• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.637-645
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• 2022

Cloud computing has been gaining popularity over decades, and container, a technology that is primarily used in cloud native applications, is also drawing attention. Although container technologies are lighter and more capable than conventional VMs, there are several security threats, such as sharing kernels with host systems or uploading/downloading images from the image registry. one of which can refer to the integrity of container images. In addition, runtime security while the container application is running is very important, and monitoring the behavior of the container application at runtime can help detect abnormal behavior occurring in the container. Therefore, in this paper, first, we implement a signing checker that automatically checks the signature of an image based on the existing Docker Content Trust (DCT) technology to ensure the integrity of the container image. Next, based on falco, an open source project of Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF), we introduce newly created image for the convenience of existing falco image, and propose implementation of docker-compose and package configuration that easily builds a monitoring system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.6
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• pp.355-364
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• 2011

In most applications requiring high-confidential images, reversible watermarking is an effective way to ensure the integrity of images. Many watermarking researches which have been adapted to authenticate contents cannot recover the original image after authentication. However, reversible watermarking inserts the watermark signal into digital contents in such a way that the original contents can be restored without any quality loss while preserving visual quality. To detect malicious tampering, this paper presents a new block-based image authentication algorithm using differential histogram-based reversible watermarking. To generate an authentication code, the DCT-based authentication feature from each image block is extracted and combined with user-specific code. Then, the authentication code is embedded into image itself with reversible watermarking. The image can be authenticated by comparing the extracted code and the newly generated code and restored into the original image. Through experiments using multiple images, we prove that the presented algorithm has achieved over 97% authentication rate with high visual quality and complete reversibility.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.108-118
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• 2001

In this paper, the conventional deblocing algorithms are compared in each region of the image. Based on the comparison result, we propose a new deblocklng algorithm that can improve subjectives as well as the objective quality. Because the human visual system is mode sensitive to the blocking artifacts in the low frequency re91on, we compare the performance of several deblocking algorithms in 7he low and high frequency region separately. For this purpose we also propose an algorithm for classifying the region into low and high frequency ones. and propose a deblocking algorithm which is applied differently to each region. The result shows that the adaptive LPF method yields the best performance in the low frequency region in terms of both subjective and objective quality. Hence. by applying the adaptive LPF method to the low frequency region, the performance of conventional algorithms can be improved. In the high frequency region. it is observed that the DCT-based POCS algorithm provides the best performance. Hence, by combining the algorithm with the adaptive LPF method, the best objective performance is obtained.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.468-477
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel perceptual quality-based (PQ-based) video coding method with foveated contrast sensitivity (FCS). Conventional methods on PQ-based video coding with FCS achieve minimum loss on perceptual quality of compressed video by exploiting the property of human visual system (HVS), that is, its sensitivity differs by the spatial frequency of visual stimuli. On the other hand, PQ-based video coding with foveated masking (FM) exploits the difference of the sensitivity of the HVS between the central vision and the peripheral vision. In this study, a novel FCS model is proposed which considers both the conventional DCT-based JND model and the FM model. Psychological study is conducted to construct the proposed FCS model, and the proposed model is applied to PQ-based video coding algorithm implemented on HM10.0 reference software. Experimental results show that the proposed method decreases bitrate by the average of 10% without loss on the perceptual quality.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.833-839
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a selective feature extraction algorithm between Markov transition probability and co-occurrence probability for an effective image splicing detection. The Features used in our method are composed of the difference values between DCT coefficients in the adjacent blocks and the value of Kullback-Leibler divergence(KLD) is calculated to evaluate the differences between the distribution of original image features and spliced image features. KLD value is an efficient measure for selecting Markov feature or Co-occurrence feature because KLD shows non-similarity of the two distributions. After training the extracted feature vectors using the SVM classifier, we determine whether the presence of the image splicing forgery. To verify our algorithm we used grid search and 6-folds cross-validation. Based on the experimental results it shows that the proposed method has good detection performance with a limited number of features compared to conventional methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1347-1358
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• 2008

A blind video watermarking scheme for providing safety, authenticity, and copyright protection is proposed in this paper, which is robust to MPEG-4 SVC and multimedia transcoding. In proposed method, embedding and detecting of watermark is performed based on base layer with considering spatial SVC. To be robust from temporal SVC, our method embeds repeatedly a permutated character with ordering number per one frame. Also for robustness from multimedia transcoding and FGS, the method is embedded watermark in low middle frequency of each frame adaptively based on DCT in ROI. Through experimental results, invisibility of the watermark is confirmed and robustness of the watermark against the spatial SVC, temporal SVC, FGS and video transcoding between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 SVC is also verified.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.584-591
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a b1ocking artifact reduction algorithm using similarity and linear combination between blocks. In the proposed method, all of the blocks are classified into low frequency block and high frequency block according to the their DCT coefficients. And we defined range block which shows blocking artifacts, as block centered to block boundary and defied domain block as similar block with range block within search range. In the search procedure, we used sub-block's property of range block and similarity for more accurate searching. Finally blocking artifact reduction algorithm is performed using linear combination between searched domain block and blocky range block. The performance of the proposed method is investigated by computer simulation in comparison with the traditional methods. In the experimental results, Ire confirmed the better performance in the subjective by 0.04∼0.4 dB and objective image quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2003

A new quantization constraint set based on the theory of Projection onto Convex Set(POCS) is proposed to reduce blocking artifact appearing in block-coded images. POCS-based postprocessing for alleviating the blocking artifact consists of iterative projections onto smoothness constraint set and quantization constraint set, respectively. In general, the conventional quantization constraint set has the maximum size of range where original image data can be included, therefore over-blurring of restored image is unavoidable as iteration proceeds. The projection onto the proposed quantization constraint set can reduce blocking artifact as well as maintain the clearness of the decoded image, since it controls adaptively the size of quantization constraint set according to the DCT coefficients. Simulation results using the proposed quantization constraint set as a substitute for conventional quantization constraint set show that the blocking artifact of the decoded image can be reduced by the small number of iterations, and we know that the postprocessed image maintains the distinction of the decoded image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.27-34
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a combined region-based image retrieval system using EHD(Edge Histogram Descriptor) and CLD(Color Layout Descriptor) of MPEG-7 descriptors. The combined descriptor can efficiently describe edge and color features in terms of sub-image regions. That is, the basic unit for the selection of the region-of-interest (ROI) in the image is the sub-image block of the EHD, which corresponds to 16 (i.e., $4{\times}4)$ non-overlapping image blocks in the image space. This implies that, to have a one-to-one region correspondence between ELE and CLD, we need to take an $8{\times}8$ inverse DCT (IDCT) for the CLD. Experimental results show that the proposed retrieval scheme can be used for image retrieval with the ROI based image retrieval for MPEG-7 indexed images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.8
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• pp.101-112
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• 1999

In this paper, the codebook design method of VQ (vector quantization) is proposed an method to extract feature data of image for multimedia information searching. Conventional VQ codebook design methods are unsuitable to extract the feature data of images because they have too much computation time, memory for vector decoding and blocking effects like DCT (discrete cosine transform). The proposed design method is consists of the feature extraction by WT (wavelet transform) and the data group divide method by PCA (principal component analysis). WT is introduced to remove the blocking effect of an image with high compressing ratio. Computer simulations show that the proposed method has the better performance in processing speed than the VQ design method using SOM (self-organizing map).