• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.42-50
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• 2017

A Bit-depth expansion is a method to increase the number of bit. It is getting important as the needs of HDR (High Dynamic Range) display or resolution of display have been increased because the level of luminance or expressiveness of color is proportional to the number of bit in the display. In this paper, we present effective bit-depth expansion algorithm for conventional standard 8 bit-depth content to display in high bit-depth device (10 bits). Proposed method shows better result comparing with recently developed methods in quantitative (PSNR) with low complexity. The proposed method shows 1db higher in PSNR measurement with 40 times faster in computational time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2004

다양한 형태의 유무선 네트워크 환경에서의 비디오 서비스를 위해 컨텐츠의 비트율을 각 환경에 맞게 조절하는 트랜스코딩 기술이 필수적인 요소로 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG 비트스트림의 효율적인 트랜스코딩을 위한 적응적 재양자화 기법을 제안한다. 압축된 비트스트림 상에서 비트율 변화를 위해서는 양자화 파라미터를 변화시켜야 하는데 이 과정에서 재양자화 에러가 발생하여 화질 및 비트율 조절에 큰 문제가 되고 있다 본 논문에서는 다양한 테스트 영상에 대해서 비트율 변화에 대한 왜곡 정도를 테스트한 결과 특정 양자화 파라미터 비율 구간에 대해서 왜곡 현상이 심해지는 현상에 따라 이를 효율적으로 모델링하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 제안한 모델에 근거하여 영상에 적응적인 재양자화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 적은 비트율을 가지면서 화질을 유지하고 간단한 조건 및 연산에 기반하여 실시간 구현이 가능하다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.7A
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• pp.994-1004
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• 2000

In this paper, bitstreams are composed of using H.263 for a moving picture coding in the band-limited and error-prone environment such as wireless environment. EREC sub-frames are implemented by applying the proposed EREC algorithm in order to be UEP for the real data parts of implemented bitstreams. Because those are able to do resynchronization with a block unit, propagation of the error can be minimized, and the position of the important bits such as INTRADC and MVD can be known. Class is separated using the position of these important bits, and variable puncturing tables are designed by the class informations and the code rates of turbo codes are differently designed in according to the class. Channel coding used the turbo codes, and an interleaver to be designed in the turbo codes does not eliminate redundancy bits of the important bits in applying variable code rates of EREC sub-frames unit and is always the same at the transmitter and the receiver although being variable frame size. As a result of simulation, UEP with the code rate similar to EEP is obtained a improved result in the side of bit error probability. And the result of applying it to image knows that the subjective and objective quality have been improved by the protection of important bits.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10C
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• pp.961-967
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• 2009

In this paper, the lossless compression method is proposed for an 8-bit bitplane of the input image. The lower bitplanes are not well compressed because of irregularity of pixels. To overcome these drawbacks, this paper propose a mixed coding method that using the block-based lossless compression and the bit-based losselss compression, introducing the H. 264 and the JBIG. First, to take advantage of the characteristics of the bitplanes, 8-bitplane against the top 4 bits and lower 4 bits were separated. Next, the JBIG compression method was used in separated top 4-bitplane because of a lot of correlation between bits. And a separated lower 4-bitplane was applied the improved method that using the H. 264 lossless prediction. A pre-processing method applied to the lower 4-bitplane then irregular distribution of pixel values are converted to regular. Using the proposed method to test for various test images were performed. Experimental results from a printer using 8-bit image compared to JBIG average 19%, lower 4bit image compression performance with an average of 11% could be obtained.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.6 s.360
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• pp.77-82
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• 2007

In the existing frame-layer rate control for H.264, buffer status and content complexity are used improperly, causing quality fluctuations of high-motion video at low bit rates and high frame rates (under 19.2 kbps at 30 fps). We propose an enhanced H.264 frame-layer rate control scheme to obtain steady video quality and stable buffer management. Experimental results showed that the proposed scheme performed better than existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2019

유무선 정보통신환경에 맞춰 제한된 비트율로 압축된 CCTV 영상의 화질은 좋지 않을 수 있다. 본 논문은 제한된 비트율로 압축된 영상내 관심영역의 화질개선을 위해, 영상압축을 수행 하기 전의 카메라 센서로 획득한 영상에 전처리를 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 관심영역 및 비관심영역에 차등적 필터를 적용하여 화소 별 공간적 상관도를 향상시킨다. 제안된 방법을 사용한 결과 관심영역에서의 텍스처 손실을 최소화 할 수 있었으며 전처리 과정을 적용하지 않은 영상과 비교하여 객관적 화질이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.594-597
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• 2002

In this paper we study the effects of transmission noise on fixed-length coded wavelet coefficients. We use a posteriori detectors which include inter-bitplane information and determine which transmitted codeword was most likely corrupted into a received erroneous codeword We present a simple method of recovering from these errors once detected and demonstrate our restoration methodology on scalar-quantized wavelet coefficients that have been transmitted across a binary symmetric channel.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.194-205
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• 1997

In video compression standards such as MPEG and H.263. rate control is one of the key components for good coding performance. This paper presents a simple adaptive rate control scheme using a piecewise linear approximation model. While conventional buffer control approach is performed by adjusting the quantization parameter linearly according to the buffer fullness. the proposed approach uses a piecewise linear approximation model derived from logarithmic relation between the quantization parameter and bitrate in data compression. In addition. a forward analyzer performed in the spatial domain is used to improve image quality. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method provides better performance than the conventional one and reduces the fluctuation of the PSNR per frame while maintaining the quality of the reconstructed frames at a relatively stable level.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.63-68
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• 2011

Many countries all over the world have been doing lunar exploration projects. Korea has also been doing basic research on lunar exploration. The development of communication systems for lunar exploration projects is one of the most important aspects of performing a successful lunar mission. In this paper, we design a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) prototype based on the requirement analysis of a communication link for lunar exploration and implement its core module considering the international standards for deep space communications to perform a basic research on baseband processor development. It is verified by comparing the bit error rate of the DSP prototype with that of a computer simulation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.189-197
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• 2009

A digital image usually has 8 bits of depth basically representing pixel intensity ranging for [0 255]. These pixel range allow 256 step levels of pixel values in the image. Thus the greyscale value for a given image is an integer. When we carry out interpolation of a given image for resizing we have to round the interpolated value to integer which can result in loss of quality on perceived color values. This paper proposes a new method for recovering this loss of information during interpolation process. By using the proposed method the pixels tend to regain more original values which yields better looking images on resizing.