• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.452-472
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• 2019

Most existing wavelet-based multiplicative watermarking methods are affected by geometric attacks to a certain extent. A serious limitation of wavelet-based multiplicative watermarking is its sensitivity to rotation, scaling, and translation. In this study, we propose an image watermarking method by using dual-tree complex wavelet transform with a multi-objective optimization approach. We embed the watermark information into an image region with a high entropy value via a multiplicative strategy. The major contribution of this work is that the trade-off between imperceptibility and robustness is simply solved by using the multi-objective optimization approach, which applies the watermark error probability and an image quality metric to establish a multi-objective optimization function. In this manner, the optimal embedding factor obtained by solving the multi-objective function effectively controls watermark strength. For watermark decoding, we adopt a maximum likelihood decision criterion. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method by conducting simulations on benchmark test images. Experiment results demonstrate the imperceptibility of the proposed method and its robustness against various attacks, including additive white Gaussian noise, JPEG compression, scaling, rotation, and combined attacks.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.868-871
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• 2002

Nowadays, zerotrees based digital watermarking techniques are considered to be an efficient watermarking technique used for multimedia data in a compressed form. This paper presents a technique for watermarking an image, by employing zerotrees derived from the wavelet packet coefficients of the transformed image to carry the watermark signal. By setting a proper threshold in zerotrees determining process, the watermark signal can be recovered without the need of original image. With our proposed technique, more amount of watermark signal can be embedded within the image, compared to ordinary wavelet transform based techniques. The experimental results show the improved performance in both qualities of the resultant watermarked image and robustness of the embedded watermark signal against common signal processing such as brightness/contrast enhancement, high-pass filtering, Gaussian noise adding and JPEG compression scheme

• 대한전자공학회논문지TE
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2000

디지털 워터마킹은 멀티미디어 데이터의 저작권 보호 목적으로 최근에 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 영상에 저작권 정보를 은닉하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 2차원 이산 웨이브릿 변환과 영상의 통계적 특성에 기반한다. 가우시안이나 라플라시안 워터마크를 웨이브릿 영역에서 중간이나 고주파 대역의 큰 계수에 삽입한 결과 라플라시안 워터마크는 잡음, JPEG 압축, 가우시안 블러링 그리고 에지 강조와 같은 일반적인 영상 왜곡에 매우 강함이 입증되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.910-913
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• 2005

The use of digital imaging technique and digital contents based on internet has grown rapidly for last several years, and the needs of digital image protection become more important. For the purpose of copyright protection on digital image, the verification of authentication techniques like content authentication, ownership authentication, illegal copy and etc are needed. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermark into image, the sophisticated perceptual information should be used for providing transparency and robustness of images on watermarking process. In this paper, we implement the algorithm for preventing forged attack, ownership protection and authentication by transforming the wavelet algorithms in frequency domain in terms of human visual system.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.406-420
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• 2015

We present a secure and robust image watermarking scheme that uses combined reversible DWT-DCT-SVD transformations to increase integrity, authentication, and confidentiality. The proposed scheme uses two different kinds of watermarking images: a reversible watermark, $W_1$, which is used for verification (ensuring integrity and authentication aspects); and a second one, $W_2$, which is defined by a logo image that provides confidentiality. Our proposed scheme is shown to be robust, while its performances are evaluated with respect to the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), normalized cross-correlation (NCC), and running time. The robustness of the scheme is also evaluated against different attacks, including a compression attack and Salt & Pepper attack.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.717-720
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• 2006

The use of digital imaging technique and digital contents based on internet has grown rapidly for last several years, and the needs of digital image protection become more important. for the purpose of copyright protection on digital image, the verification of authentication techniques like content authentication, ownership authentication, illegal copy and etc are needed. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermark into image, the sophisticated perceptual information should be used for providing transparency and robustness of images on watermarking process. In this paper, we implement the algorithm for preventing forged attack, ownership protection and authentication by transforming the wavelet algorithms in frequency domain in terms of human visual system.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2014

최근 워터마킹 기술은 불법적인 디지털 콘텐츠 복사와 콘텐츠의 무단 도용을 막는 방법으로 주목받고 있다. 즉, 디지털 콘텐츠의 권리를 보호하기 위하여, 워터마크 이미지를 원본이미지에 삽입한다. 다양한 워터마킹 기법 중에서 개미알고리즘을 이용한 기술들이 연구되고 있으며, 본 논문에서는 개미알고리즘에 이산최적화 방법을 사용한 워터마킹 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 개미가 음식을 찾기 위해 페르몬 흔적을 �i아가는 방법과 유사하다. 또한 원본 이미지에 워터마크를 삽입할 때 장애물의 배치나 전체 이미지들 사이의 균형을 고려한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안한 방법이 기존 알고리즘을 사용한 워터마킹 기술과의 비교에서 워터마크 된 이미지의 강건성은 증가되고 워터마킹 인지성은 감소함을 보여 준다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1382-1396
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• 2017

In this paper, we analyze a recently proposed semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on local binary pattern (LBP) operators, and note that it has a fundamental flaw in the design. In this work, a binary watermark is embedded into image blocks by modifying the neighborhood pixels according to the LBP pattern. However, different image blocks might have the same LBP pattern, which can lead to false detection in watermark extraction process. In other words, one can modify the host image intentionally without affecting its watermark message. In addition, there is no encryption process before watermark embedding, which brings another potential security problem. To illustrate its weakness, two special copy-paste attacks are proposed in this paper, and several experiments are conducted to prove the effectiveness of these attacks. To solve these problems, an improved semi-fragile watermarking based on LBP operators is presented. In watermark embedding process, the central pixel value of each block is taken into account and Arnold transform is adopted to guarantee the security of watermark. Experimental results show that the improved watermarking scheme can overcome the above defects and locate the tampered region effectively.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.205-210
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• 2017

This paper presents a verification watermarking applied to healthcare information management. The proposed method uses the whole region based on the public-key cryptograph, which is transformed by the DWT transform to integrity verification. Furthermore, the public-key cryptograph algorithm is used for the embedded watermark image. We adaptively select the upper bit-plane including the LSB parts of each block when the watermark is inserted.

• 한국멀티미디어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2000년도 추계학술발표논문집
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• pp.493-497
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• 2000

Fragile watermarking is a technique far autoentication/integrity of digital data. Unlike robust watermarking, il has to design to be vulnerable against some slight processing to verify the modification of digital data. Feature of fragile watermarking is to identify the modifications of data and to locate some places modification occurred at the same time, so it has to identify slight changes of small range if possible. In this paper, fragile watermarking is proposed that the changes of small range on image can be identified using the watermark sequence with period and the values of low bit planes in an image.