• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.39-47
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• 2017

The Depth Picture can be Encoded by the Plane Coding Mode that is the Method for Coding Mode by Considering a Part of the Picture as the Plane. In this Paper, we Propose the Method of Determining the Variable-sized Block for Variable Block Coding in the Plane Coding Mode for the Depth Picture. The Depth Picture Can be Encoded in the Plane Coding Through Estimating the Plane Which is Close to Pixels in the Block Using Depth Information. The Variable-sized Block Coding in the Plane Coding can be Applied as Follows. It Calculates the Prediction Error between Predicted Depths by the Plane Estimation and the Measured Depths. If Prediction Error is Below the Threshold, the Block is Encoded by Current Size. Otherwise, it Divides the Block and Repeats Above. If the Block is Divided Below the Minimum Size, the Block is not Encoded by the Plane Coding Mode. The Result of the Simulation of the Proposed Method Shows that the Number of Encoded Block is Reduced to 19% as Compared with the Method Using the Fixed-sized Block in the Depth Picture Composed of one Plane.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.7A
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• pp.1017-1027
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a new coding method based on the distance between vertex segments for vertex positions in the vertex-based shape coding. The pixel lines are divided into the segments of a fixed length, and the segments that have vertex pixels are called vertex segments. We analyze the probability distribution of the relative distance between vertex segments and prove that it depends only on the ratio between the number of vertices and the number of segments. Considering the coding efficiency and implementation complexity, we choose a particular ratio to make a code table. For each input image, the segment size is chosen according tothe ratio, and the relative segment distances are entropy coded. It is shown that the proposed method is efficient for the images with many vertices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.555-556
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• 2015

MPEG 의 Royalty-Free 비디오 코덱의 하나로 표준화 중인 IVC(Internet Video Coding)에서는 화면내(intra) 예측부호화에서 부호화 이득을 위하여 $4{\times}4$ 블록 예측 및 $4{\times}4$ 블록 변환을 포함하고 있다. 반면, 화면간(inter) 예측부호화에서는 $16{\times}16$ 블록에서 최소 $8{\times}8$ 블록까지의 가변크기 블록에 대한 예측만 가능하다. 보다 복잡한 영상의 경우 보다 작은 블록에 대한 화면간 예측을 통하여 부호화의 성능 개선을 개선할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 화면간 예측의 블록 크기를 $4{\times}4$ 블록까지 확장하여 화면간 예측부호화 성능을 개선한다. 실험결과 제안기법은 기존의 ITM 12.0 대비 다양한 테스트 시퀀스의 휘도성분에서 평균적으로 비트율 절감의 이득은 없으나 대부분의 클래스에서 성능개선을 보였고 추가적인 최적화가 필요함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.263-270
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• 2016

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the YIQ image compression rate and image quality, such as RGB images and showed good.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 1999

The conventional fractal image compression based on discrete wavelet transform uses the fixed block size in fractal coding and reduces PSNR at low bit rate. This paper proposes a fractal image coding based on discrete wavelet transform which improves PSNR by using variable block size in fractal coding. In the proposed method. the absolute values of discrete wavelet transform coefficients are computed. and the discrete wavelet transform coefficients of different highpass subbands corresponding to the same spatial block are assembled. and the fractal code for the range block of each range block level is assigned. and then a decision tree C. the set of choices among fractal coding. "0" encoding. and scalar quantization is generated and a set of scalar quantizers q is chosen. And then the wavelet coefficients. fractal codes. and the choice items in the decision tree are entropy coded by using an adaptive arithmetic coder. This proposed method improved PSNR at low bit rate and could achieve a blockless reconstructed image. As the results of experiment. the proposed method obtained better PSNR and higher compression ratio than the conventional fractal coding method and wavelet transform coding.rm coding.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2068-2071
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• 2003

최근 표준화가 완성된 H.264 는 가변 블록 움직임 보상, 복수 참조 영상, 그리고 1/4 화소 움직임 벡터 정확도를 지원하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 새로운 부호화기술은 부호화 효율 향상의 주된 요인이면서, 동시에 높은 복잡도의 요인이기도 하다 따라서 H.264 비디오 표준의 실제 응용 확대를 위해서는 이러한 기술의 속도향상이 필수적이다. [1]에서 제안한 고속 모드 결정법은 조기에 모드 결정을 할 수 있기 때문에, 움직임 벡터 탐색과 비트율-왜곡치 (Rate-Distortion cost) 계산 과정을 효율적으로 생략할 수 있는 방법이다. 하지만 [1]에서 제안된 측정치 r은 주변 블록의 정보를 이용하지 않기 때문에 모드 결정 에러를 좀 더 효과적으로 줄이지 못했다. 본 논문에서는 주변 블록의 정보를 이용하여 [1]의 방법을 개선시킨 것으로 실험 결과 큰 부호화 손실 없이 계산 량 감소에 있어 매우 높은 효율을 제공함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2011

