• 서비스연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.71-81
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• 2016

Cover image에 데이터를 임베딩 하여 stego-image를 생성하고, stego-image로부터 cover image를 손실 없이 복원하며 임베딩 된 데이터를 손실 없이 복원할 수 있는 가역 데이터 은닉기법의 성능을 개선하는 효율적인 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법에서의 임베딩 된 데이터 크기는 이전의 기법에 비하여 더 크고, stego-image의 PSNR값은 48dB보다 더 크게 되는 것이 보장된다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 성능을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.85-88
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a technique for spatially encrypting confidential data into R, G, B planes of color image and extracting spatially encrypted confidential data. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified by mathematically analyzing the quality of the stego-image generated using the proposed technique. The proposed technique can hide confidential data securely into cover image by spatially encrypting the confidential data, and can extract confidential data from the stego-image. The quality of the stego-image created by applying the proposed technique is very good. The average value of the quality of the stego-image is 51.14 dB. Therefore, it is not visually recognizable whether the confidential data is hidden in the stego-image. The proposed technique can be widely used for military and intellectual property protection.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.256-270
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• 2014

A new morphed steganographic algorithm is proposed in this paper. Image security is a challenging problem these days. Steganography is a method of hiding secret data in cover media. The Least Significant Bit is a standard Steganographic method that has some limitations. The limitations are less capacity to hide data, poor stego image quality, and imperceptibility. The proposed algorithm focuses on these limitations. The morphing concept is being used for image steganography to overcome these limitations. The PSNR and standard deviation are considered as a measure to improve stego image quality and morphed image selection, respectively. The stego keys are generated during the morphed steganographic embedding and extracting process. Stego keys are used to embed and extract the secret image. The experimental results, which are based on hiding capacity and PSNR, are presented in this paper. Our research contributes towards creating an improved steganographic method using image morphing. The experimental result indicates that the proposed algorithm achieves an increase in hiding capacity, stego image quality, and imperceptibility. The experimental results were compared with state of the art steganographic methods.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.242-245
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• 2019

In this paper, watermark embedding technique was proposed to securely conceal the watermark in color cover image by applying the spatial encryption technique. The embedded watermak can be extracted from stego-image without loss. The quality of the stego-image is very good. So it is not possible to visually distinguish the difference between the original cover image and the stego-image. The validity of the proposed technique was verified by mathematical analysis. The proposed watermark embedding technique can be used for intellectual property protection, military, and medical applications that require high security.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2024

In this paper, we proposed an effective technique that uses location-based encryption technique and spatial encryption technique to improve security vulnerabilities in previous reversible data hiding technique that can hide twice as much confidential data as the NSAS technique. If the proposed technique is applied to hide confidential data in an image, the same amount of confidential data can be hidden compared to the previous technique, but the security of confidential data is greatly enhanced. By hiding confidential data in an image using the proposed technique, high-quality stego-image can be generated, making it impossible to visually distinguish whether confidential data is hidden in the image. Additionally, confidential data can be restored from stego-image without loss, and the original cover image can also be restored without loss. Through experiments, it was confirmed that when confidential data is hidden by applying the proposed technique, the quality of the stego-image is maintained up to 39.73dB, and the security of the stego-image is greatly strengthened.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권12호
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• pp.2340-2354
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• 2011

