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Adaptive Digital Watermarking using Stochastic Image Modeling Based on Wavelet Transform Domain (웨이브릿 변환 영역에서 스토케스틱 영상 모델을 이용한 적응 디지털 워터마킹)

  • 김현천;권기룡;김종진
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.508-517
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents perceptual model with a stochastic multiresolution characteristic that can be applied with watermark embedding in the biorthogonal wavelet domain. The perceptual model with adaptive watermarking algorithm embeds at the texture and edge region for more strongly embedded watermark by the SSQ. The watermark embedding is based on the computation of a NVF that has local image properties. This method uses non- stationary Gaussian and stationary Generalized Gaussian models because watermark has noise properties. The particularities of embedding in the stationary GG model use shape parameter and variance of each subband regions in multiresolution. To estimate the shape parameter, we use a moment matching method. Non-stationary Gaussian model uses the local mean and variance of each subband. The experiment results of simulation were found to be excellent invisibility and robustness. Experiments of such distortion are executed by Stirmark 3.1 benchmark test.

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Study on Image Distortions and Bit-rate Changes Induced by Watermark based-on $4{\times}4$ DCT of H.264/AVC (H.264/AVC의 $4{\times}4$ DCT기반 워터마크에 따른 영상왜곡과 비트율 변화에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Min;Won, Chee-Sun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.42 no.5 s.305
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2005
  • There are some problems in directly applying the conventional MPEG bit-stream based watermarking schemes to the bit-stream of a new compression standard, H.264/AVC. In this paper we analyze the effects of the conventional DCT-based watermarking scheme to H.264/AVC, especially in terms of image distortions and bit-rate changes. It turns out that the intra-frame prediction md CAVLC of H.264/AVC with the watermarking worsen the image distortions and bit-rate changes. The experiment results show on average 28.17dB decrease in PSNR and 56.71% increase in bit-rate over all QPs.

Adaptive Watermarking Using Successive Subband Quantization and Perceptual Model Based on Multiwavelet Transform Domain (멀티웨이브릿 변환 영역 기반의 연속 부대역 양자화 및 지각 모델을 이용한 적응 워터마킹)

  • 권기룡;이준재
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.7
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    • pp.1149-1158
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    • 2003
  • Content adaptive watermark embedding algorithm using a stochastic image model in the multiwavelet transform is proposed in this paper. A watermark is embedded into the perceptually significant coefficients (PSCs) of each subband using multiwavelet transform. The PSCs in high frequency subband are selected by SSQ, that is, by setting the thresholds as the one half of the largest coefficient in each subband. The perceptual model is applied with a stochastic approach based on noise visibility function (NVF) that has local image properties for watermark embedding. This model uses stationary Generalized Gaussian model characteristic because watermark has noise properties. The watermark estimation use shape parameter and variance of subband region. it is derive content adaptive criteria according to edge and texture, and flat region. The experiment results of the proposed watermark embedding method based on multiwavelet transform techniques were found to be excellent invisibility and robustness.

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Image Watermarking for Copyright Protection of Images on Shopping Mall (쇼핑몰 이미지 저작권보호를 위한 영상 워터마킹)

