• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.5C
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• pp.503-511
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• 2006

H.264 adopts new coding tools such as intra-prediction, loop filter, etc. The adoption of these tools enables an H.264-coded bitstream to have more information compared with previous standards. In this paper we proposed an effective spatial error concealment method for H.264. Among the information included in an H.264-coded bitstream, we use intra-mode for recovering a damaged block. This is because prediction direction in intra-mode is highly correlated to the edge direction of a lost macroblock. We first estimate the edge direction using intra-modes of blocks adjacent to a lost macroblock, and classify the area in a damaged macroblock into the edge and the flat area. And then our method recovers pixel values in the edge area using edge-directed interpolation, and recovers pixel values in the flat area using weighted interpolation. Simulation results show the proposed method yields better video quality than conventional approaches by 0.35 to 5.48 dB.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.435-441
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• 2014

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the RGB image compression rate and image quality, such as gray-level images and showed good.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1452-1459
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• 2016

Compressed sensing is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing in and under Nyquist rate representation. Generally, the measurement prediction usually works well with a small block while the quality of recovery is known to be better with a large block. In order to overcome this dilemma, conventional research works use a structural measurement matrix with which compressed sensing is done in a small block size but recovery is performed in a large block size. In this way, both prediction and recovery are made to be improved at same time. However, the conventional researches did not compare the performances of the structural measurement matrix, affected by the block size. In this paper, by expanding a structural measurement matrix of conventional works, their performances are compared with different block sizes. Experimental results show that a structural measurement matrix with $4{\times}4$ Hadamard transform matrix provides superior performance in block size 4.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.25-36
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• 2022

This paper proposes a random sign reversal technique in space frequency block code for single carrier modulation. The traditional space time and frequency block coding technique may be confronted with radio environments openly, severe radio hijacking problems are to be overcome. In order to avoid such an open radio issue, random coded data protection technique for space-time block code was proposed, but this algorithm can change channel combination per an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing block. This kind of slow switching increases the probability that nearby receivers will detect the transmitted data. This paper proposes a fast switching algorithm per data symbols' basis which is a random sign reversal technique in space frequency block code for Single Carrier Modulation. It is shown in simulation that the proposed one has a superior performance in comparison with the performance of the receiver which do not know the random timing sequence of sign reversal.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1445-1454
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• 2006

To compress a specific part of an image with high quality or to transfer it, JPEG2000 standard offers an ROI(Region-of-Interest) image coding method. What is important in ROI coding is to process relative importance between ROI and background and to process ROI mask. We propose an adaptive ROI coding method supplemented the existing Implicit ROI coding and Modified implicit ROI coding to improve image quality and reduce ROI mask information. The proposed method is an EBCOT-based ROI coding that extracts ROI from the compressed bitstream, and gets the ROI mask information by classifying the codeblocks into 6 patterns. The information includes the pattern type(3bit) and the width(5bit) expressing the boundary between two regions for each codeblock. As a result, the method shows an excellent compression performance in ROI region as well as in the whole region of an image.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4C
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• pp.312-320
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• 2008

The macroblock-based adaptive interpolation filter method has been considered to be able to achieve high coding efficiency in H.264/AVC. In this method, although the filter selection criterion considered in terms of rate and distortion have showed a good performance, it still leaves room for improvement. To improve high coding efficiency better than conventional method, we propose a new filter selection criterion which considers two bit rates, motion vector and prediction error, and reconstruction error. In addition, the algorithm for reducing the overhead of transmitting the selected filter information is presented. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves the coding efficiency compared to ones using conventional criterion. It leads to about a 5.19% (1 reference frame) and 5.14% (5 reference frames) bit rate savings on average compared to H.264/AVC, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2001

동영상에서 움직이는 객체 검출은 동영상의 내용을 표현하고 유사한 동영상을 검색하는 데 있어 중요한 특징간을 추출하는 방법으로 사용된다. 그러나 복잡하게 카메라가 움직이는 동영상에서 움직이는 객체 검출은 아직까지 어려운 과제이다. 본 논문에서는 복잡한 카메라의 움직임이 있는 환경에서 움직이는 객체를 강인하게 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 움직이는 객체 검출 방법은 입력 영상을 색상간의 클러스터링을 이용하여 각 영역으로 구분하는 Mean Shift 알고리즘과 인접한 프레임에서 구분된 영역을 대응시켜 영역의 모션 벡터를 구하는 영역 매칭, 유사한 궤적을 가지는 영역들의 클러스터링을 이용하여 객체를 검출하는 궤적 클러스터링 알고리즘을 사용한다. 제안한 영역 기반 알고리즘은 기존의 픽셀이나 블록 기반의 방법보다 움직이는 객체를 정확하게 검출하였다. 실험 결과 복잡하게 움직이는 카메라의 환경 속에서 움직이는 객체를 강인하게 검출하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.9B
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• pp.1259-1266
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• 2001

최근에 텍스트 압축에 뛰어난 성능을 가지는 블록 정렬 알고리즘인 BW변환 (Burrows-Wheeler Transform)이 소개되었다. 그러나 영상 압축에 BW변환을 직접 적용하면 영상과 텍스트가 갖는 상관성이 서로 다르기 때문에 만족할 만한 압축효과를 기대할 수 없게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 가역의 L-SSKF(Lossless Symmetric Short Kernel Filter)를 사용한 계층적 대역분할로 영상화소 사이의 상관성을 줄인 후 BW변환을 하는 방법과 GAP(Gradient Adjusted Prediction)를 사용하여 LL 대역에 많이 분포된 상관성을 줄인 후 BW변환을 하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안한 방법이 기존의 무손실 JPEG 표준안과 LZ 기반의 압축방법(PKZIP) 등에 비해 압축성능이 개선됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1187-1193
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• 2014

This paper presents an effective motion estimation to improve the performance of the motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) which is a core part of the wavelet-based scalable video coding. The proposed scheme makes the motion vector field uniform by the modified median operation and the search strategies using adjacent motion vectors, in order to enhance the pixel connectivity which is significantly relevant to the performance of the MCTF. Moreover, the motion estimation with variable block sizes that reflects the features of frames is introduced for further correlation improvement of the motion vector field. Experimental results illustrate that the proposed method reduces the decomposed energy on the temporal high frequency subband frame up to 30.33% in terms of variance compared to the case of the full search with fixed block sizes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.533-540
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• 2022

Specialists diagnose skin cancer using a dermatoscopy to detect skin cancer as early as possible, but it is difficult to determine accurate skin lesions because skin lesions have various shapes. Recently, the skin lesion segmentation method using deep learning, which has shown high performance, has a problem in segmenting skin lesions because the boundary between healthy skin and skin lesions is not clear. To solve these issues, the proposed method constructs a transformer block to effectively segment the skin lesion, and constructs an edge decoder for each layer of the network to segment the skin lesion in detail. Experiment results have shown that the proposed method achieves a performance improvement of 0.041 ~ 0.071 for Dic Coefficient and 0.062 ~ 0.112 for Jaccard Index, compared with the previous method.