• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.367-372
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• 2003

The existing watermarking techniques for copyright protection of a digital image are fragile in geometric distortion and it is hard to detect whether it was manipulated artificially. In this paper, we proposed the new copyright protection system that can authorize a digital mage and :an embed or extract a robust watermark in a artificial manipulation in order to solve these problems. In a watermarking part, the proposed a watermarking technique embeds a watermark in a phase component after a Complex Wavelet Transform (CWT) with an original image, and a watermark is extracted from an watermarked image by stages. A copyright about an image can be insisted on than a threshold after comparing a correlation of an original watermark with an extracted watermark if large. In an authentication part of a digital image, EZW (Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) is used, and an authentication cord of an watermarked image is generated. An authentication code of an image to have been distribute to is compared with a generated authentication cord, and artificial operation isn´t than a threshold if large. The proposed copyright protection system through performance evaluation display that it was robust in geometric distortion and a artificial operation was able to be detected.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.861-869
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• 2003

The rapid growth of multimedia network systems has caused overflowing illegal copies of digital contents. Among digital contents, watermarking technique can be used to protect ownership about the image. Copyright protection involves the authentication of image ownership and the identification of illegal copies of image. In this paper, a new digital watermarking technique using HVS and adaptive scale factor based on the wavelet transform is proposed to use the binary image watermark. The original image is decomposed by 3-level wavelet transform. It is embedded to baseband and high frequency band. The embedding in the baseband is considered robustness, the embedding in the high frequency band is concerned about HVS and invisibility. The watermarking of a visually recognizable binary image used the HVS and random permutation to protect the copyright. From the experimental results, we confirm that the proposed technique is strong to various attacks such as joint photographic experts ground(JPEG) compression, cropping, collusion, and inversion of lines.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.552-558
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• 2009

We proposed a semi-blind digital image watermarking technique for copyright protection. The proposed algorithm embedded a binary sequence watermark into significant wavelet coefficients by using a quantization method. The main idea of the quantization method was to quantize a middle coefficient of the triplet of a significant wavelet coefficient according to the watermark's value. Unlike an existing algorithm, which used a random location table to find a coefficient in which the watermark bit will be embedded: the proposed algorithm used quad-tree decomposition to find a significant wavelet coefficient for embedding. For watermark detection, an original host image was not required. Thanks to the usage of significant wavelet coefficients, the proposed algorithm improved the correlation value, up to 0.43, in comparison with the existing algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.466-469
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• 2002

Using intelligent information contained within the speech to identify the specific hidden data in the watermarked multimedia data is considered to be an efficient method to achieve the speech digital watermarking. This paper presents the performance comparison between various types of speech codec in order to determine an appropriate one to be used in digital watermarking applications. In the experiments, the speech signal encoded by four different types of speech codec, namely CELP, GSM, SBC and G.723.1codecs is embedded into a grayscale image, and theirs performance in term of speech recognition are compared. The method for embedding the speech signal into the host data is borrowed from a watermarking method based on the zerotrees of wavelet packet coefficients. To evaluate efficiency of the speech codec used in watermarking applications, the speech signal after being extracted from the attacked watermarked image will be played back to the listeners, and then be justified whether its content is intelligible or not.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.493-497
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• 2000

Fragile watermarking is a technique far autoentication/integrity of digital data. Unlike robust watermarking, il has to design to be vulnerable against some slight processing to verify the modification of digital data. Feature of fragile watermarking is to identify the modifications of data and to locate some places modification occurred at the same time, so it has to identify slight changes of small range if possible. In this paper, fragile watermarking is proposed that the changes of small range on image can be identified using the watermark sequence with period and the values of low bit planes in an image.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.2893-2912
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• 2013

The design of geometrically invariant watermarking is one of the most challenging work in digital image watermarking research area. To achieve the robustness to geometrical attacks, the inherent characteristic of an image is usually used. In this paper, a geometrically invariant image watermarking scheme using connected objects and gravity center is proposed. First, the gray-scale image is converted into the binary one, and the connected objects according to the connectedness of binary image are obtained, then the coordinates of these connected objects are mapped to the gray-scale image, and the gravity centers of those bigger objects are chosen as the feature points for watermark embedding. After that, the line between each gravity center and the center of the whole image is rotated an angle to form a sector, and finally the same version of watermark is embedded into these sectors. Because the image connectedness is topologically invariant to geometrical attacks such as scaling and rotation, and the gravity center of the connected object as feature points is very stable, the watermark synchronization is realized successfully under the geometrical distortion. The proposed scheme can extract the watermark information without using the original image or template. The simulation results show the proposed scheme has a good invisibility for watermarking application, and stronger robustness than previous feature-based watermarking schemes against geometrical attacks such as rotation, scaling and cropping, and can also resist common image processing operations including JPEG compression, adding noise, median filtering, and histogram equalization, etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.792-795
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• 2004

Digital watermarking technology is one of method of protecting property from the illegal reproduction of digital data. This technology inserts the specific data in a certain file to identify the property, that is an author and rights, not for human to be seen and heard. In this paper, the watermarking technology which inserts a RGB rotor watermark in a JPEG2000 color image using the visual characteristics of wavelet coefficient was proposed. After applying various attack at a watermarked image according to proposed technology, the likeness between the original image, the watermark and the extracted watermark was measured and investigated. As a result, the PSNR value of image was varied depending on perceptual parameter, but we can obtain 32㏈ as a whole.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.1071-1074
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• 1999

In this paper, we present a multi-watermarking method for a copyright protection and confidentiality for an original digital image. One watermark is used for a copyright protection and another for a copyright protection and another for a confidentiality and a detection of unauthorized copies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.565-567
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• 1998

본 연구는 인터넷과 같은 가상공간에서의 칼라 영상 데이터에 대한 지적재산권 보호를 위한 Watermarking 기술을 연구하였다. 이미지에 Invisible Watermark를 삽입하였으며, 칼라 이미지를 압축, Filtering, truncation등과 같은 처리에도 Watermark의 내구성을 높이는 기술 연구에 중점을 두었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.454-457
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed digital audio watermarking algorithm for high quality audio. Nowadays, digital watermark used to confirm to digital copyright protection, not only digital image but also digital audio is active in the digital watermarking study. In this paper, we proposed digital audio watermarking algorithm using psychoacoustics model and MDCT/IMDCT (Modified Discrete Cosine Transform/Inverse Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) for the high quality audio watermark. In the proposed scheme, we used to 441KHz, 128kbps and stereo audio data for audio watermarking algorithm. Audio data is passed by MDCT; watermark can be inserted into the frequency domain with 256,1024 and 2048 interval.