• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

A motion adaptive video noise reduction scheme is proposed by cascading a temporal filter and a spatial filter. After a noise-robust motion detection is performed with a pre-spatial filter, the strength of the motion adaptive temporal filter is controlled by the amount of temporal movement. In order to fully utilize the temporal correlation of video signal, noisy input image is processed first by the temporal filter, therefore, image details of temporally stationary region are quite well preserved while undesired noises are suppressed. In contrast to the pre-spatial filter used for the robust motion detection, the cascaded post-spatial filter removes the remained noises by considering the strength of the temporal filter and the spatial self-similarity search results obtained from the pre-spatial filter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.79-82
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• 2007

본 논문은 정합 검증 패턴을 이용한 적응형 계층 육각 탐색의 성능 개선에 관한 것이다. 제안된 방법은 움직임 추정 블록에 시공간적으로 인접한 블록들의 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 움직임 활동도를 정의한 후, 움직임 활동도가 높을 경우 웨이블렛 변환의 다단계 저주파 부영상들로 구성된 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 정합 검증 패턴을 이용한 적응형 계층 육각 탐색을 수행한다. 제안된 방법을 이용할 경우, 정합 검증 패턴을 적용한 검증 과정에서 추가적인 연산량 증가가 초래되지만 이를 상호타협적으로 보상할 수 있는 화질 측면에서의 성능 개선 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 제안된 방법의 타당성과 보편성을 검증하기 위해서로 다른 움직임 특성을 갖는 복수의 영상 시퀀스들을 대상으로 움직임 보상 화질과 수렴시간 측면에서 그 성능을 분석 평가하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과에 따르면, 제안된 방법은 고속 움직임 탐색이 가능한 적웅형 계층 육각 탐색의 장점을 유지하면서도 움직임 활동도가 높은 영상 시퀀스에서 야기되는 국부 최소 문제를 효과적으로 억제시킴으로써 보상 화질 측면에서 개선된 성능을 제공할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.357-358
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• 2013

H.264 등 동영상 압축 표준에서는 비디오 신호의 시간적 중복 데이터를 제거하기 위해 움직임 추정/보상을 수행한다. 또한 움직임 추정/보상의 정확성을 향상하기 위해 다중 참조프레임을 지원한다. 여러 장의 참조 프레임 중 현재 블록과 가장 유사한 참조 프레임 영역으로부터 움직임 추정/보상을 수행하여 보다 정확한 예측에 의해 잔차신호의 크기가 감소하게 되고, 그 결과 부호화 효율이 더욱 개선되었다. 본 논문에서는 다중 참조 프레임을 사용한 움직임 추정/보상의 효율을 유지하면서도 참조프레임을 나타내는 참조프레임 인덱스 비트를 줄여주어 부호화 효율을 더욱 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 움직임 추정/보상 시, 각각의 참조 프레임에서 움직임 추정/보상에 사용되는 예측화소들을 비교하여 다중 참조 프레임이 효과가 있다고 판단 되는 경우에만 다중 참조 프레임 움직임 추정/보상을 수행하고, 다중 참조 프레임이 효과가 없다고 판단 되는 경우에는 단일 참조 프레임 움직임 추정/보상을 적응적으로 수행하였다. 실험결과 제안하는 방법은 다중 참조 프레임 인덱스 부호화에 소요되는 비트를 절감하면서도 부호화 효율을 유지함을 확인 할 수 있었다. 제안하는 방법은 동영상 압축 코덱에 적용되어 압축 성능을 더욱 향상 할 수 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.2
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• pp.199-204
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• 2002

