• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.296-306
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• 2006

We proposed the algorithm for the quantization noise reduction based on variable filter adaptive to edge signal in MPEG postprocessing system. In our algorithm, edge map and local modulus maxima in the decoded images are obtained by using 2D Mallat wavelet tilter. And then, blocking artifacts in inter-block are reduced by Gaussian LPF that is variable to filtering region according to edge map. Ringing artifacts in intra-block are reduced by 2D SAF according to local modulus maxima. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm was superior to the conventional algorithms as regards PSNR, which was improved by 0.04-0.20 dB, and the subjective image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.192-195
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• 2010

영상 정보의 정확성을 필요로 하는 다양한 서비스 및 여러 학문 분야의 적용성으로 인해 물리적인 한계성을 극복할 수 있는 고해상도 영상처리 기법의 요구가 대두되고 있다 뿐만 아니라, 인터넷 상의 디지털 콘텐츠 중의 하나인 동영상 UCC의 제작환경이 보편화됨으로써 비전문적인 제작으로 인한 다양한 형태의 해상도 저하 및 영상의 왜곡 현상이 발생하여 고품질의 영상을 추구하는 사용자들의 요구를 충족시키지 못하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 압축 동영상의 개선 된 영상 정보를 획득하기 위한 연구가 이루어지고 있지만 다음과 같은 문제점이 있다. 기존의 방법은 일반적으로 저역 통과 필터 기법과 정규화 영상 복원 방식으로 구분되어 연구되고 있으며, 저역 통과 기법은 계산량 측면에서 장점이 있으나, 영상과 양자화 정도에 따라 적응적이지 못한 단점이 있다. 또한 정규화 복원 방식은 압축 영상의 시각적으로 불편한 현상의 완화 정도를 결정하는 정규화 매개변수를 일괄적으로 모든 화소에 적용해, 화소의 위치에 대한 적응도가 낮고 정규화 매개 변수 선택 시 원 영상에 대한 정보를 알고 있다는 가정을 사용했으므로 실제 사용이 불가능하며, 영상들 사이의 불균일로 인해 적응적으로 처리하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 극복할 수 있도록 압축 정보 활용을 통한 POCS 방식을 사용한 coding artifact 제거 방식에 대해 기술한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.1447-1454
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• 2014

In H.264 standard, an intra frame is the first frame of a GOP (Group of Pictures) and all macroblocks of an intra frame are encoded using the same quantization parameter. In addition, an intra frame is used for encoding the following frames of the same GOP so the encoding results of an intra frame affect the encoding results of the entire GOP. Thus, it is important to find the optimal quantization parameter of an intra frame for improving the quality of a GOP. In this paper, we propose an searching method for an optimal quantization parameter of an intra frame in real time. The proposed method uses a gradient descent method to find the optimal value based on characteristics of the optimal quantization parameters. Experimental results show that the proposed method captures the characteristics of the optimal quantization parameter and accurately estimates the optimal value.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.98-106
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• 2011

Since prediction processes such as motion estimation motion compensation are not at the WZ video encoder but at its decoder, WZ video compression cannot have better performance than that of conventional video encoder. In order to implement the prediction process with low complexity at the encoder, WZ residual coding was proposed. Instead of original WZ frames, WZ residual coding encodes the residual signal between key frames and WZ frames. Although the proposed WZ residual coding has good performance in pixel domain, it does not have any improvements in transform domain compared to transform domain WZ coding. The WZ residual coding in transform domain is difficult to have better performance, because pre-defined quantization matrices in WZ coding are not compatible with WZ residual coding. In this paper, we propose a new quantization method modifying quantization matrix and quantization step size adaptively for transform domain WZ residual coding. Experimental result shows 22% gain in BDBR and 1.2dB gain in BDPSNR.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

A wideband continuous-time sigma delta modulator for wireless application is implemented in 130nm CMOS. The SNR for small input signal is improved using a proposed adaptive quantizer which can effectively scale the quantization level. The modulator comprises a second-order loop filter for low power consumption, 4-bit quantizer and DAC for low jitter sensitivity and high linearity. Designed circuit achieves peak SNR of 51.36B with 10MHz signal Bandwidth and 320MHz sampling frequency dissipating 30mW.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 2022

This paper compares the equalization performance of the DSE-MMA (Dithered Signed Error-MMA) and DQE-MMA (Dithered Quantized Error-MMA) adaptive equalization algorithm based on the dither signal in order to reduce the intersymbol interference occurs at communication channel. These algorithm was emerged in ordr to reduction of arithmetic operation than current MMA, it makes the independent and identical distribute the quantized error component by performing the 1 or N bit quautizer after adding the dither singal in obtaining the error signal for adapting process. It is possible to improve the robustness performance of adaptive algorithm, but degrade the MSE performance in steady state by dither signal. The paper directly compare the DSE-MMA and DQE-MMA adaptive equalization performance of the same concept of dithering in the same communication channel and signal to noise ratio by computer simulation. As a result of simulation, the DQE-MMA has more better in the every performance index, equalizer output constellation, residual isi, MSE and SER performance, but not in convergence speed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.178-183
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• 1993

This paper presents a new optimal range of the step size to converge LMS adaptive algorithm considering quantization error of equalizer coefficient and excess MSE. And the simulation of transversal equalizer shows the propriety of it.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.149-158
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• 2005

This paper proposed a blind watermarking method for video contents which satisfies both the invisibility and the robustness to attacks to prohibit counterfeiting, modification, illegal usage and illegal re-production of video contents. This watermarking algorithm targets MPEG compression system and was designed to control the amount of watermarking to be inserted according to the adaptive quantization scale code to follow the adaptive quantization of the compression system. The inserting positions of the watermark were chosen by considering the frequency property of an image and horizontal, vertical and diagonal property of a $8{\times}8$ image block. Also the amount of watermarking for each watermark bit was decided by considering the quantization step. This algorithm was implemented by C++ and experimented for invisibility and robustness with MPEG-2 system. The experiment results showed that the method satisfied enough the invisibility of the inserted watermark and robustness against attacks. For the general attacks, the error rate of the extracted watermark was less than $10\%$, which is enough in robustness against the attacks. Therefore, this algorithm is expected to be used effectively as a part in many MPEG systems for real-time watermarking, especially in the sensitive applications to the network environments.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2000

The hybrid coding algorithm for multi-spectral image obtained from satellite is discussed. As the spatial and spectral resolution of satellite image are rapidly increasing, there are enormous amounts of data to be processed for computer processing and data transmission. Therefore an efficient coding algorithm is essential for multi-spectral image processing. In this paper, VQ(vector quantization), quadtree decomposition, and DCT(discrete cosine transform) are combined to compress the multi-spectral image. VQ is employed for predictive coding by using the fact that each band of multi-spectral image has the same spatial feature, and DCT is for the compression of residual image. Moreover, the image is decomposed into quadtree structure in order to allocate the data bit according to the information content within the image block to improve the coding efficiency. Computer simulation on Landsat TM image shows the validity of the proposed coding algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.22-29
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• 1989

An efficient fixed rate adaptive transform coding is described. Adaptivity is provided by assigning more bits to high ac energy blocks and less bits to low ac energy blocks. Practical and relatively simple adaptation scheme is developed. Overall complexity of our scheme is comparable to the Chen and Smith's scheme. The rate will be adjusted in the same manner as in fixed transform coding. Good performance of the proposed scheme is presented in terms of signal to noise ratio compared with the well known Chen&Smith's scheme. Subjective tests are also presented.