• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.794-799
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• 2008

This paper presents a user identification method at H.264 streaming using watermarking with fingerprints. The watermark can efficiently reduce the potential danger of forgery or alteration. Especially a biometric watermark has convenient, economical advantages. The fingerprint watermark can also improve reliability of verification using automated fingerprint identification systems. These algorithms, however, are not robust against common video compression. To overcome this problem, we analyze H.264 compression pattern and extract watermark after restoring damaged watermark using various filters. The proposed algorithm consists of enhancement of a fingerprint image, watermark insertion using discrete wavelet transform and extraction after restoring. The proposed algorithm can achieve robust watermark extraction against H.264 compressed videos.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.595-605
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• 2015

This paper proposes a robust, imperceptible block-based digital video watermarking algorithm that makes use of the Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) technique. The SURF technique is used to extract the most important features of a video. A discrete multiwavelet transform (DMWT) domain in conjunction with a discrete cosine transform is used for embedding a watermark into feature blocks. The watermark used is a binary image. The proposed algorithm is further improved for robustness by an error-correction code to protect the watermark against bit errors. The same watermark is embedded temporally for every set of frames of an input video to improve the decoded watermark correlation. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DMWT domain video watermarking using SURF features is robust against common image processing attacks, motion JPEG2000 compression, frame averaging, and frame swapping attacks. The quality of a watermarked video under the proposed algorithm is high, demonstrating the imperceptibility of an embedded watermark.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.1767-1778
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 셀룰러 오토마타 변환을 이용한 집적영상 기반의 강인하고 안전한 3D 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 본 집적영상 기반의 워터마킹 방법에서는 먼저 워터마크를 컴퓨터 픽업을 하여 요소영상 워터마크로 변환한 후 보호하려는 영상에 삽입한다. 요소영상의 워터마크는 원 워터마크를 확실하게 복원할 수 있다. 그러나 요소영상의 3D 성질은 보안에 취약하므로 셀룰러 오토마타 변환 영역을 이용하여 보호하려는 영상에 요소영상의 워터마크를 삽입하여 문제를 해결한다. 셀룰러 오토마타 변환 영역을 사용하므로써 하나의 비밀 키만으로 워터마킹 알고리즘의 안정성이 향상된다. 마지막으로 실험을 통하여 제안 방법은 여러 가지 공격에도 강인성과 안정성을 가지고 있음을 증명한다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.39-52
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 저작권 보호를 위한 워터마크 내장 방법으로 공간 스케일 변수를 사 용한 공간 마 스킹 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 워터마크 알고리즘에서영상에 삽입되는 워터마크의 크 기가 클수록 삽입된 워터마크는 여러 가지 변형에 강인하게 되지만 워터마크된 영상의 화질을 보장하기 어렵다. 반 대로 워터마크의 크기가 작게 되면 양질의 영상을 얻을수 있으나 삽입된 워터 마크의 강인 성을 보장할 수 없는 서로 상반되는 특성을 가지고 있다. 따라서 워터마크의 강인성과 영상의 화질 사이 의 타협점을 구하는 것은 매우 어렵다, 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 공간 마스킹을 사용하였다. 즉 대역 확산 기법으로 워터마크된 영상에 공간 마스킹을 하므로써 텍스쳐 영역과 같은 워 터마크가 인 간시각에 민감하지 않지만 압축 손실이 일어나는 복잡한 영역에서는 압축손실과 같은 일반 적인 영상 처 리에 강하도록 공간 마스킹으로 워터마크의 크기를 크게 하였으며 워터마크를 삽입하기 어 려운 즉 노이 즈에 민감하지만 압축 손실과 일반적인 영상 처리에 강한 평탄 영역에서는 워터 마크 삽입 으로 인한 화 질저하를 방지하기 위해 공간 마스킹으로 워터 마크의 크기를 작게 해 워터마크 삽입으로 인한 화질저 하를 방지하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안한 워터마킹 기법은 워터마크된 영상이 공간 마 스킹에 의해 워터마크의 크기를 조절할 수 있어 영상의 질과 워터마크의 강인성 모두를 만족할수 있 다. 그리고 본 논문에서 제안한 워터마킹 방법이 손실 압축(JPEG)과 잡음 그리고 축소 및 확대 클리핑 (Clipping) 컬류 션(Collusion)등과 같은 신호처리에 강인함을 실험을 통해 입증하였다. In this paper we propose a new watermarking technique for copyright protection of images. The proposed technique is based on a spatial masking method with a spatial scale parameter. In general it becomes more robust against various attacks but with some degradations on the image quality as the amplitude of the watermark increases. On the other hand it becomes perceptually more invisible but more vulnerable to various attacks as the amplitude of the watermark decreases. Thus it is quite complex to decide the compromise between the robustness of watermark and its visibility. We note that watermarking using the spread spectrum is not robust enought. That is there may be some areas in the image that are tolerable to strong watermark signals. However large smooth areas may not be strong enough. Thus in order to enhance the invisibility of watermarked image for those areas the spatial masking characteristics of the HVS(Human Visual System) should be exploited. That is for texture regions the magnitude of the watermark can be large whereas for those smooth regions the magnitude of the watermark can be small. As a result the proposed watermarking algorithm is intend to satisfy both the robustness of watermark and the quality of the image. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is robust to image deformations(such as compression adding noise image scaling clipping and collusion attack).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.225-228
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• 2005

