• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.203-205
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 HEVC 기반 비디오 부호화에 있어 CTU 단위의 시각 민감도에 따라 CTU 별로 QP 를 조절하여 주관적 화질을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 시각 민감도를 측정하는 방법으로서 화소 영역에서의 최소가지차(JND, just noticeable distortion)를 계산하여 이용하였고, 이를 HM 12.0 참조 소프트웨어에서 이용되는 $R-{\lambda}$ 모델 기반의 율 제어 모듈에 결합하여 시각 민감도에 따라 QP 를 제어할 수 있도록 하였다. 시각 민감도가 큰 영상의 영역에 대해서는 상대적으로 작은 QP 값을, 시각민감도가 작은 영역에 대해서는 큰 QP 값을 양자화 과정에 적용함으로써, 시각 민감도가 작은 영역에 대해서는 사용 비트양을 절약하고, 절약된 비트를 상대적으로 시각 민감도가 큰 영역을 위해 사용함으로써 비디오의 주관적 화질을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 뿐만 아니라 이를 하드웨어에 적용 가능하게 하기 위해 HM 12.0 기반 하드웨어 구현을 위한 소프트웨어 플랫폼에 구현하여 실험한 결과, $R-{\lambda}$ 모델 율 제어 알고리즘으로 율 제어 하여 부호화 한 경우 Y-PSPNR(peak signal to perceptual noise ratio)에 대한 BD-rate 는 평균 9.4%의 이득이 있었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1000-1009
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• 2011

Image interpolation is a technique which estimates the non-allocated pixel values on image scale-transform. It requires minimum computational complexity and minimum image quality degradation on the interpolated resultant images. In this paper we propose an image interpolation method using iterative error estimation. The proposed method consists of the following five steps: loss-information computational step, loss-information estimation step, loss-information application step, error computation step, and error application step. The experimental results obtained show that the average PSNR is increased by 3.3dB, subjective image quality is enhanced and the minimum computation complexity is decreased by 83%. The proposed image interpolation algorithm may be helpful in various applications such as image reconstruction and enlargement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.1031-1043
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• 1990

A sequential recursive Kalman filtering algorithm, using causal image model, which is designed to operate in real time in the scanning mode is developed to enhance quality of 64Kbps videocodec images via function of suppression of various noises and optimum restoration. In order to improve its performance, adapted an averaging of pixel values between processing lines and adaptive filtering strategy based on the local spatial variance. Effecttiveness of the Kalman filtering algorithm proposed has been proved in the processed test kalman filtering algorithm proposed has been proved in the processed test images and the NMSE, LOGMSE measured, therefore, it may proposes possibility of the usage in videocodec for pre- and post- processing.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.32-40
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed an reconstruction algorithm of transmitted frames from displayed image on video terminal. For image quality assessment of the video streaming in the wireless network, we need information of the image that is transmitted to the end-user's device. Generally, subjective methods are widely used to evaluate the image quality by human beings because it is difficult to extract the transmitted image from the end-user's device. This paper presents an image reconstruction algerian based on the displayed image in video terminal for the extraction of the transmitted image. In the proposed method, we acquired the displayed image on video terminal using the camera. Camera-acquired images exhibit geometric and color distortions caused by characteristics of cameras and display devices. Therefore we correct the geometric distortion by exploiting the homography and color distortion by pre-computed look-up table. The experimental results show that the proposed measurement system yields promising estimation performance in terms of PSNR of $27{\sim}28dB$. We also carried out performance evaluation of the proposed method in terms of EPSNR and the quality of the estimated images by the proposed algerian was in fairly good range of MOS test scale.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2003

