• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.601-615
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• 2015

Region of interest (ROI) is the most informative part of a medical image and mostly has been used as a major part of watermark. Various shapes ROIs selection have been reported in region-based watermarking techniques. In region-based watermarking schemes an image region of non-interest (RONI) is the second important part of the image and is used mostly for watermark encapsulation. In online healthcare systems the ROI wrong selection by missing some important portions of the image to be part of ROI can create problem at the destination. This paper discusses the complete medical image availability in original at destination using the whole image as a watermark for authentication, tamper localization and lossless recovery (WITALLOR). The WITALLOR watermarking scheme ensures the complete image security without of ROI selection at the source point as compared to the other region-based watermarking techniques. The complete image is compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless compression technique to get the watermark in reduced number of bits. Bits reduction occurs to a number that can be completely encapsulated into image. The watermark is randomly encapsulated at the least significant bits (LSBs) of the image without caring of the ROI and RONI to keep the image perceptual degradation negligible. After communication, the watermark is retrieved, decompressed and used for authentication of the whole image, tamper detection, localization and lossless recovery. WITALLOR scheme is capable of any number of tampers detection and recovery at any part of the image. The complete authentic image gives the opportunity to conduct an image based analysis of medical problem without restriction to a fixed ROI.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.187-190
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a novel digital watermarking technique based on the concept of multiresolution decomposition and Human Visual System(HVS). Proposed watermarking is to embed watermark by quantization, that is to construct ‘perceptually lossless’quantization matrix, by using a quantization factor for each level and orientation and variance within a band. We compare our approach with another wavelet domain watermarking methods. Simulation results show the superior performance of robustness for variety image distortions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3475-3496
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• 2018

Most of current watermarking algorithms for GIS vector data embed copyright information by means of modifying the coordinate values, which will do harm to its quality and accuracy. To preserve the fidelity of vector line data and protect its copyright at the same time, a lossless watermarking algorithm is proposed based on storage feature in this paper. Firstly, the superiority of embedding watermark based on storage feature is demonstrated theoretically and technically. Then, the basic concepts and operations on storage feature have been defined including length and angle of the polyline feature. In the process of embedding watermark, the watermark information is embedded into directions of polyline feature by the quantitative mechanism, while the positions of embedding watermark are determined by the feature length. Hence, the watermark can be extracted by the same geometric features without original data or watermark. Finally, experiments have been conducted to show that coordinate values remain unchanged after embedding watermark. Moreover, experimental results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2984-3004
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• 2015

Designing a new reversible data hiding technique with a high embedding rate and a low compression rate for vector quantization (VQ) compressed images is encouraged. This paper proposes a novel lossless data hiding scheme for VQ-compressed images based on the joint neighboring coding technique. The proposed method uses the difference values between a current VQ index and its left and upper neighboring VQ indexes to embed n secret bits into one VQ index, where n = 1, 2, 3, or 4. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves the embedding rates of 1, 2, 3, and 4 bits per index (bpi) with the corresponding average compression rates of 0.420, 0.483, 0.545, and 0.608 bit per pixel (bpp) for a 256 sized codebook. These results confirm that our scheme performs better than other selected reversible data hiding schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.655-670
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• 2010

To be reversible as a data hiding method, the original content and hidden message should be completely recovered. One important objective of this approach is to achieve high embedding capacity and low distortion. Using predicted errors is very effective for increasing the embedding capacity. Sorting the predicted errors has a good influence on decreasing distortion. In this paper, we present an improved reversible data hiding scheme using upgraded histogram shifting based on sorting the predicted errors. This new scheme is characterized by the algorithm which is able to find the optimum threshold values and manage the location map effectively. Experimental results compared with other methods are presented to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3100-3116
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• 2012