A new and secure image steganographic scheme based on nonuniform discrete Fourier transform (NDFT) is proposed in this paper. First, the chaotic system is introduced to select embedding points randomly in NDFT domain suitable range, and NDFT is implemented on every non-overlapping block of eight consecutive pixels. Second, the secret messages are scrambled by chaotic systems, and embedded into frequency coefficients by quantization method. The stego-image is obtained by inverse NDFT (INDFT). Besides, in order to discriminate tampers, the low frequency wavelet coefficients of 7 most significant bits (MSBs) of the stego-image are converted into the binary sequence after nonuniform scalar quantization. Then the obtained binary sequence is scrambled by the chaotic systems, and embedded into the least significant bit (LSB) of the stego-image. Finally, the watermarked stego-image can be obtained by a new improved LSB steganographic method. The embedded secret messages can be extracted from the watermarked stego-image without the original cover image. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed scheme, and dual statistics attacks are also conducted to indicate the security.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.116-121
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a highly secure watermarking technique in which the watermark is multi-encrypted using the R, G, and B component pixels of color image, and then the multi-encrypted watermark is hidden in the LSB of the color image pixel. According to the technique proposed in this paper, the quality of the stego-image created by hiding the multi-encrypted watermark in the LSB of the color image is so excellent that the difference from the cover image cannot be recognized. Also, it is possible to extract the original watermark from the stego-image without loss. If the watermark is hidden in the image using the proposed technique, the security of the watermark is maintained very well because the watermark hidden in the stego-image is multi-encrypted. The proposed watermarking technique can be used in the applications such as military and intellectual property protection requiring high security.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed a technique for hiding the double-encrypted confidential data in the image using the pixel value of the image and the spatial encryption technique. The proposed technique inserts encrypted confidential data into the LSB of an image pixel in order to maintain high image quality. The stego-image generated by hiding the encrypted confidential data has very good quality and is visually indistinguishable from the original cover image, so that it is impossible to recognize whether the confidential data is hidden in the stego-image. It is possible to extract the original confidential data from the stego-image without loss. By conducting an experiment on the proposed technique, it was confirmed that the proposed technique is an effective technique for the practical application of data hiding. The proposed technique can be used in applications such as military and intellectual property protection that require high security.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2022

영상의 히스토그램을 시프트 시켜 영상에 기밀 데이터를 은닉하는 가역 데이터 은닉기법들이 개발되었다. 이러한 기법들은 은닉된 기밀 데이터의 보안이 취약한 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위하여 픽셀값 정보를 사용하여 기밀 데이터를 삼중으로 암호화한 후 커버 이미지에 은닉하는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법을 사용하여 기밀 데이터를 삼중으로 암호화하여 커버 이미지에 은닉하여 스테고 이미지를 생성하면, 픽셀 정보에 기반한 암호화가 삼중으로 수행되었으므로 삼중으로 암호화되어 은닉된 기밀 데이터의 보안성이 크게 향상된다. 제안된 기법의 성능을 측정하기 위한 실험에서, 스테고 이미지로부터 삼중으로 암호화된 기밀 데이터를 추출하여도 암호화 키 없이는 원본 기밀 데이터를 추출할 수 없었다. 그리고 스테고 이미지(stego-image)의 화질이 48.39dB 이상인 매우 우수한 영상이기 때문에 스테고 이미지에 기밀데이터가 은닉되어있는지 인지할 수 없었으며, 스테고 이미지에 30,487비트 이상의 기밀 데이터가 은닉되었다. 제안된 기법은 스테고 이미지에 은닉되어있는 삼중으로 암호화된 기밀 데이터로부터 원본 기밀 데이터를 손실 없이 추출할 수 있으며, 스테고 이미지로부터 원본 커버 이미지를 왜곡 없이 복원할 수 있다. 따라서 제안된 기법은 보안이 중요하고 원본 커버 이미지를 완벽하게 복원하는 것이 필요한 군사, 의료, 디지털 라이브러리 등의 응용 분야에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose an effective reversible data hiding technique that increases the confidential data hiding amount of the NSAS technique itself by utilizing the characteristics of image. The proposed technique shifts the histogram using multiple zeros of the histogram and hides 2 bits of confidential data at each peak point. Using the proposed technique, the amount of confidential data that can be hidden is doubled compared to the existing technique, and high-quality stego-image can be created. Confidential data can be restored without loss from the stego- image, and the original cover image can be restored without loss. Through experiments, it was confirmed that the proposed technique can hide twice as much confidential data than the existing technique, and the image quality of the stego-image is very good with a maximum of 39.75dB.