• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2000

기존의 웨이브릿 기반 프랙탈 압축 방법은 전 영역에 대하여 최적의 정의역을 탐색하므로, 부호화 과정에서 많은 탐색시간이 소요되는 단점이 있다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 웨이브릿 변환영 역에서 SAS(Self Affine System) 기법을 이용한 웨이브릿 변환 기반 프랙탈 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 웨이브릿 변환영역에서 정의역과 치역을 구성하고, 각각의 정의역과 치역에 대해 모든 블록을 탐색하는 것이 아니라, 각 대역별로 공간적으로 같은 위치에 있는 블록을 정의역으로 선택한다. 이와 같이 웨이브릿 변환 영역에서 정의역 탐색과정이 필요 없는 SAS 프랙탈 영상 압축방법을 도입하여 부호화 과정에서 곱셈 계산량을 감소시켜 고속 부호화를 가능하게 하였고, 복호화 과정에서 각 레벨별로 서로 다른 스케일을 사용하여 화질을 개선하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.25-34
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• 2004

The ability to perform the same operations in the transform domain as in the spatial domain is important for efficient image transmission through a channel. We perform image resizing, which includes magnifying and reducing the size, in the discrete cosine transform(DCT) domain and the effects of the transform domain approach are analyzed in the corresponding spatial domain. Based on this analysis, the two resizing algorithms are proposed. The first one further compresses the images encoded by the compression standard by reducing the size before compression, and the other reduces the loss of information while maintaining the conventional compression rate. Because of its compatibility with standard codec, these algorithms can be easily embedded in JPEG and MPEG codecs, which are widely used for the purpose of image storage and transmission. Experimental results show a reduction of about half the bit size with similar image quality and about a 2- or 3-dB quality improvements in the similar compression rate.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.1121-1131
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• 1997

In video coding at high compression rate, factal compression schemes in spatial domain have outstanding blocking artifacts and compression schemes in wavelet transform domain have rinfing artifacts at edges. In order to compensate these disadvantages, we propose a fractal video coding in wavelet transrorm domain which leads to clear edges without blocking atrifacts even at high bompression rate. The proposed method performs variable block sized motion estimation by using correlation among different subbands. Then the wavelet coefficients which are not enoded dffectively by the motion estimation are compressed by inter-frame fractal coding which predicts fine scale subbands hierarchically from the next coarser scale subbands. Computer sumulations with sev-eral test images wequences show that the proposed method shows better performance than the conventional video coding methods using fractal and wavelet.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.38-38
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 웨이브릿 영역에서의 영역 분류와 대역간 예측 및 선택적 벡터 양자화를 이용한 다분광 화상테이타 압축 기법을 제안하였다. 이 방법에서는 각 대역을 웨이브릿 변환 후, 각 대역의 기저밴드의 대역별 특성을 이용하여 영역 분류를 행하였다. 그리고, 다른 대역과 해상도가 동일하고 공간적 분산이 작으며 분광적 상관성이 큰 기준대역 (reference channel)을 결정한 뒤, 이를 영역별 스칼라 및 분류별 가변 벡터 양자화를 행하여 부호화 하였다. 또한 기준대역과의 대역간 상관성이 큰 대역들에 대해서는 영역별 대역간 예측을 행한 후, 활동도가 높은 블록에 대해서만 선택적 벡터 양자화로 부호화를 행하였다. 이때, 활동도가 높은 블록들의 위치정보는 기준대역으로부터 얻어지는 임계치 지도 (threshold map; THMAP)를 이용하였다. 즉, 제안한 방법에서는 각 대역에 대해 웨이브릿 영역에서의 영역 분류 후 영역별 대역간 예측을 행함으로써 다분광 화상데이타에 존재하는 대역간 중복성을 제거하고 선택적 벡터 양자화를 행함으로써 대역내 중복성을 효과적으로 제거하여 압축효율을 향상시킨다. 실제 원격 센싱된 인공위성 화상데이타에 대한 실험을 통하여 제안한 기법의 부호화 효율이 기존의 기법에 비하여 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.527-539
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• 2010

