• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.176-177
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• 2019

360 도 VR (Virtual Reality) 영상을 기존의 비디오처럼 재생하고 전송하기 위해서는 아직까지도 논의 되어야할 많은 문제들이 존재한다. 특히 보는 장면에 비하여 전방위의 영상을 보내야하는 VR 영상은 매우 큰 용량을 가질 수 밖에 없다. 그럼에도 불구하고 사용자의 불편함을 덜기 위해서는 HMD (Head-Mounted Displays) 의 빠른 반응 속도가 필요하다. 따라서 QER (Quality Emphasized Region)기반의 전송 기법은 영역별로 차별화된 화질의 영상을 전송하여 실감미디어의 몰입감을 유지하고 대역폭의 낭비를 줄이는 뷰포트 적응적 360 도 비디오 스트리밍 시스템 (Viewport-Adaptive 360-Degree Video Streaming System)의 일종으로 제안되었다. 그러나, 사용자의 시점 정보를 계산하기 위해서는 매 프레임마다 차원 변환을 위한 복잡하고 많은 계산이 필요하고, 이러한 중복된 계산은 시스템의 성능을 저하시키는 요인이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 차원 변환에 따른 자원낭비를 줄이기 위하여 QER 선택을 위한 개선 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.767-772
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• 2016

The purpose of this paper is to develop a gimbal system installed in the UFV(unmanned flight vehicles) for 360 degree VR video. In particular, even if the UFV rotated any direction the camera position is fiexd to minimize the shaking using the gyro sensor and the camera system is stable for taking $360^{\circ}$ panorama VR images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1002-1012
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• 2019

360VR content requires short latency, such as immediate response to viewers' viewport changes and high quality video delivery. It is necessary to consider efficient transmission that guarantees the QoE(Quality of Experience) of the 360VR contents with limited bandwidth. Several research has been introduced to reduce overall bandwidth consumption by predicting a user's viewport and allocating different bit rates to the area corresponding to the viewport. In this paper, we propose novel viewport prediction scheme that uses sound source location information of 360VR contents as auditory recognition information along with visual recognition information. Also, we propose efficient transmission algorithm by allocating a bit rate properly based on improved viewport prediction. The proposed scheme improves the accuracy of the viewport prediction and provides high quality videos to tiles corresponding to the user's viewpoint within the limited bandwidth.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.1209-1220
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• 2019

The demand for virtual reality (VR) is rapidly increasing. Providing the immersive experience requires much operation and many data to transmit. For example, a 360-degree video (360 video) with at least 4K resolution is needed to offer an immersive experience to users. Moreover, the MPEG-I group defined three degrees of freedom plus (3DoF+), and it requires the transmission of multiview 360 videos simultaneoulsy. This could be a burden for the VR streaming system. Accordingly, in this work, a bitrate-saving method using projection conversion is introduced, along with experimental results for streaming 3DoF+ 360 video. The results show that projection conversion of 360 video with 360lib shows a Bjontegaard delta bitrate gain of as much as 11.4%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.182-184
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• 2019

최근 사용자에게 더욱 몰입감 있는 콘텐츠를 제공하기 위한 기술에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며 그 중 가장 대표적인 것이 360 VR 영상이라고 할 수 있다. 미디어 표준화 단체인 MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 MPEG-I(Immersive) 차세대 프로젝트 그룹을 이용하여 이러한 움직임에 대응하고 있다. MPEG-I는 2021년 말 6DoF VR 영상을 목표로 8개의 파트가 표준화를 진행중이다. 360 VR 영상의 경우 획득시 영상의 픽셀들이 3D 공간 상에 존재하게 되는데, 이를 처리 및 출력 하귀 위해서는 2D 영상으로 전환이 필요하며 이 때 사용되는 것이 Projection format이다. 현재 JVET(Joint Video Exploration Team)에서는 3D에서 2D로 전환이 이루어 질 때 손실을 최소화 하기 위한 Projection format들에 대한 연구가 이루어 지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재까지 제안된 다양한 Projection format들에 대하여 소개하고 이에 대한 성능 측정 방식에 대하여 소개한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.817-828
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an efficient stabilization algorithm for 360 VR sequence, where the geometric information and the relationship between various projection formats have been utilized. The proposed scheme consists of '1st stitching', 'extraction of wide angle picture from VR data', 'stabilization', and '2nd stitching'. The simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional algorithms in the viewpoint of image quality for end-user.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.335-341
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• 2018

This study is a study on effective stitching technique for video recorded by using a dual-lens $360^{\circ}$ camera composed of two fisheye lenses. First of all, this study located a problem in the result of stitching by using a bundled program. And the study was carried out, focusing on looking for a stitching technique more efficient and closer to perfect by comparatively analyzing the results of stitching by using Autopano Video Pro and Autopano Giga, professional stitching program. As a result, it was shown that the problems of bundled program were horizontal and vertical distortion, exposure and color mismatch and unsmooth stitching line. And it was possible to solve the problem of the horizontal and vertical by using Automatic Horizon and Verticals Tool of Autopano Video Pro and Autopano Giga, problem of exposure and color by using Levels, Color and Edit Color Anchors and problem of stitching line by using Mask function. Based on this study, it is to be hoped that $360^{\circ}$ VR video content closer to perfect can be produced by efficient stitching technique for video recorded by using dual-lens $360^{\circ}$ camera in the future.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.3-24
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• 2019

Techniques related to 360 VR service have been developed to improve the quality of the stitched image and video, where illumination compensation scheme is one of the important tools. Among the conventional illumination compensation algorithms, Gain-based compensation and Block Gain-based compensation algorithms have shown the outstanding performances in the process of making panorama picture. However, those are ineffective in the 360 VR service, because the disparity between illuminations of the multiple pictures in 360 VR is much more than that in making the panorama picture. In addition, the number of the pictures to be stitched in 360 VR system is more than that in the conventional panorama image system. Thus, we propose a preprocessing tool to enhance the illumination compensation algorithm so that the method reduces the degradation in the stitched picture of 360 VR systems. The proposed algorithm consists of 'color compensation' and 'illumination compensation'. The simulation results show that the proposed technique improve the conventional techniques without additional complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.974-982
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• 2019

Real-time 360 VR (Virtual Reality) stereo image acquisition technique based on game engine was proposed. However, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) resource is not fully utilized due to bottlenecks. In this paper, we propose an improved GPU scheduling technique to solve the bottleneck of the existing technique and measure the performance of the proposed technique using the sample games of the commercial game engine. As a result, proposed technique showed an improvement of performance up to 70% and usage of GPU resources more evenly compared existing technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.51-52
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• 2016

최근 360 및 VR(Virtual Reality) 영상의 구성 및 전송을 위해 Facebook이 기존 메르카토르도법을 사용하는 것 대신 "Transform"의 방법을 제시하여 큐브 및 피라미드 형태로의 이미지 전송하는 방식을 발표했다. 본 논문은 이 변형기법을 기반으로, 6개의 카메라로 360VR영상을 촬영할 경우 "Transform"이 가지는 큐브 형태를 이용 기존보다 효과적이고 가벼워 실시간 스트리밍에 적합한 360VR이미지 변형법을 제안한다.