• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.63-68
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• 2015

This paper proposes a robust multiple audio watermarking algorithm using improved QIM(quantization index modulation) with adaptive stepsize for different signal power and SVM(support vector machine) decoding model. The proposed algorithm embeds watermarks into both frequency magnitude response and frequency phase response using QIM. This multiple embedding method can achieve a complementary robustness. The SVM decoding model can improve detection rate when it is not sure whether the extracted data are the watermarks or not. To evaluate robustness, 11 attacks are employed. Consequently, the proposed algorithm outperforms previous multiple watermarking algorithm, which is identical to the proposed one but without SVM decoding model, in PSNR and BER. It is noticeable that the proposed algorithm achieves improvements of maximum PSNR 7dB and BER 10%.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.599-617
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• 2017

Due to the rapid growth and expansion of the Internet, the digital multimedia such as image, audio and video are available for everyone. Anyone can make unauthorized copying for any digital product. Accordingly, the owner of these products cannot protect his ownership. Unfortunately, this situation will restrict any improvement which can be done on the digital media production in the future. Some procedures have been proposed to protect these products such as cryptography and watermarking techniques. Watermarking means embedding a message such as text, the image is called watermark, yet, in a host such as a text, an image, an audio, or a video, it is called a cover. Watermarking can provide and ensure security, data authentication and copyright protection for the digital media. In this paper, a new watermarking method of still image is proposed for the purpose of copyright protection. The procedure of embedding watermark is done in a transform domain. The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is exploited in the proposed method, where the watermark is embedded in the selected coefficients according to several criteria. With this procedure, the deterioration on the image is minimized to achieve high invisibility. Unlike the traditional techniques, in this paper, a new method is suggested for selecting the best blocks of DCT coefficients. After selecting the best DCT coefficients blocks, the best coefficients in the selected blocks are selected as a host in which the watermark bit is embedded. The coefficients selection is done depending on a weighting function method, where this function exploits the values and locations of the selected coefficients for choosing them. The experimental results proved that the proposed method has produced good imperceptibility and robustness for different types of attacks.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.71-78
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• 2013

This paper describes a multiple audio watermarking using Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) on frequency phase and magnitude response. Proposed embedding procedure is composed of two stage. At the first stage, the watermark is embedded on the frequency phase response using QIM. In the second stage, the watermark is embedded using adaptive QIM with the step-size that is adaptively determined using the maximum value of the frequency magnitude response of every frame. The watermark is extracted by calculating the Euclidean distance as the blind detection. The proposed method is robust against most of attacks of audio watermark benchmarking. For the Fourier attacks, the proposed method shows over 95% recovery rate.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.303-307
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• 2011

This paper describes an audio watermarking using Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) on significant peaks in frequency domain. The audio signal is broken up into L samples length frames with non-overlapping and rectangular window. The zero-crossing rate of each frame is calculated for decision whether it is proper to be watermarked or not. If the frame is legitimate, frequency magnitude response is computed by discrete Fourier transform. For the QIM, we set the quantization step size based on maximum value of frequency magnitude response and select n significant peaks with w samples around them in frequency domain, totally $n{\times}(w+1)$ samples. Finally, watermark embedding is performed. Decoder extract watermarks based on Euclidean distance, that is a blind detection. The proposed method is robust against many attacks of watermark benchmark.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.54 no.12
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• pp.716-722
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose the audio watermarking algorithm based on the critical band of HAS(human auditory system) without audibly affecting the quality of the watermarked audio and implement the detecting algorithm on the BSS(broadcast synchronizing system) for testing the proposed algorithm. According to the audio quality test, the SNR(signal to noise ratio) of the watermarked audio objectively is 66dB above. In the robustness test, the proposed algorithm can detect the watermark more than $90\%$ from various compression(MP3, AAC), A/D and D/A conversions, sampling rate conversions and especially asynchronizing attacks. The BSS automatically switches the programs between the key station and the local station in broadcasting system. The result of reliability test of implemented system by using the real broadcasting audio has no false positive error during 30 days. Because of detecting once processing per 0.5 second, we can judge that the false positive error does not occur.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.64-70
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• 2013

In this paper, we suggest a new audio watermarking method for audio contents copyrights that can efficiently provide protection from MP3 compression attacks. Watermarks were inserted at the coefficients repeatedly from low frequencies to high frequencies after DCT transform in commonly used Cox's spread spectrum method. Because the methods using arbitrary coefficients are not effective, we use the new weight functions that make small losses for the watermark coefficients during attacks, using psychological acoustics. In the results of various sound clips, the suggested method had overall better outcomes than the Cox's method by preserving watermarks and reducing distortions of the original sounds.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2002

본 논문은 손실 압축(lossy compression)에 강인한 오디오 워터마킹(audio watermarking) 기술을 제안한다. 제안된 워터마킹 기술은 온라인으로 유통되고 있는 MP3, AAC, WMA, RA, ATRAC 등과 같은 대부분의 오디오 압축 포멧으로 변형되더라도 삽입된 정보를 검출할 수 있다. 실험 결과 BER 이 9% 이내로 오류 정정 코드 (error correction code)를 이용해서 삽입 정보를 100% 검출 가능하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.87-90
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 정현파를 이용한 spread-spectrum watermarking 에서 비가청성을 높이기 위한 방법과 효율적인 threshold 설정 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 spread-spectrum 기법을 사용할 때 계산량이 많이 요구되는 심리음향모델 계산을 피하면서도 가청잡음을 줄이기 위한 방법을 제시한다. 또한 outlier 를 이용하여 워터마크 검출에서 적절한 threshold 설정방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.71-74
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• 2000

최근 들어 디지털 워터마킹(watermarking) 기법이 디지털 멀티미디어 컨텐츠 저작권 보호를 위한 새로운 해결로 제시되고 있으며, 국내외에서 이와 관련된 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같이 최근 들어 많은 관심을 끌고있는 디지털 오디오의 저작권 보호를 위한 워터마킹에 대한 최신동향 및 재발된 워터마킹 기술을 소개한다. 개발된 오디오 워터마킹 기술은 원본 오디오에 비해 오디오의 품질이 떨어지지 않을 뿐 아니라 워터마크를 제거하고자 가해지는 다양한 공격에도 워터마크가 제거되지 않는 특징을 가지고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1264-1267
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• 2003

To protect the digital image, video and audio from non-authorized use, the digital watermarking technology has received a great attention in the field of multimedia in recent years . An overview of the development of watermark techniques is given in the current paper followed by a discussion of potential application of spatial domain, transform domain watermark techniques in remote sensing images copyright protection and verification in different forms of processed images.