• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.2005-2021
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel image authentication scheme, aiming at tampering detection for block truncation coding (BTC) compressed image. The authentication code is generated by using the random number generator with a seed, and the size of the authentication code is based on the user's requirement, with each BTC-compressed image block being used to carry the authentication code using the data hiding method. In the proposed scheme, to obtain a high-quality embedded image, a reference table is used when the authentication code is embedded. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves high-quality embedded images and guarantees the capability of tamper detection.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.395-413
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• 2016

Image authentication is a technique aiming at protecting the integrity of digital images. Reversible image authentication has attracted much attention of researcher because it allows to authenticate tampered regions in the image and to reconstruct the stego image to its original version losslessly. In this paper, we propose a new, reversible image authentication scheme based on adaptive prediction error expansion (PEE) technique. In the proposed scheme, each image block is classified into smooth or complex regions. Then, according to the characteristic of each block, the authentication code is embedded adaptively to achieve high performance of tamper detection. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieves good quality of stego images. In addition, the proposed scheme has ability to reconstruct the stego image to its original version, if no modification is performed on it. Also demonstrated in the experimental results, the proposed scheme provides higher accuracy of tamper detection than state-of-the-art schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4588-4603
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a high-quality image authentication scheme based on absolute moment block truncation coding. In the proposed scheme, we use the parity of the bitmap (BM) to generate the authentication code for each compressed image block. Data hiding is used to authenticate whether the content has been altered or not. For image authentication, we embed the authentication code to quantization levels of each image block compressed by absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) which will be altered when the host image is manipulated. The embedding position is generated by a pseudo-random number generator for security concerned. Besides, to improve the detection ability we use a hierarchical structure to ensure the accuracy of tamper localization. A watermarked image can be precisely inspected whether it has been tampered intentionally or incautiously by checking the extracted watermark. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieved high-quality embedded images and good detection accuracy, with stable performance and high expansibility. Performance comparisons with other block-based data hiding schemes are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1684-1688
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• 2005

In this paper, authentication technologies for X-ray inspection images in container merchandises are introduced and a method of authentication for X-ray inspection images is proposed. Until now, X-ray images of container merchandises have been managed without any authentication of inspection results and environments, it means that there was no any action for protection of illegal copy and counterfeiting of X-ray images from inspection results. Here, authentication identifies that who did inspect container X-ray images and, whether the container X-ray images were counterfeited or not. Our proposed algorithm indicates to put important information about X-ray inspection results on an X-ray image without affecting quality of the original image. Therefore, this paper will be useful in determining an appropriate technology and system specification for authentication of X-ray inspection images. As a result of experiment, we find that the information can be embedded to X-ray image without large degradation of image quality. Our proposed algorithm has high detection ratio by Quality 20 of JPEG attack.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제18B권6호
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• pp.355-364
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• 2011

위변조되지 않은 고신뢰성의 영상이 요구되는 서비스에서 무결성을 인증하기위하여 가역 워터마킹 기법이 유용하게 적용될 수 있다. 콘텐츠의 인증을 위한 기존의 연구들은 워터마크의 제거후에 원본 복원이 불가능한 것이 많다. 가역 워터마킹 기법은 디지털 콘텐츠에 지각적 투명성을 유지하며 워터마크를 삽입한 후, 이를 아무런 손상없이 원본 상태로 복원할 수 있는 메시지 은닉 수단으로서 높은 품질과 높은 삽입용량이 요구되는 분야에서 다양하게 이용되어질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 차이값 히스토그램 기반의 가역 워터마킹을 이용하여 영상의 위변조된 영역을 탐지하는 블록단위 인증 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저, 영상의 각 블록에 대하여 DCT 계수에 기반하여 영상의 특징값을 추출하고, 사용자의 정보와 결합하여 영상 인증 코드를 생성한다. 생성된 인증코드는 가역 워터마킹을 통하여 콘텐츠 자체에 직접 삽입한다. 이와 같은 영상의 인증을 위해서는 추출된 인증코드와 새로 생성된 인증코드의 비교를 수행한다. 다양한 영상들에 대하여 비교 분석한 실험 결과에 따르면 제안한 알고리즘은 완전한 가역성과 함께 낮은 왜곡을 유지하면서도 97% 이상의 높은 인증률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.759-766
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• 2017

