• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.420-423
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• 2015

This paper proposes a method of non-linearity error detection and calibration for binary-weighted charge-driven DACs. In general, the non-linearity errors of DACs often occur due to the mismatch of layout designs or process variation, even when careful layout design methods and process calibration are adopted. Since such errors can substantially degrade the SNDR performance of DAC, it is crucial to accurately measure the errors and calibrate the design mismatches. The proposed method employs 2 identical DAC circuits. The 2 DACs are sweeped, respectively, by using 2 digital input counters with a fixed difference. A comparator identifies any non-linearity errors larger than an acceptable discrepancy. We also propose a calibration method that can fine-tune the DAC's capacitor sizes iteratively until the comparator finds no further errors. Simulations are presented, which show that the proposed method is effective to detect the non-linearity errors and calibrate the capacitor mismatches of a 12-bit DAC design of binary-weighted charge-driven structure.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.322-327
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• 2012

In this paper, a digital phase-locked loop(Digital-PLL) circuit with a new phase-to-digital converter(P2D) is described. The proposed digital PLL is composed a P2D, a digital loop filter(DLF), and a digitally controlled oscillator(DCO). The P2D generates a digital code for a phase error. The proposed P2D used a binary phase frequency detector(BPFD) and a counter in place of a time-to-digital converter(TDC) for simple structure, compact area and low power consumption. The proposed circuit was designed with CMOS 0.18um process. The simulation shows the circuit operates with the 1.0 to 2.2GHz with the power consumption of 16.2mW at 1.65GHz and the circuit occupies the chip area of $0.096mm^2$.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.205-208
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• 2013

Generally, binary pattern transforms have been used in the field of the face recognition and facial expression, since they are robust to illumination. Thus, this paper proposes an illumination-robust face recognition system combining an MLDP, which improves the texture component of the LDP, and a 2D-PCA algorithm. Unlike that binary pattern transforms such as LBP and LDP were used to extract histogram features, the proposed method directly uses the MLDP image for feature extraction by 2D-PCA. The performance evaluation of proposed method was carried out using various algorithms such as PCA, 2D-PCA and Gabor wavelets-based LBP on Yale B and CMU-PIE databases which were constructed under varying lighting condition. From the experimental results, we confirmed that the proposed method showed the best recognition accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 변환과 확산코드를 이용하여 동영상 내부에 이진이미지패턴형 워터마크를 삽입할 수 있는 새로운 워터마킹 방법을 소개한다. 먼저, 동영상을 디코딩하여 RGB 데이터로 이루어진 인트라 프레임(I-frame)들을 구한다. 그리고 이것을 YC$_{b}$C$_{r}$ 좌표공간으로 변환한 후, 휘도 평면만을 3단계 DWT하여 확산코드와 다중가중치를 조합한 워터마크를 삽입한다. 실험에서는 제안한 방법으로 워터마킹된 영상의 화질을 기존의 방법들과 비교하고, 손실압축과 밝기(brightness)변화 그리고 대비(contrast)실험 등을 통해 제안한 방법의 견고성을 입증해 보인다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.257-264
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• 2015

In this paper, Enhanced binary block matching method for Constrained one-bit transform (C1BT) based motion estimation is proposed. Binary motion estimation exploits the Number of non-matched points (NNMP) as a block matching criterion instead of the Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) for low complex motion estimation. The motion estimation using SAD could use the smaller block for more accurate motion estimation. In this paper the enhanced binary block matching method using smaller motion estimation block for C1BT is proposed to the more accurate binary matching. Experimental results shows that the proposed algorithm has better Peak Signal to Noise Ration (PSNR) results compared with conventional binary transform algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.179-182
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 영상으로부터 손금을 추출하기 위해서 획득된 영상을 YCbCr 컬러 공간으로 변환한다. YCbCr 컬러 공간에서 Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255에 해당되는 피부색 정보를 추출하고 이 피부색 정보를 임계치로 설정하여 손 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손 영역에서 내부 픽셀의 3:1 이상, 전체 영상의 2:1 이상인 손의 형태학적 정보와 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 영상에서 손금을 추출하기 위해서 스트레칭 기법과 소벨 마스크를 이용하여 에지를 추출한다. 추출된 에지 영상에서도 미세한 잡음이 존재하므로 퍼지 이진화 기법을 이용하여 효과적으로 이진화 한다. 이진화된 영상에서 손금의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 손의 윤곽선을 제외한 손금 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손금 영역은 동치 테이블을 이용하는 연결 영역 검색 기법과 퍼지 추론 기법을 적용하여 개별 손금의 중요선을 추출하고 분석한다. 다양한 손금 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 손금 추출 방법보다 손금을 분석하는데 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.1A
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• pp.35-41
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• 2002

In this paper, we generalize the family of binary bent sequences introduced by Olsen, Scholtz and Welch [2] to obtain the generalized binary bent sequences with optimal correlation and balance properties. The modified trace transform is introduced and it enables us to use linear function from ${F_{2^n}}$ to the intermediate field ${F_{2^e}}$, where e|n. If we choose e=1, our method becomes the conventional binary bent sequence case. Also, some examples are given which show that our construction gives the family of simple binary sequences with optimal correlation and balance properties.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.775-778
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• 2002

영상 이진화란 명도 영상(gray-scaled image)을 이진 영상(bi-leveled image)으로 변환하는 것을 말한다. 영상 이진화는 문서 인식, 비디오 영상 분석 등과 같이 영상처리 분야에서 많이 사용되는 기본적인 영상 처리 과정에 해당한다. 본 논문은 Intel 사의 Pentium 계열 프로세서에서 지원하는 SIMD(Single-Instruction Multiple-Data) 기술을 이용하여 영상 이진화를 고속으로 수행하는 방법을 소개한다. 우편영상에 대하여 실험한 결과, SSE2 명령어로 구현된 프로그램은 기존의 C 언어로 구현된 프로그램에 비하여 4배 이상의 속도 향상을 보였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.3 s.99
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• pp.323-330
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• 2005

Buffer overflow is one of the most prevalent and critical internet security vulnerabilities. Recently, various methods to prevent buffer overflow attacks have been investigated, but they are still difficult to apply to real applications due to their run-time overhead. This paper suggests an efficient rewrite method to prevent buffer-overflow attacks only with lower costs by generating a redundant copy of the return address in stack frame and comparing return address to copied return address. Not to be overwritten by the attack data the new copy will have the lower address number than local buffers have. In addition, for a safer execution environment, every vulnerable function call is transformed during the rewriting procedure.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.61-74
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a illumination-robust face recognition system using MCS-LBP and 2D-PCA algorithm. A binary pattern transform which has been used in the field of the face recognition and facial expression, has a characteristic of robust to illumination. Thus, this paper propose MCS-LBP which is more robust to illumination than previous LBP, and face recognition system fusing 2D-PCA algorithm. The performance evaluation of proposed system was performed by using various binary pattern images and well-known face recognition features such as PCA, LDA, 2D-PCA and ULBP histogram of gabor images. In the process of performance evaluation, we used a YaleB face database, an extended YaleB face database, and a CMU-PIE face database that are constructed under varying lighting condition, and the proposed system which consists of MCS-LBP image and 2D-PCA feature show the best recognition accuracy.