• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.552-560
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• 2011

In this paper, a new no-reference sharpness measure using frequency domain coefficients is proposed. Although most existing sharpness measures used pixel intensity to compute the blur degree, the proposed sharpness measure computes the sharpness using frequency coefficients. To assess the perceived sharpness of a given image, the image is re-blurred by a Gaussian low pass filter and a new quality measure function was defined using the frequency domain coefficients of the given image and the re-blurred image. To evaluate the proposed algorithms, TID2008 quality assessment database was used. Experimental results show that the proposed quality assessment method showed high correlation with the subjective scores.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.392-393
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• 2012

영상에서의 화질 평가는 학술적으로나 산업적으로나 중요한 문제이지만 지금까지 주로 쓰여온 PSNR 과 같은 방법은 실제 사람이 인식하는 평가에 잘 부합하지 못하는 문제점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 모든 밝기 영역에서 영상을 평가할 수 있는 HDR-VDP2 와 주목도 지도를 결합하여 범용적으로 사용이 가능하며 성능도 뛰어난 화질 측정 방법을 제시하고, 다양한 주목도 지도에 대하여 그 성능과 화질 평가 성능 사이의 관계를 살펴본다. 구현에는 주목도 지도를 가중치로 사용함으로써 간단하게 더 좋은 성능의 화질 평가 시스템을 만들었고 이를 실험으로 보였다. 또한 주목도 지도의 성능과 화질 평가 시스템의 성능 사이에는 약한 양의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났는데 주목도 지도와 함께 구조적 특징점들의 정보를 성능 평가 시스템에 포함시키면 더 좋은 결과를 얻을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.110-122
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• 2014

As multimedia technologies develop, three-dimensional (3D) technologies are attracting increasing attention from researchers. In particular, video quality assessment (VQA) has become a critical issue in stereoscopic image/video processing applications. Furthermore, a human visual system (HVS) could play an important role in the measurement of stereoscopic video quality, yet existing VQA methods have done little to develop a HVS for stereoscopic video. We seek to amend this by proposing a 3D visual attention (3DVA) model which simulates the HVS for stereoscopic video by combining multiple perceptual stimuli such as depth, motion, color, intensity, and orientation contrast. We utilize this 3DVA model for pooling on significant regions of very poor video quality, and we propose no-reference (NR) stereoscopic VQA (SVQA) method. We validated the proposed SVQA method using subjective test scores from our results and those reported by others. Our approach yields high correlation with the measured mean opinion score (MOS) as well as consistent performance in asymmetric coding conditions. Additionally, the 3DVA model is used to extract information for the region-of-interest (ROI). Subjective evaluations of the extracted ROI indicate that the 3DVA-based ROI extraction outperforms the other compared extraction methods using spatial or/and temporal terms.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.573-588
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel video quality degradation monitoring scheme titled VR-VQMS(Visual Rhythm based Video Quality Monitoring Scheme) over an IPTV service prone to packet losses during network transmission. Proposed scheme quantifies the amount of quality degradation due to packet losses, and can be classified into a RR(reduced-reference) based quality measurement scheme exploiting visual rhythm data of H.264-encoded video frames at a media server and reconstructed ones at an Set-top Box as feature information. Two scenarios, On-line and Off-line VR-VQMS, are proposed as the practical solutions. We define the NPSNR(Networked Peak-to-peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) modified by the well-known PSNR as a new objective quality metric, and several additional objective and subjective metrics based on it to obtain the statistics on timing, duration, occurrence, and amount of quality degradation. Simulation results show that the proposed method closely approximates the results from 2D video frames and gives good estimation of subjective quality(i.e.,MOS(mean opinion score)) performed by 10 test observers. We expect that the proposed scheme can play a role as a practical solution to monitor the video quality experienced by individual customers in a commercial IPTV service, and be implemented as a small and light agent program running on a resource-limited set-top box.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.319-330
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• 2011

