• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.591-594
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• 2003

본 논문은 중심 화소의 FOD 성분값과 인접 가해 성분값의 평균으로 축소 성분값을 산출함으로써 FOD에 적응성을 부여한 디지털 영상 축소 알고리즘의 성능을 분석함에 그 목적이 있다. 제안된 방법은, 중심 화소의 우측 및 하측 인접 화소의 기울기의 크기를 이용하여 산출한 각각의 국부 가해 가중치를 우측 및 하측 인접 화소값에 곱한 후에 그 결과를 합산함으로써 인접 가해 성분값을 구하고 FOD 성분값과 이 인접 가해 성분값을 평균하여 축소 성분값을 구하는 과정을 전체 영역에 반복적으로 수행함으로써 축소 영상을 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 축소 방법에 따르면, 적은 연산량을 요하면서도 평균적으로 우수한 결과를 제공하는 FOD 방식의 장점을 취하면서 인접 화소의 유효 가해 성분을 각각의 국부 가해 가중치에 따라 축소 성분값에 적응적으로 반영함으로써 FOD의 단점인 몽롱화 현상을 효과적으로 억제시킬 수 있는 바, 개선된 정보 보존성을 제공할 수 있는 이점이 있다. 본고에서는 주관적인 성능과 하드웨어 복잡도 측면에서 제안된 방법과 기존의 각 방식에 대한 성능을 분석 평가한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.391-397
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• 2003

This paper is about the digital image decimation algorithm which generates a value of decimated element by an average of a target pixel value and a value of neighbor intelligible element to adaptively reflect the merits of ZOD method and FOD method on the decimated image. First, a target pixel located at the center of sliding window is selected, then the gradient amplitudes of its right neighbor pixel and its lower neighbor pixel are calculated using first order derivative operator respectively. Secondly, each gradient amplitude is divided by the summation result of two gradient amplitudes to generate each intelligible weight. Next, a value of neighbor intelligible element is obtained by adding a value of the right neighbor pixel times its intelligible weight to a value of the lower neighbor pixel times its intelligible weight. The decimated image can be acquired by applying the process repetitively to all pixels in input image which generates the value of decimated element by calculating the average of the target pixel value and the value of neighbor intelligible element.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2008

This paper has for its object to propose AFOD(Adaptive First-Order Decimator) which sets a value of decimated element as an average of a value of neighbor intelligible component and a output value of FOD(First-Order Decimator) for the target pixel, and to analyze its performance in terms of subjective image quality and hardware complexity. In the proposed AFOD, a target pixel located at the center of sliding window is selected first, then the gradient amplitudes of its right neighbor pixel and its lower neighbor pixel are calculated using first order derivative operator respectively. Secondly, each gradient amplitude is divided by the summation result of two gradient amplitudes to generate each local intelligible weight. Next, a value of neighbor intelligible component is defined by adding a value of the right neighbor pixel times its local intelligible weight to a value of the lower neighbor pixel times its intelligible weight. Since the proposed method adaptively reflects neighbor intelligible informations of neighbor pixels on the decimated element according to each local intelligible weight, it can effectively suppress the blurring effect being the demerit of FOD. It also possesses the advantages that it can keep the merits of FOD with the good results on average but also lower computational cost.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.211-221
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• 2003

The objective of this paper is performance analysis of the digital document image decimation algorithm which generates a value of decimated element by an average of a target pixel value and a value of neighbor intelligible element to adaptively reflect the merits of ZOD method and FOD method on the decimated image. First, a target pixel located at the center of sliding window is selected, then the gradient amplitudes of its right neighbor pixel and its lower neighbor pixel are calculated using first order derivative operator respectively. Secondly, each gradient amplitude is divided by the summation result of two gradient amplitudes to generate each local intelligible weight. Next, a value of neighbor intelligible element is obtained by adding a value of the right neighbor pixel times its local intelligible weight to a value of the lower neighbor pixel times its intelligible weight. The decimated image can be acquired by applying the process repetitively to all pixels in input image which generates the value of decimated element by calculating the average of the target pixel value and the value of neighbor intelligible element. In this paper, the performance comparison of proposed method and conventional methods in terms of subjective performance and hardware complexity is analyzed and the preferable approach for developing the decimation algorithm of the digital document image on the basis of this analysis result has been reviewed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.6
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• pp.119-126
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• 1998

