• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.74-84
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• 2020

In November 2018, virtual pop band K/DA, with the use of holograms and actual K-pop girl group members, performed its debut album titled "POP/STARS" at the opening ceremony of the League of Legends S8 final, hosted by Riot Games. The fan culture that exists for real singers adapts itself to virtual bands, and K/DA, consisting of virtual characters, encouraging the production of user created content (UCC). However, this form of UCC is different from the most common one, meaning that this type of band generates another way of consuming content. Therefore, this study examines how K/DA's digital characters are transformed and reproduced by UCC and how the original producers' content differs from them. Firstly, the development of this study considers the open characteristics of UCC, such as user type, created motivation, created process, content type and sharing method. In the second part, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku and virtual band Pentakill will be analysed to understand UCC. Thirdly, K/DA will be analyzed as a case study based on three factors: created motivation, content type and sharing method. In this manner, this study aims to explain how UCC for virtual bands reproduce and consume original content and expand their commercial value.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.588-596
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• 2008

For the patients' privacy, secure access control of medical images is essentially necessary. In this paper, two types of Region of Interest (ROI)-based selective encryption schemes are proposed, which concentrate on the security of crucial parts in medical images. The first scheme randomly inverts the most significant bits of ROI coefficients in several high frequency subbands in the transform domain, which only incurs little loss on compression efficiency. The second scheme employs a symmetric key encryption to encrypt selectively the ROI data in the final code-stream, which provides sufficient confidentiality. Both of two schemes are backward compatible so as to ensure a standard bitstream compliant decoder so the encrypted images can be reconstructed without any crash.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.805-815
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• 2003

In this paper, we present the development of document compression codec using segmentation, wavelet lifting and bitplane coding. We use the segmentation to preserve the text appearance. We performed integer-to-integer wavelet lifting and also performed bitplane subblock coding for document compression. We acquired a high compression ratio and an efficient compression by encoding only the significant subblocks in the bitplane subblock coding. We also implemented scalar quantization by subband-oriented bit shifting. The system performs color conversion and downsampling before wavelet lifting and also performs graycode conversion and quantization before subblock coding. In the experiment, we show the performances of the system by presenting the high compression ratios and high PSNR values.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.792-802
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• 2016

Real time verification is necessary, since there are several features that cannot be verified through design simulation in the design of multiband soundbar system. And then this paper describes an implementation of an FPGA-based real-time verification system for a soundbar SoC with an embedded processor. It is verified a real-time performance test and a listening test which are several features in the design stage that cannot be verified through a design simulation. The measurement of quantitative specifications such as SNR, THD+N, frequency response, etc. as well as the listening test were performed through the implemented FPGA system, and it was verified that test results satisfied the target specifications.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.6317-6321
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• 2014

Multimedia documents can be transferred quickly and easily across the Internet, and has attracted considerable interest in multimedia security and multimedia copyright protection. This paper proposes an animage watermarking scheme embedding a binary watermark image using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coefficients. The original image is transformed to the wavelet domain and decomposed in subbands. The binary watermark image, as a sequence of bits, is embedded into the middle frequency subbands. The original image is not needed to detect the watermark image. The proposed method detected fewer watermark bits but produced an approximately 10dB higher PSNR than the max/min method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1143-1152
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• 2007

The objective of this paper is to develop the real time motion recognition method for the rehabilitation program of the people with physical disabilities. Using the infrared ray LED, this method gets the Teal time information of the user's motion and tells the difference between the information we get and the pre-defined information. In order to get the fast recognition and comparison, this method positions the specific coordinates of infrared ray LED in the pre-classified sector which keeps certain distance and angle from the point of origin. The result In our experiment shows the speed over 20 frames per second in every motion, and we are satisfied the rate for the recognition of the motions which is near 98%.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.131-136
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• 2013

Multi-core processors can improve parallelism of application processes and thus can enhance the system throughput. Researchers have recently revealed that the processor affinity is an important factor to determine network I/O performance due to architectural characteristics of multi-core processors; thus, many researchers are trying to suggest a scheme to decide an optimal processor affinity. Existing schemes to dynamically decide the processor affinity are able to transparently adapt for system changes, such as modifications of application and upgrades of hardware, but these have limited access to characteristics of application behavior and run-time information that can be collected heuristically. Thus, these can provide only sub-optimal processor affinity. In this paper, we define meaningful system variables for determining optimal processor affinity and suggest a tool to gather such information. We show that the implemented tool can overcome limitations of existing schemes and can improve network bandwidth.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.575-583
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• 2011

Due to the development of mobile devices and communication technology, cell phones have radically evolved from portable phones into smartphones and provided variety of services to a society. This paper presents Multi-user Musical Instrument application for smart phones based on band instruments such as piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drum. This application makes music playing from smartphone to integrative music data stream using the synchronization function of server. In addition, user can play it of smartphone efficiently by implementing a graphic user interface similar to real musical instruments.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.84-96
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• 2010

국내 휴대폰 시장은 최근 급격한 변화의 시기를 맞고 있다. 음성정보 송 수신과 단순한 개인정보관리, 또는 멀티미디어 데이터 처리에 주력하던 피처폰 시장은 고사양의 운영체제, HD급 비디오, 수십만 가지의 앱(App.; Application), 고성능 디스플레이로 대표되는 스마트폰 시장으로 급격히 전환되고 있다. 이러한 스마트폰의 고사양화는 모바일프로세서, 베이스밴드 칩, 다양한 센서를 포함하는 스마트폰 하드웨어와 데스크톱 수준에 근접하는 고사양의 운영체제가 견인하고 있다. 특히, 모바일 프로세서는 스마트폰 기술 발전을 견인하는 핵심 부품으로서 다수의 프로세서와 외부인터페이스 장치를 포함하는 고성능, 저전력의 시스템온칩(SoC)이며 모바일프로세서의 동작속도, 전력소모량 등은 스마트폰의 성능을 가늠하는 척도로 인식되고 있다. 최근, 모바일프로세서는 스마트폰 시장을 넘어서 넷북, MID, 스마트 TV 등 다양한 산업영역에서 채용되고 있으며 2018년에 100억 개의 제품이 생산될 것으로 전망되어 모바일 시장의 폭발적인 성장을 견인하는 핵심 부품이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.103-106
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 전이중(full duplex)으로 동작하는 멀티미디어 PC의 음성 명령어 인식기의 성능 향상을 위한 적응 음향 반향 제거기를 구현하였다. 최근 들어 일고 있는 인간과 컴퓨터의 인터페이스를 쉽고 친밀하게 하려는 노력은 음성으로 제어하는 컴퓨터의 탄생을 예고하고 있다. 이러한 시스템을 전이중 모드에서 사용할 경우 음향 반향은 피할 수 없는 현상이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 음향 반향을 제거하기 위해서 서브밴드 적응 필터 구조를 이용하여 실시간 처리가 가능한 음향 반향 제거기를 설계하였다. 또한, 동시통화시 음성의 왜곡을 줄이는 스위칭 구조를 사용하였다. 동시통화의 검출은 상호상관도를 이용하여 구현하였다. 이렇게 구현된 반향제거기를 음향 입출력 루틴과 음성 인식기와 결합하여 Windows 95상에서 실시간으로 동작하는 음성 명령어 인식 소프트웨어를 완성하였다. 모의 실험 및 실시간 실험을 통하여 반향 제거기의 성능을 검증하였고, 음성인식 실험을 수행하여 반향 제거기가 인식율 향상에 기여함을 확인하였다.