• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.181-183
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• 2005

저작권 보호 기술의 하나인 디지털 워터마킹은 디지털 콘텐츠에 삽입되어 저작권 확인 및 증명에 이용될 뿐만 아니라 영상의 위변조 판별에도 이용된다. 즉, 영상이 변조되는 경우 삽입된 워터마크가 변형됨으로써 위변조 여부 및 위변조 영역의 확인도 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같이 영상의 위변조 여부를 판별하기 위한 인증 워터마킹 기법으로 적응적인 양자화 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 워터마크 삽입 과정은 영상에 DWT를 수행한 뒤 저주파 영역에 블록 DCT를 수행하여 계수들을 변형시키는 방법으로 수행되며, 이를 위해 원신호의 파워를 고려한 적응적인 양자화 방식을 제안하였다. 실험 결과 제안 방식에 의해 워터마크 삽입된 영상은 화질적으로 원영상과 차이가 없고 압축에 대한 강인성도 우수하여 인증 워터마킹에 적합함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.454-458
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• 2004

A new algorithm for the rate control of videos considering the sensitivity of the human visual system is presented. The method adopts the three-step structure of MPEG2 TM5 rate control, and a new measure of macroblock activity based on spatio-temporal sensitivity is introduced for the adaptive quantization. Experimental results show that the spatio-temporal activity measure outperforms the spatial activity of TM5 in picture quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.296-298
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 향상된 중간 시점 합성 영상을 위한 깊이 영상 부호화 방식을 제안한다. 깊이 영상은 실제 영상과 다르게 날카로운 경계를 기준으로 완만한 변화를 가지는 픽셀 값을 가지는 특성이 있다. 따라서 깊이 영상의 부호화에서는 경계 영역을 효율적으로 부호화하는 것이 중요하다. 기존의 다시점 비디오 부호화기 (Multiview Video Coding)가 하나의 프레임 내에서 고정된 양자화 파라미터 값을 사용하는 것에 반해, 제안된 방식에서는 경계 영역을 효율적으로 부호화하기 위해 블록의 특성에 따라 적응적으로 양자화 파라미터를 할당한다. 2 차 미분 영상의 분포에 기반해 각 블록을 경계 블록, 평탄 블록, 일반 블록으로 구분하고 이에 따라 양자화 파라미터를 할당한다. 실험결과로서, 제안하는 방법의 성능이 다시점 비디오 부호화기 참조 소프트웨어 JMVC 8.3 에 비하여 BD-PSNR 이 평균 0.18dB 향상되고, BD-BR 은 평균 4.03% 감소되어 부호화 효율이 우수함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.232-235
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient depth-map coding method. The adaptive block-based depth-map coding method decides the number of bit planes to be encoded according to the quantization parameters to obtain the desired bit rates. So, the depth-map coding using the block-based decision of the bit-plane to be encoded proposes to free from the constraint of the quantization parameters. Simulation results show that the proposed method, in comparison with the adaptive block-based depth-map coding method, improves the average BD-rate savings by 3.5% and the average BD-PSNR gains by 0.25dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.19-26
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• 2005

After various video coding standards such as H.263, MPEG-4, and H.264 have been introduced, there has bun strong need to support the multiple standards with limited resources efficiently. In terms of deblocking Inter which plays an important role in improving visual quality, K264 deblocking filter implementation has different aspects as compared with traditional $8\times8$ block-based post-filter implementation. Analyzing the differences, this paper proposes a H.264 deblocking filter implementation method that supports $8\times8$ block-based post-filtering for the traditional video coding systems. In the proposed implementation method the block boundaries to he filtered are adaptively chosen for $8\times8$ and $4\times4$ block boundary filtering. Since the filtered result is selectively used for motion compensation or not, both loop-filtering and post-filtering can be achieved. A quantization parameter conversion unit that converts H.263 quantization parameters to H.264 quantization parameters is utilized by examining the $8\times8$ block boundary errors based on human visual system. Since the original nature of the H.264 deblocking filter is well expanded to the $8\times8$ block-based post-filter with minor modifications, the proposed implementation method is suitable to implement the deblocking function of the multiple video standards such as H.263, MPEG-4, and K264, efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.604-606
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 인간의 시각 특성을 고려한 시각 적응적 DCT 영상 압축 방법이 제안되었다. 인간의 시각 체계의 특성 중 복잡한 영사이나 대비효과(contrast)가 큰 부분에서는 압축과정에서 발생한 왜곡이 쉽게 눈에 인지되지 않는 특성을 갖는 공간적 마스킹(spatial masking)을 이용하여 영상의 질을 어느정도 유지하면서 적응적 압축 방법에 의해 압축율을 보다 높이는 방법을 제시하였다. DCT 변환 블록에서 경계영역 정보를 많이 포함하는 부분을 추출한 후 이 영역은 다른 영역에 비해 복잡도가 더 높고 경계성분의 대비효과가 더 크기 때문에 이 영역의 분산을 취해 이 값에 따라 적응적으로 양자화한다. 실험결과, 제안된 영상 압축 알고리즘은 기존의 시각 적응적 압축 방법보다 좋은 성능을 보이며 특히 고주파 성분을 많이 가진 복잡한 영상에 대하여 높은 압축률을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.11-19
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• 2010

