• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.205-212
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a method for more accurate fake discrimination using time information in CNN-based signature recognition. To easily use the time information and not to be influenced by the speed of signature writing, we acquire the signature as a movie and divide the total time of the signature into equal numbers of equally spaced intervals to obtain each image and synthesize them to create signature data. In order to compare the method using the proposed signature image and the method using only the last signature image, various signature recognition methods based on CNN have been experimented in this paper. As a result of experiment with 25 signature data, we found that the method using time information improves performance in fake discrimination compared to the existing method at all experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.4912-4917
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• 2015

Fragile watermarking is a technique to insert a watermark into an image without significantly degrading its visual quality so that the watermark can be extracted for the purposes of authentication or integrity verification. And the watermark for authentication and integrity verification should be erased easily when the image is changed by filtering etc. In this paper, we propose a image block-wise watermarking method for image tamper proofing using digital signature. In the proposed method, a digital signature is generated from the hash code of the initialized image block. And The proposed method is able to detect the tampered parts of the image without testing the entire block of the watermarked image.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.54-61
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new algorithm for detecting and recognizing overlapped objects among a stack of arbitrarily located objects using a signature representation scheme. The proposed algorithm consists of two processes of detecting overlap of objects and of determining the boundary between overlapping objects. To determine overlap of objects, in the first step, the edge image of object region is extracted and those areas in the object region are considered as the object areas if an area is surrounded by a closed edge. For each object, its signature image is constructed by measuring the distances of those edge points from the center of the object, along the angle axis, which are located at every angle with reference to the center of the object. When an object is not overlapped, its features which consist of the positions and angles of outstanding points in the signature are searched in the database to find its corresponding model. When an object is overlapped, its features are partially matched with those object models among which the best matching model is selected as the corresponding model. The boundary among the overlapping objects is determined by projecting the signature to the original image. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been tested with the task of picking the top or non-overlapped object from a stack of arbitrarily located objects. In the experiment, a recognition rate of 98% has been achieved.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.871-880
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• 2010

Many applications dealing with image management need a technique for removing duplicate images or for grouping related (near-duplicate) images in a database. This paper proposes a concentric circle-based image signature which makes it possible to detect near-duplicates rapidly and accurately. An image is partitioned by radius and angle levels from the center of the image. Feature values are calculated using the average or variation between the partitioned sub-regions. The feature values distributed in sequence are formed into an image signature by hash generation. The hashing facilitates storage space reduction and fast matching. The performance was evaluated through discriminability and robustness tests. Using these tests, the particularity among the different images and the invariability among the modified images are verified, respectively. In addition, we also measured the discriminability and robustness by the distribution analysis of the hashed bits. The proposed method is robust to various modifications, as shown by its average detection rate of 98.99%. The experimental results showed that the proposed method is suitable for near-duplicate detection in large databases.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.785-793
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• 2009

This paper proposes a signature using dominant singular values for video sequence matching. By considering the input image as matrix A, a partition procedure is first performed to separate the matrix into non-overlapping sub-images of a fixed size. The SVD(Singular Value Decomposition) process decomposes matrix A into a singular value-singular vector factorization. As a result, singular values are obtained for each sub-image, then k dominant singular values which are sufficient to discriminate between different images and are robust to image size variation, are chosen and normalized as the signature for each block in an image frame for matching between the reference video clip and the query one. Experimental results show that the proposed video signature has a better performance than ordinal signature in ROC curve.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.1639-1649
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• 2004

In this paper, a method for detection of forged signatures based on spectral analysis of directional gradient density function and a weighted fuzzy classifier is proposed. The well defined outline of an incoming signature image is extracted in a preprocessing stage which includes noise reduction, automatic thresholding, image restoration and erosion process. The directional gradient density function derived from extracted signature outline is highly related to the overall shape of signature image, and thus its frequency spectrum is used as a feature set. With this spectral feature set, having a property to be invariant in size, shift, and rotation, a weighted fuzzy classifier is evaluated for the verification of freehand and random forgeries. Experiments show that less than 5% averaged error rate can be achieved on a database of 500 signature samples.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.10-17
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• 2009

This paper proposes a compressed domain signature extraction method which can be used for CBCD (Content Based Copy Detection). Since existing signature extraction methods for the CBCD are executed in spatial domain, they need additional computations to decode the compressed video before the signature extraction. To avoid this overhead, we generate a thumbnail image directly from the compressed video without full decoding. Then we can extract the video signature from the thumbnail image. Experimental results of extracting brightness ordering information as the signature for CBCD show that our proposed method is 2.8 times faster than the spatial domain method while maintaining 80.98% accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.250-255
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• 2000

This paper is concerning off-line signature verification using a density function which is obtained by convolving the signature image with twelve-directional 5$\times$5 gradient masks and the weighted fuzzy mean classifier. The twelve-directional density function based on Nevatia-Babu template gradient is related to the overall shape of a signature image and thus, utilized as a feature set. The weighted fuzzy mean classifier with the reference feature vectors extracted from only genuine signature samples is evaluated for the verification of freehand forgeries. The experimental results show that the proposed system can classify a signature whether genuine or forged with more than 98% overall accuracy even without any knowledge of vaned freehand forgeries.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.89-105
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• 1999

In this paper, we present a countermeasure for a various trouble occurred in secure communication of document image. We Propose a security system for transmission of document image using mixing algorithm that the third party cannot conceive secure transmission of information instead of existing scheme which depend on crypto-degree of security algorithm, itself. For this, RM, DM and RDM algorithm for mixing of secure bits are proposed and applied to digital signature for mixing for secure document and mixing for non-secure document by secure document. Security system for document image involves not only security scheme for document image transmission itself, but also digital signature scheme. The transmitter embeds secretly the signatures onto secure document, embeds it to non-secure document and transfers it to the receiver. The receiver makes a check of any forgery on the signature and the document. Because the total amount of transmitted data and the image quality are about the same to those of the original document image, respectively, the third party cannot notice the fact that signatures and secure document are embedded on the document image. Thus, the probability of attack will be reduced.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.25-35
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• 2001

This paper presents a digital signature scheme for document image which directly embeds a signature onto the document. The time to take in signature is reduced by spreading of signature. Non-repudiation in origin, the 3rd condition of digital signature is realized by proposed digital signature scheme. The transmitter embeds the signature secretly and transfers it and the receiver makes a check of any forgery on the signature and the document, This scheme is compatible with the ITU-T.4(CCITT G3 or G4 facsimile standards).