• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1427-1438
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• 2007

Video watermarking technologies are classified into types of four kinds. The first type is to embed the watermark into a raw video signal and to code the watermarked video signal. Most of video watermarking technologies fall into the category of this type. The second type is to apply watermarking to the coding process, such as block DCT and quantization. The third is to directly embed the watermark into the compressed bitstream itself. Generally, it is referred as labelling rather than watermarking. Finally, the fourth is to embed the water mark into MPEG motion vector. This type has the difficulty in real-time process because of the high complexity and has the blocking effects because of DCT-based on coder. In this paper, we proposed the digital video watermarking that embed the watermark in SPIHT video code for I-frame using motion vector analysis. This method can remove the blocking effect occurred at the DCT-based on coder and obtain video data that has progressive transmission property. The proposed method is to select the region for the watermark embedding in I frame using motion vector estimated from the previous P or B frame. And then, it is to perform DWT and embed the watermark based on HVS into the wavelet coefficients in the same subband of DWT as the motion vector direction. Finally, the watermarked video bitstream is obtained by the SPIHT coder. The experimental results verified that the proposed method has the invisibility from the objective and subjective image quality and the robustness against the various SPIHT compression and MPEG re-code.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.68-73
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose watermark algorithm called TDWA(Time-Division Watermarking Algorithm) and we applied the proposed algorithm to H.264 video coding standard. We establish that a proposed algorithm is applied to H.264 baseline profile CODEC. The proposed algorithm inserts a watermark into the spatial domain of several frames. We can easily insert strong and invisible watermarks into original pictures using this method. For verification of the proposed algorithm we design hardware core using Verilog-HDL and Excalibur for JM 8.7 code with hardware & software co-simulation. As a result of verification, the PSNR between watermarked pictures and original pictures are more than 60dB and we found the watermark is kept more than 80% after encoding of H.264/AVC with quantization parameter of 28 in baseline profile.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.845-860
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• 2016

This paper proposes a digital watermarking scheme to protect the ownership of the freeview 2D or 3D image such that the viewer watches the image(s) by rendering a arbitrary viewpoint image(s) with the received texture image and its depth image. In this case a viewpoint change attack essentially occurs, even if it is not malicious. In addition some malicious attacks should be considered, which is to remove the embedded watermark information. In this paper, we generate a depth variation map (DVM) to find the locations less sensitive to the viewpoint change. For each LH subband after 3-level 2DDWT for the texture image, the watermarking locations are found by referring the DVM. The method to embed a watermark bit to a pixel uses a linear quantizer whose quantization step is determined according to the energy of the subband. To extract the watermark information, all the possible candidates are first extracted from the attacked image by considering the correlation to the original watermark information. For each bit position, the final extracted bit is determined by a statistical treatment with all the candidates corresponding that position. The proposed method is experimented with various test images for the various attacks and compared to the previous methods to show that the proposed one has excellent performance.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.187-190
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a novel digital watermarking technique based on the concept of multiresolution decomposition and Human Visual System(HVS). Proposed watermarking is to embed watermark by quantization, that is to construct ‘perceptually lossless’quantization matrix, by using a quantization factor for each level and orientation and variance within a band. We compare our approach with another wavelet domain watermarking methods. Simulation results show the superior performance of robustness for variety image distortions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.349-351
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• 2004

비디오는 인접한 프레임들간에 유사성이 있는 연속된 프레임들로 구성된다. 만약 인접한 프레임들간에 유사성이 존재하는 영역, 즉 움직임이 없는 영역에 워터마크를 삽입한다면 워터마크는 인지되기 쉽다. 본 논문에서는 워터마크의 투영성과 강인성을 위하여 이와 같은 비디오의 특성을 고려한 3D-DCT 계수를 이용한다. 즉, 3D-DCT 압축을 위한 양자화 상수에서 민감도를 유도하고 전역적인 움직임에 비해 지역적인 움직임이 큰 영역의 민감도를 조절한 후 움직임의 크기에 비례해서 시각적으로 중요한 계수를 워터마크를 삽입한다. 실험을 통하여 비디오의 특성을 고려하지 않고 3D-DCT 계수를 이용하는 기존의 방법과 비교해서 PSNR은 유사하지만 JND를 기반으로 하였기 때문에 워터마크의 투명성을 보장하였고 MPEG 압축 및 시간적 공격에 대한 강인성은 약 5% 정도의 성능향상이 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3C
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• pp.398-407
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• 2004

