• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.220-228
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• 2001

Digital watermarking is a technique for the purpose of protecting the ownership of the image by embedding invisible watermarks in a digital imnge. To guarantee the security of the digital watermarking scheme for copyright protection, it is required to satisfy some requirements robustness and perceptual invisibility which provided by the location of embedded bits, the public watermarking algorithm, and the hidden use of the key, which can protect unauthorized accesses from illegal users. For this, in this paper we propose a new copyright watermarking scheme, which is based on one-way hash functions using RSA functions and modular operations. RSA functions are widely used in cryptographic systems. Our watermarking scheme is robust against LSB(Jeast significant bit) attacks and gamma corresction attack, and is also perceptually invisible. We demonstrate the characteristics of our proposed watermarking scheme through experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.489-497
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• 2009

Most of existent blind watermarking methods in frequency domain use coefficient relationship to detect the watermark without original image. But the change in coefficient values occurred when the original image was attacked by lossy JPEG compression or noise addition. So robustness of watermark detection was weaken. In order to solve these problems, this paper presents a robust watermarking method, which enables multiple watermark insertion. Also, in order to reduce errors in the detected value of watermarks according to small changes in the coefficient relationship when detecting watermarks, it set the change guard value for variation of the coefficients. The experimental results show that the proposed method has good image quality and is robust to various attacks such as the JPEG lossy compression, noise addition, etc.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2002

Digital image watermarking is a technique for the purpose of protecting the ownership of the image by embedding proprietary watermarks in a digital image. It is required for the digital image watermarking scheme to pursue the robustness against water marking attacks and the perceptual Invisibility more than usual in steganography area, to guarantee not a hidden watermarking algorithm but the publicity of water-marking algorithm details and hidden use of key, which can protect the unauthorized user access from detection. In this paper we propose a new copyright watermarking scheme, which is barred on one-way hash functions using ElGamal functions and modular operations. ElGamal functions are widely used in cryptographic systems. Our watermarking scheme is robust against LSB(least significant bit) attacks and gamma correction attack, and also perceptually invisible. We demonstrate the characteristics of our proposed watermarking scheme through experiments. It is necessary to proceed as the future work the algorithm of achieving at the same time both the pseudo-randomness for the steno-key generation and the asymmetric-key generation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.163-168
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• 2001

본 논문은 인터넷을 이용한 방송 서비스에서 저작권 보호 및 저작물 식별을 위한 고유 식별 정보(unique identification)를 삽입, 추출하는 기술을 제안한다. 인터넷을 통한 방송 서비스의 활성화를 위해서는 저작권의 보호와 저작물의 불법 사용 방지, 저작물에 대한 저작권료 지불, 그리고 차후에 불법 사용자의 적발 등을 할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기술은 디지털 음악을 소비자에게 서비스할 때, 사용자의 아이디(ID)와 신상 정보를 이용해서 생성된 정보와 음악의 식별 정보를 같이 저작물에 삽입하여 다운로드 받은 음악 파일이나 또는 청취 중에 녹음한 음악 파일을 불법으로 유통시킬 경우에 유통된 음악 파일에서 삽입된 식별코드를 추출하여 음악 파일의 불법 유통경로를 추적하여 불법 사용자를 적발할 수 있는 기능을 갖고 있다. 이러한 기능을 만족시키기 위해서 인터넷 서비스에서 널리 이용되는 MP3, AAC, WMA 등과 같은 손실 압축을 거친 이후에도 삽입된 워터마크를 검출할 수 있으며, 일반 사용자들이 손쉽게 접할 수 있는 여러 신호처리에도 강인한 특성을 갖는 기술을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.3682-3687
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• 2009

In this paper, we design and implement watermarking system which create, insert and detect watermark comprised of number or logo to protect copyright and to prevent illegal plagiarism through inserting copyrighting information of owner into the original image. In the proposed system, the number or logo as watermark is selectively inserted according to characteristics of the original contents or requirement of copyrighter. The system also has convenient user interface which general administrator who hasn't expert knowledge for the protection of copyright uses easily. Ownership and copyright protection using digital watermarking technology intensifies creating volition of clients who want to create contents such as cultural contents, Thus, we can expect increasing requests for creating contents such as cultural contents.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.203-208
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• 2019