According to a popularization of the Internet and digital lifestyle, digital watermarks have been proposed for protection of copyrighted multimedia content. In blind watermark detection, which an original image is not provided, robustness against geometric distortion and compression remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a new perceptual blind discrete wavelet transform - discrete Fourier transform (DWT-DFT) composite watermarking scheme that is robust against both general linear transform and JPEG compression. This algorithm constructs an image-dependent watermark in the most significant DWT coefficients, which is determined by using a hierarchical tree structure. Strength of watermark is determined from a just-noticeable difference (JND) profile of a perceptual model. Furthermore, a desired template is inserted into DFT domain of the watermarked image. In new manner, a cross-ratio of four collinear points is used for detecting the template. Experimental results have showed that the proposed scheme is robust against general linear distortion, JPEG compression and various general kinds of attacks in the Stirmark 3.1 watermark evaluation tool.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권9C호
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• pp.1289-1297
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• 2004

디지털 워터마킹은 지척재산권과 보안성을 결항시키는 기술이다 블라인드 워터마킹은 원본데이터나 삽입한 워터마크를 필요로 하지 않기 때문에 어려운 워터마킹 기술 중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 영역의 에너지 양자화를 이용하여 워터마크를 삽입하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 공격의 종류와 강도에 따른 영상의 에너지 변화에 대하여 워터마크 추출강도가 적응적으로 변하기 때문에 강인한 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 모의실험에서 상입된 워터마크의 비가시성을 유지하였으며, 잡음첨가, 잘라내기, 블러링, 샤프닝 등의 다양한 공격에 대해서 강인함을 보여주었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.857-860
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• 2000

This paper presents a new watermarking method based on wavelet transform. Embedding algorithm call define robust area by varying thresholds and gives a watermark image the priority of significance by analyzing spatial correlation of the watermark image. Detector can adjust thresholds to the distorted watermarked image. Also detector can extract the embedded data without an original image. A new measurement for detecting the correct watermark is suggested. Simulation results show that the embedded watermark is robust against various signal processing and compression attacks.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권12호
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• pp.2330-2335
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed a robust watermark scheme for image based on the discrete wavelet transform. In the first, we use the triplet method for embedding and extraction of watermark. Triplet method uses relationship among the discrete wavelet coefficients at the same position in the three detail subband of image. In the second, we use barcode Pattern Image for watermark scheme. By using barcode Pattern Images, a user is able to make many kinds of own watermark. In the third, the proposed method for image watermark provides the invisiblility which the other user can not discriminate watermark from watermarked image. The advantage of the proposed method is visibility when we extracted watermark from the image. The corresponding experimental results show that the proposed method has performance of a robustness from the noise attack.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3438-3454
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a robust blind watermarking scheme for high-definition video. In the embedding process, luminance component of each frame is transformed by 2-dimensional fast Fourier transform (2D FFT). A secret key is used to generate a matrix of random numbers for the security of watermark information. The matrix is transformed by inverse steerable pyramid transform (SPT). We embed the watermark into the low and mid-frequency of 2D FFT coefficients with the transformed matrix. In the extraction process, the 2D FFT coefficients of each frame and the transformed matrix are transformed by SPT respectively, to produce two oriented sub-bands. We extract the watermark from each frame by cross-correlating two oriented sub-bands. If a video is degraded by some attacks, the watermarks of frames contain some errors. Thus, we use an ensemble position-based error correcting algorithm to estimate the errors and correct them. The experimental results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm is imperceptible and moreover is robust against various attacks. After embedding 64 bits of watermark into each frame, the average peak signal-to-noise ratio between original frames and embedded frames is 45.7 dB.