For objective assessment of stereoscopic 3D image quality, we measure quality of left and right image with 2D image quality measurement method. However, this method is inconvenient because that we have to measure quality of left and right image individually. Therefore we propose a method of stereoscopic 3D image quality assessment using one overlaid image with left and right image. Using this method, One can measure quality of stereoscopic 3D image more easily and quickly.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.963-965
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 위성 영상과 같은 원격 센싱 영상 등의 저 대비 영상의 화질을 개선하기 위하여 SVD (singular value decomposition)를 이용한 적응적 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 제안한다. 저 대비 영상의 특이값과 히스토그램 평활화 영상의 특이값을 결합하되, 사용자 파라미터를 통해 영상의 화질을 조절할 수 있도록 적응적 화질 개선 기법을 제안한다. 위성 영상을 비롯한 다양한 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 제안하는 방법이 기존의 히스토그램 평활화 기법 및 이를 개선한 방법에 비해 GSD (global standard deviation)으로 측정한 객관적 수치 측면에서 우수한 성능을 나타내고, 주관적 화질 측면에서 자연스럽고 영상의 어두운 영역 및 밝은 영역에서의 디테일 보존 성능이 우수함을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1085-1095
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• 2019

In this paper, we perform a subjective quality assessment on low-resolution surveillance videos, which are encoded with a very low target bit-rate to use in an ultra-low band transmission system and investigate the encoding effects on the perceived video quality. The test videos are collected based on their spatial and temporal characteristics which affect the perceived quality. H.265/HEVC encoder is used to prepare the impaired sequences for three target bit-rates 20, 45, and 65 kbps and subjective quality assessment is conducted to evaluate the quality from a viewing distance of 3H. The experimental results show that the quality of encoded videos, even at target bit-rate of 45 kbps can satisfy the users. Also we compare objective image/video quality assessment methods on the proposed dataset to measure their correlation with subjective scores. The experimental results show that the existing methods poorly performed, that indicates the need for a better quality assessment method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.155-158
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• 2004

본 논문은 비트 플레인의 위치에 따라 블록별 적응적인 임계값를 이용하여 정보를 삽입하는 스테가노그라피 방법을 연구하였다. 다양한 이미지를 대상으로 고정 임계값을 적용하는 기존의 방법과 영상의 특징에 따라 비트 플레인별 임계값이 적응적으로 산출되는 제안한 방법에 대해서 최대용량을 측정하고, 같은 양의 정보를 삽입한 후 화질을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 기존의 방법 보다 용량면이나 화질면에서 나은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.27-30
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• 2006

본 논문은 디지털 모바일 비디오에 대한 객관적 화질 평가 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 화질 평가 방법은 경계 영역을 구한 뒤, 그 주변 영역에서의 에러 값에 근거한 경계영역 특징과 영상 압축 코덱에 의하여 발생하는 블로킹 효과를 측정함으로써 주관적 화질을 객관화 하였다. 제안한 알고리듬의 성능 평가를 위하여 Mean Opinion Score (MOS)값과 기존의 방법/제안한 방법의 결과를 비교하였다. 본 논문에서는, 인간 시각에 의한 MOS값과의 상관도가 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비하여 비교적 큼을 보였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2017

Emotional image quality optimization methodologies are investigated using technological image quality controls based on the eye tests of various image samples. The images are evaluated based on various contrast, lightness and saturation image quality metric tone curves. The order of importance to image quality enhancements is contrast, saturation and brightness. The slopes of emotional image qualities with respect to technical image quality metric changes are found to be composed of mathematical function modelling with nearly zero, intermediate and maximum slope regions in general, which can reflect well known log and saturated as well as conventional reverse U shape natures. Image quality improvements are analyzed not only with just single but also with multiple image quality metrics. To ease the unified image quality metric analysis and control, a new function is presented to utilize both the newly found and conventional emotional image quality behaviors. It is found that the overall image quality enhancement can be realized only in a few limited cases of multiple image quality metric controls. It is also found that the kinds of image quality enhancement methodologies are not strongly dependent on image contents (genre).