• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.137-142
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• 2001

입체 시점 확장을 위하여 많은 양의 영상 데이터가 필요하다. 그러나 이를 전송하치 위해서는 전송량, 장치 등의 여러 어려움이 존재한다. 이에 소량의 영상 데이터를 보내고 수신 측에서 시점을 확장하는 방법으로 중간 영상 합성이 연구되고 있다. 중간 영상 합성을 위해서는 많은 방법들이 제안되었다 블록 매칭, 화소 기반 매칭, 에페폴라 방식, 옵티컬 플로워 등이 그것이다. 본 고에서는 위의 방법들 중에서 블록 매칭 방법을 기본으로, 블록을 생성하는 과정에서 고정 블록이 아닌 영상의 차분 신호를 이용하여 가변 블록을 생성하게 되며, 좌에서 우나 우에서 좌의 단방향이 아닌 양 방향으로 매칭하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1-6
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• 2019

One method for image recognition is template matching. In conventional template matching, the block matching algorithm (BMA) is performed while changing the two-dimensional translational displacement of the template within a given matching image. The template size and shape do not change during the BMA. Since only two-dimensional translational displacement is considered, the success rate decreases if the size and direction of the object do not match in the template and the matching image. In this paper, a variable is added to adjust the two-dimensional direction and size of the template, and the optimal value of the variable is automatically calculated in the block corresponding to each two-dimensional translational displacement. Using the calculated optimal value, the template is automatically transformed into an optimal template for each block. The matching error value of each block is then calculated based on the automatically deformed template. Therefore, a more stable result can be obtained for the difference in direction and size. For ease of use, this study focuses on designing the algorithm in a closed form that does not require additional information beyond the template image, such as distance information.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.663-667
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 인접블록간의 움직임 유사도를 이용하여 불필요한 후보블록을 보다 빠르게 제거하는 PDE기반의 고속 블록매칭 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 방법보다 불필요한 계수를 효율적으로 제거하기 위하여 인접 블록간의 영상의 유사성에 기초하여 인접한 네개의 매크로블록 가운데 최대 복잡도를 가지는 서브블록의 누적된 비율(cumulative distribution function-CDF)을 사용하고 서브블록별 복잡도가 집중되지 않도록 하기위하여 normalized 기반 매칭스캔 방법을 사용하여 효율적으로 계산량을 줄였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 화질의 저하 없이 기존의 PDE 알고리즘에 비해 60% 이상의 계산량을 줄였으며, MPEG-2 및 MPEG-4 AVC를 이용하는 비디오 압축 응용분야에 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.9-14
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• 2017

A packet loss in wireless environments causes a severe degradation of video quality in video communications. In this paper, a novel video error concealment algorithm is presented by combining boundary errors and a block reliability measure. The block reliability measure decides the reliability of a block by checking residual errors of a block. In the proposed approach, a motion vector of a missing unreliable block in an inter coded frame is obtained initially based on the motion vector of the same block in the reference frame. Furthermore, if the block in the reference frame is unreliable according to the reliability measure, a new motion vector is decided based on block boundary errors around the initial motion vector. According to our simulations, the proposed approach shows promising results for error concealment in error-prone wireless environments.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1439-1445
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a fast motion estimation algorithm using initial matching errors by sorting square sub-blocks to find complex sub-block area adaptively based on partial calculation of SAD(sum of absolute difference) while keeping the same prediction quality compared with the PDE(partial distortion elimination) algorithm. We reduced unnecessary calculations with square sub-block adaptive matching scan based initial SAD calculation of square sub-block in each matching block. Our algorithm reduces about 45% of computations for block matching error compared with conventional PDE(partial distortion elimination) algorithm without any degradation of prediction quality, and for algorithm will be useful to real-time video coding applications using MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1189-1199
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• 2003

This paper presents a new method for the motion detection of vehicles using hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing. It captures the road image by using a CMOS sensor. It divides the captured image into small blocks and detects the motion of each block by using a block-matching method which is based on a hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing for the real-time processing. The parallelism is achieved by using tile pipeline and the data flow technique. The proposed method has been implemented by using an embedded system. The proposed block matching algorithm has been implemented on PLDs(Programmable Logic Device) and clustering algorithm has been implemented by ARM processor. Experimental results show that the proposed system detects the motion of vehicles in real-time.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.321-326
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• 2019

Image denoising methods based on block matching are founded on the experimental observations that neighboring patches or blocks in images retain similar features with each other, and have been proved to show superior performance in denoising different kinds of noise. The methods, however, take into account only neighboring blocks in searching for similar blocks, and ignore the characteristic features of the reference block itself. Consequently, denoising performance is negatively affected when outliers of the Gaussian distribution are included in the reference block which is to be denoised. In this paper, we propose an expanded block matching method in which noisy images are first decomposed into a number of bit-planes, then the range of true signals are estimated based on the distribution of pixels on the bit-planes, and finally outliers are replaced by the neighboring pixels belonging to the estimated range. In this way, the advantages of the conventional Gaussian filter can be added to the blocking matching method. We tested the proposed method through extensive experiments with well known test-bed images, and observed that performance gain can be achieved by the proposed method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.643-651
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• 2017

Steganography is one of information hiding technologies and discriminated from cryptography in that it focuses on avoiding the existence the hidden information from being detected by third parties, rather than protecting it from being decoded. In this paper, as an image steganography method which uses images as media, we propose a new block matching method that embeds information into the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain. The proposed method, based on a statistical analysis, reduces loss of embedding capacity due to inequable use of candidate blocks. It works in such a way that computes the variance of each candidate block, preserves candidate blocks with high frequency components while reducing candidate blocks with low frequency components by compressing them exploiting the k-means clustering algorithm. Compared with the previous block matching method, the proposed method can reconstruct secret images with similar PSNRs while embedding higher-capacity information.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.949-955
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• 2005

In this Paper, we propose fast block matching algorithm by dividing complex areas based on complexity order of reference block and square sub-block to reduce an amount of computation of full starch(FS) algorithm for fast motion estimation, while keeping the same prediction quality compared with the full search algorithm. By using the fact that matching error is proportional to the gradient of reference block, we reduced unnecessary computations with square sub-block adaptive matching scan based image complexity instead of conventional sequential matching scan and row/column based matching scan. Our algorithm reduces about $30\%$ of computations for block matching error compared with the conventional partial distortion elimination(PDE) algorithm without any prediction quality, and our algorithm will be useful in real-time video coding applications using MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.357-361
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• 1995