• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.4B
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• pp.771-782
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• 2000

In this paper, an H.263 video codec is implemented by adopting the concept of hardware and software co-design. Each module of the codec is investigated to find which approach between hardware and software is better to achieve real-time processing speed as well as flexibility. The hardware portion includes motion-related engines, such as motion estimation and compensation, and a memory control part. The remaining portion of theH.263 video codec is implemented in software using a RISC processor. This paper also introduces efficient design methods for hardware and software modules. In hardware, an area-efficient architecture for the motion estimator of a multi-resolution block matching algorithm using multiple candidates and spatial correlation in motion vector fields (MRMCS), is suggested to reduce the chip size. Software optimization techniques are also explored by using the statistics of transformed coefficients and the minimum sum of absolute difference (SAD)obtained from the motion estimator.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.305-315
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• 2008

Pre-proposed AHHS(Adaptive Hierarchical Hexagon Search) is a kind of the fast hierarchical block matching algorithm based on the AHS(Adaptive Hexagon Search). It is characterized as keeping the merits of the AHS capable of fast estimating motion vectors and also adaptively reducing the local minima often occurred in the video sequences with higher spatio-temporal motion activity. The objective of this paper is to propose the method effectively extending the horizontal biased pattern and the vertical biased pattern of the AHHS to improve its predictive image quality. In the paper, based on computer simulation results for multiple video sequences with different motion characteristics, the performance of the proposed method was analysed and assessed in terms of the predictive image quality and the computational time. The simulation results indicated that the proposed method was both suitable for (quasi-) stationary and large motion searches. While the proposed method increased the computational load on the process extending the hexagon search patterns, it could improve the predictive image quality so as to cancel out the increase of the computational load.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.223-226
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• 2013

정확한 움직임 추정 기술은 원본과 가장 유사한 영상의 복원에 효과적이고 압축률에도 중요한 영향을 미친다. 하지만 기존의 전역 탐색 (Full Search) 알고리듬과 Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD)라는 정합 오차 기준은 연산량이 높고 하드웨어 구현시 비효율적이다. 이를 보완하기 위한 1비트 변환 알고리듬은 움직임 벡터의 변화량을 0과 1의 연산으로 나타내는데, 이 알고리듬은 움직임이 많아 픽셀 값의 변화가 심한 블록의 변화량도 0과 1로만 표현한다. 그렇기 때문에 정확한 움직임이 반영되지 않고 그로 인해 낮은 Peak Siganl to Noise Ratio (PSNR)을 가져온다. 이 점을 개선하고자 본 논문에서는 참조블록들의 움직임 벡터를 파악하고 분류하여 선택적으로 움직임의 변화량이 큰 영역은 전역 탐색 알고리듬을, 움직임이 작거나 없는 영역은 1비트 연산을 수행하도록 하여 기존의 알고리듬과 비교하여 Peak Siganl to Noise Ratio (PSNR)측면에서 우수한 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.26-31
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• 2014

In this paper, we present performance analysis of video smoke detection based on BPN-Network that is using multi-smoke feature, and Neural Network. Conventional smoke detection method consist of simple or mixed functions using color, temporal, spatial characteristics. However, most of all, they don't consider the early fire conditions. In this paper, we analysis the smoke color and motion characteristics, and revised distinguish the candidate smoke region. Smoke diffusion, transparency and shape features are used for detection stage. Then it apply the BPN-Network (Back-Propagation Neural Network). The simulation results showed 91.31% accuracy and 2.62% of false detection rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.219-220
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• 2014

