• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.663-674
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• 1993

In this paper, a DCT image coding algorithm using the human visual property is proposed. Human visual is relatively sensitive to noise in the darker region, insensitive to noise in the brighter region. This property was proved by Weber's law through psycovisual experiment. Weber's law states that the just noticeable difference (j.n.d.) is proportional to intensity. Therefore, the implication of this observation for image processing is that reducing noise in the darker region is more important than reducing noise in the brighter region. In this proposed coding scheme AC coefficients in the darker region are more finely quantized than those in the brighter region. Results showed that, at low bit rate, the subjective quality of reconstructed images by proposed coding scheme is improved than that of coding scheme without considering human visual property.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 1996

In this paper, we present an image coder using variable quantizer for newly proposed JPEG extensions which has been standardized as ISO/IEC 10918-3(ITU-T Rec. T.84). It is necessary to alleviate the blocking artifact which is more sensitive to human eye in view of the spatial frequency sensitivity. The blocking artifact arises in the lower activity area rather than in the higher area. Therefore variable quantizer use the horizontal and vertical derivatives for calculating the $8{\times}8$ block activity. We classified nonlinear quantizer parameter into 5 categories in order to finely quantize in the lower active region. As a result of simulation for various images, the proposed coder increases subjective and objective quality at a given bit rate.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.929-943
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• 2016

This paper proposes the rate control algorithm based on the S-JND (Saliency-Just Noticeable Difference) model for considering perceptual visual quality. The proposed rate control algorithm employs the S-JND model to simultaneously reflect human visual sensitivity and human visual attention for considering characteristics of human visual system. During allocating bits for CTU (Coding Tree Unit) level in a rate control, the bit allocation model calculates the S-JND threshold of each CTU in a picture. The threshold of each CTU is used for adaptively allocating a proper number of bits; thus, the proposed bit allocation model can improve perceptual visual quality. For performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm, the proposed algorithm was implemented on HM 16.9 and tested for sequences in Class B and Class C under the CTC (Common Test Condition) RA (Random Access), Low-delay B and Low-delay P case. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the bit-rate of 2.3%, and improves BD-PSNR of 0.07dB and bit-rate accuracy of 0.06% on average. We achieved MOS improvement of 0.03 with the proposed method, compared with the conventional method based on DSCQS (Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale).

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

The chest wall, an organ directly affected by environmental particles through respiration, consists of ribs, a pleural layer and intercostal muscles. To diagnose early and treat disease in this body part, it is important to visualize the details of the chest wall, but the structure of the pleural layer cannot be seen by chest computed tomography or ultrasound. On the other hand, optical coherence tomography (OCT), with a high spatial resolution, is suited to observe pleural-layer response to talc, one of the fine materials. However, intensity-based OCT is weak in providing information to distinguish the detailed structure of the chest wall, and cannot distinguish the reaction of the pleural layer from the change in the muscle by the talc. Polarization-sensitive OCT (PS-OCT) takes advantage of the fact that specific tissues like muscle, which have optical birefringence, change the backscattered light's polarization state. Moreover, the birefringence of muscle associated with the arrangement of myofilaments indicates the muscle's condition, by measuring retardation change. The PS-OCT image is interpreted from three major perspectives for talc-exposure chest-wall imaging: a thickened pleural layer, a separation between pleural layer and muscle, and a phase-retardation measurement around lesions. In this paper, a rabbit chest wall after talc pleurodesis is investigated by PS-OCT. The PS-OCT images visualize the pleural layer and muscle, respectively, and this system shows different birefringence of normal and damaged lesions. Also, an analyisis based on phase-retardation slope supports results from the PS-OCT image and histology.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.117-139
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• 2021

The way of change detection in which presence of a different item is determined between memory and test arrays with a brief in-between time interval resembles how visual search is done considering that the different item is searched upon the onset of a test array being compared against the items in memory. According to the resemblance, the present study examined whether varying the probability of change occurrence in a visual short-term memory-based change detection task can influence the aspect of response-decision making (i.e., change prevalence effect). The simple-feature change detection task in the study consisted of a set of four colored boxes followed by another set of four colored boxes between which the participants determined presence or absence of a color change from one box to the other. The change prevalence was varied to 20, 50, or 80% in terms of change occurrences in total trials, and their change detection errors, detection sensitivity, and their subsequent RTs were analyzed. The analyses revealed that as the change prevalence increased, false alarms became more frequent while misses became less frequent, along with delayed correct-rejection responses. The observed change prevalence effect looks very similar to the target prevalence effect varying according to probability of target occurrence in visual search tasks, indicating that the background principles deriving these two effects may resemble each other.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1C
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• pp.72-82
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• 2004

