• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.178-184
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• 2015

This paper proposes a hardware architecture for high performance Deblocking filter(DBF) in High Efficiency Video Coding for UHD(Ultra High Definition) videos. This proposed hardware architecture which has less processing time has a 4-stage pipelined architecture with two filters and parallel boundary strength module. Also, the proposed filter can be used in low-voltage design by using clock gating architecture in 4-stage pipeline. The segmented memory architecture solves the hazard issue that arises when single port SRAM is accessed. The proposed order of filtering shortens the delay time that arises when storing data into the single port SRAM at the pre-processing stage. The DBF hardware proposed in this paper was designed with Verilog HDL, and was implemented with 22k logic gates as a result of synthesis using TSMC 0.18um CMOS standard cell library. Furthermore, the dynamic frequency can process UHD 8k($7680{\times}4320$) samples@60fps using a frequency of 150MHz with an 8K resolution and maximum dynamic frequency is 285MHz. Result from analysis shows that the proposed DBF hardware architecture operation cycle for one process coding unit has improved by 32% over the previous one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.46-54
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity loop filtering method depending on transform-block regions. Block adaptive loop filter (BALF) was developed to improve about 10% in compression performance for the next generation video coding. The BALF employs the Wiener filter that makes reconstructed frames close to the original ones and transmits filter-related information. However, the BALF requires high computational complexity, while it can achieve high compression performance because the block adaptive loop filter is applied to all the pixels in blocks. The proposed method is a new loop filter that classifies pixels in a block into inner and boundary regions based on the characteristics of the integer transform and derives optimum filters for each region. Then, it applies the selected filters for the inner and/or boundary regions. The decoder complexity can be adjusted by selecting region-dependent filter to be used in the decoder side. We found that the proposed algorithm can reduce 35.5% of computational complexity with 2.56% of compression loss, in case that only boundary filter is used.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.177-183
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• 2015

This paper proposes a robust nonlinear acoustic echo canceller (NAEC) which is effective for modeling the nonlinearity of a speaker module and the long acoustic echo path within a speech communication environment. The proposed NAEC utilizes a sigmoid pre-processor for modeling the speaker nonlinearity and a partitioned block frequnecy-domain adaptive filter for identifying the acoustic echo path with small delay. Simulation results confirmed that the proposed algorithm achieves excellent performance with much lower computational complexity than the previous NAEC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2020

VVC (Versatile Video Coding)는 HEVC이후 차세대 표준 비디오 코딩으로 JVET(Joint Video Exploration)에 의해 2018년 표준화를 시작하였다. VVC에는 복원픽쳐의 변환-양자화에러에 의해 발생한 블로어, 블로킹, 링잉 아티팩트를 감소시키기 위하여 deblocking filter (DF), sample adaptive offset (SAO), adaptive loop filter(ALF)와 같은 모듈을 사용한다. 한편 CNN (Convolutional Neural Network)은 최근 이미지와 비디오 복원에 높은 성능을 보이고 있다. VVC에서 픽쳐는 CTU (Coding Tree Unit)으로 분할되고 각 CTU는 다시 CU (Coding Unit)으로 분할된다. 그리고 인코딩을 위한 중요한 정보들이 Picture, CTU, CU단위로 디코더에 전송된다. 이 논문에서는 화면 간 예측으로 인코딩 된 픽처에서 블록과 픽처정보를 이용한 딥러닝 기반의 인루프 필터 모델을 제안한다. 제안하는 모델은 화면 간 예측에서 QP, 4×4 블록단위의 모션벡터, 참조블록과의 시간적거리, CU의 깊이를 모델에 추가적인 정보로 이용한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.2397-2402
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• 2010