Most of deblocking filters assumes that the block boundaries are accurately known and the coding information like quantization parameters are available. In some applications such as commercial television, however, many external video inputs without known block boundary and coding information arc given. If a decompressed video sequence heavily degraded with blocking artifacts is given through the external video port, it is absolutely necessary to detect block boundaries and control the strength of deblocking filtering by analysing the given images. This paper presents an efficient method to find the block boundaries and estimate the strength of the blocking artifacts without the knowledge of coding information. In addition, the confidence of the estimated blocking artifact information is also evaluated to control the adaptive deblocking filter robustly. Experiment results show that the estimated block boundary locations and strength relative strength and confidence information are practically good enough to reduce the blocking artifacts without prior knowledge.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.219-227
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• 2009

In H.264/AVC, if each block is quantized with a adaptive quantization parameter(QP) regardless of the characteristics of a block, it could be the deterioration of the picture quality. In this paper, an adaptive block-based QP selection method is proposed in order to improve picture quality by utilizing the bit amounts of the zigzag-scanned integer transform coefficients of the neighboring blocks and changing the QP value in the current block. The proposed method works in the same way as the encoder and decoder without transmitting the change of QP value to the decoder side. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a gain of about $0.1\sim0.3dB$ compared with H.264/AVC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8B
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• pp.1518-1531
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• 1999

The reconstructed images from highly compressed MPEG or H.263 data have noticeable image degradations, such as blocking artifacts near the block boundaries, corner outliers at cross points of blocks, and ringing noise near image edges, because the MPEG or H.263 quantizes the transformed coefficients of 8$\times$8 pixel blocks. A post-processing algorithm has been proposed by authors to reduce quantization effects, such as blocking artifacts, corner outliers, and ringing noise, in MPEG-decompressed images. Our signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm reduces the quantization effects adaptively by using both spatial frequency and temporal information extracted from the compressed data. The blocking artifacts are reduced by one-dimensional (1-D) horizontal and vertical low pass filtering (LPF), and the ringing noise is reduced by two-dimensional (2-D) signal-adaptive filtering (SAF). A comparison study of the subjective quality evaluation using modified single stimulus method (MSSM), the objective quality evaluation (PSNR) and the computation complexity analysis between the signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm and the MPEG-4 VM (Verification Model) post-processing algorithm is performed by computer simulation with several MPEG-4 image sequences. According to the comparison study, the subjective image qualities of both algorithms are similar, whereas the PSNR and the comparison complexity analysis of the signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm shows better performance than the VM post-processing algorithm.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.296-306
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• 2006

We proposed the algorithm for the quantization noise reduction based on variable filter adaptive to edge signal in MPEG postprocessing system. In our algorithm, edge map and local modulus maxima in the decoded images are obtained by using 2D Mallat wavelet tilter. And then, blocking artifacts in inter-block are reduced by Gaussian LPF that is variable to filtering region according to edge map. Ringing artifacts in intra-block are reduced by 2D SAF according to local modulus maxima. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm was superior to the conventional algorithms as regards PSNR, which was improved by 0.04-0.20 dB, and the subjective image quality.