• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.921-927
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a novel design scheme for the operation of Decoded Picture Buffer (DPB) including reference picture re-ordering, marking process, and reference picture list construction to perform an efficient scalable multi-view video coding. Extensive simulations show that the proposed method can provide improved compression efficiency and improved video quality measured in terms of BD-Rate and BD-PSNR for the scalable multi-view video coding.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.6 no.1 s.10
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• pp.94-101
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a motion estimation algorithm for the discontinuity blocks. The algorithm uses sub-SAD value (i.e. the sum of absolute difference for a quarter of a block) to identify the discontinuity region, and produces additional motion vectors for these sub-blocks if necessary. We show with experimental results that, in comparison with some conventional motion estimation algorithms, the proposed algorithm achieves quality enhancement for the sequences with discontinuity blocks, and also shows the same computational quantity as to normal algorithms for sequences with less discontinuity.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.87-91
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new deinterlacing method that converts the interlaced images into the progressive images using a field. Firsr of all, it estimates the direction of edge. If it makes an accurate estimate of the direction, then it interpolates a pixel using ELA(Edge-based Line Average). Otherwise, it estimates the new direction of edge, and then,, it interpolates a pixel using a proposed median filter. From simulation results, it is shown that the proposed method improves both subjective and objective image quality as compared with previous deinterlacing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.160-164
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• 2003

LCD를 TV 향으로 적용하기 위해서는 몇 가지 해결해야만 하는 문제가 있으며, 이중 하나가 동화상 재생시에 발생하는 잔상현상의 해결이다. LCD는 기존의 CRT와 같은 불연속 자발광 소자가 아니라, 연속수광소자로서, 잔상현상이 치명적인 약점으로 나타난다. 기종의 Monitor 대응품에서는 실제로 Monitor를 통해서 사용자가 관찰하는 이미지 정보가 정지화상 중심으로 구성되어 있기 때문에 문제가 되지 않았으나, TV의 경우 연속적인 동화상만을 취급하고 있어, 잔상현상의 해결 없이는 TV 향 제품에 적용할 수 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 잔상현상을 근본적으로 없애기 위해서 LCD를 CRT와 같이 불연속적의 분절적 이미지로 구동하는 방법을 실험하였으며, VIDEO 입력 신호에 대해서 16.7msec의 1Frame을 기준으로 점등 구간과 비점등 구간을 6:4로 나누어 BL(Back Light)을 점멸하는 방법을 구현하였다. 또한 종래의 CCFL(cold Cathod Flourescent Lamp)로는 점멸 속도에 대한 대응이 불가하므로, 이를 해결하기 위해서 광원의 형광체에 대해서 잔광시간특성의 개선도 동시에 실시하였다. 실험 결과 육안 및 사진촬영에서 잔상없는 화면을 얻을 수 있었으며, 응답파형 측정 결과 CRT 측정시와 마찬가지로 분절적인 이미지의 생성이 가능한 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 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 Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.1027-1034
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• 2018

CCTV has been known to possess high level of objectivity and utility. Hence, the government has recently focused on replacing low quality CCTV with higher quality ones or even by adding high resolution CCTV. However, converting all existing low-quality CCTV to high quality can be extremely costly. Furthermore, low quality videos prior to CCTV replacement are likely to be of poor quality and thus not utilized correctly. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes a method to improve videos quality of images using SRGAN(Super Resolution Generative Advisory Networks). Through experiments, we have proven that it is possible to improve low quality CCTV videos clearly. For this experiment, a total of 4 types of CCTV videos were used and 10,000 images were sampled from each type. Those images could then be used for machine learning. The fact that the pre-process for machine learning has been done manually and the long time that required for machine learning seems to be complementary.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.411-413
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• 2013

Image signal processing is applied in different areas due to diffusion of smart phone, computer, multimedia etc. However, image most is damaged by impulse noise, and the need of denoising technology for improvement of image quality is coming to the fore. The existing methods for denoising such as mean filter and median filter, but they represent poor denoising. Therefore, the removes impulse noise, this paper proposed the modified mean filter algorithm using standard deviation, and as a simulation result, the proposed method showed excellent denoising capabilities to the existing methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.2C
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• pp.100-109
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• 2003

A differential index assignment scheme is proposed for the image encoding system in which a variable-length tree-structured vector quantizer is adopted. Each source vector is quantized into a terminal node of VLTSVQ and each terminal node is represented as a unique binary vector. The proposed index assignment scheme utilizes the correlation between interblocks of the image to increase the compression ratio with the image quality maintained. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves a much higher compression ratio than the conventional one does and that the amount of the bit rate reduction of the proposed scheme becomes large as the correlation of the image becomes large. The proposed encoding scheme can be effectively used to encode R images whose pixel values we, in general, highly correlated with those of the neighbor pixels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.2C
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• pp.172-180
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• 2003

This paper propose a new change detection algorithm based on macro block unit for selective video coding scheme. The conventional method badly decides a macro block of unchanged region into a changed macro block due to a noise of the difference images. To solve the problem of the conventional method, we propose a new test statistic which is robust to the noise of the difference image. As shown in experimental results(Fig. 1∼3), the proposed algorithm shows more accurate segmentation results than the conventional method. Also, because the proposed detection method reduces the average numbers of changed macro block per frame to 55∼60% than the conventional method, it can improve the performance of the selective video coding at lower bit rates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.98-100
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 좌우 해상도가 서로 다른 융합형 3DTV 시스템에서 합성된 3D 영상의 화질을 개선하는 방법인 조건부 대체 알고리듬에 적용하기 위한 비트율 제어기법을 제안한다. 조건부 대체 알고리듬에서는 쿼드트리 형태의 가변크기 블록마다 좌우 영상간의 양안시차 정보를 활용하되, 이 정보의 전송을 위해서 부가적인 대역폭이 요구되기 때문에 전송 대역폭의 상황에 따라 부가 정보의 양을 효율적으로 조절할 필요가 있다. 이를 위해 비용함수를 정의하고 가중치를 적용하여 최적의 모드를 결정하는 방법을 제안한다.