• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.219-228
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new method of converting 2D video into 3D stereoscopic video, called stereoscopic conversion. In general, stereoscopic images are produced using the motion informations. However unreliable motion informations obtained especially from block-based motion estimation cause the wrong generation of stereoscopic images. To solve for this problem, we propose a stereoscopic conversion method based upon the utilization of key frame that has the better accuracy of estimated motion informations. As well, as generation scheme of stereoscopic images associated with the motion type of each key frame is proposed. For the performance evaluation of our proposed method, we apply it to five test images and measure the accuracy of key frame-based stereoscopic conversion. Experimental results show that our proposed method has the accuracy more than about 90 percent in terms of the detection ratio of key frames.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.3146-3158
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• 2014

Efficient depth map coding is very crucial to the multi-view plus depth (MVD) format of 3-D video representation, as the quality of the synthesized virtual views highly depends on the accuracy of the depth map. Depth map contains smooth area within an object but distinct boundary, and these boundary areas affect the visual quality of synthesized views significantly. In this paper, we characterize the depth map by an auto-covariance analysis to show the locally anisotropic features of depth map. According to the characterization analysis, we propose an efficient depth map coding scheme, in which the directional discrete cosine transforms (DDCT) is adopted to substitute the conventional 2-D DCT to preserve the boundary information and thereby increase the quality of synthesized view. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance than that of conventional DCT with respect to the bitrate savings and rendering quality.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.247-256
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• 2005

One of the classic research problems in computer vision is that of stereo, i.e., the reconstruction of three dimensional shape from two or more images. This paper deals with the problem of extracting depth information of non-rigid dynamic 3D scenes from general 2D video sequences taken by monocular camera, such as movies, documentaries, and dramas. Depth of the blocks are extracted from the resultant block motions throughout following two steps: (i) calculation of global parameters concerned with camera translations and focal length using the locations of blocks and their motions, (ii) calculation of each block depth relative to average image depth using the global parameters and the location of the block and its motion, Both singular and non-singular cases are experimented with various video sequences. The resultant relative depths and ego-motion object shapes are virtually identical to human vision.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.123-124
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• 2010

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12A
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• pp.1024-1033
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• 2011

Stereoscopic video for 3DTV service is emerging as a main content of the Post-HD age in the multimedia industry, and also it starts a ripple effect to build infrastructure for 3DTV service throughout the related industries such as creating contents, consumer electronics and the broadcasting. Thus, "Technical Specification of Stereoscopic Video over MPEG-2 TS for 3DTV Service" for providing a standard for 3DTV broadcasting transmitter and receiver interface is under development by the 3DTV WG8061 in ITA, Korea. This paper provides verification of the functionalities, problems and future work of the above specification with designed test-bed. Through making a test bed, this paper try to verify not only the functionality of standard but also backward compatible for the present technology and abstract problems to would be reviewed and supplemented.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.896-899
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• 2002

In this paper, we present the experimentation and demonstration results of Korea-Japan high-speed satellite ATM network using Ka-band Koreasat-3. This experimentation consists of two items - TCP/IP and MPEG-2 video/audio transmission over 155Mbps ATM based satellite network. The goals of this experimentation are to measure TCP performance when the only standard mechanisms approved by IETF in order to improve TCP performance in LFN(long fat network) are used and to derive the effects of quality for the high definition video stream when MPEG-2 TS is transmitted through 155Mbps satellite ATM link. With on the results of the experiments, we demonstrated the applications suitable to the high-speed satellite ATM network. The first TCP/IP and MPEG-2 transmission experiments were done at the rate of 155Mbps using Ka-band KOREASAT-3 between Korea and Japan, and its results will be demonstrated with the ATM-based 3D-HDV(3 dimensional High definition video) and HDTV during 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup Soccer Game.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.110-117
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• 2014

This paper reports a depth-adaptive sharpness adjustment algorithm for stereoscopic perception improvement, and presents its field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation results. The first step of the proposed algorithm was to estimate the depth information of an input stereo video on a block basis. Second, the objects in the input video were segmented according to their depths. Third, the sharpness of the foreground objects was enhanced and that of the background was maintained or weakened. This paper proposes a new sharpness enhancement algorithm to suppress visually annoying artifacts, such as jagging and halos. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve stereoscopic perception without intentional depth adjustments. In addition, the hardware architecture of the proposed algorithm was designed and implemented on a general-purpose FPGA board. Real-time processing for full high-definition stereo videos was accomplished using 30,278 look-up tables, 24,553 registers, and 1,794,297 bits of memory at an operating frequency of 200MHz.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.11-16
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• 2001

This paper propose the methods for input systems which can save video inputs from multic in PC environment. For 3-D display the input data from 4 channels are sequentially disp turn with the speed of 4 times faster than one channels. The system consists of 4 cameras, monitor for monitoring the input process. an input processor, and a monitor which can dis data with the speed of 120f㎰. This paper also discusses the operation of the system and st requirements of the system. The circuit of the proposed system is verified using PSpice simulation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.750-761
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• 2011

Currently, 3DTV technologies are being developed as the future services of the HD digital broadcast environment. As one of the various research topics to apply 3DTV technologies to the conventional broadcasting network, methods to configure stereoscopic videos are being studied. In this paper, we proposed a method to broadcast high quality stereoscopic videos based on analysis of a method to add a stereoscopic descriptor to the PMT of MPEG-2 transport streams and a method to transmit stereoscopic videos by the expansion of MPEG-C part 3 which are from precedent studies. The proposed technique maintains compatibility with conventional MPEG-2 transport streams by showing only reference video for models that do not support 3D broadcasting. Therefore, the compatibility between conventional broadcasting and stereoscopic videos should make this method useful when activating 3D services in the communications and broadcasting area

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.337-338
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 안드로이드 운영체제 기반 스마트폰에서 Camera Preview를 이용하여 실시간으로 3D 입체영상을 생성하는 기법을 제안한다. 3D 입체영상은 2D 영상에 깊이감을 부여하여 시청시에 입체감을 느낄 수 있도록 변환한 영상이다. 그러나 모바일 단말기에서는 이러한 3D 입체영상을 생성하더라도 하드웨어의 제약으로 인해 사용자가 만족할만한 성능을 구현하는데 어려움이 있다. 먼저 안드로이드 운영체제에서 카메라를 사용하기 위한 구성 및 방법에 대해서 설명하고, 그에 따른 3D 입체변환 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 방법에서는 단말기의 성능에 맞는 우수한 결과를 생성하기 위한 에지 추출, 깊이맵 생성 방법을 분석하고, 획득한 깊이맵을 기반으로 하여 좌영상과 우영상을 생성한다. 최종적으로 획득한 두 영상을 병합하여 화면에 Display한다.