• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.953-964
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• 2003

In the block matching algorithm, search patterns of different shapes or sizes and the distribution of motion vectors have a large impact on both the searching speed and the image quality. In this paper, we propose a new fast block matching algorithm using the cross pattern and the flat-hexagon search pattern. Our algorithm first finds the motion vectors that are close to the center of search window using the cross pattern, and then lastly finds the other motion vectors that are not close to the center of search window using the flat-hexagon search pattern. Through experiments, compared with the hexagon-based search algorithm(HEXBS), the proposed cross pattern and flat-hexagonal pattern search algorithm(CFHPS ) improves about 0.2-6.2% in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation and improves about 0.02-0.31dB in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2004

In the block matching algorithm, search patterns of different shapes or sizes and the distribution of motion vectors have a large impact on both the searching speed and the image quality. In this paper, we propose a new fast block matching algorithm using the unit-diamond search pattern and the flat-hexagon search pattern. Our algorithm first finds the motion vectors that are close to the center of search window using the unit-diamond search pattern, and then fastly finds the other motion vectors that are not close to the center of search window using the flat-hexagon search pattern. Through experiments, compared with the hexagon-based search algorithm(HEXBS), the proposed unit-diamond and flat-hexagonal pattern search algorithm(UDFHS) improves as high as 11∼51% in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation and improves about 0.05∼0.74㏈ in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.35-44
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• 2004

With increase in digitalmedia data, various video indexing and video sequence matching algorithms have been proposed to efficiently manage and utilize digital media. In this paper, we propose a robust video indexing algorithm to detect scene changes for video sequences with abrupt luminance variations and an efficient video sequence matching algorithm for video sequence query. To improve the accuracy and to reduce the computational complexity for video indexing with abrupt luminance variations, the proposed algorithm utilizes edge features as well as color features, which yields a remarkably better performance than conventional algorithms. In the proposed algorithm first we extract the candidate shot boundaries using color histograms and then determine using edge matching and luminance compensation if they are shot boundaries or luminance changes. If the scene contains trivial brighness variations, the edge matching and luminance compensation are performed only for shot boundaries. In experimental results, the proposed method gives remarkably a high performance and efficiency than the conventional methods with the similar computational complexity.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.10
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• pp.103-112
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• 1999

Genetic algorithm, which uses principles of natural selection and population genetics, is an efficient method to find out an optimal solution. In conventional genetic algorithms, however, the size of gene pool needs to be increased to insure a convergency. Therefore, many memory spaces and much computation time were needed. Also, since child chromosomes were generated by chromosome crossover and gene mutation, the algorithms have a complex structure. Thus, in this paper, a compact stereo matching algorithm using a population-based incremental learning based on probability vector is proposed to reduce these problems. The PBIL method is modified for matching environment. Since th proposed algorithm uses a probability vector and eliminates gene pool, chromosome crossover, and gene mutation, the matching algorithm is simple and the computation load is considerably reduced. Even though the characteristics of images are changed, stable outputs are obtained without the modification of the matching algorithm.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.8-12
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• 2012

Area-based stereo matchng algorithms are widely used for image analysis for stereo vision. SAD (Sum of Absolute Difference) algorithm is one of well known area-based stereo matchng algorithms with the characteristics of data intensive computing application. Therefore, it requires very high computation capabilities and its processing speed becomes very slow with software realization. This paper proposes a fast SAD algorithm utilizing SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instructions based on SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) parallism. CPU supporing SSE instructions has 16 XMM registers with 128 bits. For the performance evaluation of the proposed scheme, we compare the processing speed between SAD with/without SSE instructions. The proposed scheme achieves four times performance improvement over the general SAD, which shows the possibility of the software realization of real time SAD algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.362-368
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• 2005

This paper is related to the fast block matching algorithm, especially a method for expanding the search pattern using the second local matching point in the adaptive hexagonal search. To reduce the local minima problem in fast motion estimation, the proposed method expands the search pattern by adding new searching points selected by using the second local matching point to conventional search pattern formed by the first local matching point in the adaptive hexagonal search. According to estimating the motion vector by applying block matching algorithm based on hexagonal search to the expanded search pattern, the proposed method can effectively carry out fast motion estimation to improve the performance in terms of compensated image quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.641-644
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a precise frame-level near-duplicate video matching algorithm. First, a binary frame descriptor for near-duplicate video matching is proposed. The binary frame descriptor divides a frame into patches and represent the relations between patches in bits. Seconds, we formulate a cost function for the matching, composed of matching costs and compensatory costs. Then, we roughly determine initial matchings and refine the matchings iteratively to minimize the cost function. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides efficient performance for frame-level near duplicate video matching.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.107-115
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• 2014

The reduced-bit transform based bit-plane matching algorithm (BPM) can obtain the block matching result through its simple calculation and hardware design compared to the conventional block matching algorithms (BMAs), but the block matching accuracy of BPMs is somewhat low. In this paper, reduced-bit transform based sum of the absolute difference (R-SAD) is proposed to improve the block matching accuracy in comparison with the conventional BPMs and it is shown that the matching process can be obtained using the logical operations. Firstly, this method transforms the current and the reference images into their respective 2-bit images and then a truth table is obtained from the relation between input and output 2-bit images. Next, a truth table is simplified by Karnaugh map and the absolute difference is calculated by using simple logical operations. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed R-SAD can obtain higher accuracy in block matching results compared to the conventional BPMs through the PSNR analysis in the motion compensation experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.206-208
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 최종 변이영상의 정확도를 높이기 위해 영상의 특징점을 이용한 적응적 가변 정합창 방법과 교차 일치성 검사의 신뢰도를 높이는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 적응적 가변 정합창 방법은 색상정보를 이용하여 영상을 분할하고 분할된 각 영상의 특징점을 찾아 그 특징점들의 유무에 따라 정합창의 크기를 적응적으로 가변시키는 방법이다. 또한 제안한 알고리즘을 GPU를 기반으로 구현하여 연산속도가 평균 128배 빨라졌다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.219-220
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 특징점 기반의 포인트 클라우드 정합 알고리즘을 제안한다. 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서 각각 다른 카메라에서 획득한 데이터를 하나의 통합된 데이터로 정합하는 문제에 많은 관심을 두고 있다. 기존의 방법들은 큰 오차를 가지고 있거나 많은 카메라 대수나 고가의 RGB-D 카메라를 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 깊이 카메라에서 얻은 깊이 영상과 색상 영상을 이용하고 함수 최적화 알고리즘을 적용해 저가의 RGB-D 카메라 8대를 이용하여 오차가 적은 포인트 클라우드 정합 방법을 제안한다.