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Watermarking of Gray Logo & Color Image based on Human Visual System

인간시각 시스템 기반의 그레이로고 & 컬러 이미지의 워터마킹

  • 노진수 (조선대학교 대학원) ;
  • 신광규 (조선대학교 대학원) ;
  • 이강현 (조선대학교 전자정보공과대학 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2005.05.01
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Abstract

Recently, The wide range of the Internet applications and the related technology developments enabled the ease use of the digital multimedia contents (fixed images, movies, digital audios). However, due to the replay ability which the contents may be easily duplicated and not only the duplicates are capable of providing the same original quality. There are mainly the encipher techniques and the watermarking techniques which are studied and used as solutions for the above problem in order to protect the license holders' rights. To the protection of the IP(Intellectual Property) rights of the owner, digital watermarking is the technique that authenticates the legal copyrighter. This paper proposed the watermarking algorithms to watermark the 256 gray logo image and the color image by applying the wavelet transformation to the color stand-still images. The proposed algorithms conducted the watermark insertion at the LH frequency region among the wavelet transformation regions (LL, LH, HL, HH). The interleaving algorithms which applied in data communication was applied to the watermark. the amount of watermark increased which consequently caused the PSNR to decrease but this might provide the perseverance against the external attacks such as extraction, filtering, and crop.

최근 인터넷의 광범위한 보급과 연결 응용 프로그램들의 개발에 따라 디지털 멀티미디어 자료(사진, 영화, 디지털오디오)의 보급 및 사용이 쉬워지고 있다. 그렇지만, 디지털 신호는 복제가 용이하고 복제된 데이터가 원 데이터와 동일한 품질을 가질 수 있다. 이러한 문제점의 해결방안으로써 연구되거나 사용되고 있는 저작권 보호방법은 크게 암호화(encipher)에 의한 방법과 워터마킹(watermarking) 기술을 사용한 방법이 있다. 디지털 워터마킹은 지적재산권의 보호와 올바른 멀티미디어 자료의 소유권자를 인증하기 위해 사용되어진다. 본 논문은 컬러 정지영상에 웨이블렛 변환을 사용하여 256 그레이 로고 이미지와 컬러 이미지를 워터마크 시킬 수 있는 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 웨이블렛 변환 영역(LL, LH, HL, HH) 중 LH 주파수 영역에 워터마크를 삽입시켰으며, 워터마크에 데이터 통신에 사용되는 인터리빙 알고리즘을 적용시켜 워터마크 데이터량이 증가하여 PSNR이 감소하나 압축, 필터링, crop 등의 외부공격에 강인성을 가지게 된다.

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