• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.609-614
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• 2002

Watermarking is embedding a digital signal called as watermark into images to claim the ownership. In this paper, a new digital watermarking algorithm based on DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) which enhances invisibility and robustness is proposed to improve contentional digital watermarking method using DCT. In the proposed method, it is possible to enhance invisibility and robustness using watermark reordering in which the relative significance of original DCT coefficients can be preserved in watermarked DCT coefficients, and the distortions of original DCT coefficients can be minimized. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves invisibility approximately 9～12[dB] and is more robust to various attacks than the conventional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7C
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• pp.696-705
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• 2005

The rapid progress of the software has enabled individuals to copy and remake digital contents, which was only done by professionals. However, this rapid growth of software has brought many other defects. As a solution to the problems, contents producer needs to have certification and inspection of its contents text and hold the proprietary rights. In this paper, the new video watermarking scheme is proposed which is appropriate for the requirements mentioned for digital video contents and it is applied to MPEG-2 video encoder and decoder. In order to insert watermark sequence for digital video data, watermarking used blocks reordering algorithm and SCL(secret code list). It is satisfied two properties of cryptography that confidentiality and integrity. We test the proposed algorithm to see its performance in terms of watermark capacity, compression robustness and visual quality impact. According to the experiment of proposed watermarking algorithm, we obtained satisfactory results that watermark can still be extracted after MPEG-2 re-encoding at lower bit rates. It is important property for data hiding and user authentication in video data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.2
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• pp.125-132
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• 2004

In this paper, a watermark inserting method according to the sensitivity of human visual system and minimizing distortion of original DCT coefficients in DCT transform domain is proposed. The proposed method inserts a more robust watermark in the insensitive block of human vision by reordering the blocks according to the human visual system which is appropriate to the JPEG image compression. It also enhances the invisibility and robustness in high compression rate in terms of the watermark inserting method within the block which minimizes distortions of original DCT coefficients. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method maintains high image quality and good robustness in high compression rate compared with conventional watermarking method.