• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.6C
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• pp.465-474
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• 2005

In this paper, a directional reconstruction of lost block in image over noisy channel is presented. DCT coefficients or pixel values in the lost blocks are recovered by using the linear interpolation with available neighboring blocks that are adaptively selected by the directional measure that are composed of the DDC (Difference of DC opposite blocks)and SAC(Similarity of AC opposite blocks) between opposite blocks around lost blocks. The proposed directional recovery method is effective for the strong edge and texture regions because we do not make use of the fixed 4-neighboring blocks but exploit the varying neighboring blocks adaptively by the directional information in the local image. In this paper, we describe the novel directional measure(CDS: Combination of DDC and SAC) composed of the DDC and the SAC and select the usable block to recover the lost block with the directional measure. The proposed method shows about 0.6dB PSNR improvement in average compared to the conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

When images compressed with block-based compression techniques are transmitted over a noisy channel, unexpected block losses occur. In this paper, we present a post-processing-based block recovery scheme using Haar wavelet features. No consideration of the edge-direction, when recover the lost blocks, can cause block-blurring effects. The proposed directional recovery method in this paper is effective for the strong edge because exploit the varying neighboring blocks adaptively according to the edges and the directional information in the image. First, the adaptive selection of neighbor blocks is performed based on the energy of wavelet subbands (EWS) and difference of DC values (DDC). The lost blocks are recovered by the linear interpolation in the spatial domain using selected blocks. The method using only EWS performs well for horizontal and vertical edges, but not as well for diagonal edges. Conversely, only using DDC performs well diagonal edges with the exception of line- or roof-type edge profiles. Therefore, we combined EWS and DDC for better results. The proposed methods out performed the previous methods using fixed blocks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.87-94
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a directional error concealment technique to compensate a lost block. Generally, the strong edge of an image has the large amounts of the variance because of its large coefficients in the wavelet domain. For estimating edge direction of a lost block, a $X^2$ hypothesis-testing problem is applied using the variance of wavelet coefficients. The lost block is interpolated according to the estimated edge direction. The pixels for interpolation is obtained from the edge direction. The proposed method outperforms the previous methods in objective and subjective qualities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.449-454
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• 2002

네트워크 혼잡으로 인한 패킷 손실은 인터넷 망에서는 필수 불가결이고, 압축된 비디오 비트 스트림을 인터넷 망에 전송할 경우 공-시간적 도메인상에 에러 전파을 야기하므로 화질에 심각한 화질열화를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 수신측에서 손상된 영상 일부분을 복구하기 위하여 새로운 에러 은닉 알고리즘인 EBMA(Edge detecting for Boundary Matching Algorithm)를 제안한다. 기존 BMA는 부호화된 인접한 블록의 움직임벡터들이 상당히 높은 유사도 혹은 상관도 (correlation)를 갖고 있다는 점과 손실블록과 인접블록 경계에 존재하는 화소간의 유사도를 이용하기 때문에 비교적 신뢰할 수 있지만, 손실블록과 정확히 복원된 인접블록 화소간의 방향성을 고려하지 않는 단점이 있다. 따라서 제안한 알고리즘은 에지영역을 검출하고, 검출된 에지영역에서 방향성을 조사하므로 기존 BMA 방법 보다 성능이 향상되었다. 실험결과는 제안한 알고리즘이 기존 BMA 방법보다 계산 및 화질측면에서 우월하였을 뿐만 아니라, PSNR 값과 주관적인 화질상에서도 좋은 결과를 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.208-208
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• 2004

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1306-1311
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed on the direction of self-repairing mimicking the cell on the digital system design. Three-dimensional array of cells rather than using the original structure of FPGA, an array of blocks for efficient error detection methods were investigated. With a certain regularity, so the design method in detail by dividing the full array. The digital circuits can be detected fault location easily and quickly.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.58-65
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• 2002

In order to reduce blocking artifacts in inter-frame coded images, we propose a new image restoration algorithm, which directly processes differential images before reconstruction. We note that blocking artifact in inter-frame coded images is caused by both 8$\times$8 DCT and 16$\times$16 macroblock based motion compensation, while that of intra-coded images is caused by 8$\times$8 DCT only. According to the observation, we Propose a new degradation model for differential images and the corresponding restoration algorithm that utilizes additional constraints and convex sets for discontinuity inside blocks. The proposed restoration algorithm is a modified version of standard regularization that incorporate!; spatially adaptive lowpass filtering with consideration of edge directions by utilizing a part of DCT coefficients. Most of video coding standard adopt a hybrid structure of block-based motion compensation and block discrete cosine transform (BDCT). By this reason, blocking artifacts are occurred on both block boundary and block interior For more complete removal of both kinds of blocking artifacts, the restored differential image must satisfy two constraints, such as, directional discontinuities on block boundary and block interior Those constraints have been used for defining convex sets for restoring differential images.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.298-304
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• 2004

In transmitting a compressed video bit-stream over Internet, a packet loss causes an error propagation in both spatial and temporal domain, which in turn leads to a severe degradation in image quality. In this paper, a new error concealment algorithm is proposed to repair damaged portions of the video frames in the receiver. Conventional BMA(Boundary Matching Algorithm) assumes that the pixels on the boundary of the missing block and its neighboring blocks are very similar, but has no consideration of edges t)r discontinuity across the boundary. In our approach, the edges are detected across the boundary of the lost or erroneous block. Once the edges are detected and the orientation of each edge is found, only the pixel difference along the expected edges across the boundary is measured instead of calculating differences between all adjacent pixels on the boundary. Therefore, the proposed approach needs very few computations and the experiment shows an improvement of the performance over the conventional BMA in terms of both subjective and objective quality of video sequences.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 2003

In transmitting compressed video bit-stream over Internet, packet loss causes error propagation in both spatial and temporal domain, which in turn leads to severe degradation in image quality. In this paper, a new approach for the recovery of lost or erroneous Motion Vector(MV)s by classifying the movements of neighboring blocks by their homogeneity is proposed. MVs of neighboring blocks are classified according to the direction of MVs and a representative value for each class is determined to obtain the candidate MV set. By computing the distortion of the candidates, a MV with the minimum distortion is selected. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits better performance in many cases than existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.623-629
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• 2002

In transmitting compressed video bit-stream over Internet, packet losses cause error propagations in both spatial and temporal domains, which in turn leads to severe degradation I image quality. In this paper, a new error concealment algorithm, called EBMA(Edge Detection based Boundary Matching Algorithm), is proposed to repair damaged portions of the video frames in the receiver. Conventional BMA(Boundary Matching Algorithm) assumes that the pixels on the boundary of the missing block and its neighboring blocks are very similar, but has no consideration of edges across the boundary. In our approach, the edges are detected across the boundary of the lost or erroneous block. Once the orientation of each edge is found, only the pixel difference along the expected edges across the boundary is measured instead of the calculation of difference along the expected edges across the boundary is measured instead of the calculation of differences between all adjacent pixels on the boundary Therefore, the proposed approach needs very few computations and the experiment shows and improvement of the performance over the conventional BMA in terms of both subjective and objective quality of video sequences.