스마트폰과 같은 모바일 기기의 사용이 확대되면서, 보다 쉽게 다양한 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 획득하고 유통할 수 있게 되었다. 하지만, 획득 과정에서 이미지는 디포커스 및 움직임에 의해 블러해질 수 있다. 이와 같은 블러를 측정하기 위해, 다양한 선명도 평가 기법들이 제안되었다. 하지만, 대부분의 기존 기법들은 디포커스 블러의 특성에 따라 설계되어졌다. 따라서, 본 고에서는 주파수 분석에 기반하여 움직임 블러 이미지의 선명도를 평가하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 바둑 대국 동영상에서 배경 영상과의 차이를 이용하여 바둑판 내에서의 움직임을 분석하고, 분석 결과를 이용하여 바둑돌의 착수 위치 및 바둑돌의 종류를 인식하는 자동 바둑 기보 저장 알고리즘을 제안한다. 카메라의 내부 특성이 변하지 않고 렌즈 왜곡이 존재하지 않는다고 가정하였을 때, 바둑판 위에 움직임이 없는 배경 영상과 현재의 영상 간의 차이의 변화량을 블록 단위로 누적한 블록 단위 움직임 맵(Block Motion Map)을 기반으로 움직임의 존재 여부를 판단하고, 착수 후 물체의 움직임이 없어진 영상을 배경 영상으로 갱신하며, 해당 영상과 이전 배경 영상의 패치(Patch)를 이용하여 착수 위치 및 바둑돌의 종류를 인식한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.10
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• pp.2629-2639
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• 1997

The video coding for very low bit-rate has recently received considerable attention, but the conventional coding schemes with block based transform suffer from the blocky effect for the constraints of limited bit-rate. In this paper, we present a video coding system based on wavelet transform and multiresolution motion estimation/compensation for very low bit-rate video. The proposed scheme uses the wavelet transform which is flexible to represent non-stationary image signals and adaptable to the human visual characteristics. The wavelet transformed coefficients are coded by various coding modes in accordance with the sum of absolute error after motion estimation/compensation in wavelet decomposed domain. And simple buffer control technique is applied to handle constant image quality. It is shown that the presented scheme has more acceptable image quality without blocky effects than conventional block based transform video coding.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.181-189
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• 2013

Since conventional image surveillance systems employ methods for video recording and transmission, a huge amount of data is transferred and stored so that those systems are overloaded. However, for capturing and recording the scenes of illegal trash throwing and unpermitted parking, it is sufficient to use a surveillance system using images. In this paper, we propose a surveillance system using images and motion detection sensors. Our system recognizes the occurrence of movement events through changes of sensors, captures still images of the region under surveillance, and stores them into the database at a remote site. The system proposed herein provides a functionality to detect the occurrent of those events more accurately and faster than previous video-based systems, and has an advantage of reducing the amount of data significantly. Also, our system is agent-based, it enables us to add new modules or modify existing modules easily later.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.87-97
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• 2015

An Aerial video summarization is not only the key to effective browsing video within a limited time, but also an embedded cue to efficiently congregative situation awareness acquired by unmanned aerial vehicle. Different with previous works, we utilize sensor operation mode of unmanned aerial vehicle, which is global, local, and focused surveillance mode in order for accurately summarizing the aerial video considering flight and surveillance/reconnaissance environments. In focused mode, we propose the moving-react tracking method which utilizes the partitioning motion vector and spatiotemporal saliency map to detect and track the interest moving object continuously. In our simulation result, the key frames are correctly detected for aerial video summarization according to the sensor operation mode of aerial vehicle and finally, we verify the efficiency of video summarization using the proposed mothed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.126-133
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• 2003

This paper is related to a morphological segmentation method for extracting the moving object in video sequence using global motion compensation and two-dimensional spatio-temporal entropic thresholding. First, global motion compensation is performed with camera panning vector estimated in the hierarchical pyramid structure constructed by wavelet transform. Secondly, the regions with high possibility to include the moving object between two consecutive frames are extracted block by block from the global motion compensated image using two-dimensional spatio-temporal entropic thresholding. Afterwards, the LUT classifying each block into one among changed block, uncertain block, stationary block according to the results classified by two-dimensional spatio-temporal entropic thresholding is made out. Next, by adaptively selecting the initial search layer and the search range referring to the LUT, the proposed HBMA can effectively carry out fast motion estimation and extract object-included region in the hierarchical pyramid structure. Finally, after we define the thresholded gradient image in the object-included region, and apply the morphological segmentation method to the object-included region pixel by pixel and extract the moving object included in video sequence. As shown in the results of computer simulation, the proposed method provides relatively good segmentation results for moving object and specially comes up with reasonable segmentation results in the edge areas with lower contrast.