Most video coding systems use YCbCr color space for their inputs, but RGB space is more preferred in the field of high fidelity video because the compression gain from YCbCr becomes disappeared in the high quality operation region. In order to improve the coding performance of RGB video signal, this paper presents an adaptive frequency-selective weighted prediction algorithm. Based on the sign agreement and the strength of frequency-domain correlation of residual color planes, the proposed scheme adaptively selects the frequency elements as well as the corresponding prediction weights for better utilization of inter-plane correlation of RGB signal. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm improves the coding gain of around 13% bitrate reduction, on average, compared to the common mode of 4:4:4 video coding in the state-of-the-art video compression standard, H.264/AVC.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.1 s.39
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• pp.97-105
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• 2006

Over the last several years, studies on spatial index have increased in proportion to the increase in the spatial data. Most of these studies, however were on the indices based on R-tree by adding or changing some options, and there are a few studies on how to increase the search performance of the spatial data by compressing an MBR. This study was conducted in order to propose a new MBR compression scheme, SA(Semi-Approximation). The basic idea of this paper is the compression of MBRs in a spatial index. Since SA decreases the keys of MBRs, the enlargements of QMBR in half and increases the utilization of nodes, the SA heightens the overall search performance. The study analyzes mathematically the number of node accesses in a 2D space and evaluates the performance of the SA using the real data on location information. The results show that the proposed scheme has increased performance, higher than that of the pre-established schemes on compression of MBR.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.516-524
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• 2005

In this paper, a new watermarking scheme based on the POCS theory and human visual system is proposed. Using the POCS theory, watermarks are embedded into imperceptible image regions such as edge and strong texture area in the spatial domain. Also it is inserted into middle frequency band in the transform domain to achieve the robustness against compression and filtering, etc. In addition, different gain factors are employed into blocks classified by considering texture masking effect. By doing so, the proposed method has a novel property of having both the imperceptibility and the robustness simultaneously. Simulation results show that the proposed method has an excellent performance better than conventional approaches.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.189-192
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• 1998

본 논문은 DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) 영역에서의 압축 동영상 하향 전환기법 (down conversion)을 제안한다. DCT 영역에서의 하향 전환이 완전 복호화한 후 공간 영역에서 하향 전환하는 것보다 계산량 측면에서 상당한 이점이 있다. 또한 복호기 루프 내에서 영상 크기가 줄기 때문에 메모리의 부담을 덜 수 있다. 가장 간다한 방법으로서 복원된 영상의 화질이 약잔 떨어지더라도 계산량과 메모리를 줄이기 위해 8x8 DCT 블록의 저주파 영역의 4x4 DCT 계수만을 추출하여 4x4 IDCT하는 기법이 널리 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 변형된 4x4 IDCT 기저 함수를 이용한 새로운 DCT 영역에서의 하향 전환 기법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 기법이 기존의 DCT 영역에서의 하향 전환기법과 같은 계산량 및 메모리로 향상된 PSNR을 갖는다는 것을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.487-495
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• 2007

When error occurs during the network transmission of the image, the quality of the restored image is very serious. Therefore to maintain the received image quality, the error concealment technique is necessary. This paper presents an efficient spatial error concealment method using adaptive edge-oriented interpolation. It deals with errors on slice level. The proposed method uses boundary matching method having 2-step processes. We divide error block into external and internal region, adaptively restore each region. Because this method use overall as well as local edge characteristics, it preserves edge continuity and texture feature. The proposed technique reduces the complexity and provide better reconstruction quality for damaged images than the previous methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.104-111
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• 2010

This paper presents an adaptive image enhancement method using the spatial frequency property in the DCT(discrete cosine transform) compressed domain. The dc coefficients, the illumination components of image, are adjusted to compress the dynamic range of image, and the ac coefficients are modified to enhance the contrast by using the human visual system(HVS) and the spatial frequency property. The ac coefficients are separated into vertical direction, horizontal direction, and mixed spatial frequency components, and adaptively modified to minimize the block artifacts that possibly occur in the image enhancement. The proposed method using dynamic range compression and adaptive contrast enhancement shows the advanced performance without the block artifact compared with existing method.