• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제18B권6호
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• pp.355-364
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• 2011

위변조되지 않은 고신뢰성의 영상이 요구되는 서비스에서 무결성을 인증하기위하여 가역 워터마킹 기법이 유용하게 적용될 수 있다. 콘텐츠의 인증을 위한 기존의 연구들은 워터마크의 제거후에 원본 복원이 불가능한 것이 많다. 가역 워터마킹 기법은 디지털 콘텐츠에 지각적 투명성을 유지하며 워터마크를 삽입한 후, 이를 아무런 손상없이 원본 상태로 복원할 수 있는 메시지 은닉 수단으로서 높은 품질과 높은 삽입용량이 요구되는 분야에서 다양하게 이용되어질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 차이값 히스토그램 기반의 가역 워터마킹을 이용하여 영상의 위변조된 영역을 탐지하는 블록단위 인증 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저, 영상의 각 블록에 대하여 DCT 계수에 기반하여 영상의 특징값을 추출하고, 사용자의 정보와 결합하여 영상 인증 코드를 생성한다. 생성된 인증코드는 가역 워터마킹을 통하여 콘텐츠 자체에 직접 삽입한다. 이와 같은 영상의 인증을 위해서는 추출된 인증코드와 새로 생성된 인증코드의 비교를 수행한다. 다양한 영상들에 대하여 비교 분석한 실험 결과에 따르면 제안한 알고리즘은 완전한 가역성과 함께 낮은 왜곡을 유지하면서도 97% 이상의 높은 인증률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.395-413
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• 2016

Image authentication is a technique aiming at protecting the integrity of digital images. Reversible image authentication has attracted much attention of researcher because it allows to authenticate tampered regions in the image and to reconstruct the stego image to its original version losslessly. In this paper, we propose a new, reversible image authentication scheme based on adaptive prediction error expansion (PEE) technique. In the proposed scheme, each image block is classified into smooth or complex regions. Then, according to the characteristic of each block, the authentication code is embedded adaptively to achieve high performance of tamper detection. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieves good quality of stego images. In addition, the proposed scheme has ability to reconstruct the stego image to its original version, if no modification is performed on it. Also demonstrated in the experimental results, the proposed scheme provides higher accuracy of tamper detection than state-of-the-art schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4588-4603
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a high-quality image authentication scheme based on absolute moment block truncation coding. In the proposed scheme, we use the parity of the bitmap (BM) to generate the authentication code for each compressed image block. Data hiding is used to authenticate whether the content has been altered or not. For image authentication, we embed the authentication code to quantization levels of each image block compressed by absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) which will be altered when the host image is manipulated. The embedding position is generated by a pseudo-random number generator for security concerned. Besides, to improve the detection ability we use a hierarchical structure to ensure the accuracy of tamper localization. A watermarked image can be precisely inspected whether it has been tampered intentionally or incautiously by checking the extracted watermark. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieved high-quality embedded images and good detection accuracy, with stable performance and high expansibility. Performance comparisons with other block-based data hiding schemes are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.2005-2021
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel image authentication scheme, aiming at tampering detection for block truncation coding (BTC) compressed image. The authentication code is generated by using the random number generator with a seed, and the size of the authentication code is based on the user's requirement, with each BTC-compressed image block being used to carry the authentication code using the data hiding method. In the proposed scheme, to obtain a high-quality embedded image, a reference table is used when the authentication code is embedded. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves high-quality embedded images and guarantees the capability of tamper detection.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2014

휴대용 무선 단말기에서 사용할 수 있으며, 기존 워터마크 방법이 가지고 있는 화질 저하의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 왜곡이 없는 이미지 인증을 위한 블록 기반 정보 은닉 기법을 제안하였다. 콘텐츠에 관련된 디지털 서명을 기존 영상의 하단에 동일한 화소 값을 가지는 $8{\times}8$ 블록단위의 영상으로 변환하여 추가하고 압축한 다음, 저장할 때 JPEG 파일 스트림의 영상 사이즈 부분을 카메라에 설정된 화소수로 바꿔줌으로써 삽입된 영상서명을 은닉한다. 실험결과, 제안한 방법은 영상서명 은닉을 위해 추가되는 비트가 0.1% 이하로 미세함을 검증하였으며, 화질저하 없이 영상인증이 가능한 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다. 나아가 제안방식은 의료영상, 스마트폰 및 DSLR 등 카메라를 사용하는 다양한 임베디드 시스템에 활용할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.717-720
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• 2006

