• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.956-962
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• 2005

To improve video quality and coding efficiency, H.264/AVC adopts different half pixel calculating method compared with the previous standards. So, the transcoder requires additional works to transcode the pre-coded video contents with the previous standards to H.264/AVC in DCT domain. In this paper, we propose the first half-pixel correction method for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding in DCT domain. In the proposed method, MPEG-2 block is added to the correction block obtained by difference calculation of half-pixel values between two standards using DCT reference frame. Experimental results show that the proposed achieves better quality than pixel based cascaded transcoding method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.798-809
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• 2014

Video stabilization is performed to remove unexpected shaky and irregular motion from a video. It is often used as preprocessing for robust feature tracking and matching in video. Typical video stabilization algorithms are developed to compensate motion from surveillance video or outdoor recordings that are captured by a hand-help camera. However, since the vehicle video contains rapid change of motion and local features, typical video stabilization algorithms are hard to be applied as it is. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to compensate shaky and irregular motion in vehicle video using linear regression model and vertical projection histogram matching. Towards this goal, we perform vertical projection histogram matching at each sub region of an input frame, and then we generate linear regression model to extract vertical translation and rotation parameters with estimated regional vertical movement vector. Multiple binarization with sub-region analysis for generating the linear regression model is effective to typical recording environments where occur rapid change of motion and local features. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach on blackbox videos and showed that employing the linear regression model achieved robust estimation of motion parameters and generated stabilized video in full automatic manner.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2013

The camera motion is accompanied with the translation and/or the rotation of objects in frames of a video sequence. An unnecessary rotation of objects declines the quality of the moving pictures and in addition is a primary cause of the viewers' fatigue. In this paper, a novel method for correcting rotated frames in video sequences is presented, where the modified Mojette transform is applied to the motion-compensated area in each frame. The Mojette transform is one of discrete Radon transforms, and is modified for correcting the rotated frames as follows. First, the bin values in the Mojette transform are determined by using pixels on the projection line and the interpolation of pixels adjacent to the line. Second, the bin values are calculated only at some area determined by the motion estimation between current and reference frames. Finally, only one bin at each projection is computed for reducing the amount of the calculation in the Mojette transform. Through the simulation carried out on various test video sequences, it is shown that the proposed scheme has good performance for correcting the rotation of frames in moving pictures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.426-427
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• 2010

최근 휴대기기들의 CMOS 영상 센서의 사용으로 Rolling shutter에 의한 왜곡현상이 발생하고 있다. 이러한 왜곡현상을 보정하기 위한 기존의 방법은 동영상에서의 움직임 정보만을 주로 이용하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 움직임 정보를 이용한 보정의 성능을 더욱 좋게 하기위하여 정지영상에서 Rolling Shutter 왜곡현상에 대한 추가적인 움직임 정보를 찾아내고 보정하는 알고리즘을 제안하고 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.834-841
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• 2004

There can be lips transformed geometrically in the lip images according to the location or the pose of camera and speaker. This transformation of the lip images changes geometric information of original lip phases. Therefore, for enhancing global lip information by using partial information of lips to correct lip phases transformed geometrically, in this paper we propose a method that can geometrically correct lips. The method is composed of two steps - the feature-deciding step and the correcting step. In the former, it is for us to extract key points and features of source image according to the its lip model and to create that of target image according to the its lip model. In the latter, we decide mapping relation after partition a source and target image based on information extracted in the previous step into each 4 regions. and then, after mapping, we unite corrected sub-images to a result image. As experiment image, we use fames that contain pronunciation on short vowels of the Korean language and use lip symmetry for evaluating the proposed algorithm. In experiment result, the correcting rate of the lower lip than the upper lip and that of lips moving largely than little was highly enhanced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.481-483
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• 2004

