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Multiresolution Watermarking Scheme on DC Image in DCT Compressed Domain

DCT 압축영역에서의 DC 영상 기반 다해상도 워터마킹 기법

  • Kim, Jung-Youn (Korea University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Nam, Je-Ho (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
  • Published : 2008.07.25
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Abstract

This paper presents a rapid watermarking algorithm based on DC image, which provides a resilience to geometric distortion. Our proposed scheme is based on $8{\times}8$ block DCT that is widely used in image/video compression techniques (e.g., JPEG and MPEG). In particular, a DC image is analyzed by DWT to embed a watermark. To overcome a quality degradation caused by a watermark insertion into DC components, we discern carefully the intensity and amount of watermark along the different subbands of DWT. Note that the proposed technique supports a high throughput for a real-time watermark insertion and extraction by relying on a partial decoding (i.e., DC components) on $8{\times}8$ block DCT domain. Experimental result shows that the proposed watermarking scheme significantly reduces computation time of 82% compared with existing DC component based algorithm and yet provides invariant properties against various attacks such as geometric distortion and JPEG compression, etc.

본 논문은 DC 영상을 이용하여 기하학적 변환에 강인하며 고속처리가 가능한 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 JPEG 및 MPEG 영상압축 기술에 널리 사용되는 $8{\times}8$ 블록 DCT를 기반으로 하며, DC 성분만으로 구성된 DC 영상에 DWT 수행 후 웨이블릿 계수에 워터마크를 삽입한다. DC 성분을 이용한 워터마크 삽입으로 야기될 수 있는 화질 열화를 극복하기 위하여 DWT의 서브밴드 마다 워터마크 삽입 강도와 삽입량을 차별화한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 $8{\times}8$ 블록 DCT 영역의 부분적인 복호화(즉, DC 영상)를 수행함으로써 실시간 워터마크 삽입 및 추출을 위한 고속처리가 가능하다. 실험결과로부터 제안한 워터마킹 방법이 기존의 DC 성분을 이용한 알고리즘과 비교하여 82%의 계산시간을 단축하였으며 다양한 기하학적 공격과 JPEG 압축 등의 기타 공격에 강인한 것을 확인하였다.

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