In this paper, a discrete wavelet transform (DWT)-based watermarking system is proposed. The main feature of proposed system is that the embedding system uses adaptive thresholds to control the trade-off between the qualify of the watermarked image and the capacity of the watermark, and the trade-off between the quality and robustness of the watermarked image. Also, the extracting system rebuilds threshold according to various attacks and decides a watermark bit from the least distorted coefficient after measuring the distortion of coefficient. Finally, a new measure to detect the uniqueness of watermark is proposed. The experimental result shows that the proposed watermarking system is robust against conventional signal processing and intentional attacks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4B
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• pp.349-359
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a stereo-video transmission method for reduction of delay and maximization of 3D effect. Conventional multimedia synchronization algorithms were designed to achieve minimum delay and synchronize multiple video and audio streams, however, they could not be effective for 3D video transmission. In this paper, we proposed a synchronization algorithm by considering the minimum error of time difference between streams for 3D effect. The minimum error of time difference for 3D effect was derived based on a 3D subjective quality test. We compute display time of the delivered videos within the allowed time-difference and the video are displayed according to the display time. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we implemented a real-time video communication system and subjective quality test has been conducted with the proposed system. We found that video quality displayed by the proposed system. We found that video quality displayed by the proposed algorithm ranks 'good' and 'excellent' in the DMOS (Differential Mean Opinion Score) scale, based on the MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.500-509
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• 2001

Image compression based on Wavelet gives much better quality than JPEG based on DCT, but suffers from ringing or blurring effects around edges as the compression is increased. In this paper, we proposed enhanced image compression by pre-processing wavelet coefficients. This pre-processing is performed by making a low threshold and enhanced by zerotree scan method when subband's zerotrees are established. It might increase significants coefficient by means of modifying the threshold and reflect on the orientation of subbands. Some experimental results show our method is more efficient than the conventional methods, JPEG. And then the developed coding scheme improves the quality of images and visually shows more pleasing results for most practical images.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.171-187
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• 2023

When a person's face is recognized through a recording device such as a low-pixel surveillance camera, it is difficult to capture the face due to low image quality. In situations where it is difficult to recognize a person's face, problems such as not being able to identify a criminal suspect or a missing person may occur. Existing studies on face recognition used refined datasets, so the performance could not be measured in various environments. Therefore, to solve the problem of poor face recognition performance in low-quality images, this paper proposes a method to generate high-quality images by performing image quality improvement on low-quality facial images considering various environments, and then improve the performance of facial feature point detection. To confirm the practical applicability of the proposed architecture, an experiment was conducted by selecting a data set in which people appear relatively small in the entire image. In addition, by choosing a facial image dataset considering the mask-wearing situation, the possibility of expanding to real problems was explored. As a result of measuring the performance of the feature point detection model by improving the image quality of the face image, it was confirmed that the face detection after improvement was enhanced by an average of 3.47 times in the case of images without a mask and 9.92 times in the case of wearing a mask. It was confirmed that the RMSE for facial feature points decreased by an average of 8.49 times when wearing a mask and by an average of 2.02 times when not wearing a mask. Therefore, it was possible to verify the applicability of the proposed method by increasing the recognition rate for facial images captured in low quality through image quality improvement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2004

오늘날 모바일의 발전과 함께 지속적으로 모바일 컨텐츠들에 대한 연구가 급속히 증가되어 지고 있다. 특히 모바일상에서 아바타나 캐리커쳐 시스템에 관한 연구가 활달히 진행되고 있으며, 이에 필요한 기반기술인 얼굴 영상의 추출에 대한 연구가 필수적으로 병행 되어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 흐름에 맞추어 핸드폰용 카메라에서 사용 가능한 얼굴추출 알고리듬을 제안한다. 얼굴의 추출을 위해서 ACM을 응용하였으며, 이에 대한 초기의 제어점 선택을 위하여 T-S 색상 공간을 분석한 후에 마할라노비스 거리측정을 하였다. 또한 ACM의 외부에너지를 일반적으로 많이 사용하는 기존의 에지를 이용한 방법이 핸드폰용 카메라의 특성강 조명의 영향과 화질의 연화로 의해 정확하게 추출되어지지 못하는 단점을 보완하고자 얼굴 영역 면적의 변화량 측정 방법을 사용함으로 조명의 영향에 강인하도록 하였다.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.361-365
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• 1993

플라즈마화상 계측 시스템에 있어서 단층화상의 화질이 떨어지는 문제점 중의 하나로서 시준기특성이 있다. 이것은 시준기가 길이를 가진 형태이기 때문에 생기는 것으로써 화상에서는 천이변형의 왜곡으로 나타난다. 본 논문에서 보정법으로 측정데이타를 공간주파수상에서 천이불변형태로 디콘볼루션하는 방법을 제시하고 시준기의 각도를 파라메타로 해서 플라즈마 계측에 의한 실제의 데이타에 그 보정법의 유효성을 검증하였다.