed method also detects and localizes the tampers efficiently. The invisibleness of proposed method is compared with the existing method and it proves that the proposed method is better.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.203-208
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• 2019

Digital watermarking was developed to protect copyright by discouraging the illegal copying of digital content. On the other hand, recently, watermarking has also been used to verify the integrity of digital content, such as medical images, and detect illegal manipulation or distortion locations. Watermarking should be tenacious so as to protect copyright from illegal copying and should remain firm to the content through a range of attacks, such as distortion or filtering. At the same time, however, it should be removed easily even in a slight transformation of the material to verify the integrity. Therefore, this paper proposes a watermarking technique that easily checks and verifies the deformation or manipulation of digital images. In the proposed method, the entire image was examined in $16{\times}16$ blocks to check for deformation of the image. When deformation was detected, further inspection proceeded in $4{\times}4$ blocks and the location where deformation occurred was identified.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

A wavelet-based image watermarking scheme is proposed, based on the insertion of pseudo-random codes in the frequency domain. The original image is required for the watermark detection. The "strength" of the signature to be embedded depends on the image to be marked, thus fitting signal capacity. The experimental results prove that the method is more tamper resistant and less perceptible for any type of images than other well-known private methods in the frequency domains.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.666-679
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• 2018

The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has good multi-resolution decomposition characteristic and its low frequency component contains the basic information of an image. Based on this, a fragile watermarking using the local binary pattern (LBP) and DWT is proposed for image authentication. In this method, the LBP pattern of low frequency wavelet coefficients is adopted as a feature watermark, and it is inserted into the least significant bit (LSB) of the maximum pixel value in each block of host image. To guarantee the safety of the proposed algorithm, the logistic map is applied to encrypt the watermark. In addition, the locations of the maximum pixel values are stored in advance, which will be used to extract watermark on the receiving side. Due to the use of DWT, the watermarked image generated by the proposed scheme has high visual quality. Compared with other state-of-the-art watermarking methods, experimental results manifest that the proposed algorithm not only has lower watermark payloads, but also achieves good performance in tamper identification and localization for various attacks.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2574-2576
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• 2004

본 논문에서 디지털 영상의 인증과 무결성을 확인하는 새로운 워터마킹 기법을 제안하였다. 컨텐츠에 대한 인증과 무결성을 체크하는 방법 중, 암호학적 해쉬함수(MD5)를 이용한 Wong의 방법이 인증과 무결성을 위한 워터마크 방법으로는 가장 적합하다. 특히 이 방법은 암호학적인 해쉬함수를 사용하므로 워터마킹 알고리즘의 안정성이 암호학적 해쉬함수의 안정성에 의존하게 되므로 안전하다. 해쉬 값을 계산하려면 법(modulus), 보수 (complement), 시프트 (shift), XOR (bitwise exclusive-or) 등 연산이 필요하다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 곱셈 연산만 필요로 한 산술부호화기법 (Arithmetic coding)을 이용하였다. 이 기법은 입력되는 심벌 (symbol)들의 확률구간을 계속적으로 곱하여 결과적으로 얻어지는 누적확률구간을 출력한다. 본 논문에서 키(key) 값에 의하여 심벌들의 확률구간을 결정하고, 그리고 키 값에 의하여 심벌들의 입력순서론 재배치함으로써 결과적으로 얻어지는 누적확률 값은 키 값에 의존하게 하였다. 실험을 통하여 본 알고리즘이 무결성을 입증할 수 있고, PSNR은 51.13dB 이상으로서 아주 좋으며, 위변조를 판단하는데 소요되는 시간은 해쉬함수 (MD5)를 사용하는데 걸리는 시간이 1/3배이다. 그러므로 실시간으로 사용 가능하다.