• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2019

Digital image watermarking techniques have been studied in various fields in order to protect the copyright of multimedia contents mostly composed by images. JPEG compression is a representative copyright attack for image watermarking. The CRT-based watermarking methods in DCT domain have been studied, because these are robust for JPEG compression attack. In this paper, we propose a new method with improved performance compared with the existing CRT based methods in DCT domain. The proposed method selects the DCT block according to the denseness at the watermark insertion phase, and iteratively adjust the CRT Conditional coefficients at the watermark extraction. This paper shows that it is more robust for the JPEG compression attacks through experimental results.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.223-226
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a robust and fragile watermarking technique for tamper proofing of still images. Robust watermarks are embedded by quantization with a robust quantization step-size, and it is imperceptible value for human visual system. Fragile watermarks are embedded by thresholding and quantization with EW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) algorithm. The proposed method enables us to distinguish malicious change from non-malicious change. Futhermore this technique enables us to find tampering regions and degrees.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2001

디지털 워터마킹은 워터마크의 성질에 따라 강성 워터마킹(robust watermarking)과 연성 워터마킹(fragile watermarking)으로 분류할 수 있다. 강성 워터마킹은 저작권 보호를 위한 기법이고, 연성 워터마킹은 데이터의 인증/무결성을 위한 기법으로 데이터의 진위를 확인하는 수단으로 이용할 수 있다. 일반적으로 연성 워터마킹은 영상을 변조하거나 위조하였을 때 이전에 삽입되어 있던 워터마크를 검출할 수 없게 되면 영상이 변조나 위조되었다고 판단한다. 영상의 화소 값은 비트의 조합으로 구성되므로 영상의 변조는 비트의 변경을 의미한다고 할 수 있다 따라서, 본 논문에서는 상위 비트 플레인(bit plane)과 하위 비트 플레인의 변조를 판단하기 위해 2개의 워터마크를 삽입하는 연성 워터마킹을 제안한다. 실험결과, 영상에 삽입된 워터마크는 시각적으로 영상 내에서 확인할 수 없으며. 영상에 변조를 가하였을 때 변조의 위치를 확인할 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1080-1099
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• 2019

A better tradeoff between robustness and invisibility will be realized by using the just noticeable (JND) model into the quantization-based watermarking scheme. The JND model is usually used to describe the perception characteristics of human visual systems (HVS). According to the research of cognitive science, HVS can adaptively extract the structure features of an image. However, the existing JND models in the watermarking scheme do not consider the structure features. Therefore, a novel JND model is proposed, which includes three aspects: contrast sensitivity function, luminance adaptation, and contrast masking (CM). In this model, the CM effect is modeled by analyzing the direction features and texture complexity, which meets the human visual perception characteristics and matches well with the spread transform dither modulation (STDM) watermarking framework by employing a new method to measure edge intensity. Compared with the other existing JND models, the proposed JND model based on structural regularity is more efficient and applicable in the STDM watermarking scheme. In terms of the experimental results, the proposed scheme performs better than the other watermarking scheme based on the existing JND models.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.559-571
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 3D 애니메이션 콘텐츠의 저작권 보호 및 인증을 위하여 강인성 및 연약성을 동시에 가지는 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 3D 애니메이션 모델 상에서 기하 형상 노드 내에 소유권 주장 및 저작권 보호를 위한 워터마크를 강인하게 삽입하며, 위치 및 방향 보간기 노드 내에 콘텐츠 인증을 위한 워터마크를 연약하게 삽입한다. 본 논문에서는 전자를 강연한 기하학 워터마킹라 하고, 후자를 연약한 보간기 워터마킹이라 한다. 이들 두 기법들은 독립적이며 병렬적으로 동시에 행하여지므로, 3D 애니메이션 콘텐츠의 강인성 및 연약성을 동시에 만족한다. 실험 결과로부터 기하학 워터마킹에 삽입된 강인한 워터마크가 3D 콘텐츠 편집틀에서 제공하는 여러 3D 공격 행태에 대하여 강인성을 가지며, 보간기 워터마킹에 의하여 삽입된 연약한 워터마크는 동일한 공격에 대하여 연약함을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.794-799
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• 2008