최근 ISO/IEC의 MPEG과 ITU-T의 VCEG이 JCT-VC (Joint Collaborative Team for Video Coding)를 구성하여 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) 차세대 비디오 압축 표준 제정을 위한 작업을 진행 중이다. 과거 압축률이 가장 좋은 것으로 알려진 H.264/AVC 보다 최대 50%까지 부호화 효율 향상을 목표로 하고 있다. HEVC는 H.264/AVC와는 상이한 부호화 구조를 채택하고 있고 작은 크기의 영상뿐만 아니라 크기가 큰 영상까지도 효율적으로 부호화할 수 있도록 설계되고 있다. 예측 및 변환 부호화 과정이 계층적 쿼드트리 구조를 가지며, 특히 변환 부호화는 작은 크기의 변환 블록으로부터 $32{\times}32$ 크기의 변환 블록까지 크게 확장되어 계층적 변환 구조를 이루며 부호화하도록 되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 코덱과는 상이한 부호화 구조를 갖는 쿼드트리 부호화 기반 HEVC 코덱 표준을 위한 율-왜곡 (Rate-Distortion) 모델을 제안한다. 기존의 코덱에서는 부호화되는 기본 단위가 $16{\times}16$로 일정하고, 변환 및 양자화되는 블록의 크기 역시 $4{\times}4$또는 $8{\times}8$ 크기 단위로 그 블록의 크기가 작을 뿐만 아니라 고정된 크기를 사용한다. 따라서 단일 확률 모형을 사용하여 율-왜곡 모델을 만들었으며, 그 정확도 역시 비교적 정확한 결과를 얻었다. 그러나 HEVC에서는 계층적 가변 블록 크기를 갖는 기본 부호화, 예측 및 변환/양자화 기법을 사용하기 때문에 기존의 단일 모델로는 정확한 율-왜곡 모델을 만들어 내기 어렵다. 제안하는 방법은 HEVC의 기본 단위인 CU (Coding Unit)별로 독립적인 확률 모형을 사용하여 율-왜곡모델을 사용하는 것으로 CU의 크기가 가변적이고 CU 내의 텍스처 역시 크기에 따라 매우 다른 특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 단일 모델을 사용하는 것보다 매우 효율적인 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.435-441
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• 2014

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the RGB image compression rate and image quality, such as gray-level images and showed good.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.35T no.3
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• pp.15-24
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• 1998

In this paper, we present new method of fractal image coding based on iterated function system(IFS) suggested by Barnsley. In previous Fractal coding using full searching algorithm, the quality of reconstructed image was better than other fractal coding method's, but it took a long time in that algorithm for searching domain blocks matched. And it is performed through linear affine transform, therefore it is difficult to approximate the complex range blocks. In this paper, using quadtree partitioning, complex blocks are divided into more smaller blocks, and simple blocks are merged to more larger blocks. So, we can got more precisely approximated range blocks and reduce the number of transformations. Hence, we have improved the compression ratio. In addition, we restrict the region of searching domains in order to reduce the searching time and coding time. Compared with full searching algorithm, we reduced coding time drastically, and quality of reconstructed image was better in terms subjective criteria. And compared with Monro's, our method is slower, but we could obtain a reconstructed image with better quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.417-425
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• 2003

H.264, which is the latest video coding standard of both ITU-T(International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector) and MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group), adopts new video coding tools such as variable block size motion estimation, multiple reference frames, quarter-pel motion estimation/compensation(ME/MC), 4${\times}$4 Integer DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform), and Rate-Distortion Optimization, etc. These new video coding tools provide good coding of efficiency compared with existing video coding standards as H.263, MPEG-4, etc. However, these new coding tools require the increase of encoder complexity. Therefore, in order to apply H.264 to many real applications, fast algorithms are required for H.264 coding tools. In this paper, when encoder MacroBlock(MB) mode is decided by rate-distortion optimization tool, fast mode decision algorithm by skipping variable block size ME/MC and spatial-predictive coding, which occupies most encoder complexity, is proposed. In terms of computational complexity, the proposed method runs about 4 times as far as JM(Joint Model) 42 encoder of H.264, while the PSNR(peak signal-to-noise ratio)s of the decoded images are maintained.