다양한 동영상 압축표준에서 압축효율을 높이기 위해 1/2 화소를 이용한다. 1/2 화소는 프레임 간 참조시 압축 효율을 높이기 위한 프레임 내 화소를 연산하여 생성되는 가상의 값이며 이 연산식은 표준에 따라 다르다. MPEG-2에서 H.264로의 포맷 변환시 이 1/2 화소값의 차이로 인해 MPEG-2의 모션벡터와 움직임 보상된 값을 그대로 사용할 수 없게 된다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2의 모션벡터를 그대로 사용하고 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) 도메인에서 두 표준의 화소값의 차이를 보정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 픽셀 도메인의 창조 블록을 이용하여 보정 할 위치를 찾고 두 표준의 1/2 화소 계산식의 차이를 이용하여 보정 할 값을 구하게 된다. 구해진 보정 값을 DCT하여 DCT 도메인의 현재 블록에 더하여 보정하게 된다. 이 기법은 모든 블록의 값을 완벽하게 보정할 수는 없지만 두 표준 간 차이값이 큰 1/2 화소를 보정할 수 있으며 IDCT라 DCT로 인한 화질 열화도 감소된다 또한, DCT 상태에서 보정을 수행하므로 픽셀 도메인에서 보다 약 7%의 계산복잡도도 낮출 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.431-434
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• 2007

빗물 및 폐수가 흘러가는 하수관은 자연 유하식으로 하수가 흘러갈 수 있도록 설계되어있는 관의 특성상 침전물이 많이 발생하며, 집중호우로 발생하는 다량의 빗물이 빠른 유속으로 관을 흐르기 때문에 관내부를 손상시키는 요인으로 작용하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 관 내부를 촬영할 수 있는 궤도차량을 통해 동영상 자료를 획득하고 영상의 이미지 보정 단계를 거쳐 그래픽 파일로 변환한후 관련 정보를 입력, 저장하는 시스템 개발을 본 연구의 주요 범위로 한다. 이미지보정은 동영상을 거리의 함수를 가지는 이미지 파일로 변환하고 각각의 획득된 이미지를 영상정합기법을 사용하여 하나의 연속된 이미지 형태로 저장하여 영상 해석을 통해 균열, 침전등의 사항을 도출하여 도출된 사항은 지리정보 체계와 연동할 수 있는 파일 체계를 갖추도록 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.2
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• pp.81-87
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• 1999

In this research, we propose a field mismatch compensation method for interlaced scan image and a image restoration technique for removing motion blur. In order to compensate field mismatch, the edge classification-based linear interpolation technique and the method using the object-based motion compensation are described. We also propose an edge estimation method and an motion-based image segmentation algorithm. For removing motion blur, we adopt an adaptive iterative image restoration method using the motion-based segmentation result to improve the quality of restored image.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.168-175
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose FPGA design technique for rotating LED display device which is capable of displaying videos with the use of the afterimage effect. The proposed technique is made up of image data correction process based on inverse gamma correction and error diffusion, block interleaving process, and data serial output process. The data correction process based on inverse gamma correction and error diffusion is an image data correction step in which image data received are corrected by inverse gamma correction process to convert the data into linear brightness characteristics, and by error diffusion process to reduce the brightness reduction phenomenon in low-gray-level which is caused by inverse gamma correction. In the block interleaving process, the data of the frames entered transversely are first saved in accordance with entrance order, and then only the longitudinal image data are read. The data serial output process is applied to convert the parallel data in a rotating location into serial data and send them to LED Driver IC, in order to send data which will be displayed on high-speedy rotating LED Bar. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed FPGA design technique, this paper used XC6SLX45-FG484, a Spartan 6 family of Xilinx, as FPGA, and ISE 14.5 as a design tool. According to the evaluation analysis, it was found that goal values were consistent with simulation values in terms of accurate operation of inverse gamma and error diffusion correction, block interleaving operation, and serialized operation of image data.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2002

Recently, the use of image analysis methods and commercial equipments has been extensively increased in the field of rock engineering. However the problem of errors involved in the image acquisition and subsequent analysis procedure has been frequently neglected. In addition there has been few studies dealing with this problem. So proper color calibration method is needed to be developed for the objectivity and improvement of reliability on image analysis of rock. Color calibration method using standard color rendition chart was adopted on this study. Color calibration and error analysis were carried out for the image acquired from granite rock samples. As a result, comparison among other rock images and improvement of reliability on whole analysis were possible.