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An Embedded Watermark into Multiple Lower Bitplanes of Digital Image

디지털 영상의 다중 하위 비트플랜에 삽입되는 워터마크

  • Rhee, Kang-Hyeon (Dept. of Electronic Eng., College of Elec-Info Eng., Chosun University)
  • 이강현 (조선대학교 전자정보공과대학 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2006.11.25
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Abstract

Recently, according to the number of internet in widely use and the development of the related application program, the distribution and use of multimedia content(text, images, video, audio etc.) is very easy. Digital signal may be easily duplicated and the duplicated data can have same quality of original data so that it is difficult to warrant original owner. For the solution of this problem, the protection method of copyright which is encipher and watermarking. Digital watermarking is used to protect IP(Intellectual Property) and authenticate the owner of multimedia content. In this paper, the proposed watermarking algerian embeds watermark into multiple lower bitplanes of digital image. In the proposed algorithm, original and watermark images are decomposed to bitplanes each other and the watermarking operation is executed in the corresponded bitplane. The position of watermark image embedded in each bitplane is used to the watermarking key and executed in multiple lower bitplane which has no an influence on human visual recognition. Thus this algorithm can present watermark image to the multiple inherent patterns and needs small watermarking quantity. In the experiment, the author confirmed that it has high robustness against attacks of JPEG, MEDIAN and PSNR but it is weakness against attacks of NOISE, RNDDIST, ROT, SCALE, SS on spatial domain when a criterion PSNR of watermarked image is 40dB.

최근 인터넷의 광범위한 보급과 관련 응용 프로그램들의 개발에 따라 멀티미디어 자료(텍스트, 영상, 비디오, 오디오 등)의 배포와 사용이 용이하다. 디지털 신호는 복제가 용이하고 복제된 데이터는 원 데이터와 동일한 품질을 가질 수 있어서 원 소유자의 보증이 어렵다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하는 저작권 보호 방법은 암호화(encipher) 및 워터마킹(watermarking) 기술이 있다. 디지털 워터마킹은 지적재산권의 보호와 멀티미디어 콘텐츠의 소유권자를 인증하기 위해 사용된다. 본 논문은 디지털 영상의 다중 하위 비트플랜에 워터마크를 삽입하는 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 원 영상과 워터마크 영상을 각각 비트플랜으로 분해하여 대응되는 각각의 비트플랜에서 워터마킹 연산이 수행된다. 각 비트플랜에서 삽입되는 워터마크 영상의 위치는 워터마킹 키(key)로 사용하며, 인간 시각인지에 거의 영향이 없는 다중 하위 비트플랜에서 실행된다. 따라서 워터마크 영상의 다중적 고유 패턴 표현과 적은 워터마킹 정보량이 필요하다. 실험을 통하여 워터마크 된 영상의 PSNR을 40dB로 평가 기준을 할 때, JPEG, MEDIAN, PSNR 공격에는 높은 강인성을 갖는 반면, 공간 영역에서의 NOISE, RNDDIST, ROT, SCALE, SS 공격에는 취약 한 결과를 갖는다.

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