Presentation 2017-11-07
A study of obfuscation for the security enhancement of watermarking schemes
Koichiro Yamashita, Minoru Kuribayashi, Nobuo Funabiki,
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Abstract(in English) In general, watermark information is embedded into the host signals selected from digital content according to a secret key. However, the selected host signals can be easily classified from given watermarked content if all algorithms except for the secret key are in public. One of the countermeasures was proposed in ICIP2015 that introduced a simple obfuscating operation. The drawback of the method is the redundancy in the entire watermarking process. The scheme introduced three stage of obfuscating operation that multiplied pseudo-random sequences twice and selected host signals randomly from its frequency components. Without the random selection, the secrecy of the host signals drastically decreases. In this study, we analyze the influence of watermark information given by obfuscating operation, and present the measurements whether watermark information is diffused. In addition, we confirm the validity of the measurements by proposing new method and evaluating the performance.
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Keyword(in English) watermarking / obfuscating operations / security
Paper # EMM2017-65
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (EMM)

Conference Information
Committee EMM
Conference Date 2017/11/6(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kagoshima Univ. (Inamori Academy)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Multimedia Fusion, Content Processing, Multimedia Retrieval, Digital Watermarking, and Related Topics
Chair Keiichi Iwamura(TUS)
Vice Chair Hirohisa Hioki(Kyoto Univ.) / Minoru Kuribayashi(Okayama Univ.)
Secretary Hirohisa Hioki(Shizuoka Univ.) / Minoru Kuribayashi(Tokyo Metro. Univ.)
Assistant Kan Hyonho(NIT, Tokyo) / Harumi Murata(Chukyo Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Enriched MultiMedia
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A study of obfuscation for the security enhancement of watermarking schemes
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) watermarking
Keyword(2) obfuscating operations
Keyword(3) security
1st Author's Name Koichiro Yamashita
1st Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Minoru Kuribayashi
2nd Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Nobuo Funabiki
3rd Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
Date 2017-11-07
Paper # EMM2017-65
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) EMM-282
Page pp.pp.53-58(EMM),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (EMM)