• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2016

The information is to be considered as important part of any network, the communication nodes within network can able to communicate and transmit information by the means of configured LAN/WAN, or/and using internet technology. Thus, vast enhancement has been made in- exchanging of information over transmission media, this should be beneficial in various disciplines of modern client/server applications but at other side, several massive vulnerabilities have been directly/in-directly associated with them. To resolve the security issues, a security mechanism is proposed which hide the sensitive information of images before transmitting to networks. Random size image samples have used and encrypted to protect them from unauthorized entities. The encryption mechanism manipulates the sample images, and corresponding secret codes are generated which help to protect the images from adversaries. To provide an indestructible security mechanism, cryptography algorithms are deployed and considered as best solutions to keep the secret information of images.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2024

In this paper, we propose a novel robust blind crypto-watermarking method for medical images security based on hiding of DICOM patient information (patient name, age...) in the medical imaging. The DICOM patient information is encrypted using the AES standard algorithm before its insertion in the medical image. The cover image is divided in blocks of 8x8, in each we insert 1-bit of the encrypted watermark in the hybrid transform domain by applying respectively the 2D-LWT (Lifting wavelet transforms), the 2D-DCT (discrete cosine transforms), and the SVD (singular value decomposition). The scheme is tested by applying various attacks such as noise, filtering and compression. Experimental results show that no visible difference between the watermarked images and the original images and the test against attack shows the good robustness of the proposed algorithm.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.472-476
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 이진 이미지 기반의 간단하고 사용자 친화적인 (n,n) 시각 비밀 분산 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 간단한 XOR 연산과 NOT 연산만을 이용하여 사용자 친화적인 이미지들 내에 숨기고자 하는 비밀 이미지 정보를 분산해서 숨기는 기법으로, 효율적인 숨김(em-bedding)과 복원(reconstruction) 알고리즘 제공, 비밀 이미지의 손실없는 완벽한 복원 기능 제공, 사용자 친화적인 의미있는 이미지들을 공유함으로써 자신이 속해있는 그룹을 쉽게 구분할 수 있는 기능 제공, 그리고 기존의 방법과 달리 원본 커버 이미지와 같은 크기의 비밀 이미지를 공유할 수 있는 등의 시각 비밀 분산 방법이 갖추어야하는 많은 장점들을 가진다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.289-294
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• 2019

As social network service platforms grow and one-person media market expands, people upload their own photos and/or videos through multiple open platforms. However, it can be illegal to upload the digital contents containing the faces of others on the public sites without their permission. Therefore, many people are spending much time and effort in editing such digital contents so that the faces of others should not be exposed to the public. In this paper, we propose an automatic face hiding system called 'autoblur', which detects all the unregistered faces and mosaic them automatically. The system has been implemented using the GitHub MIT open-source 'Face Recognition' which is based on deep learning technology. In this system, two dozens of face images of the user are taken from different angles to register his/her own face. Once the face of the user is learned and registered, the system detects all the other faces for the given photo or video and then blurs them out. Our experiments show that it produces quick and correct results for the sample photos.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2015

스테가노그래피는 비밀 데이터가 숨겨져 있다는 그 자체를 숨기는 방법을 말한다. Emulab은 연구자가 언제든지 원하는 운영체제 시스템과 네트워크 토폴리지를 구성할 수 있도록 제공하는 프레임워크이다. 본 논문에서는 Emulab 환경에서 스테가노그래피 기법을 처음으로 적용하여 분산 처리가 가능함을 보이고자 한다. 칼라 비트맵 이미지를 사용하여 Emulab 환경에서 한대의 서버와 여러 대의 클라이언트별로 나누어 처리하게 함으로써 알고리즘의 성능을 평가한다. 커버 이미지로 사용하는 칼라 이미지는 RGB 영역으로 각각 나누어지고, 각각의 영역에 대해서 비밀 데이터를 각 클라이언트에서 분산처리하게 하고, 성능을 비교하게 된다. 실험결과에서는 커버 이미지의 크기가 증가함에 따라 클라이언트/서버 구조를 가진 Emulab 환경에서 실행 시간이 지속적으로 향상됨을 보여주고 있다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.163-169
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a data hiding technique that effectively hides confidential data in the LSB of an image pixel by using the characteristics of the neighboring pixels of the image and the encryption techniques. In the proposed technique, the boundary surface of the image and the flat surface with little change in pixel values are investigated. At the boundary surface of the image, 1 bit of confidential data is encrypted and hidden in the LSB of the boundary pixel to preserve the characteristics of the boundary surface. In the pixels of the plane where the change in pixel value is small, 2 bits secret data is encrypted and hidden in the lower 2 bits of the corresponding pixel. In this way, when confidential data is hidden in an image, the amount of confidential data hidden in the image is greatly increased while maintaining excellent image quality. In addition, the security of hidden confidential data is strongly maintained. When confidential data is hidden by applying the proposed technique, the amount of confidential data concealed increases by up to 92.2% compared to the existing LSB method. The proposed technique can be effectively used to hide copyright information in commercial images.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1332-1341
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• 2015

