• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.387-396
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• 2009

No-Reference video-quality assessments are divided into two kinds of metrics based on decoding pixel domain or the bitstream one. Traditional full-/reduced- reference methods have difficulty to be deployed as realtime video transmission because it has problems of additional data, complexity, and assessment accuracy. This paper presents simple and highly accurate no-reference video-quality assessment in realtime video transmission. Our proposed method uses quantization parameter, motion vector, and information of transmission error. To evaluate performance of the proposed algorithm, we perform subjective test of video quality with the ITU-T P.910 Absolute Category Rating(ACR) method and compare our proposed algorithm with the subjective quality assessment method. Experimental results show the proposed quality metric has a high correlation (85%) in terms of subjective quality assessment.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.5-10
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• 2008

Most of the diagnostic medical radiography are rapidly replaced by digital imaging systems recently. Although with the current transition of analog to digital most of the exposure conditions and parameters are still on the basis of film-screen analog system. Moreover the evaluation of acquired digital radiographic image is not fulfilled normally because of the difficulties in handling the digital raw data. The user friendly windows program for the evaluations of digital radiographic image was developed on the MatLab platform. The program has functions for the calculation of the contrast profile, NPS(noise power spectrum), MTF(modulation transfer function), and NEQ(noise equivalent quanta).

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.934-942
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• 2013

Image scaling is used for a variety of real-life applications. In order to evaluate the performance of transform functions, the image quality are compared together before and after processing. For the objective evaluation of the transform functions, the exact criterion of image quality is required, and various aspects approaches are practically performed. However, few researches have been conducted on image quality measurement considering the position of pixels that are skipped or newly generated in the process of the image scaling. Therefore this paper focuses on the objective image quality measurement for positions of skipped or estimated pixels in the image scaling. The proposed method generated new image quality measure considering the positional changes using a conventional measure and evaluated sensitivity about positional changes. Through this experiments, it is observed that conventional image quality measurement is definitely affected by positional changes of a skipped and estimated pixels. It is also confirmed that the proposed method is an objective criterion to represent image quality for positional changes of skipped or estimated pixels. The proposed method can be used as a criterion to evaluate the performance of image restoration or enhancement functions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.592-594
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• 2003

이 논문에서는 wavelet과 sobel filter를 사용하여 영상의 객관적인 평가 점수를 계산하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 orthogonal wavelet 변환을 기초로 하고 있으며 원본 영상과 처리된 영상 데이터가 모두 가용하다는 것을 전제로 한다. Wavelet을 이용해 주파수에 따라 분할된 영상 정보를 이용해 각각의 부영역 별 차영상을 획득하고 이 획득된 영상의 에너지를 이용해 화질 평가 수치를 계산한다. 부영역 별로 획득된 영상은 일정한 크기의 블록으로 분할되어 동일한 블록 내에서 가용한 영상의 특징에 관한 정보(contrast, edge 영역의 분포 정도) 벡터와 내적하여 새로운 특징 벡터로 사용되고, 이 특징 벡터의 가중치를 최적화하여 높은 상관도의 화질평가 점수를 산출하게 된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.225-228
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• 2004

본 논문은 이동통신을 위한 입력영상을 취득할 때 사용되는 웨이블릿, 소벨 필터 기반의 화질평가 방식을 다양한 실험을 통해 검증하고 영상과 전처리 기법에 따라 주관적 평가에 근접한 화질평가방식을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.563-581
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• 2010