Dielectric resonator bandpass filters with various time-delay at 800MHz were designed and fabricated in this paper. from the results of this study. first of all, good response. characteristics were measured for all cases. The insertion loss was below 2dB and flatness for ripple was below 0.2dB, whereas return loss was over 20dB, respectively. The measured delay time of the fabricated prototype were 6ns, 12ns and 200s, respectively and the flatness characteristics did not exceeding Ins for all cases. Furthermore, 2~4ns of flatness were measured for 2-hole dielectric block and other dielectric resonator filters with various delay time by combination of each prototypes filters were also implemented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.8B
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• pp.1400-1412
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a technique for image enhancement, especially for denoising and deblocking based on wavelets. In this proposed algorithm, frame wavelet system designed as a optimal edge detector was used. And our theory depends on Lipschitz regularity, spatial correlation, and some important assumptions. The performance of the proposed algorithm was compared with three popular test images in image processing area. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm was better than other previous denoising techniques like spatial averaging filter, Gaussian filter, median filter, Wiener filter, and some other wavelet based filters in the aspect of both PSNR and human visual system, The experimental results also show approximately the same capability of deblocking as the previous developed techniques

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.192-194
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 VVC(Versatile Video Coding) 화면 내 예측에서 참조 샘플 생성의 정확도를 높이기 위해 블록의 크기와 방향성 모드에 따라 더 많은 정수 위치 참조 샘플을 이용하는 보간 필터를 추가적으로 사용하는 방법을 제안한다. VVC 표준에서 4-tap 보간 필터를 사용하는 기존의 방식에 추가로 8-tap 보간 필터를 함께 사용하여 VVC 참조 소프트웨어인 VTM(VVC Test Model) 14.2[1] 대비 평균 -0.16% 의 luma BD-rate 개선을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2019

Braille guide block of sidewalk is an essential facility for independent walking of the blind. The blind walks while checking the braile guide blocks with white cane and sense of sole. When they leave the braile area, they face difficulties until they find the braile guide blocks again. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that guides the walking of the blind by determining whether they follows the braille guide blocks safely. For this purpose, the slope of the braille block is selected as a feature and a 3-line detector is introduced. Also the slopes are stabilized using spatial filtering to deal with breaks or junctions of the braille block during the progress and temporal filtering to cope with ego-motion of the blind. Through simulations using a dataset obtained from the real sidewalks and indoors, it can be shown that the proposed algorithm can successfully estimate the walking direction and determine whether the blind is out of the braille guide block area.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.133-137
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 영상의 콘트라스트를 개선시키는 언샵 마스킹 방법을 제안한다. 언샵 마스킹은 이미지가 가지고 있는 에지와 디테일 정보를 개선시키는데 일반적인 샤프닝 마스크 보다 효과적이기에 이에 관한 많은 연구가 있었다. 제안하는 방법은 방향성 정보를 이용한 블록 기반 업샵 마스킹 방법으로 영상을 블록 단위로 분할하여 각 블록에 대한 DCT를 수행한다. DCT 결과를 토대로 블록들의 방향성 타입을 결정하여 각 블록의 타입에 따라 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 취할 수 있는 유연함을 제공 한다. 블록의 분류는 평탄영역, 텍스쳐, 에지 그리고 나머지 형태로 구분되어 진다. 평탄 영역에 속하는 배경 및 평이한 표면에서는 결과물을 시각적으로 훼손시키지 않기 위해 언샵 마스킹을 적용하지 않는다. 텍스쳐와 에지 영역에 대해서는 고주파 성분을 보존하기 위해 블록 타입에 맞는 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 적용한다. 이에 사용되는 언샵 마스킹은 선명화의 기여도를 제어하는 적응적 필터를 사용하여 디테일이 많은 부분은 콘트라스트를 개선시키고 평탄 영역에 대해서는 선명화를 약하게 하여 최대의 영상 개선 효율을 유도한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.153-163
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• 2006

We propose a new video compression method based on MCTF(motion compensated temporal filtering) with constant quality. SPECK is an efficient image compression coding method of encoding DWT coefficients. Especially SPECK method is very efficient for coding the motion compensated residual image which usually has larger amounts of high frequency components than the natural images. And proposed multi block size hierarchical motion estimation technique is more efficient than classical block matching algorithm with fixed block size both in estimation precision and operation costs. Proposed video method based on MCTF video compression can also support multi-frame rate decoding with reasonable complexity. Simulation results showed that proposed method outperforms H.263 video compression standard.