• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.818-828
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• 2016

This paper proposes a reusable design for the merging process used in three-dimensional High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC), which can significantly reduce the implementation complexity by eliminating duplicated module redundancies. The majority of inter-prediction coding tools used in 3D-HEVC are utilized through a merge mode, whose extended merging process is based on built-in integration to completely wrap around the HEVC merging process. Consequently, the implementation complexity is unavoidably very high. To facilitate easy market implementation, the design of a legacy codec should be reused in an extended codec if possible. The proposed 3D-HEVC merging process is divided into the base merging process of reusing HEVC modules and reprocessing process of refining the existing processes that have been newly introduced or modified for 3D-HEVC. To create a reusable design, the causal and mutual dependencies between the newly added modules for 3D-HEVC and the reused HEVC modules are eliminated, and the ineffective methods are simplified. In an application of the proposed reusable design, the duplicated reimplementation of HEVC modules, which account for 50.7% of the 3D-HEVC merging process, can be eliminated while maintaining the same coding efficiency. The proposed method has been adopted as a normative coding tool in the 3D-HEVC international standard.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.746-754
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• 2008

A 3D stereoscopic image is generated by interdigitating every scene with video editing tools that are rendered by two cameras' views in 3D modeling tools, like Autodesk MAX(R) and Autodesk MAYA(R). However, the depth of object from a static scene and the continuous stereo effect in the view of transformation, are not represented in a natural method. This is because after choosing the settings of arbitrary angle of convergence and the distance between the modeling and those two cameras, the user needs to render the view from both cameras. So, the user needs a process of controlling the camera's interval and rendering repetitively, which takes too much time. Therefore, in this paper, we will propose the 3D stereoscopic image editing system for solving such problems as well as exposing the system's inherent limitations. We can generate the view of two cameras and can confirm the stereo effect in real-time on 3D modeling tools. Then, we can intuitively determine immersion of 3D stereoscopic image in real-time, by using the 3D stereoscopic image preview function.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.520-522
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• 2014

The 3D animation these days is confronted with a situation that should develop new contents fit for those circumstances of media in which new platforms such as smart phones, tablet PCs, and smart TVs, etc. are in a rapid change and establish media strategies. Attempts are made of developing methods to diversify content type coping with new smart media characteristics including smart phones, tablet PCs, and smart TVs, etc., with materials of the same story and character, and developing animation video contents based on new media technology. This study made avatas utilizing iClone, avata 3D production technology and investigated 3D animation production methods through costume editing and motion editing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.248-249
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method for classifying and tracking objects based on information of multiple users obtained using RGB-D cameras. The 3D information and color information acquired through the RGB-D camera are acquired and information about each user is stored. We propose a user classification and location tracking algorithm in the entire image by calculating the similarity between users in the current frame and the previous frame through the information on the location and appearance of each user obtained from the entire image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.616-626
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• 2014

In this paper, we introduce a real-time stereo-to-multiview conversion system using FPGA and GPU. The system is based on two different devices so that it consists of two major blocks. The first block is a disparity estimation block that is implemented on FPGA. In this block, each disparity map of stereoscopic video is estimated by DP(dynamic programming)-based stereo matching. And then the estimated disparity maps are refined by post-processing. The refined disparity map is transferred to the GPU device through USB 3.0 and PCI-express interfaces. Stereoscopic video is also transferred to the GPU device. These data are used to render arbitrary number of virtual views in next block. In the second block, disparity-based view interpolation is performed to generate virtual multi-view video. As a final step, all generated views have to be re-arranged into a single image at full resolution for presenting on the target autostereoscopic 3D display. All these steps of the second block are performed in parallel on the GPU device.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.159-170
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• 2009

It is very important to extract the expression data and capture a face image from a video for online-based 3D face animation. In recently, there are many researches on vision-based approach that captures the expression of an actor in a video and applies them to 3D face model. In this paper, we propose an automatic data extraction system, which extracts and traces a face and expression data from realtime video inputs. The procedures of our system consist of three steps: face detection, face feature extraction, and face tracing. In face detection, we detect skin pixels using YCbCr skin color model and verifies the face area using Haar-based classifier. We use the brightness and color information for extracting the eyes and lips data related facial expression. We extract 10 feature points from eyes and lips area considering FAP defined in MPEG-4. Then, we trace the displacement of the extracted features from continuous frames using color probabilistic distribution model. The experiments showed that our system could trace the expression data to about 8fps.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2012

일반적으로 CG 합성이라 하면 '자연스러운' 것을 잘된 CG영상이라고 한다. 이 때 촬영된 영상이 정지화면 일 수 만은 없다. 카메라가 움직이는 영상에서는 CG합성도 실사카메라 무빙에 맞게 정확한 정합이 되어야 자연스러운 영상이 된다. 이를 위해 합성단계에서 작업할 때 3D 카메라 트래킹 기술이 필요하다. 카메라트래킹은 촬영된 실사영상만으로 카메라의 3차원 이동정보와 광학적 파라미터 등 촬영시의 3차원 공간을 복원하는 과정을 포함하고 있다. 이 과정에서 카메라 트래킹에 대한 오류의 발생으로 실사와 CG의 합성에 대한 생산성에 많은 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 소프트웨어에서 트래킹데이터를 보정하는 방법을 제안한다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.317-321
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• 2013

This paper proposes a detection algorithm for view reversal in a stereoscopic video using a disparity map and motion vector field. We obtain the disparity map of a stereo image was obtained using a specific stereo matching algorithm and classify the image into the foreground and background. Next, the motion vector field of the image on a block basis was produced using a full search algorithm. Finally, the stereo image was considered to be reversed when the foreground moved toward the background and the covered region was in the foreground. The proposed algorithm achieved a good detection rate when the background was covered sufficiently by its moving foreground.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.193-198
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• 2009

Generally a TV broadcast video of ball sports is composed from those of multiple cameras strategically mounted around a stadium under the supervision of a master director. The director decides which camera the current view should be from and how the camera work should be. In this paper, such a decision rule is based on the 3D location of ball which is the result of multi-view tracking. While current TV sports broadcast are accompanied with professional cameramen and expensive equipments, our system requires few video cameras and no cameraman. The resulted videos were stable and informative enough to convey the flow of a match.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.126-128
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• 2021

MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group) 비디오 그룹은 사용자에게 움직임 시차(motion parallax)를 제공하면서 3D 공간 내에서 임의의 위치와 방향의 시점(view)을 렌더링(rendering) 가능하게 하는 6DoF(Degree of Freedom)의 몰입형 비디오 부호화 표준인 MIV(MPEG Immersive Video) 표준화를 진행하고 있다. MIV 표준화 과정에서 참조 SW 인 TMIV(Test Model for Immersive Video)도 함께 개발하고 있으며 점진적으로 부호화 성능을 개선하고 있다. TMIV 는 여러 뷰로 구성된 방대한 크기의 6DoF 비디오를 압축하기 위하여 입력되는 뷰 비디오들 간의 중복성을 제거하고 남은 영역들은 각각 개별적인 패치(patch)로 만든 후 아틀라스에 패킹(packing)하여 부호화되는 화소수를 줄인다. 이때 아틀라스 비디오에 패킹된 패치들의 위치 정보를 메타데이터로 압축 비트열과 함께 전송하게 되며, 본 논문에서는 이러한 패킹 정보를 보다 효율적으로 표현하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 기존 TMIV10.0 에 비해 약 10%의 메타데이터를 감소시키고 종단간 BD-rate 성능을 0.1% 향상시킨다.