• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 효율적인 가역 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법을 사용하여, 커버 이미지에 은닉할 수 있는 저작권관련 정보의 양을 증가시킬 수 있다. 공간적 지역성과 표면 특성에 따라, 주변 픽셀들을 사용하여 픽셀 값을 정밀하게 예측할 수 있다. 예측된 픽셀 값과 커버 이미지의 원본 픽셀 값이 거의 같게 되면, 커버 이미지의 원본 픽셀 값과 예측 픽셀 값의 차이가 매우 적게 된다. 그러므로 차분 시퀀스에 대한 히스토그램의 피크 포인트에서의 빈도수가 크게 증가하게 된다. 따라서 커버 이미지에 은닉할 수 있는 기밀 데이터의 양이 크게 증가하게 된다. 실험 결과를 통하여 제안된 워터마킹 알고리즘이 기존의 알고리즘보다 우수함을 확인 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.666-679
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• 2018

The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has good multi-resolution decomposition characteristic and its low frequency component contains the basic information of an image. Based on this, a fragile watermarking using the local binary pattern (LBP) and DWT is proposed for image authentication. In this method, the LBP pattern of low frequency wavelet coefficients is adopted as a feature watermark, and it is inserted into the least significant bit (LSB) of the maximum pixel value in each block of host image. To guarantee the safety of the proposed algorithm, the logistic map is applied to encrypt the watermark. In addition, the locations of the maximum pixel values are stored in advance, which will be used to extract watermark on the receiving side. Due to the use of DWT, the watermarked image generated by the proposed scheme has high visual quality. Compared with other state-of-the-art watermarking methods, experimental results manifest that the proposed algorithm not only has lower watermark payloads, but also achieves good performance in tamper identification and localization for various attacks.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.303-316
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• 2021

Digital content protection has recently become an important requirement in biometrics-based authentication systems due to the challenges involved in designing a feasible and effective user authentication method. Biometric approaches are more effective than traditional methods, and simultaneously, they cannot be considered entirely reliable. This study develops a reliable and trustworthy method for verifying that the owner of the biometric traits is the actual user and not an impostor. Watermarking-based approaches are developed using a combination of a color face image of the user and a mobile equipment identifier (MEID). Employing watermark techniques that cannot be easily removed or destroyed, a blind image watermarking scheme based on fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCuT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) is proposed. FDCuT is applied to the color face image to obtain various frequency coefficients of the image curvelet decomposition, and for high frequency curvelet coefficients DCT is applied to obtain various frequency coefficients. Furthermore, mid-band frequency coefficients are modified using two uncorrelated noise sequences with the MEID watermark bits to obtain a watermarked image. An analysis is carried out to verify the performance of the proposed schema using conventional performance metrics. Compared with an existing approach, the proposed approach is better able to protect multimedia data from unauthorized access and will effectively prevent anyone other than the actual user from using the identity or images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1090-1093
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• 2004

In this paper, a problem of geometrically distorted images is considered. In particular, the paper discusses the detection of a watermark from a photographed image of the watermarked picture. The image is possibly obtained by using a digital camera. This watermark detection problem is made difficult by various geometric distortions added to the original picture through the printing and photographing processes. In particular, the paper focuses on the geometric distortion due to a projective transformation, as part of a camera 3D-to-2D imaging process. It is well-known that a cross ratio of collinear points is invariant under a perspective projection. By exploiting this fact, a projective-invariant digital watermarking technique is developed. By detecting the picture's corners, and the image center point at the intersection of two main diagonal lines, predefined cross ratios are used to compute the watermark embedded locations. From those identified embedding pixel locations, a watermark can be detected by performing a correlation between a watermark pattern and the image over those pixels. The proposed method does not require an inverse transformation on the distorted image, thus simplifying the detection process. Performance of the proposed method has been analyzed through computer experiments

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.1755-1759
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• 2004

디지털 워터마킹은 디지털 정보를 비합법적인 공격으로부터 저작권의 보호 방법중의 하나이다. 이기술은 어떤 파일에 관한 저작권 정보(즉, 저자 및 권리 등)를 식별할 수 있도록 특정의 데이터를 사람의 육안이나 청각으로 구별할 수 없게 삽입하는 기술이다. 본 논문은 JPEG2000 칼라 정지영상에 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 RGB칼라 영상을 워터마크 시킬 수 있는 워터마킹 기술을 제안하였다. 제안된 기술에 따라 워터마크 된 이미지에 다양한 공격을 적용한 후에 워터마크된 이미지와 추출된 워터마크사이에서의 유사함을 측정하고 연구하였다. 결론적으로 이지미의 PSNR 값은 파라매터에 의해 결정되며, 본 논문은 전체적으로 32dB를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

디지털 미디어와 통신 네트워크의 급속한 발전으로 적절한 지적소유권(IPR) 보호 기술인 데이터 인증방법에 대한 필요성이 절실히 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정보량이 많은 워터마크를 삽입하여도 워터마크가 삽입된 영상의 화질을 열화시키지 않고, 특히 영상의 일부가 제거되는 공격에서 강인성을 갖기 위해, 제안한 선형비트확장(LBX) 인터리빙을 이용하여 마킹 공간인 이산 웨이브렛 변환(DWT)영역의 자주파수 계수에 그레이스케일 워터마크 로고를 삽입하는 새로운 영상 워터마킹 기술을 제안하였다. 실험결과 영상절단과 영상회전 등과 같은 영상의 일부가 제거되는 공격에 대해서 특히 높은 강인성을 가짐을 검증하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1228-1231
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• 2002

Digital image watermarking scheme using adaptive block division is proposed. To increase the perceptual invisibility, the image is divided into blocks by local properties and the human visual system (HVS), then the significant blocks are selected in the divided blocks. The significant coefficient is determined by Weber's law in these blocks. To increase the robustness, low frequency domains of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) are used. The watermark is embedded into the selected significant blocks of the DCT's and DWT's low frequency domains with adaptive watermark strengths. The watermark strength is determined by the variance and the local properties of the significant block. The experimental results prove that the proposed scheme has a good robustness against several image processing operations (e.g. median filtering, cropping, scaling, JPEG, JPEG2000, etc.) without significant degradation of the watermarked image.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 디지털 매체의 저작권 보호하기 위해 비밀정보 분할(secret sharing) 방식를 적용하여 보다 효율적인 워터마크를 추출하는 기법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 원 영상을 DCT 변환한 후 주파수 영역에 (n,k)($n{\geq}k$) 비밀정보 분할 방식을 적용하여, 생성된 원 마크의 n개의 정보를 삽입하고, 추출시 마크의 n개의 정보들 중 k개만의 정보를 추출하여 마크를 복원할 수 있다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2007년도 동계학술대회
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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.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.