• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1017-1030
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• 2012

Most watermarking schemes for video contents protection have been studied to increase watermark's robustness and invisibility against such compressions and many kinds of signal processing after embedding copyright information to the original contents. This paper proposes an active watermarking that infect watermark to contents in the video decoding process using embedded infectious watermark and control signals from a video encoder side. To achieve this algorithm, we design a kernel based watermarking in video encoder side that is possible to recover the original contents and watermark in watermark detection procedure perfectly. And then, by reversible de-watermarking in video decoder side, we design the active watermark infection method using detected watermark and control signal. This means that our system can provide secure re-distributions of video contents without any quality degration and watermark bit error against transcoding or re-encoding processing. By experimental results, we confirmed that the embedded watermark was infected by video contents and codec perfectly without any declines of compression ratio and video quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.127-133
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• 2007

We propose new reversible watermarking method for images. Being reversibility, original image and watermarked message should be recovered exactly. We propose different technique for hiding data to pairs. We use new type of histogram (pair histogram), which shows frequencies of each pair in image. We use histogram shift method for data embedding to pairs. We also propose improved version of method which allow hiding data with good performance for high capacities. This algorithm has better result compare to Tian's difference expansion method based on the Haar wavelet decomposition. For proposed algorithm capacity is higher under same PSNR.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.359-363
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• 2009

가역 정보 은닉이 되기 위해서는, 비밀 정보가 삽입된 컨텐츠에서, 삽입된 비밀 정보 뿐만아니라, 원본 컨텐츠를 완벽하게 복구시킬 수 있어야 한다. 이미지 상에서 가역 정보 은닉을 할 때, 데이터의 삽입 용량이 크고, 왜곡이 작도록 설계해야 한다. 본 논문은 삽입 용량을 증가시키기 위해 데이터를 삽입시키는 차분값으로서 예측 오류 값을 이용하였고, 왜곡을 감소시키기 위해서 차분값을 정렬하고, 데이터 삽입 시에 최적화된 히스토그램 이동을 이용하였다. 본 논문에서는 이 세 가지 기술을 조합하여 가역 정보 은닉을 하는데 성공하였고, 최적화된 히스토그램 경계값을 구해내는 알고리즘이 제시되었다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.61-64
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• 2018

In this paper, a pixel value prediction algorithm using edge components in three directions is proposed. There are various directional edges and similarity between adjacent pixels in natural images. After detecting the edge components in the x-axis direction, the y-axis direction, and the diagonal axis direction, the pixel value is predicted by applying the detected edge components and similarity between neighboring pixels. In particular, the predicted pixel value is calculated according to the intensity of the edge component in the diagonal axis direction. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively predict pixel values. The proposed algorithm can be used for applications such as reversible data hiding, reversible watermarking to increase the number of embedded data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.452-452
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• 2006

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.33-43
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• 2007

In this proper, we proposes a robust watermarking against the lossy compression in the Hadamard domain. The Hadamard matrix consists of only 1 or -1 and can be computed veru fast. The Hadamrd transform has the inverse transform therefore it is able to be applied into the watermarking technology. In embedding process, we select 10 coefficients from intermediate frequency domain and create two watermark patterns. In extraction process, we use the watermark patterns and compare them to detect the watermark information. When we use the standard image ($512{\times}512$) and binary watermark image ($64{\times}64$), the results of these examines are PSNR for $38{\sim}42dB$ and BER for $3.9{\sim}12.5%$. The JPEG QF between 30 and100, naked human eyes can detect to watermark image easily. The experimental results show that performance of Hadamard domain is better than those of DCT, FFT, and DWT.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.69-75
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• 2014

A novel reversible data hiding method using pixel value ordering and prediction error expansion in the sub-block is resented in this paper. For each non-overlapping $2{\times}2$ sub-block, we divide into two groups. In the min group, the lowest value is changed to embed a secret bit and the highest value is changed in the max group. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a good visual quality and high capacity. The proposed method can embed 13,900 bits on average, it is higher 4,553 bits than the previous method and the visual quality is maintained 31.39dB on average.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.27-36
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• 2006

Lossless data embedding is a method to insert information into a host image that guarantees complete restoration when the extraction has been done. In this paper, we propose a noble reversible data embedding algorithm for images in wavelet domain. The proposed embedding technique, which modifies histogram of wavelet coefficient, is composed of two inserting steps. Data is embedded to wavelet coefficient using modification of histogram in first embedding process. Second embedding step compensates the distortion caused by the first embedding process as well as hides more information. Hence we achieve higher inserting capacity. In view of the relationship between the embedding capacity and the PSNR value, our proposed method shows considerably higher performance than the current reversible data embedding methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.925-928
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 영상에 워터마크를 삽입하고 추출하는 동시에 원영상을 복원하는 리버서블 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘의 핵심은 워터마크가 삽입된 영상에 변하지 않는 위치정보를 전달하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 우선 원영상을 odd image와 even image로 분리한 다음odd image에 interpolation 기법을 이용하여 resizing시키고 resizing 된 영상(odd_resize_image)에서 기수항은 그대로 두고 우수항은 기수항과 우수항의 차이값으로 채우는 방법으로 location map을 얻는다. 이 location map 에 의해 워터마크를 삽입위치를 선택하면 추출과정에서도 같은 location map을 이용할 수 있기에 워터마크 삽입위치를 정확하게 판단하여 추출할 수 있고 동시에 원본 영상을 복원할 수 있다. 본 알고리즘은 영상에 변화를 적게 주었기 때문에 높은 비가시성을 보인다. 실험 결과 $256{\times}256$ 영상에서 PSNR이 평균 53.07dB의 우수한 비가시성을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.921-924
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 이미지 인증을 위해 삽입한 워터마크로 인해 발생한 영상 정보의 손실을 워터마크 추출 후 제거하여 원영상으로 복원할 수 있는 리버서블 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 Lee.S.K.[4]의 알고리즘이 지니는 플립 현상을 제거하기 위해 Location Map을 이용하여 워터마크를 삽입한다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘은 평균 52.06dB의 PSNR을 보여 우수한 비가시성을 나타냈으며, $6k{\sim}30k$ bits의 높은 정보 삽입량을 보여 이미지 인증 응용에 적합함을 확인할 수 있었다.