• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.6
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• pp.96-103
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• 1999

This paper proposes efficient VLSI architecture for computation of the 1-D discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The proposed VLSI architecture computes the wavelet lowpass and highpass output sequences using the product term anhm, $n,m{\ge}0$, where an and hm denote the imput sequence and the wavelet lowpass filter coefficient, respectively. Whereas the conventional architectures compute the lowpass and highpass output sequences using the product terms anhm and angm, respectively, where gm denotes the wavelet highpass filter coefficient. The proposed architecture is applied to computation of the Daubechies 4-tap wavelet transform using the relationships between the Daubechies wavelet filter coefficients. Performance comparison of various architectures for computation of the 1-D DWT are presented. Note that the proposed architecture does not require extra processing units whereas the conventional architectures need them. Also it is modeled in very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) and simulated to show its functional validity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.6B
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• pp.1002-1011
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a multiresolution progressive image transmission with spatial and bit-rate scalabilities using a $2{\times}2$ DCT. The multiresolition image represented by a $2{\times}2$ DCT is used for the progressive image transmission with spatial and bit-rate scalabilities. Because the proposed progressive image transmission method supports both spatial and bit-rate scalabilities, it can be adaptively applied to the receiver's scalability requests. We compare the proposed progressive transmission with that of the higher-order convolution-based Wavelet method. Comparisons show that the proposed method needs much less computations, but insignificant loss of image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1017-1021
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• 2005

현대에 있어서 영상정보는 아주 큰 비중을 차지하고 있다. 따라서 이러한 영상정보를 얼마나 빨리 그리고 많이 압축 시킬 수 있는가가 핵심적인 관건이다. 본 논문에서는 공간적 압축 방식의 핵심인 DCT와 비교하여 블록킹 효과(Blocking Effect)과 없고, 우수한 압축 성능을 갖는 DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)알고리즘을 적용한 2차원 이산 웨이브렛 변환 필터를 설계하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한 DWT 필터는 FIR필터 방법으로 설계하였으며, Daubenchies-4 Tap을 이용하였고, 파이프라인 연산으로 승산기, 가산기를 병렬로 처리하여 고속연산을 수행하였다. 뿐만 아니라 메모리 맵핑 과정과 메모리 컨트롤 어드레스 발생기를 사용하여 메모리와 연산량을 최소화 하여 칩사이즈를 줄여 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.73-77
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• 1999

In this paper. wavelet transform coding for image conference is studied. Original video frames are transformed into hierarchical pyramidal images with multiresolution using the band property of wavelet transform coefficients. Moving information between neighboring frames is obtained from the low-resolution band. Also, to control the video coding procedure. a new picture set filter is proposed. This filter controls the compression ratio of each frame depending on the correlation to the reference frame by selectively eliminating less important high-resolution areas. Consequently. video quality can be preserved and bit rate can be controlled adaptively In the simulation, to test the performance of the proposed coding method, comparisons with the full search block matching algorithm and the differential image coding algorithm are made. Consequently. the proposed method shows a reasonably good performance over existing ones.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.9B
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• pp.1570-1578
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• 2000

A quadrature pair of filter banks that are composed of a pair of cosine and sine modulated filter banks is applied to MC-CDMA data transmultiplexing in the view point of mitigating inter-channel interferences. Exploiting superior capabilities of wavelet properties in composing the filter banks the proposed scheme is capable of compromising inter-channel interference problems better than the conventional DFT-based MC-CDMA due to superior subchannelization effects. To verify the behavior of our proposed MC-CDMA system based on the quadrature filter banks the reverse-link bit error rates with respect to signal-to-noise ratio under Rayleigth fading and additive white Gaussian noise channel environments are computed. The results show an improved system performance over the conventional MC-CDMA in the view point of minimizing interference effects.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.11C
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• pp.948-956
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• 2010

Griffiths and Jim has proposed a beamforming structure called GSC algorithm, in which antenna elements are grouped into main-channel and sub-channel, and sidelobe is reduced by applying adaptive LMS algorithm. This paper proposes WLMS-GSC algorithm where the Haar and Daubechies wavelet filters are used to process array antenna output, instead of using subtractor filter. We analyze characteristics of the proposed WLMS-GSC algorithm. The WLMS-GSC has characteristic of reducing the computational requirement one-half compared to the LMS-GSC algorithm. In addition, we obtain MSE characteristics and adaptive beampattern of WLMS-GSC algorithm, and compared with the performance of LMS-GSC algorithm. The simulation results show that the WLMS-GSC algorithm proposed in this paper gives better or almost the same performance, compared to the LMS-GSC algorithm. In addition, the newly proposed structure has advantage of low computational requirements.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.153-158
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• 2008

Blocking artefact noise is necessarily happened in compressed images using block-coded algorithms such as JPEC compressing algorithm. This noise is more recognizable especially in highly compressed images. In this paper, an algorithm is presented for reduction of blocking artefact noise using wavelet. Furthermore, we also mention about the median filter which is often used in image processing. Moreover, we compared the algorithm in this paper with the median filter, and its result was much better than the median filter both visually and numerically.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.42-48
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• 2007

In x-ray imaging system, two kinds of noises are involved. First, the charge generated from the radiation interaction with the detector during exposure. Second, the signal is then added by readout electronics noise. But, x-ray images are not modeled by Gaussian noise but as the realization of a Poisson process. In this paper, we apply a new approach to remove Poisson noise from medical X-ray image in the wavelet domain, the applied methods shows more excellent results in cone-beam CT.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2002

This paper proposes a video compression algorithm using characteristics of wavelet coefficients. The proposed algorithm can provide lowed bit rate and faster running time while guaranteeing the reconstructed image qualify by the human virtual system. In this approach, each video sequence is decomposed into a pyramid structure of subimages with various resolution to use multiresolution capability of discrete wavelet transform. Then similarities between two neighboring frames are obtained from a low-frequency subband which Includes an important information of an image and motion informations are extracted from the similarity criteria. Four legion selection filters are designed according to the similarity criteria and compression processes are carried out by encoding the coefficients In preservation legions and replacement regions of high-frequency subbands. Region selection filters classify the high-frequency subbands Into preservation regions and replacement regions based on the similarity criteria and the coefficients In replacement regions are replaced by that of a reference frame or reduced to zero according to block-based similarities between a reference frame and successive frames. Encoding is carried out by quantizing and arithmetic encoding the wavelet coefficients in preservation regions and replacement regions separately. A reference frame is updated at the bottom point If the curve of similarity rates looks like concave pattern. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides high compression ratio with proper Image quality. It also outperforms the previous Milton's algorithm in an Image quality, compression ratio and running time, leading to compression ratio less than 0.2bpp. PSNR of 32 dB and running tome of 10ms for a standard video image of size 352${\times}$240 pixels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.127-129
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• 2012

Due to the prevalence of digital camera, multi-media etc. the image is being used in everyday life. However, noise always damages the image and the image denoising technology is important part for improving the image visual quality. There are many existing methods to remove noise such as wiener filter, mean filter and VisuShrink etc. However, they perform not good enough for denoising. Hence, in this paper we proposed a hybrid filter algorithm which consists of wiener filter and modified wavelet based thresholding method using adaptive threshold and thresholding function. The proposed algorithm shows not only better low frequency and high frequency property, but also the outstanding noise suppression and edge preservation properties.