• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.49-58
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a blind watermarking algerian to use characteristics of a scalar quantizer which is the recommended in the JPEG2000 and JPEG. The proposed algorithm shifts a quantization index according to the value of each watermark bit to prevent losing the watermark information during the compression by quantization. Therefore, the watermark is embedded during the process of quantization, not an additional process for watermarking, and is adaptively applied as a assigned quantizer according application areas. Before embedding process, a LFSR(Linear feedback shift register) rearranged the watermark for the security of the watermark itself and in the embedding process, a LFSR is used to hide the watermarking positions. Therefore the embedded watermark can he extracted by only the owner who knows the initial value of LFSR without the original image. The visual recognizable pattern such as a binary image was used as the watermark. The experimental results showed that the proposed algerian satisfies the robustness and imperceptibility corresponding to the major requirement of watermarking. The results showed the largest error rate to be $5.7\%$ for attack. The experimental result which compares the proposed algorithm with the Mohamed algorithm showed that the proposed algorithm was better than it, exactly $4\~5$ times for the attacks of JPEG and JPEG2000.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.21-31
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• 2001

In the PN-sequence based audio watermarking system, the PN sequence is shaped by a filter derived from the psychoacoustic model to increase robustness and inaudibility The psychoacoustic model calculated in each audio segment, however, requires heavy computational loads. In this paper, we propose an efficient watermarking system adopting a fixed-shape perceptual filter that substitutes psychoacoustic model derived filter. The proposed filter can shape the PN-sequence to be inaudible and enable to embed the robust watermark in a simple manner. Moreover, we propose an anchitecture for the PN-sequence compensation fitter In the watermark detecter to increase correlation between the watermark and the PN-sequence. With the proposed architecture, the blind watermark detection performance has been enhanced.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a new watermarking algorithm in which a watermark is created based on the energy of the original image and embedded into the image by replacement. The watermark is adjusted to have a certain proportional amount of energy based on one of the original image and embedded into the DFT magnitude component replacing original coefficients. This scheme reduces degree of quality degradation in a watermarked image by maintaining energy and strengthen robustness against attacks by embedding a strong watermark. From the result of experiment, we confirmed that the proposed algorithm had high invisibility of 47.6dB of PSNR and could reconstruct 98.9% of message on average.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.97-104
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• 2019

In the field of video watermarking, which adds a time axis to the watermarking of the existing still image, it is important to embed a watermark at a level that can claim copyright while minimizing the overall video quality. In this paper, we focus on the fact that B slices refer to blocks of I and P slices in the Random Access compression method of HEVC. Therefore, We propose that watermark is embedded only in I and P slices and extracted in I, P, and B slices. This can minimize the decreases of the overall image quality of the image and protect the copyright of the B slice without directly embedding the watermark.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.9
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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.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.13-17
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an audio extraction method to decrease the influence of the original signal by modifying the watermarking detection system proposed by P. Bassia et al. In the extraction of the watermark, we employ a simple mean filter to remove the influence of the original signal as a preprocessing of extraction and the repetitive insertion of the watermark. As the result of the experiment, for which we used about 20 kinds of actual audio data, we obtain a watermark detection rate of about 95% and a good performance even after the various signal processing attacks.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.719-722
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• 2001

최근 정지영상, 동영상, 음성 등의 멀티미디어 컨텐트가 디지털화 되고 네트워크가 발달함에 따라 영상을 포함한 멀티미디어 데이터의 접근이 용이해 졌다. 이러한 데이터의 불법적 사용과 인위적인 조작으로부터 소유권과 저작권을 효율적으로 보호하기 위한 워터마킹 기술이 많이 연구되고 있다. 일반적으로 정지 영상 및 음성에 대한 워터마킹 기술은 많이 연구가 되었지만 이러한 방법을 동영상에 그대로 적용하기에는 실시간 처리에 적용하기가 힘들다는 큰 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 비디오 신호에서의 빠른 처리과정과 실시간으로 워터마크를 삽입하고, 원 영상 없이 워터마크를 추출 할 수 있는 새로운 방법(Blind Watermarking)을 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 방법은 대역확산을 근거로 하여 워터마크 은닉 과정에서 치환(Permutation) 과정과 LSB 부호화 방법을 이용하여 비디오 시퀀스의 모든 I-프레임에 은닉한다. 복원과정은 모든 I-프레임에서 LSB 복호화와 역 치환 과정을 거쳐 본래의 저작권 정보를 추출한다. 제안한 방법을 여러 가지 동영상 비디오에 적용해 본 결과 기존의 워터마킹 방법보다 효율적이고 시각적 손상이 없었으며 빠른 실시간 처리가 가능함을 볼 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.176-179
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 3D 디지털 영상 컨텐츠의 저작권 보호를 위해 DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)를 이용하여 강인성(robustness), 비가시성(invisibility), 보안성(security)을 만족하는 블라인드(Blind) 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 깊이 영상 기반 랜더링(DIBR, Depth Image Based Rendering)에 효과적으로 대처하기위해 고안된 알고리즘으로, 랜더링시 발생하는 왜곡에 영향이 적은 1-Level DWT LH 부대역에 워터마크를 삽입하는 방법이다. 이 방법에서 저작권에 대한 판단은 추출한 워터마크 정보를 통합 판단하는 방법을 사용한다. 이 방법은 저작권 보호를 위해 원본 영상을 보관할 필요가 없으며, 깊이 영상 기반 랜더링 baseline distance 5% 공격에 좌,우시점 영상 모두 효율적으로 적은 에러율을 보이며 워터마크로서 충분한 강인성을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상 컨텐츠의 저작권 보호를 위해 DWT 를 이용하여 강인성(robustness), 비가시성(invisibility), 보안성(security)을 만족하는 blind 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 영상정보에 대한 변화를 원본 영상의 특정 부분에 국한하지 않게 하기 위해서, 특정 주파수 성분에 워터마크를 삽입하는 것이 아닌 전체 영상에 워터마크를 삽입하는 방법이다. 이 방법에서 저작권에 대한 판단은 추출한 워터마크 정보를 통합 판단하는 방법을 사용한다. 이 방법은 저작권 보호를 위해 원본 영상을 보관할 필요가 없으며, Gaussian filtering, average filtering, sharpening 의 영상 필터링, JPEG 손실 영상 압축, resizing, 영상 품질 향상을 위한 Contrast 나 histogram equalization 등의 공격에 충분한 강인성을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.169-174
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 패치워크 방식을 변형한 공간영역상의 블라인드 이미지 워터마킹을 제안한다. 패치워크 알고리즘에 기반한 기존의 방식에서는 샘플당 화소수가 1로 제한되었으나, 여기서 제시한 알고리즘에서는 1 보다 큰 샘플당 화소수를 가질 수 있도록 샘플 확장계수를 도입하여 기존 방식을 개선하였다. 또한 이미지 특성에 따라 워터마크를 삽입하기 위해 샘플군의 평균값에 비례하도록 워터마크 삽입강도를 조절하였다. 샘플 확장계수에 의해 샘플당 4화소 이상을 할당하는 다양한 조건하에서 모의실험을 수행하였고, 샘플 확장계수의 도입으로 인한 성능개선을 확인할 수 있었다.