Since motion estimation and motion compensation methods remove the redundant data to employ the temporal redundancy in images, it plays an important role in digital video compression. Because of its high computational complexity, however, it is difficult to apply to high-resolution applications in real time environments. If we have information about the motion of an image block before the motion estimation, the location of a better starting point for the search of an exact motion vector can be determined to expedite the searching process. In this paper, we present an adaptive motion estimation approach bated on temporal correlations of consecutive image frames that defines the search pattern and determines the location of the initial search point adaptively. Through experiments, compared with DS(Diamond Search) algorithm, the proposed algorithm is about 0.1∼0.5(dB) better than DS in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and improves as high as 50% compared with DS in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.396-397
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 스테레오 비디오의 오류 복원 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 시간적 시점간 상관관계를 동시에 고려하여 오류 블록을 복원한다. 시간적 상관관계가 있는 블록들의 디스패리티 벡터 유사성을 통해 움직임 벡터와 디스패리티 벡터를 예측하고, 시점간 상관관계가 있는 블록들의 움직임 벡터 유사성을 통해 디스패리티 벡터와 움직임 벡터를 예측한다. 예측된 벡터들로부터, 오류 블록의 인접 화소 값들과 가장 유사한 값을 갖는 시간 시점 후보 블록들을 찾고, 시간 시점후보 블록들을 조합하여 오류 블록을 복원한다. 제안하는 알고리즘이 스테레오 비디오를 위한 효과적인 오류 은닉 방법으로서 높은 복원 효율을 나타냄을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 확인한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1142-1149
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• 2004

Motion Estimation(ME) has been developed to reduce temporal redundancy in digital video signals and increase data compression ratio. ME is an Important part of video encoding systems, since it can significantly affect the output quality of encoded sequences. However, ME requires high computational complexity, it is difficult to apply to real time video transmission. for this reason, motion estimation algorithms with low computational complexity are viable solutions. In this paper, we present an efficient method with low computational complexity based on spatial and temporal correlations of motion vectors. The proposed method uses temporally and spatially correlated motion information, the motion vector of the block with the same coordinate in the reference frame and the motion vectors of neighboring blocks around the current block in the current frame, to decide the search pattern and the location of search starting point adaptively. Experiments show that the image quality improvement of the proposed method over MVFAST (Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) and PMVFAST (Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) is 0.01～0.3(dB) better and the speedup improvement is about 1.12～l.33 times faster which resulted from lower computational complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.153-163
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• 2006

We propose a new video compression method based on MCTF(motion compensated temporal filtering) with constant quality. SPECK is an efficient image compression coding method of encoding DWT coefficients. Especially SPECK method is very efficient for coding the motion compensated residual image which usually has larger amounts of high frequency components than the natural images. And proposed multi block size hierarchical motion estimation technique is more efficient than classical block matching algorithm with fixed block size both in estimation precision and operation costs. Proposed video method based on MCTF video compression can also support multi-frame rate decoding with reasonable complexity. Simulation results showed that proposed method outperforms H.263 video compression standard.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.273-281
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• 2004

There is the temporal correlation of the video sequence between the motion vector of current block and the motion vector of previous block. In this paper, we propose the prediction search algorithm for block matching using the temporal correlation of the video sequence and the center-biased property of motion vectors. The proposed algorithm determines the location of a better starting point for the search of an exact motion vector using the point of the smallest SAD(sum of absolute difference) value by the predicted motion vector from the same block of the previous frame and the predictor candidate point on each search region. Simulation results show that PSNR(Peak-to-Signal Noise Ratio) values are improved up to the 1.06㏈ as depend on the video sequences and improved about 0.19∼0.46㏈ on an average except the full search(FS) algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.149-156
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• 2008

There is the temporal correlation of a animation sequence between the motion vector of current block and the motion vector of previous block. In this paper, we propose the scene change detection algorithm for block matching using the temporal correlation of the animation sequence and the center-biased property of motion vectors. The proposed algorithm determines the location of a better starting point for the search of an exact motion vector using the point of the smallest SAD(sum of absolute difference) value by the predicted motion vector from the same block of the previous frame and the predictor candidate point on each search region. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better detection performance, such as recall rate, then the existing method. The algorithm has the advantage of speed, simplicity and accuracy. In addition, it requires less amount of storage.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.25-32
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• 2013

Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the ankle movement and the balance when the elderly conducted self-exercise with ankle movement control device through visual feedback. Method : This case-study included pre-test and post-test. The elderly women aged 80 did self-exercise for 20 minutes both morning and afternoon every day. The pre-test and post-test was conducted tracking test for evaluating ankle control movement and running time measurement of standing on one foot and Timed up-And-Go test for balance. Result : The subject improved the ankle control movement on tracking test and improved the balance in running time measurement of standing on one foot. But, Timed up-And-Go test was no change. Conclusion : The self-exercise with device of ankle movement control through visual feedback improved the ankle control movement and the balance for elderly.