• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.883-900
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• 2017

In this paper block based blind secure gray image watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition is proposed. In devising the proposed scheme, security is given high importance along with other two requirements: robustness and imperceptibility. The use of discrete wavelet transform not only improves robustness but the selection of bands with high tolerance towards noise caused an improvement in terms of imperceptibility. The robustness further improved due to the involvement of singular vectors along with singular values in watermark embedding and extraction process. Finally, to achieve security, the selected DWT band is decomposed into smaller blocks and random blocks are chosen for modification. Furthermore, the elements of left and right singular vectors of selected blocks are chosen based on their dependence upon each other for watermark embedding. Various experiments using different images as host and watermark were conducted to examine and validate the proposed technique. Additionally, the proposed technique is tested against various attacks like compression, affine transformation, cropping, translation, X shearing, scaling, Y shearing, filtering, blurring, different kinds of noises, histogram equalization, rotation, etc. Lastly, the proposed technique is compared with state-of-the-art watermarking techniques and their comparison shows significant improvement of proposed scheme over existing techniques.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2003

The present work is concerned with characterization of surface roughness and inhomogeneity of four kinds of hot-rolled carbon steels in terms of the fractal dimension and the depression parameter by using image analysis method and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, respectively. From the analysis of the 3D AFM image, it is realized that all the hot-rolled steel surfaces show the self-affine fractal property. The values of the fractal dimension of the hot-rolled steels were determined by the analyses of the AFM images on the basis of both the perimeter-area method and the triangulation method. In addition, the Nyquist plots were found to be depressed from a perfect semicircle form. From the experimental findings, the changes in the values of the fractal dimension and the depression parameter with chemical composition have been discussed in terms of the change in the value of hardness of base steel.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제17B권4호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 얼굴 그리드 각도를 특징공간으로 하는 새로운 모델 기반 얼굴 표정 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방식은 6가지 얼굴 대표 표정을 인식하기 위해 표정 그리드를 이용하여 그리드의 각 간선과 정점이 형성하는 각도를 기반으로 얼굴 특징 공간을 구성한다. 이 방법은 다른 표정 인식 알고리즘의 정확도를 낮추는 원인인 변환, 회전, 크기변화와 같은 어파인 변환에 강건한 특징을 보인다. 또한, 본 연구에서는 각도로 특징공간을 구성하고 이 공간 내에서 Wrapper 방식으로 특징 부분집합을 선택하는 과정을 설명한다. 선택한 특징들은 SVM, 3-NN 분류기를 이용해 분류하고 분류 결과는 2중 교차검증을 통해 검증하도록 한다. 본 연구가 제안한 방법에서는 94%의 표정 인식 결과를 보였으며 특히 특징 부분집합 선택 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 전체 특징을 이용한 경우보다 약 10%의 인식율 개선 효과를 보인다.