Reversible data hiding enables the embedding of messages in a host image without any loss of host content, which is proposed for image authentication that if the watermarked image is deemed authentic, we can revert it to the exact copy of the original image before the embedding occurred. In this paper, we present an improved histogram-based reversible data hiding scheme based on prediction and sorting. A rhombus prediction is employed to explore the prediction for histogram-based embedding. Sorting the prediction has a good influence on increasing the embedding capacity. Characteristics of the pixel difference are used to achieve large hiding capacity while keeping low distortion. The proposed scheme exploits a two-stage embedding strategy to solve the problem about communicating peak points. We also present a histogram shifting technique to prevent overflow and underflow. Performance comparisons with other existing reversible data hiding schemes are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 JPEG 압축 영역에서의 리버서블 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 리버서블 워터마킹은 원본을 손상시키는 기존의 워터마킹과 달리 원본을 보존하는 방법이기 때문에 인증용으로 효율적이다. 인터넷상의 대부분 영상들은 저장 공간을 줄이고 통신효율을 높이기 위해서 JPEG과 같은 압축영상을 많이 사용하므로 JPEG 영상에 리버서블 워터마킹을 연구할 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 무손실 압축을 이용하여 워터마크를 삽입하고 워터마크를 추출할 때 원 영상을 복원한다. $256{\times}256$ 표준영상들에 대해 실험한 결과 QF(Quality Factor)가 75일 매 JPEG 영상과 워터마크가 삽입된 JPEG 영상의 PSNR(peak signal to noise rate)은 $38{\sim}42dB$이였고 워터마크 삽입 량은 $2500{\sim}3400bit$이였으며, Lena 영상에서 QF를 $10{\sim}99$까지 조절하여 실험을 진행한 결과 PSNR은 QF에 정비례함을 알 수 있었고, 워터마크 삽입량은 $1600{\sim}2800bit$였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.801-810
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상을 위한 공간 영역에서의 무손실 데이터 삽입 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 데이터 삽입 및 추출을 위해 위치 지도 등의 부가 정보를 삽입하는 대신에 단 한 개의 파라미터 만을 필요로 한다. 삽입 과정에서는 $3{\times}3$ 크기의 창이 대상 영상 위를 한 화소 단위로 움직이며 각 위치에서 한 비트의 데이터를 삽입 할 수 있다. 따라서, 이상적인 삽입 용량은 영상의 화소수와 동일하다. 또한, 추가적인 실제 삽입 용량의 증가를 위해, 삽입 대상 화소의 예측을 위한 새로운 계수를 적용하였다. 그 결과 기존의 방법에 비해 삽입 용량이 매우 큰 폭으로 증가하고, 고용량 데이터 삽입 시의 영상 화질 또한 향상되었다. 제안 방법은 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2006년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.33 No.2 (C)
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• pp.544-547
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 디지털콘텐츠 식별자 연계 표준인 UCI 정보를 이용하여 효율적인 디지털 콘텐츠의 관리가 가능한 무손실 비디오 워터마킹 기법을 이용하였다. 제안한 기법은 각 비디오 프레임의 히스토그램의 특정 구간의 화소값을 수정함으로써 워터마크를 삽입한다. 4CIF 크기의 테스트 시퀀스를 통한 실험결과 화질의 열화가 적으면서도 UCI 정보를 100% 왜곡없이 검출이 가능하였으며, 원본 디지털 비디오 콘텐츠도 모든 테스트 시퀀스에서 100% 복원이 가능하였다. 제안한 기법은 디지털 비디오에 UCI 정보를 직접 삽입하여 메타데이터가 없을 경우 콘텐츠만으로도 콘텐츠의 식별이 가능하고 콘텐츠로부터 추출한 UCI 정보를 통하여 효율적인 관리가 가능하면서 유사시 원본 콘텐츠를 손실없이 복원이 가능할 수 있어 영화, 방송 등의 다양한 비디오 콘텐츠의 관리를 위해 응용될 수 있다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.572-577
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel reversible image authentication method that requires neither location map nor memorization of parameters. The proposed method detects image tampering and further localizes tampered regions. Though this method once distorts an image to hide data for tamper detection, it recovers the original image from the distorted image unless no tamper is applied to the image. The method extracts hidden data and recovers the original image without memorization of any location map that indicates hiding places and of any parameter used in the algorithm. This feature makes the proposed method practical. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.