In this paper, we perform subjective visual quality assessments on UHD video for UHD TV services and analyze the assessment results. Demands for video services have been increased with availabilities of DTV, Internet and personal media equipments. With this trend, the demands for high definition video have also been increasing. Currently, 2K-HD ($1920{\times}1080$) video have been widely consumed over DTV, DVD, digital camcoders, security cameras and other multimedia terminals in various types, and recently digital cinema contents of 4K-UHD($3840{\times}2160$) have been popularly produced and the cameras, beam projects, display panels that support for 4K-UHD video start to come out into multimedia markets. Also it is expected that 4K-UHD service will appear soon in broadcasting and telecommunications environments. Therefore, in this paper, subjective assessments of visual quality on resolutions, color formats, frame rates and compression rates have been carried to provide basis information for standardization of signal specification of UHD video and viewing environments for future UHDTV. As the analysis on the assessments, UHD video exhibits better subjective visual quality than HD by the evaluators. Also, the 4K-UHD test sequences in YUV444 shows better subjective visual quality than the 4K-UHD test sequences in YUV422 and YUV420, but there is little perceptual difference on 4K-UHD test sequences between YUV422 and YUV420 formats. For the comparison between different frame rates, 4K-UHD test sequences of 60fps gives better subjective visual quality than those of 30fps. For bit-depth comparison, HD test sequences in 10-bit depth were little differentiated from those in 8-bit depth in subject visual quality assessment. Lastly, the larger the PSNR values of the reconstructed 4K-UHD test sequences are, the higher the subjective visual quality is. Against the viewing distances, the differences among encoded 4K-UHD test sequences were less distinguished in longer distances from the display.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.421-426
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• 2011

This research was accomplished to assess dose effects on image quality at computed radiography (CR). The ultimate target of the research was finding optimized exposure that provides necessary image quality for the clinical chest diagnosis. Modulation transfer function (MTF), normalized noise power spectrum (NNPS), and Noise equivalent quanta (NEQ) corresponding to the different doses were measured for the assessment of image quality. The preparation of "edge test device" used in MTF measurement and experimental geometry setup were followed by the recommendations of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The experimental results show the necessary image quality can be achieved even at a half of the automatic exposure control (AEC) setting dose for chest diagnosis. It means that the patient exposure can be reduced dramatically by using optimized dose.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.1513-1516
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• 2001

본 논문은 기가비트 네트워크 테스트베드인 JGN상에서 대표적인 스트림형 트래픽인 DV와 MPEG2에 대한 전송 품질의 주관적 평가를 통하여 전송지연과 패킷 손실에 따른 영향이 최종 사용자에게 어떤 영향을 미치는 지를 조사한 것이다. 스트림형 데이터에 대해 음질 측정은 ITU-R BS.1116-1을 기반으로 하고 화질 측정은 ITU-R BT.500-1 을 기반으로 하여 측정하였다, 또한 최종 사용자의 주관적 평가를 얻기 위한 방법으로는 DSCQS 5 단계 평가 방법을 채택하였다. 그 결과 MPEG2 스트림의 경우 네트워크 트래픽 파라미터가 급증하는 54%의 부하율에서 화질과 음질의 평가 등급이 급격히 하강한다는 것을 알 수 있었고 DV의 경우 화질은 MPEG2 와 마찬가지로 54%의 부하율에서 평가 등급이 감소하기 시작하였으나 그 변화정도가 MPEG2 에 비하여 완만한 변화를 보였다. DV 음질의 경우 트래픽 파라미터(RTT, 패킷 손실)와는 큰 연관성을 보이지 않았고 대부분의 측정자들이 보통 수준의 평가등급을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.200-203
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 시장 점유율 상위를 차지하는 3 종의 해외 유명 제조사의 상용 HD 급 실시간 방송용 H.264 인코더의 화질 성능에 대해 전 기준 화질 평가를 통해 비교한다. 이를 위해 VQEG(Video Quality Experts Group)등에서 배포하는 9 종의 기준영상을 이용하여 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)을 측정하였으며 인코더 별 성능 비교를 위해 9 종의 기준영상에 대한 평균 PSNR 과 인코더/디코더의 전체 지연시간을 측정하였다. 그 결과 장비 별로 조금씩 다른 특성 결과와 현재 H.264 인코더 시험 시 성능 평가의 애매한 부분이었던 화질에 대한 벤치마크 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 본 논문의 실험 결과는 국산 방송용 인코더의 객관적인 성능 평가를 위한 지표로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 예측된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.424-431
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• 2002

This paper proposes a new quantitative image assessment model which is essential to verify the performance of block-based DCT coding. The proposed model considers not only global distortions such as frequency sensitivity and channel masking using HVS based visual model, but also distortions including several local distortions caused by block-based coding.