• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.13 no.3
• /
• pp.262-266
• /
• 2020

In this paper, we proposed an effective technique for hiding the watermark in the LSB of a color image by applying spatial encryption techniques. Even if the watermark hidden in the LSB of the image is extracted, the information of the extracted watermark cannot be decrypted because the watermark is encrypted using various spatial encryption techniques. Therefore, if the watermark is concealed in the LSB using the spatial encryption techniques proposed in this paper, the security is greatly improved compared to the existing technique of embedding the watermark in the LSB. When watermarking is performed by applying the proposed technique, the image quality of the watermark-concealed image is very good, so it is impossible to distinguish it from the original image, and the watermark, which is confidential data, can be extracted from the watermarked image without loss. The performance of the proposed technique was mathematically analyzed and the superiority of the proposed technique was confirmed through experiments. When the watermark was concealed by applying the proposed technique to Lenna, airplane, Tiffany, and pepper images having a size of 512×512, the PSNR values of the watermarked images were 53.91dB, 54.10dB, 54.09dB, and 54.13dB, respectively.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.12 no.1
• /
• pp.83-91
• /
• 2019

In this paper, we have effectively used the surface characteristics and local similarity existing in image, solved the problem that there is no CZP(Closest Zero point) that occurs in a very few images to hide secrete data into cover image by using histogram shift. By applying the proposed technique, it is possible to hide secrete data invisibly into the cover image, extract secrete data from the stego-image with no data loss, and completely restore the original cover image. It is impossible to know whether the secrete data is hidden in the stego-image because the stego-image constructed by applying the proposed technique has a good visual quality that can not distinguish the difference from the cover image. The proposed method is able to hide secrete data at various levels compared to conventional APD(Adjacent Pixel Difference) technique, and hide secrete data up to 25.1% more than APD in cover image.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.13 no.6
• /
• pp.503-510
• /
• 2020

In this paper, we proposed an effective technique that greatly improves the security of the watermark by concealing the multiple-encrypted watermark in the LSB of the image pixel. Even if multiple encrypted watermark hidden in the LSBs of an image pixel are extracted, it is impossible to decrypt them, so the security of the watermark is maintained very high. If the watermark is multiple encrypted and hidden in the image using the proposed technique, the visual quality of the watermark-hidden image is very high, making it impossible to distinguish between the original image and the resulting image in which the watermark is hidden. The original watermark data can be completely extracted without loss, according to the procedure of the proposed technique, from the resulting image that the watermark is encrypted and hidden in the original image. The performance of the proposed technique was analyzed mathematically and the superiority of the proposed technique was confirmed through experiments. The proposed technique is an excellent image watermarking technique that greatly improves the security of the watermark hidden in the image compared to the existing technique.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
• /
• 2002.05c
• /
• pp.396-401
• /
• 2002

저 대역 부호화된 비트스트림을 네트워크를 통해 전송중 에러가 발생하면 수신측의 복원 화질에 심각한 화질 열화가 발생한다. 따라서, 이러한 에러에 대처하기 위한 복호기에서의 에러 은닉 기법은 화질에 매우 큰 영향을 끼칠 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) 계층 부호화에 의해 생성된 고급계층의 비트스트림을 통신 채널로 전송시 복호기에서의 오류 은닉 기법을 위해, SNR 계층 부호화 방법에 사용되는 부호화 모드 및 복호기에서 이용가능한 예측 모드에 대해 알아보고, 단일 계층 부호화된 비트스트림의 에러 은닉 기법과의 차이점을 비교, 분석한다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 저대역폭 비디오 전송을 위해 계층 부호화 모드중 SNR 계층부호화로 부호화된 비트스트림을 에러 발생 가능 채널로 전송시 에러 은닉을 위한 효과적인 방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
• /
• 2000.11a
• /
• pp.530-533
• /
• 2000

암호 통신의 한 방법인 화상 심층암호(image steganography)는 화상 내에 기밀정보를 몰래 숨겨서 전송하는 것으로 표면상은 의미 있는 형태를 유지하지만, 실제로는 그 속에 기밀 정보를 몰래 은닉하는 형태로서 제3자는 기밀 정보의 존재 여부를 확인할 수 없기 때문에 공격의 위협을 감소시킬 수 있다. 특히 디지털 화상을 이용하는 화상 심층암호는 저작권 보호 수단으로 활용되고 있다. 본 논문은 256레벨의 그레이 화상에 다치 오차확산법을 이용하여 디더링을 수행하는 단계에서 기밀 정보를 은닉하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.14 no.2
• /
• pp.109-114
• /
• 2021

