• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.1A
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• pp.89-97
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• 2002

This paper proposes the adaptive digital watermarking method for the ownership protection of images. The watermarks are inserted to a selected area rather than a whole area. The proposed method reduces the distortion caused by the watermarking process. To select the regions, roughness of the image should be considered because the watermarks in the smooth regions are easily detected through the human eyes. To find the rough regions, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) method is used. Generally, the high frequency regions of images are lost by the compression process such as JPEG. So, the watermarks are inserted to the low frequency regions of a selected area by using the proposed method. The proposed method reduce the image loss or distortion brought by the image processing, such as compression, filtering, scaling, addition of noise, cropping, and wavelet transform.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.5
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• pp.337-342
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• 2007

Multi-level has advantage to express image in all levels with different images. This paper proposes digital watermarking built-in technique to transform color image to YCbCr color space to guarantee robustness and imperceptibility of the watermark in the various expression of color images, and to hide multi-level data which shows spread spectrum from low resolution to whole resolution for the Y-signal of multi-level. In color signal, Y-signal and low resolution built-in watermark has risk to be visible, but it can guarantee the robustness of watermark in various colors and transformed images. As a result of the experiment, wavelet compression image with built-in watermark showed robustness and imperceptibility of watermark.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.2
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• pp.125-132
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• 2004

In this paper, a watermark inserting method according to the sensitivity of human visual system and minimizing distortion of original DCT coefficients in DCT transform domain is proposed. The proposed method inserts a more robust watermark in the insensitive block of human vision by reordering the blocks according to the human visual system which is appropriate to the JPEG image compression. It also enhances the invisibility and robustness in high compression rate in terms of the watermark inserting method within the block which minimizes distortions of original DCT coefficients. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method maintains high image quality and good robustness in high compression rate compared with conventional watermarking method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.49-56
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an efficient blind watermarking algorithm using wavelet transform. The proposed algorithm inserts watermark into the high frequency subbands that were transformed by 1-level wavelet transform of original image. Watermark insertion is achieved by exchanging each of the corresponding coefficients in the HL, LH, and HH, subbands according to the inserted watermark value. And watermark is extracted by the relation of wavelet coefficients without original image. Experimental results demonstrate that watermarked image has a good quality in terms of imperceptibility and is robust against various attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.13-19
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• 2000

With the rapid development of the information communication technology, more and more distribution multimedia data and electronic publishing in the web, has created a need for the copyright protection with authentication of digital information. In this paper, we propose a multi-watermarking adding and adaptive spectral watermark algorithm well adaptive frequency domain of each hierarchical using orthogonal forward wavelet transform(FWT. Numerical test results, created watermarking image robustness not only image transform such as low-pass filtering, bluring, sharpen filtering, wavelet compression but also brightness, contrast gamma correction, histogram equalization, cropping.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.487-490
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• 2001

With the establishment of the optimized copyright, digital image watermarking technique is demended to identify the owner of a certain image and to avoid the unauthorized distribution of digital image copies. Also, a robust watermarking approach should survive several possible attacks, such as image processing and lossy image compession. The proposed scheme distributes the 256 gray-level signature information in discrete wavelet transform domain of the host image where is very little visible distortion. While much of the privious work used signature data that is a small fraction of th e host images the proposed approach can easily handle gray-scale Images. As the result, stable reconstruction can be obtained even when the images are transformed, JPEG lossy compression or otherwise modified by low-pass filtering operations.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.2
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• pp.309-316
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method based on spread spectrum and a semi-fingerprinting system architecture that can be built using our robust watermarking method. Especially, we describe a method that extends the application area of watermarking technology to more practical application domains by applying the watermarking technology that has been focused mainly on copyright protection to fingerprinting area. Our proposed watermarking scheme uses the method that inserts more data by using random number shifting method. We improved the reliability of acquired data with 20-bits CRC code and 60-bits inserted information. In addition, we designed the system architecture based on the recommendation of cIDf (content ID forum) in order to apply the system on the semi-fingerprinting area.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.4912-4917
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• 2015

Fragile watermarking is a technique to insert a watermark into an image without significantly degrading its visual quality so that the watermark can be extracted for the purposes of authentication or integrity verification. And the watermark for authentication and integrity verification should be erased easily when the image is changed by filtering etc. In this paper, we propose a image block-wise watermarking method for image tamper proofing using digital signature. In the proposed method, a digital signature is generated from the hash code of the initialized image block. And The proposed method is able to detect the tampered parts of the image without testing the entire block of the watermarked image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.845-860
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• 2016

This paper proposes a digital watermarking scheme to protect the ownership of the freeview 2D or 3D image such that the viewer watches the image(s) by rendering a arbitrary viewpoint image(s) with the received texture image and its depth image. In this case a viewpoint change attack essentially occurs, even if it is not malicious. In addition some malicious attacks should be considered, which is to remove the embedded watermark information. In this paper, we generate a depth variation map (DVM) to find the locations less sensitive to the viewpoint change. For each LH subband after 3-level 2DDWT for the texture image, the watermarking locations are found by referring the DVM. The method to embed a watermark bit to a pixel uses a linear quantizer whose quantization step is determined according to the energy of the subband. To extract the watermark information, all the possible candidates are first extracted from the attacked image by considering the correlation to the original watermark information. For each bit position, the final extracted bit is determined by a statistical treatment with all the candidates corresponding that position. The proposed method is experimented with various test images for the various attacks and compared to the previous methods to show that the proposed one has excellent performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.378-387
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• 2003

Digital watermarking is the technique that embeds invisible signalsincluding owner identification information, specific code, or pattern into multimedia data such as image, video and audio. Watermarking techniques can be classified into two groups; robust watermarking and fragile(semi-fragile) watermarking. The main purpose of the robust watermarking is the protection of copyright, whereas fragile(semi-fragile) watermarking prevents image or video data from illegal modifications. To achieve this goal watermark should survive from unintentional modifications such as random noise or compression, but it should be fragile for malicious manipulations. In this paper, an invertible semi-fragile watermarkingalgorithm for authentication and detection of manipulated location in MPEG-2 bit-stream is proposed. The proposed algorithm embeds two kinds of watermarks, which are embedded into quantized DCT coefficients. So it can be applied directly to the compressed bit-stream. The first watermark is used for authentication of video data. The second one is used for detection of malicious manipulations. It can distinguish transcodingin bit-stream domain from malicious manipulation and detect the block-wise locations of manipulations in video data. Also, since the proposed algorithm has an invertible property, recovering original video data is possible if the watermarked video is authentic.