This paper proposes a novel reversible secret sharing scheme using AES algorithm in encrypted images. In the proposed scheme, a role of the dealer is divided into an image provider and a data hider. The image provider encrypts the cover image with a shared secret key and sends it to the dealer. The dealer embeds the secret data into the encrypted image and transmits encrypted shadow images to the corresponding participants. We utilize Galois polynomial arithmetic operation over 2⁸ and the coefficient of the higher-order term is fixed to one in order to prevent the overflow. In experimental results, we demonstrate that the PSNR is sustained close to 44dB and the embedding capacity is 524,288 bits.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.109-119
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• 2021

Self-recovery is a tamper-detection and image recovery methods based on data hiding. It generates two types of data and embeds them into the original image: authentication data for tamper detection and reference data for image recovery. In this paper, a region-based scalable self-recovery (RSS) method is proposed for salient-object images. As the images consist of two main regions, the region of interest (ROI) and the region of non-interest (RONI), the proposed method is aimed at achieving higher reconstruction quality for the ROI. Moreover, tamper tolerability is improved by using scalable recovery. In the RSS method, separate reference data are generated for the ROI and RONI. Initially, two compressed bitstreams at different rates are generated using the embedded zero-block coding source encoder. Subsequently, each bitstream is divided into several parts, which are protected through various redundancy rates, using the Reed-Solomon channel encoder. The proposed method is tested on 10 000 salient-object images from the MSRA database. The results show that the RSS method, compared to related methods, improves reconstruction quality and tamper tolerability by approximately 30% and 15%, respectively.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2012

본 논문은 커버 영상으로부터 스테고 영상의 검출율을 높이기 위한 개선된 스테그분석 기법을 제안한다. 스테그분석에서 스테고 영상의 검출율을 높이려면 데이터 은닉에 의해 야기되는 작은 변화가 증폭되어야 한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 두 단계의 방법을 통해 커버 영상과 스테고 영상의 특징 벡터를 추출한다. 먼저 스테고 잡음을 두배 이상 확대하기 위해 주어진 영상을 상위 4비트와 하위 4비트로 각각 분해한다. 각 분해된 영상에 대하여 3-레벨 Haar 웨이블릿 변환을 통해 총 12개의 부밴드를 생성하고, 생성된 부밴드에 대하여 동일 스케일 상에서 다른 부밴드 계수간의 동시발생 확률을 구한다. 웨이블릿 영역에서 부 밴드간 계수의 동시발생 확률은 데이터 은닉에 의해 상관성에 영향을 받게 되므로 커버 및 스테고 영상을 구분하기 위한 특징으로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 동시발생 확률의 특성함수에 대한 모멘트를 구하여 특징 벡터로 사용한다. 추출된 특징 벡터는 신경망회로망 분류기를 사용하여 커버 영상과 스테고 영상을 학습하고 판별한다. 제안 방법의 성능평가를 위해 S-tool에 의한 LSB 및 COX의 SS, F5 임베딩 방법에 의한 다양한 삽입률의 스테고 영상을 사용하였으며, 실험결과 제안한 기법은 기존의 기법에 비해 비밀 메시지 삽입 유무의 검출율을 향상시킬 뿐만 아니라 판별의 정확도가 높음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.148-153
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• 2007

This paper deals with implementing a steganography based multi-modal biometric system. For this purpose, we construct a multi-biometrics system based on the face and iris recognition. Here, the feature vector of iris pattern is hidden in the face image. The recognition system is designed by the fuzzy-based Linear Discriminant Analysis(LDA), which is an expanded approach of the LDA method combined by the theory of fuzzy sets. Furthermore, we present a watermarking method that can embed iris information into face images. Finally, we show the advantages of the proposed watermarking scheme by computing the ROC curves and make some comparisons recognition rates of watermarked face images with those of original ones. From various experiments, we found that our proposed scheme could be used for establishing efficient and secure multi-modal biometric systems.