• 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 IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.315-318
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• 2002

본 논문은 워터마크의 일반 요건 중에서 가장 기술적으로 요구되는 강인성과 비인지성을 함께 발전시키기 위해서 구성되었다. 먼저, 주파수 영역을 이용한 워터마킹 기법 중에서 현재 압축 표준에서 사용되고, 지역적 인간 시각 시스템을 이용할 수 있기 때문에, 널리 사용되는 블록 단위의 DCT를 사용한다. 삽입 위치를 결정하기 위하여, 기존에 발표된 논문들의 강인성을 비교하여, 보다 나은 위치를 선정한다. 그리고, 인간 시각 시스템 중에서, 강한 에지의 인지성을 줄이기 위하여, 에지의 오리엔테이션을 보존하고 수평과 수직 성분보다는 45 도에 가까운 DCT 대각 성분에 워터마크의 강도를 높여준다 이는 워터마크 이후의 강한 에지 성분의 오리엔테이션 오차를 줄여주며, 에지의 비인지성을 향상시키는 결과를 가져온다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1486-1488
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• 2009

본 논문은 비디오 압축 기술인 H.264/AVC와 H.264/SVC에 적용할 수 있는 인증 목적의 효율적인 프레자일(fragile) 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 워터마킹 기법은 H.264/AVC 비디오 부호화기에서 압축률을 높이기 위해 사용하는 매크로블록(MB) 예측 모드들을 특징 값으로 추출하여 콘텐츠 제공자의 비밀키로 암호화 후 워터마크로 사용하는 인증 기법으로, 이는 공간적, 시간적 그리고 SNR 확장성을 가지는 H.264/SVC에도 확장하여 적용할 수 있다. 워터마크 삽입은 최적의 예측 모드를 찾기 위한 모드 결정과정에서 수행되어 워터마크 후에도 최적화 된 콘텐츠를 얻을 수 있으며, 간단한 연산을 엔코더와 결합시켜 낮은 시간 증가율을 가진다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.516-524
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• 2005

In this paper, a new watermarking scheme based on the POCS theory and human visual system is proposed. Using the POCS theory, watermarks are embedded into imperceptible image regions such as edge and strong texture area in the spatial domain. Also it is inserted into middle frequency band in the transform domain to achieve the robustness against compression and filtering, etc. In addition, different gain factors are employed into blocks classified by considering texture masking effect. By doing so, the proposed method has a novel property of having both the imperceptibility and the robustness simultaneously. Simulation results show that the proposed method has an excellent performance better than conventional approaches.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.149-158
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• 2005

This paper proposed a blind watermarking method for video contents which satisfies both the invisibility and the robustness to attacks to prohibit counterfeiting, modification, illegal usage and illegal re-production of video contents. This watermarking algorithm targets MPEG compression system and was designed to control the amount of watermarking to be inserted according to the adaptive quantization scale code to follow the adaptive quantization of the compression system. The inserting positions of the watermark were chosen by considering the frequency property of an image and horizontal, vertical and diagonal property of a $8{\times}8$ image block. Also the amount of watermarking for each watermark bit was decided by considering the quantization step. This algorithm was implemented by C++ and experimented for invisibility and robustness with MPEG-2 system. The experiment results showed that the method satisfied enough the invisibility of the inserted watermark and robustness against attacks. For the general attacks, the error rate of the extracted watermark was less than $10\%$, which is enough in robustness against the attacks. Therefore, this algorithm is expected to be used effectively as a part in many MPEG systems for real-time watermarking, especially in the sensitive applications to the network environments.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.7 s.103
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• pp.729-736
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• 2005

