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Steganography is a branch of information hiding. Payload volume and security of confidential data are major challenges of steganography methods. This article presents high volume payload and secure steganography technique based on integer wavelet transform. The cover image is partitioned into 8×8 non overlapping blocks, then each transformed block partitioned into two subsets and secret message is embedded in proper subset. To achieve higher security, Haar wavelet transform is applied to the secret message before embedding it. Experimental results indicate low degrading of the original image by hidden secret message of rather high volume.

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.

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.

본 논문에서는 의료 영상에 대한 저작권보호를 위한 새로운 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘에서는 이산 웨이블릿 변환 대신에 계산량이 적은 정수 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하였다. 본 논문에서는 정수 웨이블릿 공간에서 유사-잡음 수열을 워터마크로 삽입 하였다. 워터마크를 추출할 때 확산스펙트럼 기법을 이용하고 유사도는 공분산 수열에서 결정한다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 알고리즘이 노이즈, 압축 등 공격에 강인함을 보임을 확인하였다.

본 논문에서는 의료 영상에 대한 새로운 연성 워터마크 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘을 사용함으로써 의료 영상의 보안 및 위조 문제를 해결 할 수 있다. 제안한 알고리즘은 이산 웨이블릿 변환을 사용하는 대신에 계산량이 적은 정수 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 블록 평균을 이용해서 이진 비트맵을 추출하여 이를 워터마크 정보로 사용한다. 워터마크를 추출할 때는 원 영상의 정보를 나타내는 이진 비트맵과 비교함으로써 위조여부를 판단할 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 알고리즘은 의료 영상의 위조된 부분을 정확하게 추출하는 것을 확인하였다.

In this paper, we propose an efficient architecture for 2D IWT using an existing 1D IWT. Lifting based IWT is the architecture of which a multiplier is replaced by adders and shift registers. The structure is relatively simple and modular. The proposed architecture to process an image size with 256x256 pixels consists of 16 adders, 8 shift registers, and some memories. By processing two rows at the same time, 2D sub-band coefficients can be calculated immediately after 1D sub-band coefficients have been processed. The architecture is designed so that each image can be inputted consecutively. The number of adders and shift registers is increased by twice comparing the existing architecture, but the memory size and the execution time are decreased by half. The proposed architecture is implemented using Verilog-HDL and simulated using iSim. It is synthesized and demonstrated at ISE for xc5vlx330 in RPS3K board.

This paper focuses on lossless medical image compression methods for medical images that operate on three-dimensional(3-D) irreversible integer wavelet transform. We offer an application of the Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees(SPIHT) algorithm to medical images, using a 3-D wavelet decomposition and a 3-D spatial dependence tree. The wavelet decomposition is accomplished with integer wavelet filters implemented with the lifting method, where careful scaling( 2) and truncations keep the integer precision and the transform unitary. We have tested our encoder on volumetric medical images using different integer filters and different coding unit sizes. The coding unit sizes of 16 slices save considerable dynamic memory(RAM) and coding delay from full sequence coding units used in previous works. Results show that, even with these small coding units, our algorithm with certain filters performs as well and better in lossless coding than previous coding systems using 3-D integer wavelet transforms on volumetric medical images.

In this paper, we propose the lossless image compression algorithm using the integer wavelet transform. Recently, the S＋P transform is widely used and computed with only integer addition and bit-shift operations, but not proper to remove the correlation of smooth images. then we compare the Harr wavelet of the S＋P transform with various integer coefficient filter banks and apply 9/7 ICFB to the wavelet transform. In addition, we propose a entropy-coding method that exploits the multiresolution structure and the feedback of the prediction error, and can efficiently compress the transformed image for progressive transmission. Simulation results are compared to the compression ratio using the S+P transform with different types of images.