제안 논문에서는 의료영상의 다양한 공격에 안전하고 견고하도록 의료 영상을 일정기간 압축 저장해 디지털 콘텐츠에 투명성을 유지한다. 제안논문은 오리지널 영상의 특징 값을 추출하고 사용자의 정보와 결합해서 암호화된 영상 인증코드를 생성한다. 인증코드는 은닉된 데이터를 추출하기 위해 먼저 암호화된 의료영상을 복호화하고 영상의 공간 특성을 이용해 은닉데이터를 추출한다. 따라서 워터마킹을 통해 콘텐츠 자체에 직접 삽입 후 영상의 인증을 위해 추출된 인증코드와 새로 생성된 인증코드의 비교를 수행해 무결성을 보장하고 영상자료의 다양한 공격 안전함을 증명하고 인증률도 98.4%로 향상됨을 증명하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2012

An image authentication scheme for gray scale image through embedding a digital watermark by quantization of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) coefficients of the image is proposed in this paper. Proposed method is designed to detect modification of an image and to identify tampered location of the image. To embed the watermark mid-frequency band of a second level IWT was used. An approximation of the original image based on LL band was stored in LSB bits of the pixel data as a recovery mark for restoration of the image. Watermarked image has achieved a good PSNR of 40 dB compared to original cover image. Restored image quality was also very good with a PSNR of more than 35 dB compared to unmodified watermarked image even when 25% of the received image is cropped. Thus, the proposed method ensures a proper balance between the fidelity of the watermarked image and the quality of the restored image.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2008

In this paper, the proposal system can achieve the more safety of RFID System with the 2-step authentication procedures for the enhancement about the security of general RFID systems. After authentication RFID Tag, additionally, the proposal system extract the characteristic information in the user image for acquisition of the additional authentication information of the user with the camera. In this paper, the system which was proposed more enforce the security of the automatic entrance and exit authentication system with the cognitive characters of RFID Tag and the extracted characteristic information of the user image through the camera. The RFID system which use the active tag and reader with 2.4GHz bandwidth can recognize the tag of RFID in the various output manner. Additionally, when the RFID system have errors, the characteristic information of the user image is designed to replace the RFID system as it compare with the similarity of the color, outline and input image information which was recorded to the database previously. In the result of experiment, the system can acquire more exact results as compared with the single authentication system when it using RFID Tag and the information of color characteristics.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2004

본 연구는 이미지 합성을 이용하여 서버가 사용자를 인증하기 위한 알고리즘을 개발하고 이를 구현한다. 서버는 사용자가 소지하는 사용자카드를 랜덤하게 점을 찍어 생성하고, 각 사용자에게 배포된 사용자카드의 정보를 유지하고 관리한다. 한 사용자로부터 인증요청이 들어오면, 서버는 그 사용자의 사용자카드 정보를 기반으로 서버카드를 실시간에 생성하여 사용자에게 송신한다. 서버카드는 각 인증마다 다르게 생성되므로 원타임 패스워드 첼린지(challenge) 역할을 한다. 사용자는 본인이 소유하고 있는 사용자카드와 서버로부터 송신된 서버카드를 겹쳤을 때 생성되는 이미지를 판독하여 인증을 수행한다. 이 논문은 보안성을 높이면서 이미지를 선명하게 형성하는 기법을 제시하고 이를 구현한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.510-522
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• 2018

As the major source of information, digital images play an indispensable role in our lives. However, with the development of image processing techniques, people can optionally retouch or even forge an image by using image processing software. Therefore, the authenticity and integrity of digital images are facing severe challenge. To resolve this issue, the fragile watermarking schemes for image authentication have been proposed. According to different purposes, the fragile watermarking can be divided into two categories: fragile watermarking for tamper localization and fragile watermarking with recovery ability. The fragile watermarking for image tamper localization can only identify and locate the tampered regions, but it cannot further restore the modified regions. In some cases, image recovery for tampered regions is very essential. Generally, the fragile watermarking for image authentication and recovery includes three procedures: watermark generation and embedding, tamper localization, and image self-recovery. In this article, we make a review on self-embedding fragile watermarking methods. The basic model and the evaluation indexes of this watermarking scheme are presented in this paper. Some related works proposed in recent years and their advantages and disadvantages are described in detail to help the future research in this field. Based on the analysis, we give the future research prospects and suggestions in the end.