In this paper. the proposed method for the digital watermarking is based on the multiresolution wavelet transform. The 1-level Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT) coefficients of a $2N_{wx}{\times}2N_{wy}$ binary logo image used as a watermarks. The LL band and middle frequency band of the host image that the 3-level DWT has been performed are divided into $N_{wx}{\times}N_{wy}$ size and we use large coefficients at the divided blocks to make threshold. we set the thresholds that completely insert the watermark in each frequency of the host image. The thresholds in each frequency of the host image differ each other. The watermarks where is the same positions are added to the larger coefficients than threshold in the blocks at LL band and middle frequency band in order to prevent the quality deterioration of the host image. The watermarks are inserted in LL band and middle frequency band of the host image. In order to be invisibility of the watermark, the Human Visual System(HVS) is applied to the watermark. We prove the proper embedding method by experiment. We rapidly detect the watermark using this watermarking method. And because the small size watermarks are inserted by HVS, the results confirm the superiority of the proposed method on invisibility and robustness.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.7
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• pp.487-494
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• 2013

Medical image watermarking has received extensive attention as wide security services in the healthcare information system. This paper proposes a blind medical image watermarking approach on the segmented gray-matter (GM) images by utilizing discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) along with enhanced suppressed fuzzy C-means (EnSFCM) for the optimal selection of sub-blocks position to insert a watermark. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms other methods in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and M-SVD. In addition, the proposed approach shows better robustness than other methods in normalized correlation (NC) values against several attacks, such as noise addition, filtering, JPEG compression, blurring, histogram equalization, and cropping.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.97-104
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• 2019

In the field of video watermarking, which adds a time axis to the watermarking of the existing still image, it is important to embed a watermark at a level that can claim copyright while minimizing the overall video quality. In this paper, we focus on the fact that B slices refer to blocks of I and P slices in the Random Access compression method of HEVC. Therefore, We propose that watermark is embedded only in I and P slices and extracted in I, P, and B slices. This can minimize the decreases of the overall image quality of the image and protect the copyright of the B slice without directly embedding the watermark.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.271-276
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• 2000

본 논문은 칼라 성분들간의 차분 영상과 휘도 영상을 이용하여 산출한 색차 휘도합 영상을 대상으로 블록에 기반한 영상 분할을 수행하여 객체의 형상 정보를 추출함으로써 분할 특성을 개선한 블록 기반 칼라 영상 분할 기법에 관한 것이다. 우선, R, G, B 영상들 간의 차분 성분들을 구하여 합산한 후, 이를 정규화하여 색차합 영상을 구한다. 다음으로 화소 단위로 휘도 영상의 상위 2비트와 정하화된 색차합 영상의 하위 6비트를 결합하여 색차 휘도합 영상을 얻는다. 이후, 기설정된 크기의 블록으로 분할된 색차 휘도합 영상의 각 블록을 질감 블록과 단순 블록 및 에지 블록으로 분류하고 각 유형의 블록별로 병합한 후, 기설정된 마커 배정 규칙에 따라 선택적으로 마커를 부여한다. 마지막으로, 마커가 부여되지 않은 블록을 대상으로 화소 단위의 워터쉐드 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 자연스러운 형상 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 고찰할 때, 제안된 방범은 질감 영역에서의 과분할의 문제와 과도한 연산량의 부담을 효과적으로 경감시킬 수 있으나, 더불어, 영상 분할용 파라미터들의 민감도가 낮아 서로 다른 화소 분포 특성온 갖는 영상들에 전역적인 파라미터들사용할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 특히, 색차 휘도합 영상에 반영된 색차 성분에 힘입어 저대조 경계면에서의 분할 특성을 현저히 개선시킬 수 있는 이점이 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.841-851
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• 2013

The infectious information hiding system(IIHS) is proposed for secure distribution of high quality video contents by applying optimized watermark embedding and detection algorithms to video codecs. And the watermark as infectious information is transmitted while target video is displayed or edited by codecs. This paper proposes a fast and effective reversible watermarking and infectious information generation for IIHS. Our reversible watermarking scheme enables video decoder to control video quality and watermark strength actively for by adding control code and expiration date with the watermark. Also, we designed our scheme with low computational complexity to satisfy it's real-time processing in a video codec, and to prevent time or frame delay during watermark detection and video restoration, we embedded one watermark and one side information within a macro-block. Experimental results verify that our scheme satisfy real-time watermark embedding and detection and watermark error is 0% after reversible watermark detection. Finally, we conform that the quality of restored video contens is almost same with compressed video without watermarking algorithm.