• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.118-121
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• 2014

최근 UHD급 디스플레이 장치가 등장하면서 이에 대한 코덱 및 영상 처리 기술들이 개발되고 있다. 그 중 UHD급 콘텐츠 부재에 따른 비디오 스케일러의 역할은 더욱 중요해졌다. 기존에 연구되어 시중에서 사용되고 있는 1차, 3차 보간법들과 함께 좀 더 향상된 효과를 보이는 스케일러 방법, 하드웨어 스케일러 구현을 고려하여 제안된 스케일러 방법들을 다양한 기준으로 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2015

최근 고화질 영상의 수요가 증가함에 따라, UHD급 디스플레이의 디지털 기기가 등장하기 시작했다. 하지만 기존의 스케일러 모듈에 사용된 보간법들로는 기존의 저해상도의 영상 콘텐츠로부터 고품질의 영상을 획득하기가 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 고품질의 영상을 획득 가능한 초고해상도 영상에 적합한 스케일러를 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.22-34
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• 2010

Existing image scalers generally adopt simple interpolation methods such as bilinear method to take cost-benefit, or highly complex architectures to achieve high quality resulting images. However, demands for a low power, low cost, and high performance image scaler become more important because of emerging high quality mobile contents. In this paper we propose the novel low power hardware architecture for a high quality raster scan image scaler. The proposed scaler architecture enhances the existing cubic interpolation look-up table architecture by reducing and optimizing memory access and hardware components. The input data buffer of existing image scaler is replaced with line memories to reduce the number of memory access that is critical to power consumption. The cubic interpolation formula used in existing look-up table architecture is also rearranged to reduce the number of the multipliers and look-up table size. Finally we analyze the optimized parameter sets of look-up table, which is a trade-off between quality of result image and hardware size.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.43-53
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• 2003

Unlike in analog display devices, the physical screen resolution in digital devices are fixed from the manufacturing. It is a weak point on digital devices. The screen resolution displayed in digital display devices is varied. Thus, interpolation or decimation of the resolution on the display is needed to make the input pixels equal to the screen resolution., This process is called image scaling. Many researches have been developed to reduce the hardware cost and distortion of the image of image scaling algorithm. In this paper, we proposed a Winscale algorithm. which modifies the scale up/down in continuous domain to the scale up/down in discrete domain. Thus, the algorithm is suitable to digital display devices. Hardware implementation of the image scaler is performed using Verilog XL and chip is fabricated in a 0.5${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ Samsung SOG technology. The hardware costs as well as the scalabilities are compared with the conventional image scaling algorithms that are used in other software. This Winscale algorithm is proved more scalable than other image-scaling algorithm, which has similar H/W cost. This image-scaling algorithm can be used in various digital display devices that need image scaling process.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.26-32
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• 2024

Recently, various video resolution formats have emerged, and digital devices have built in dedicated scaler chips to support them by enlarging or reducing the resolution of input videos. Therefore, the performance and hardware size of scaler chips are important. In this paper, the combinatorial interpolation scaler algorithm proposed by Han is used to design the hardware using the line memory structure with dual-clock proposed by Han and Jung. The proposed hardware is capable of real-time processing in QHD environments, designed using Verilog, and validated using Xilinx's Vivado 2023.1. We also verify the performance of Han's proposed algorithm with a quantitative numerical evaluation of the proposed hardware.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.196-197
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 산업용 컴퓨터에서 사용할 마우스와 터치스크린을 이용한 산업용 컴퓨터 인터페이스 장치 구현에 대하여 연구하였다. 산업용 제어 현장에서 사용되는 제어용 컴퓨터의 입출력 장치는 확장성을 고려하여 설계되지 않았기 때문에 현재의 컴퓨터 주변장치를 직접 사용할 수 없는 경우가 대부분이다. 본 논문에서는 산업용컴퓨터에서 사용되는 라이트펜과 모니터를 현재 주로 사용하는 마우스와 LCD모니터로 입출력이 가능하도록 하는 인터페이스 장치를 개발하여, 생산 공정에서 사용하는 산업용 컴퓨터의 활용도를 높이고자 한다. 산업용 컴퓨터 인터페이스장치는 ARM 기반 MPU를 이용하여 영상 신호와 외부 입력장치의 자료를 처리하고, CPLD에서 생성된 신호를 제어용 컴퓨터로 입력하였다. 제어컴퓨터의 영상신호를 다양한 모니터와 인터페이스 할 수 있도록 비디오 스케일러(Video Scaler)를 사용하였다. 구현한 인터페이스 장치는 다양한 장치들을 산업용컴퓨터에서 사용이 가능함을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.49-56
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• 2014

Generally, the tool presetter is utilized to align and measure some specific dimensions of a machine tool. It is classified into two types(contact and contactless) according to the measurement method, and the optical sensor based contactless scheme has the advantages of measurement flexibility and convenience. This paper describes the design and realization of an industrial tool presetter using machine vision and linear scaler. Before measurement, the objective tool is attached to the mechanical mount and is aligned with the optical apparatus. After capturing tool images, the suggested image processing algorithm calculates its dimesions accurately, combining the traversing distance from the linear scaler. Experimental results conforms that the present tool presetter system has the precision within ${\pm}20um$ error.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.838-845
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a modified cubic convolution scaler for the enlargement or reduction of digital images. The proposed method has less computational complexity than the cubic convolution method. In order to reduce the computational complexity, we use the linear function of the cubic convolution and the difference value of adjacent pixels for selecting interpolation methods. We employ adders and barrel shifts to calculate weights of the proposed method. The proposed method is compared with the conventional one for the computational complexity and the image quality. It has been designed and verified by HDL(Hardware Description Language), and synthesized using Xilinx Virtex FPGA.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.734-739
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• 2018

Fingerprint recognition and iris recognition, which are one of the biometric methods, are easily influenced by external factors such as sunlight. Recently, finger vein recognition is used as a method utilizing internal features. However, for accurate finger vein recognition, it is important to clearly separate vein and background regions. However, it is difficult to separate the vein region and background region due to the abnormalized illumination, and a method of separating the vein region and the background region after normalized the illumination of the input image has been proposed. In this paper, we proposed a method to enhance the quality improvement and improve the processing time compared to the existing finger vein recognition system binarization and labeling method of the image including the image stretching process based on the existing illumination normalization method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.151-154
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 스케일러블 멀티미디어 콘텐츠에 대한 조건적 접근제어가 가능한 암호화 방법을 제안한다. 현재 표준화가 진행중인 스케일러블 비디오 코딩방법인 JSVM(Joint Scalable Video Model)은 부호화한 동영상에 대해 공간, 시간, 품질의 스케일러빌리티(Scalability)를 지원하는데, 각 스케일러 빌리티를 고려한 조건적인 접근제어기술은 스케일러빌리티에 따라 사용자를 제한해야 하는 경우를 위해 필수적인 기술이다. 제안하는 방법은 공간, 시간, 품질의 세가지 스케일러빌리티를 지원하도록 부호화(Encoding)후 구성되는 NAL(Network Abstract Layer)을 지원하는 스케일러빌리티에 따라 구분하고, 구분된 NAL 의 종류에 따라 암호화 key 를 다르게 제공하는 방법을 통해 사용자의 접근제어 수준에 맞게 암호화 key 를 조합하는 방법을 적용하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 JSVM 에서 공간, 시간, 품질의 스케일러빌리티가 보장되고, 이때 생성되는 Key 의 조합으로 조건적 접근제어(Conditional access control)가 가능함을 확인하였다.