In this paper, we proposed two new methods of half-pel accuracy motion estimation using spatial correlation of half-pel accuracy motion vectors and stochastic characteristics between pixel accuracy motion vectors and half-pel accuracy motion vectors. We confirmed two facts : One is that the probability of having same half-pel accuracy motion vectors with neighboring blocks is high when having same pixel accuracy motion vectors. And the other is that there is high correlation between neighboring half-pel positions. These new half-pel motion estimation technique are shown to decrease the bit rates for vector coding and computational complexity with similar PSNR.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.782-785
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a novel residual differential pulse-code modulation (RDPCM) coding technique to improve coding efficiency of screen content videos. The proposed method uses a weighted combination of adjacent residues to provide an accurate estimate in RDPCM. The weights are trained in previously coded samples by using an L1 optimization problem with the least absolute shrinkage and selection operation (LASSO). The proposed method achieves BD-rate saving about 3.1% in all-intra coding.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.37-44
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• 2006

In this paper, a new version of the ICM method(MICM, modified ICM) in which the contextual information is modelled by Markov random fields (MRF) is introduced. To extract the feature, a new local MRF model with a fitting block neighbourhood is proposed. This model selects contextual information not only from the relative intensity levels but also from the geometrically directional position of neighbouring cliques. Feature extraction depends on each block's contribution to the local variance. They discriminates it into several regions, for example context and background. Boundaries between these regions are also distinctive. The proposed algerian performs segmentation using directional block fitting procedure which confines merging to spatially adjacent elements and generates a partition such that pixels in unified cluster have a homogeneous intensity level. From experiment with ink rubbed copy images(Takbon, 拓本), this method is determined to be quite effective for feature identification. In particular, the new algorithm preserves the details of the images well without over- and under-smoothing problem occurring in general iterated conditional modes (ICM). And also, it may be noted that this method is applicable to the handwriting recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 중요도 지도를 사용한 화소값 사이 척력 기반 영상 대조비 향상 기법을 제안한다. 공간상에서 인접한 화소들 사이에 자주 발생하는 화소값들의 차이를 크게 하면 효과적으로 영상의 디테일을 두드러지게 할 수 있다. 대조비 증가를 위해 화소값 사이 척력을 정의하고, 유효 화소값 사이 척력들의 합을 사용하여 대조비의 증가 정도를 조절한다. 중요도 지도는 영상의 화소마다 사람의 시선이 머무르는 정도를 상대적인 수치로 나타낸 것이다. 따라서 영상 화질을 개선할 때 중요도 지도를 사용하면 사람의 시선을 끄는 화소값들의 대조비를 선택적으로 높일 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통하여 제안 기법이 우수한 화질개선 영상을 생성함을 확인한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.222-229
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• 2001

Many techniques have been proposed for digital image enlargement, which use spatially neighbored pixels information in a still image. In this paper, we propose the digital image interpolation method that improves edge characteristics by selectively transposing the sub-windows of pseudomedian filter, which results in relatively better performance than others. We have simulated the proposed algorithm using Visual C++ and verified performance of the algorithm by PSNR(Peak signal Noise Ratio) and edge characteristics. Finally, we have designed the adaptive pseudomedian by using synopsys VHDL(Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.280-289
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• 2010

The H.264/AVC standard uses efficient inter prediction technologies improving the coding efficiency by reducing temporal redundancy between images. However, since H.264/AVC does not efficiently encode a video sequence that occurs a local illumination change, the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC is decreased when a local illumination change happens in video. In this paper, we propose an improved motion compensation using adjacent pixels and motion vector refinement to efficiently encode local illumination changes. The proposed method always improves the BD-PSNR (Bj$\o$ntegaard Delta Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 0.01 ~ 0.21 dB compared with H.264/AVC.