In this paper, a blind watermarking method which is suitable to the video compression using 2-D discrete wavelet transform was proposed and implemented into the hardware using VHDL(VHSIC Hardware Description Language). The goal of the proposed watermarking algorithm is the authentication about the manipulation of the watermark embedded image and the detection of the error positions. Considering the compressed video image, the proposed watermarking scheme is unrelated to the quantization and is able to concurrently embed or extract the watermark. We experimentally verified that the lowest frequency subband(LL4) is not sensitive to the change in the spatial domain, so LL4 subband was selected for the mark space. And the combination of the bitplanes which has the properties of both the minimum degradation of the image and the robustness was chosen as the embedded Point in the mark space in LL4 subband. Since we know the watermark embedded positions and the watermark is embedded by not varying the value but changing the value, the watermark can be extracted without the original image. Also, for the security when exposing the watermark embedded position, we embed the encrypted watermark by the block cipher. The proposed watermark algorithm shows the robustness against the general image manipulation and is easily transplanted into the image or video compressor with the minimal changing in the structure. The designed hardware has 4037 LABs(24％) and 85 ESBs(3％) in APEX20KC EP20K400CF672C7 FPGA of Altera and stably operates in 82MHz clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.283-286
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 보다 효과적이고 강인한 워터마크 은닉을 위한 방법으로 웨이브릿 변환 영역에서 영상의 통계적 특성에 기초한 비정상상태(non-stationary)에서와 정상상태(stationary) 일반화 가우스(generalized Gaussian: GG)모델을 이용한 적응 워터마크 은닉 기술을 제안한다. 워터마크는 고주파 영역에서 연속 부대역 양자화(successive subband quantization: SSQ)를 이용하여 다해상도 영상의 웨이브릿 계수 중에서 시각적 중요 계수(perceptual significant coefficients: PSC)를 선택하여 삽입한다. 워터마크 은닉을 위한 지각 모델은 NVF(noise visibility function)함수에 의해 계산된다. 이것은 비정상상태와 정상상태의 통계적 특성을 이용하고, 국부영상 특성을 가진다. 은닉모델은 다해상도내의 각 부대역별 분산과 형상계수(shape parameter)를 사용한다. Stirmark benchmark test에 근거하여 여러 가능한 왜곡에 대한 실험에서 강인성과 비가시성에서의 우수함을 확인하였고, 비정상상태의 경우와 정상상태의 경우를 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.33-43
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed a real-time watermarking algorithm to be combined and to work with a DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)-based image compressor. To reduce the amount of computation in selecting the watermarking positions, the proposed algorithm uses a pre-established look-up table for critical values, which was established statistically by computing the correlation according to the energy values of the corresponding wavelet coefficients. That is, watermark is embedded into the coefficients whose values are greater than the critical value in the look-up table which is searched on the basis of the energy values of the corresponding level-1 subband coefficients. Therefore, the proposed algorithm can operate in a real-time because the watermarking process operates in parallel with the compression procession without affecting the operation of the image compression. Also it improved the property of losing the watermark and the efficiency of image compression by watermark inserting, which results from the quantization and Huffman-Coding during the image compression. Visual recognizable patterns such as binary image were used as a watermark The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm satisfied the properties of robustness and imperceptibility that are the major conditions of watermarking.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.871-874
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• 2004

멀티미디어 컨텐츠의 저작권 보호를 위한 워터마크 기법은 현재 많은 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문은 MPEG 비디오의 압축 과정에서 마지막 단계인 VLC 영역에 DCT된 워터마크의 키 값을 적용하여 얻어낸 신호를 run-level 쌍의 level 값의 부호에 따라 선택적으로 삽입하는 방범을 제안하였다. 양자화 된 DCT계수들의 고주파수 영역은 level 값을 거의 가지지 않기 때문에 고주파수영역의 계수 값이 제거되어도 워터마크의 정보는 대부분 살아남아 공격에 강인함을 보이며 압축의 마지막단계에 정보를 삽입하여 실시간 적용이 가능하다는 장점을 보여 주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.149-152
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 디지털 정보에 대한 저작권 보호를 위해 동영상 워터마크 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 제안하는 방법은 동영상 파일인 raw video에 I-picture가 될 부분에 $8{\times}8$로 DCT한 후 저작권자를 증명할 수 있는 로고와 워터마크 삽입 여부를 결정하는 헤더를 DC 삽입 알고리즘을 적용하여 삽입한다. 동영상 워터마크로 DC계수에 양자화 기법을 이용한 알고리즘은 기존의 알고리즘보다 PSNR과 검출률이 좋은 결과를 보였다.