This paper presents a user identification method at H.264 streaming using watermarking with fingerprints. The watermark can efficiently reduce the potential danger of forgery or alteration. Especially a biometric watermark has convenient, economical advantages. The fingerprint watermark can also improve reliability of verification using automated fingerprint identification systems. These algorithms, however, are not robust against common video compression. To overcome this problem, we analyze H.264 compression pattern and extract watermark after restoring damaged watermark using various filters. The proposed algorithm consists of enhancement of a fingerprint image, watermark insertion using discrete wavelet transform and extraction after restoring. The proposed algorithm can achieve robust watermark extraction against H.264 compressed videos.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.512-522
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• 2013

In this paper, the radius weight mean (RWM) and the feature-embedding technique are used to present a novel watermarking scheme for color images. Simulations validate that the stego-images generated by the proposed scheme are robust against most common image-processing operations, such as compression, color quantization, bit truncation, noise addition, cropping, blurring, mosaicking, zigzagging, inversion, (edge) sharpening, and so on. The proposed method possesses outstanding performance in resisting high compression ratio attacks: JPEG2000 and JPEG. Further, to provide extra hiding storage, a steganographic method using the RWM with the least significant bit substitution technique is suggested. Experiment results indicate that the resulting perceived quality is desirable, whereas the peak signal-to-noise ratio is high. The payload generated using the proposed method is also superior to that generated by existing approaches.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2008

본 논문은 DCT 질감블록계수를 이용한 강인한 블라인드 워터마킹을 제안하였다. 제안 방법에서는 다양한 외부 공격에 강인하도록 하기 위해서 $8\times8$ 블록 DCT 주파수 영역 계수 값의 절대값을 이용한 질감 블록 계수를 기준으로 $8\times8$ 블록 DCT의 직류성분에 모든 워터마크를 삽입하였다. 제안 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위해서 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과 제안 방법이 기존의 방법보다 비가시성 측면 및 다양한 외부 공격인 Dithering, Scaling, Cropping에서 매우 강인함을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권3B호
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• pp.557-564
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• 2000

This paper presents a watermarking algorithm for embedding visually recognizable pattern (Mark, Logo, Symbol, stamping or signature) into the image. first, the color image(RGB model)is transformed in YCbCr model and then the Y component is transformed into 3-level wavelet transform. Next, the values are assembled with pattern watermark. PN(pseudo noise) code at spread spectrum communication method and mutilevel watermark weights. This values are inserted into discrete wavelet domain. In our scheme, new calculating method is designed to calculate wavelet transform with integer value in considering the quantization error. and we used the color conversion with fixed-point arithmetic to be easy to make the hardware hereafter. Also, we made the new solution using mutilevel threshold to robust to common signal distortions and malicious attack, and to enhance quality of image in considering the human visual system. the experimental results showed that the proposed watermarking algorithm was superior to other similar water marking algorithm. We showed what it was robust to common signal processing and geometric transform such as brightness. contrast, filtering. scaling. JPEG lossy compression and geometric deformation.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.495-508
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• 2015

In this paper, a novel robust medical images watermarking scheme is proposed. In traditional methods, the added watermark may alter the host medical image in an irreversible manner and may mask subtle details. Consequently, we propose a method for medical image copyright protection that may remedy this problem by embedding the watermark without modifying the original host image. The proposed method is based on the visual cryptography concept and the dominant blocks of wavelet coefficients. The logic in using the blocks dominants map is that local features, such as contours or edges, are unique to each image. The experimental results show that the proposed method can withstand several image processing attacks such as cropping, filtering, compression, etc.