  • Bae, Kyoung-Yul
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.147-157
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    • 2013
  • With the advent of the digital environment that can be accessed anytime, anywhere with the introduction of high-speed network, the free distribution and use of digital content were made possible. Ironically this environment is raising a variety of copyright infringement, and product images used in the online shopping mall are pirated frequently. There are many controversial issues whether shopping mall images are creative works or not. According to Supreme Court's decision in 2001, to ad pictures taken with ham products is simply a clone of the appearance of objects to deliver nothing but the decision was not only creative expression. But for the photographer's losses recognized in the advertising photo shoot takes the typical cost was estimated damages. According to Seoul District Court precedents in 2003, if there are the photographer's personality and creativity in the selection of the subject, the composition of the set, the direction and amount of light control, set the angle of the camera, shutter speed, shutter chance, other shooting methods for capturing, developing and printing process, the works should be protected by copyright law by the Court's sentence. In order to receive copyright protection of the shopping mall images by the law, it is simply not to convey the status of the product, the photographer's personality and creativity can be recognized that it requires effort. Accordingly, the cost of making the mall image increases, and the necessity for copyright protection becomes higher. The product images of the online shopping mall have a very unique configuration unlike the general pictures such as portraits and landscape photos and, therefore, the general image watermarking technique can not satisfy the requirements of the image watermarking. Because background of product images commonly used in shopping malls is white or black, or gray scale (gradient) color, it is difficult to utilize the space to embed a watermark and the area is very sensitive even a slight change. In this paper, the characteristics of images used in shopping malls are analyzed and a watermarking technology which is suitable to the shopping mall images is proposed. The proposed image watermarking technology divide a product image into smaller blocks, and the corresponding blocks are transformed by DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform), and then the watermark information was inserted into images using quantization of DCT coefficients. Because uniform treatment of the DCT coefficients for quantization cause visual blocking artifacts, the proposed algorithm used weighted mask which quantizes finely the coefficients located block boundaries and coarsely the coefficients located center area of the block. This mask improves subjective visual quality as well as the objective quality of the images. In addition, in order to improve the safety of the algorithm, the blocks which is embedded the watermark are randomly selected and the turbo code is used to reduce the BER when extracting the watermark. The PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) of the shopping mall image watermarked by the proposed algorithm is 40.7~48.5[dB] and BER(Bit Error Rate) after JPEG with QF = 70 is 0. This means the watermarked image is high quality and the algorithm is robust to JPEG compression that is used generally at the online shopping malls. Also, for 40% change in size and 40 degrees of rotation, the BER is 0. In general, the shopping malls are used compressed images with QF which is higher than 90. Because the pirated image is used to replicate from original image, the proposed algorithm can identify the copyright infringement in the most cases. As shown the experimental results, the proposed algorithm is suitable to the shopping mall images with simple background. However, the future study should be carried out to enhance the robustness of the proposed algorithm because the robustness loss is occurred after mask process.

Image watermarking using Projection and Quantization (내적과 양자화를 이용한 영상의 워터마킹)

  • 이승욱;호요성
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.09a
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    • pp.511-514
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    • 2000
  • 디지털 워터마킹이란 디지털 컨텐츠의 저작권을 보호하기 위해 보이지 않는 임의의 데이터를 미디어에 삽입하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 주파수 영역으로 변환된 원 데이터를 임의의 방향으로 정의된 데이터와 내적(Inner Product)하여 이를 워터마크 정보에 따라 변화시키는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 비밀키가 워터마크 데이터와 연관된 것이 아니기 때문에 어떠한 종류의 데이터도 삽입할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 사용되는 비밀키는 주파수 영역으로 변환된 원 데이터와 내적되는 임의의 데이터를 만드는데 사용된다. 또한 워터마크의 견고성을 높이기 위해, 주파수 영역으로 변환된 원 데이터와 내적된 임의의 데이터는 잡음처럼 되므로 이를 인간 시각 특성을 사용하여 모델링 하였다. 제안된 방법은 원 영상 없이 워터마크를 검출할 수 있으며. 워터마크의 견고성 실험을 위해 JPEG, Cropping, Resizing. Gaussian 잡음 등을 적응하였다.

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Content Adaptive Watermarking Using a Stochastic Image Modeling Based on Wavelet Transform Domain (웨이브릿 변환 영역에서 스토케스틱 영상 모델을 이용한 내용기반 적응 워터마킹)

  • 김현천;강균호;권기룡;김종진
    • Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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    • 2002.11b
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    • pp.283-286
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    • 2002
  • 본 논문에서는 보다 효과적이고 강인한 워터마크 은닉을 위한 방법으로 웨이브릿 변환 영역에서 영상의 통계적 특성에 기초한 비정상상태(non-stationary)에서와 정상상태(stationary) 일반화 가우스(generalized Gaussian: GG)모델을 이용한 적응 워터마크 은닉 기술을 제안한다. 워터마크는 고주파 영역에서 연속 부대역 양자화(successive subband quantization: SSQ)를 이용하여 다해상도 영상의 웨이브릿 계수 중에서 시각적 중요 계수(perceptual significant coefficients: PSC)를 선택하여 삽입한다. 워터마크 은닉을 위한 지각 모델은 NVF(noise visibility function)함수에 의해 계산된다. 이것은 비정상상태와 정상상태의 통계적 특성을 이용하고, 국부영상 특성을 가진다. 은닉모델은 다해상도내의 각 부대역별 분산과 형상계수(shape parameter)를 사용한다. Stirmark benchmark test에 근거하여 여러 가능한 왜곡에 대한 실험에서 강인성과 비가시성에서의 우수함을 확인하였고, 비정상상태의 경우와 정상상태의 경우를 비교하였다.

