• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.85-88
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• 2000

With the rapid growth of network distributions of digitized media(audio, image, and video), there is an urgent need for copyright protection. For now watermarking is a well-known technique for copyright protection of digital data. To embed a digital watermark to the image, discrete cosine transform(DCT) and wavelet transform are commonly used. In this paper, the performance of the DCT based watermarking technique and wavelet based watermarking technique were compared and the influences of the parameter a that decides the strength of the watermarking data were considered.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.452-472
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• 2019

Most existing wavelet-based multiplicative watermarking methods are affected by geometric attacks to a certain extent. A serious limitation of wavelet-based multiplicative watermarking is its sensitivity to rotation, scaling, and translation. In this study, we propose an image watermarking method by using dual-tree complex wavelet transform with a multi-objective optimization approach. We embed the watermark information into an image region with a high entropy value via a multiplicative strategy. The major contribution of this work is that the trade-off between imperceptibility and robustness is simply solved by using the multi-objective optimization approach, which applies the watermark error probability and an image quality metric to establish a multi-objective optimization function. In this manner, the optimal embedding factor obtained by solving the multi-objective function effectively controls watermark strength. For watermark decoding, we adopt a maximum likelihood decision criterion. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method by conducting simulations on benchmark test images. Experiment results demonstrate the imperceptibility of the proposed method and its robustness against various attacks, including additive white Gaussian noise, JPEG compression, scaling, rotation, and combined attacks.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TE
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2000

디지털 워터마킹은 멀티미디어 데이터의 저작권 보호 목적으로 최근에 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 영상에 저작권 정보를 은닉하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 2차원 이산 웨이브릿 변환과 영상의 통계적 특성에 기반한다. 가우시안이나 라플라시안 워터마크를 웨이브릿 영역에서 중간이나 고주파 대역의 큰 계수에 삽입한 결과 라플라시안 워터마크는 잡음, JPEG 압축, 가우시안 블러링 그리고 에지 강조와 같은 일반적인 영상 왜곡에 매우 강함이 입증되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.1469-1474
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 기반의 이미지 워터마킹 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 방법은 원영상의 주파수 영역에 의사 잡음 코드를 첨가하여 워터마크 된 디지털 영상을 만드는 것이다. 또한, 원영상은 워터마킹 검출을 위해 사용되어지고, 부가되는 서명의 강도는 원영상에 따라 달라지므로, 적합한 신호를 제안된 방법에 의해 산출 할 수가 있었다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 주파수 영역에서 기존의 사설 방식에 비해 우수한 변조방지와 낮은 가시성을 보임을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.475-485
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• 2008

One of main issues in watermarking is to resolve the strength of watermark for solving the problem of trade-off between fidelity and robustness of watermarking. In the previous research, the strength of watermark has been resolved fixed value generally without considering local image characteristics such as image brightness, contrast, and edge. This paper proposes a new model to predict the strength of watermark considering local image characteristics such as image brightness, contrast, and edge for digital wavelet transform(DWT)-based image watermarking. For the study, psychological experiment was fulfilled to measure the human image perception and regression analysis showed the proposed model was statistically significant at the level of ${\alpha}\;=\;0.01$. Also the model is practically validated on fidelity and robustness of watermarking.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1019-1022
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• 2002

The current paper proposes a wavelet-based digital watermarking algorithm using statistical characteristic of image and human visual system (HVS). The original image is decomposed into 4-level using a discrete wavelet transform (DWT), then the watermark is embedded into the perceptually significant coefficients (PSCs) of the image. In general, the baseband of a wavelet-decomposed image includes most of the energy of the original image, thereby having a crucial effect on the image quality. As such, to retain invisibility, the proposed algorithm does not utilize the baseband. Plus, the wavelet coefficients on the lowest level are also excluded in the watermark-embedding step, because these coefficients call be easily eliminated and modified by lossy compression and common signal processing. As such, the PSCs are selected from all subbands, except for the baseband and subbands on the lowest level. Finally, using the selected PSCs, the watermark is then embedded based on spatial masking of the wavelet coefficients so as to provide invisibility and robustness. Computer simulation results confirmed that the proposed watermarking algorithm was more invisible and robust than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제4권4호
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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.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.179-188
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• 2018

This paper proposes a quick response (QR) barcode watermarking algorithm in order to improve readability of the QR barcode in a JPEG image. The proposed algorithm embeds a watermark in a wavelet based-low frequency band for watermark robustness, and visually extracts a QR barcode after embedding the QR barcode image with confidential information into the original image via imperceptible watermarking technology. The visually extracted QR barcode watermark uses an approach to authenticate the ownership more easily through a common hardware and software-based mobile barcode reader app. Therefore, the QR barcode watermark may improve the ability to easily detect watermarks efficiently as well as imperceptibility and robustness, which is the main watermark requirement by embedding the QR barcode with watermark text information in a digital image and when compare to conventional watermarks.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2001년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.629-632
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• 2001

본 논문은 최근 급격히 대두되어지고 있는 디지털 영상에 대한 워터마킹(Watermarking) 기법들중에서 웨이블릿 기반의 여러 가지 기법들에 대한 장/단점을 비교하였다. 워터마킹은 소유권을 주장하기 위하여 '워터마크'라는 디지털 신호를 영상에 첨가하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 워터마킹 기법들 중에서 웨이블릿 기법을 이용한 워터마킹에 대해서 국 내/외에서 주장되어진 여러 가지 예들을 가지고 비교함으로써, 보다 실용적인 워터마킹 기법을 제시하고자 한다. 실험 결과 제안된 여러 가지 기법들 중에서 보다 우수한 화질과 강인한 특성을 가지는 워터마킹 기법에 대해서 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.169-180
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• 2019

Transmitting visual information over a broadcasting network is not only prone to a copyright violation but also is a forgery. Authenticating such information and protecting its authorship rights call for more advanced data encoding. To this end, electronic watermarking is often adopted to embed inscriptive signature in imaging data. Most existing watermarking methods while focusing on robustness against degradation remain lacking of measurement against security loophole in which the encrypting scheme once discovered may be recreated by an unauthorized party. This could reveal the underlying signature which may potentially be replaced or forged. This paper therefore proposes a novel digital watermarking scheme in temporal-frequency domain. Unlike other typical wavelet based watermarking, the proposed scheme employed the Lorenz chaotic map to specify embedding positions. Effectively making this is not only a formidable method to decrypt but also a stronger will against deterministic attacks. Simulation report herein highlights its strength to withstand spatial and frequent adulterations, e.g., lossy compression, filtering, zooming and noise.