Digital watermarking was developed to protect copyright by discouraging the illegal copying of digital content. On the other hand, recently, watermarking has also been used to verify the integrity of digital content, such as medical images, and detect illegal manipulation or distortion locations. Watermarking should be tenacious so as to protect copyright from illegal copying and should remain firm to the content through a range of attacks, such as distortion or filtering. At the same time, however, it should be removed easily even in a slight transformation of the material to verify the integrity. Therefore, this paper proposes a watermarking technique that easily checks and verifies the deformation or manipulation of digital images. In the proposed method, the entire image was examined in $16{\times}16$ blocks to check for deformation of the image. When deformation was detected, further inspection proceeded in $4{\times}4$ blocks and the location where deformation occurred was identified.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2004

본 논문은 인터넷을 이용한 방송 서비스에서 저작권 보호 및 저작물 식별을 위한 고유 식별 정보(unique identification)를 삽입, 추출하는 기술을 제안한다. 인터넷을 통한 방송 서비스의 활성화를 위해서는 저작권의 보호와 저작물의 불법 사용 방지, 저작물에 대한 저작권료 지불, 그리고 차후에 불법 사용자의 적발 등을 할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기술은 사용자 관련 정보와 음악의 식별 정보를 저작물에 삽입하여 다운로드 받은 음악 파일이나 또는 청취 중에 녹음한 음악 파일의 불법 복제를 막는 방법이다. 저작물을 불법으로 유통시킬 경우에 유통된 음악 파일에서 삽입된 식별코드를 추출하여 음악 파일의 불법 유통경로를 추적하여 불법 사용자를 적발할 수 있도록 하였다. 이러한 기능을 만족시키기 위해서 인터넷 서비스에서 널리 이용되는 MP3, AAC, WMA 등과 같은 손실 압축을 거친 이후에도 삽입된 워터마크를 검출할 수 있으며, 일반 사용자들이 손쉽게 접할 수 있는 섞어 신호처리에도 강인한 특성을 갖는 기술을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.115-124
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• 2011

There has been significant research in security technology such as e-passport standards, as e-passports have been introduced internationally. E-passports combine the latest security technologies such as smart card, public key infrastructure, and biometric recognition, so that these technologies can prevent unauthorized copies and counterfeits. Biometric information stored in e-passports is the most sensitive personal information, and it is expected to bring the highest risk of damages in case of its forgery or duplication. The present e-passport standards cannot handle security features that verify whether its biometric information is copied or not. In this paper, we propose an e-passport security technology in which biometric watermarking is used to prevent the copy of biometric information in the e-passport. The proposed method, biometric watermarking, embeds the invisible date of acquisition into the original data during the e-passport issuing process so that the human visual system cannot perceive its invisibly watermarked information. Then the biometric sample, having its unauthorized copy, is retrieved at the moment of reading the e-passport from the issuing database. The previous e-passport security technology placed an emphasis on both access control readers and anti-cloning chip features, and it is expected that the proposed feature, copy protection of biometric information, will be demanded as the cases of biometric recognition to verify personal identity information has increased.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.145-156
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• 2010

This paper presents a new contents-based digital still image protection method which includes a copyright message. Since the existing method using gradient values used a pixel based $3{\times}3$ Sobel operator, it was sensitive to attacks and could not extract exact copyright message. Therefore, in this paper, we present a algorithm which uses block based OCL(Orientation Certainty Level) instead of pixel. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme not only has good image quality, but also is robust to JPEG lossy compression, filtering, sharpening, blurring and noise. Moreover, the proposed algorithm has good performance more than 10% in rotation attacks than the existing method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.3C
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• pp.262-270
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• 2008

We propose a technique to protect digital images using the magnitude and orientation of their edges. The proposed technique uses the content-associated copyright message generated by combining the original copyright message with the magnitude and orientation of some edges of a digital image. It enables the distribution of the original copyright message without any distortion of original digital images by avoiding embedment of the original copyright message into images. In addition to the advantage in the image quality, it also has a relatively low computational complexity by using simple operations to generate the content-associated copyright message. To verify the proposed technique, we performed experiments on its robustness to the external attacks such as histogram equalization, median filtering, rotation, and cropping. Experimental results on restoring the copyright message from images distorted by attacks show that more than 90%, on the average, can be recovered.