This paper proposes more robust error concealment techniques (ECTs) for MPEG-2 intra coded frame. MPEG-2 source coding algorithm is very sensitive to transmission errors due to the use of variable-length coding. The transmission errors are corrected by error correction scheme, however, they cannot be revised properly. Error concealment (EC) is used to conceal the errors which are not corrected by error correction and to provide minimum visual distortion at the decoder. If errors are generated in intra coded frame, that is the starting frame of GOP, they are propagated to other inter coded frames due to the nature of motion compensated prediction coding. Such propagation of error may cause severe visual distortion. The proposed algorithm in this paper utilizes the spatio-temporal information of neighboring inter coded frames to conceal the successive slices errors occurred in I-frame. The proposed method also overcomes the problems that previous ECTs reside. The proposed algorithm generates consistent performance even in network where the violent transmission errors frequently occur. Algorithm is performed in MPEG-2 video codec and we can confirm that the proposed algorithm provides less visible distortion and higher PSNR than other approaches through simulations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.177-186
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• 2011

VMD should be shifted from the store for the exhibition to the top selling store, the store that has something people want to buy, the store where people want to visit and the store that is convenient for shopping. To become the top selling store by using VMD to the information design, the primary research has been conducted on the females in Gwangju Metropolitan City by the questionnaire on the propensity to consume and purchase type. The secondary research has been conducted on the females in university who are fashion conscious. The tertiary research, by the questionnaire, has been conducted on the apparel store at the department store in Gwangju Metropolitan City. As a result of the research, it can be said that the best effect of VMD has been shown in the department store, and as the overall problem, it has become obvious that the standardized design was followed without taking advantage of the characteristics of each store.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.353-355
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 영상의 flexible subblock을 이용하여 영상내에 물체의 이동이나, 빛의 변화, 시각점(view-point)의 변화등에 덜 민감한 영상 검색을 방법을 제안한다. 특징 값으로는 Ohta 컬러 공간으로부터 1, 2, 3차 central 모멘트 값을 추출해 내고, 쌍직교 웨이블릿 변환을 통해 고주파 영역으로부터 수직-수평 방향 성분을 추출하여 인덱스화 시킴으로써 인덱스를 위한 저장 공간을 줄이고 계산 시간을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 아울러, 2개의 특징 값을 다단계(multi-step) K-NN 방법에 적용시킴으로서 사용자가 검색하고자 하는 가장 유사한 k 개의 영상만을 사용자에게 보여 주도록 설계하였다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 알고리즘의 우수성을 증명하기 위해 RGB 색상 공간을 그대로 적용하여 실험한 결과를 비교해 보았다. 추가적으로, 영상의 전역적인 유사성뿐만 아니라, 각 블록의 독립적인 특징 값을 이용하여 특정 블록에 대한 검색 환경도 제공하여 보다 의미있는 검색 환경을 제공하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.677-680
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 컬러 장치들간에 색을 일치시키기 위하여 휘도 대비와 채도 향상을 고려한 원형 색역 사상(circular shape-based gamut mapping)방법을 제안하였다. 서로 다른 장치들간에 색역을 일치시키기 위해 장치 독립적이고 균등 색 공간인 CIELAB값으로 변환하여 색역 사상을 수행하였다. 인간 시각에 상대적으로 민감한 특성을 가지는 휘도 성분을 JND(just noticeable difference)에 기반해 분할하고, 이를 기점으로 색역을 원의 형태로 나눈다. 이렇게 나뉜 색역은 사상의 방향성을 결정하는 기본 단위로 사용되어, 이들 영역을 기점으로 영역 대 영역별 사상 방법을 사용하였다. 제안한 색역 사상 방법을 모니터와 프린터간에 적용한 결과 보다 선명하고 휘도 대비가 높은 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.47-54
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 물체들의 이동(translation) 축적(scale) 그리고 회전방향(orientation)에 무관하게 물체를 인식하는 실용적인 패턴 인식 시스템을 소개한다. 이 시스템은 2진영상으로 변환하는데 필요한 임계치(threshold)의 큰 변화에도 덜 민감하다. 특징 벡터(feature vector)로 서는 Zernike 모멘트를 사용하였는데 지금까지 잘 알려진 Hu가 제안한 7개의 모멘트 불변수 (moment invariants)와 비교한다. 또한, 실용적인 기계 시각(machine vision) 시스템에 대해 세 가지 중요한 문제로서 패턴 정규화(pattern nomalization), Zernike 모멘트의 신속한 계산, 그리고 k-NN 규칙을 이용한 분류 등을 논의하였다. 실험에서는 임의의 회전 방향에서 문자들의 크기가 10x10 화소(pixel)에서 512x512 화소까지 변하는 서로 다른 크기를 가진 인쇄된 62개의 문자와 숫자 그리고 기호들을 서로 다른 임계치에서 인식하는 것을 보여준다.