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An Adaptive Steganography of Optical Image using Bit-Planes and Multi-channel Characteristics

  • Kang, Jin-Suk;Jeong, Taik-Yeong T.
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.136-146
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    • 2008
  • We proposed an adaptive steganography of an optical image using bit-planes and multichannel characteristics. The experiment's purpose was to compare the most popular methods used in optical steganography and to examine their advantages and disadvantages. In this paper we describe two digital methods: the first uses less significant bits(LSB) to encode hidden data, and in the other all blocks of $n{\times}n$ pixels are coded by using DCT(Digital Cosine Transformation), and two optical methods: double phase encoding and digital hologram watermarking with double binary phase encoding by using IFTA(Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm) with phase quantization. Therefore, we investigated the complexity on bit plane and data, similarity insert information into bit planes. As a result, the proposed method increased the insertion capacity and improved the optical image quality as compared to fixing threshold and variable length method.

High-Quality and Robust Reversible Data Hiding by Coefficient Shifting Algorithm

  • Yang, Ching-Yu;Lin, Chih-Hung
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.429-438
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    • 2012
  • This study presents two reversible data hiding schemes based on the coefficient shifting (CS) algorithm. The first scheme uses the CS algorithm with a mean predictor in the spatial domain to provide a large payload while minimizing distortion. To guard against manipulations, the second scheme uses a robust version of the CS algorithm with feature embedding implemented in the integer wavelet transform domain. Simulations demonstrate that both the payload and peak signal-to-noise ratio generated by the CS algorithm with a mean predictor are better than those generated by existing techniques. In addition, the marked images generated by the variant of the CS algorithm are robust to various manipulations created by JPEG2000 compression, JPEG compression, noise additions, (edge) sharpening, low-pass filtering, bit truncation, brightness, contrast, (color) quantization, winding, zigzag and poster edge distortion, and inversion.

Adaptive Quantization Watermarking for Image Tamper-proofing (영상의 위변조 검출을 위한 적응 양자화 워터마킹)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Choi, Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.181-183
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    • 2005
  • 저작권 보호 기술의 하나인 디지털 워터마킹은 디지털 콘텐츠에 삽입되어 저작권 확인 및 증명에 이용될 뿐만 아니라 영상의 위변조 판별에도 이용된다. 즉, 영상이 변조되는 경우 삽입된 워터마크가 변형됨으로써 위변조 여부 및 위변조 영역의 확인도 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같이 영상의 위변조 여부를 판별하기 위한 인증 워터마킹 기법으로 적응적인 양자화 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 워터마크 삽입 과정은 영상에 DWT를 수행한 뒤 저주파 영역에 블록 DCT를 수행하여 계수들을 변형시키는 방법으로 수행되며, 이를 위해 원신호의 파워를 고려한 적응적인 양자화 방식을 제안하였다. 실험 결과 제안 방식에 의해 워터마크 삽입된 영상은 화질적으로 원영상과 차이가 없고 압축에 대한 강인성도 우수하여 인증 워터마킹에 적합함을 확인하였다.

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Removable Logo Technique using Quantization Image Watermarking (양자화 영상 워터마킹을 이용한 제거 가능한 로고 기법)

  • Cho, Dong-Joon;Choi, Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.184-186
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    • 2005
  • 디지털 콘텐츠의 무분별한 복제와 유포로 인한 저작권 및 소유권에 대한 침해가 날로 급증하고 있다. 특히, 네트워크의 발달과 디지털 카메라의 손쉬운 이용으로 온라인 상에서 개인의 디지털 영상이 넘쳐나고 있지만 이에 대한 정보 보호 기술은 전무한 상황이다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 디지털 영상의 저작권을 보호하기 위한 기술로 양자화 영상 워터마킹을 이용한 제거 가능한 로고 기법을 제안한다. 즉, 디지털 영상에 인지 가능한 로고를 삽입하여 저작권을 보호하며, 로고에 의해 제거된 부분의 정보를 워터마킹으로 영상에 삽입하여 정당한 사용 시에는 로고를 제거하고 원영상을 복원할 수 있다. 제안된 방법을 실제 영상에 적용하여 실험해 본 결과, 워터마크가 삽입된 영상이나 로고에 의해 제거된 부분을 복원한 영상 모두 원영상과 차이를 느낄 수 없는 우수한 화질을 보였으며, 저작권 보호 측면에서도 삽입된 로고에 의한 저작권 인지력이 뛰어나 실용적으로 매우 우수한 방법임을 확인하였다.

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