The use of digital imaging technique and digital contents based on internet has grown rapidly for last several years, and the needs of digital image protection become more important. for the purpose of copyright protection on digital image, the verification of authentication techniques like content authentication, ownership authentication, illegal copy and etc are needed. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermark into image, the sophisticated perceptual information should be used for providing transparency and robustness of images on watermarking process. In this paper, we implement the algorithm for preventing forged attack, ownership protection and authentication by transforming the wavelet algorithms in frequency domain in terms of human visual system.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.303-316
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• 2021

Digital content protection has recently become an important requirement in biometrics-based authentication systems due to the challenges involved in designing a feasible and effective user authentication method. Biometric approaches are more effective than traditional methods, and simultaneously, they cannot be considered entirely reliable. This study develops a reliable and trustworthy method for verifying that the owner of the biometric traits is the actual user and not an impostor. Watermarking-based approaches are developed using a combination of a color face image of the user and a mobile equipment identifier (MEID). Employing watermark techniques that cannot be easily removed or destroyed, a blind image watermarking scheme based on fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCuT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) is proposed. FDCuT is applied to the color face image to obtain various frequency coefficients of the image curvelet decomposition, and for high frequency curvelet coefficients DCT is applied to obtain various frequency coefficients. Furthermore, mid-band frequency coefficients are modified using two uncorrelated noise sequences with the MEID watermark bits to obtain a watermarked image. An analysis is carried out to verify the performance of the proposed schema using conventional performance metrics. Compared with an existing approach, the proposed approach is better able to protect multimedia data from unauthorized access and will effectively prevent anyone other than the actual user from using the identity or images.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2012

An image authentication scheme for gray scale image through embedding a digital watermark by quantization of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) coefficients of the image is proposed in this paper. Proposed method is designed to detect modification of an image and to identify tampered location of the image. To embed the watermark mid-frequency band of a second level IWT was used. An approximation of the original image based on LL band was stored in LSB bits of the pixel data as a recovery mark for restoration of the image. Watermarked image has achieved a good PSNR of 40 dB compared to original cover image. Restored image quality was also very good with a PSNR of more than 35 dB compared to unmodified watermarked image even when 25% of the received image is cropped. Thus, the proposed method ensures a proper balance between the fidelity of the watermarked image and the quality of the restored image.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.910-913
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• 2005

The use of digital imaging technique and digital contents based on internet has grown rapidly for last several years, and the needs of digital image protection become more important. For the purpose of copyright protection on digital image, the verification of authentication techniques like content authentication, ownership authentication, illegal copy and etc are needed. Digital watermarking, the invisible encryption technique to insert digital watermark into image, the sophisticated perceptual information should be used for providing transparency and robustness of images on watermarking process. In this paper, we implement the algorithm for preventing forged attack, ownership protection and authentication by transforming the wavelet algorithms in frequency domain in terms of human visual system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.319-322
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a digital authentication technique using content-based watermarking in digital images. To digest the image contents, Hopfield network is employed on the block-based edge image. The Hopfield function extracts the same tit fur similarly looking blocks so that the values are unlikely to change to the innocuous manipulations while being changed far malicious manipulations. By inputting the extracted bit sequence with secret key to the cryptographic hash function, we generate a watermark for each block by seeding a pseudo random number generator with a hash output Therefore, the proposed authentication technique can distinguish between malicious attacks and innocuous attacks. Watermark embedding is based on the block-based spread spectrum method in DCT domain and the strength of watermark is adjusted according to the local statistics of DCT coefficients in a zig-zag scan line in AC subband. The numerical experiments show that the proposed technique is very efficient in the performance of robust authentication.