As various users increase in a network environment, it is difficult to protect sensitive and confidential information transmitted and received from attackers. Concealing bitwise secret data in an image using the LSB technique can be very vulnerable to attack. To solve this problem, a hybrid method that combines encryption and information hiding is used. Therefore, an effective method for users to securely protect secret messages and implement secret communication is required. A new approach is needed to improve security and imperceptibility to ensure image quality. In this paper, I propose an LSB steganography technique that hides Hangul messages in a cover image based on MSB and LSB. At this time, after separating Hangul into chosung, jungsung and jongsung, the secret message is applied with Exclusive-OR or Exclusive-NOR operation depending on the selected MSB. In addition, the calculated secret data is hidden in the LSB n bits of the cover image converted by Fibonacci technique. PSNR was used to confirm the effectiveness of the applied results. It was confirmed 41.517(dB) which is suitable as an acceptable result.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
• /
• v.15 no.1
• /
• pp.36-44
• /
• 2022

Reversible data hiding techniques have been developed to hide confidential data in the image by shifting the histogram of the image. These techniques have a weakness in which the security of hidden confidential data is weak. In this paper, to solve this drawback, we propose a technique of triple encrypting confidential data using pixel value information and hiding it in the cover image. When confidential data is triple encrypted using the proposed technique and hidden in the cover image to generate a stego-image, since encryption based on pixel information is performed three times, the security of confidential data hidden by triple encryption is greatly improved. In the experiment to measure the performance of the proposed technique, even if the triple-encrypted confidential data was extracted from the stego-image, the original confidential data could not be extracted without the encryption keys. And since the image quality of the stego-image is 48.39dB or higher, it was not possible to recognize whether confidential data was hidden in the stego-image, and more than 30,487 bits of confidential data were hidden in the stego-image. The proposed technique can extract the original confidential data from the triple-encrypted confidential data hidden in the stego-image without loss, and can restore the original cover image from the stego-image without distortion. Therefore, the proposed technique can be effectively used in applications such as military, medical, digital library, where security is important and it is necessary to completely restore the original cover image.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.37 no.2C
• /
• pp.181-187
• /
• 2012

Millimeter wave (MMW) readily penetrates fabrics, thus it can be used to detect objects concealed under clothing. A passive MMW imaging system can operate as a stand-off type sensor that scans people in both indoors and outdoors. However, because of the diffraction limit and low signal level, the imaging system often suffers from low image quality. Therefore, suitable statistical analysis and computational processing would be required for automatic analysis of the images. In this paper, a real-time concealed object detection is addressed by means of the multi-level segmentation. The histogram of the image is modeled with a Gaussian mixture distribution, and hidden object areas are segmented by a multi-level scheme involving $k$-means, the expectation-maximization algorithm, and a decision rule. The complete algorithm has been implemented in C++ environments on a standard computer for a real-time process. Experimental and simulation results confirm that the implemented system can achieve the real-time detection of concealed objects.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.18 no.9
• /
• pp.2101-2108
• /
• 2014

Automatic fall-detection algorithms using video-data are proposed. Six types of fall-feature parameters are defined applying the optical flows extracted from differential images to principal component analysis(PCA). One fall-detection algorithm is the simple threshold method that a fall is detected when a fall-feature parameter is over a threshold, another is to use the HMM, and the other is to combine the simple threshold and HMM. Comparing the performances of three types of fall-detection algorithm, the algorithm combining the simple threshold and HMM requires less computational resources than HMM and exhibits a higher accuracy than the simple threshold method.

• Convergence Security Journal
• /
• v.3 no.2
• /
• pp.33-40
• /
• 2003

The biggest problem for the oblivious transfer protocol is the rapid increasement of network traffic and computational complexity if the protocol is used as a sub-protocol compare to the case that when it is used as a standalone protocol. To fix such problems, in this paper, we propose a verifiable Non-interactive OT protocol that reduces the network traffic and computational complexity by preprocessing the necessary computations when the network traffic is low. The proposed protocol uses third root mechanism instead of square root mechanism that is used for the Fiat-Shamir signature mechanism and also uses 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer based on signature mechanism. We also analyze the proposed protocol by comparing to the Lein Harn, YNIOT protocols.