• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.6-7
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 비대칭적 화질을 갖는 양안식 3DTV 시스템에서 좌우영상간의 화질차이가 크게 발생하는 경우, 열화된 우영상의 화질을 보상하기위한 부가정보로 양안시차 벡터맵을 사용하는데, 이때 넓은 대역폭을 갖는 부가정보를 효율적으로 부호화하여 전송하기위한 방법을 제안한다. 공간적인 중복성을 피하기 위해 쿼드트리 분해방식을 적용하였고, 양안시차 벡터의 시간적 중복성을 고려하여 부호화 효율을 높였다. 제안된 압축 알고리듬인 가변블록 부호화 방안을 적용한 복원영상은 비슷한 전송률을 갖는 고정블록 복원영상에 비해 개선된 PSNR을 가짐을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.164-177
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• 2009

The DIBR(depth image-based rendering) method gives the sense of depth to viewers by using one color image and corresponding depth image. At this time, the qualities of the generated left- and right-image depend on the baseline distance of the virtual cameras corresponding to the view of the generated left- and right-image. In this paper, we present a novel method for enhancing the sense of depth by adjusting baseline distance of virtual cameras. Geometric analysis shows that the sense of depth is better in accordance with the increasing disparity due to the reduction of the image distortion. However, the entailed image degradation is not considered. Experimental results show that there is maximum bound in the disparity increasement due to image degradation and the visual field. Since the image degradation is reduced for increasing that bound, we add a depth map preprocessing. Since the interactive service where the disparity and view position are controlled by viewers can also be provided, the proposed method can be applied to the mobile broadcasting system such as DMB as well as 3DTV system.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.94-106
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• 2002

미국 지상파방송방식 ATSC의 전송방식(8-VSB)과 유럽지상파방송방식 DVB-T의 전송방식(COFDM)에 대한 현장비교시험이 서울을 비롯한 수도권 일원에서 2001년 9월 18일부터 2001년 11월 28일까지 약 3개월에 걸쳐 실시되었다. 이 시험에서는 도심지, 방사선, 원거리, 계층변조, 실내수신, 이동수신 등 6가지 유형에 대해 측정이 수행되었다. 측정결과, 유럽식이 미국식에 비해 모든 측정유형에서 우수한 성능을 보였다. 산악이 많고 도시에 건물이 밀집되어 다중경로간섭의 영향이 큰 한국의 환경에서는 유럽식이 더 적합한 방식임이 이 시험을 통해 입증되었고, 특히 이동수신의 경우 미국식은 거의 수신이 불가능한데 비해 유럽식은 표준화질에서 95%이상, 상당히 높은 고화질에서 70%이상의 수신율을 보여 미래의 새로운 서비스에 대한 적응성에서도 유럽식이 우수한 것으로 평가되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.1405-1412
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• 2015

Recently, Due to the rapid growth of broadcasting communication and video coding technologies, the demands for immersive media contents based on 3D stereoscopic video will increase steadily. And the demands must ultimately provide the contents for users which are in wireless channel such as vehicle, train, and ship. Thus, in this paper, we transmit the 3D stereoscopic video over the maritime Rician channel that direct wave is more dominant than reflective wave. Besides, we present unequel error protection (UEP) by applying hierarchical 4/16-QAM to V+D(Video plus Depth) format which can represent 3D stereoscopic video. We expect our system to provide seamless broadcasting service for users with poor reception condition.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.150-157
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a person tracking based multi-channel audio panning system for multi-view broadcasting services. Multi-view broadcasting is to render the video sequences that are captured from a set of cameras based on different viewpoints, and multi-channel audio panning techniques are necessary for audio rendering in these services. In order to apply such a realistic audio technique to this multi-view broadcasting service, person tracking techniques which are to estimate the position of users are also necessary. For these reasons, proposed methods are composed of two parts. The first part is a person tracking method by using ultrasonic satellites and receiver. We could obtain user's coordinates of high resolution and short duration about 10 mm and 150 ms. The second part is MPEG Surround parameter-based multi-channel audio panning method. It is a method to obtain panned multi-channel audio by controlling the MPEG Surround spatial parameters. A MUSHRA test is conducted to objectively evaluate the perceptual quality and measure localization performance using a dummy head. From the experiments, it is shown that the proposed method provides better perceptual quality and localization performance than the conventional parameter-based audio panning method. In addition, we implement the prototype of person tracking based multi-view broadcasting system by integrating proposed methods with multi-view display system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.428-429
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• 2011

3D 디스플레이 장치는 디스플레이 장치의 시점 수에 따라 다시점 디스플레이 장치 및 스테레오 디스플레이 장치로 구분할 수 있다. 스테레오 디스플레이 장치는 좌우 두 개의 영상을 디스플레이 방식에 따라 영상포맷을 변경하여 디스플레이에 보여지고 다시점 디스플레이는 두 개 이상의 영상 데이터를 포함하는 것으로 구분할 수 있다. 영상의 화질문제로 인하여 최근 3DTV는 스테레오 방식을 사용하고 있으며 대기업에서 양산하고 있는 기술이다. 스테레오 방식에서는 개인용 단말의 경우 사용자의 위치 및 눈의 위치에 따라 깊이감을 달리 보여주는 장치가 개발되고 있어 이에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 이와같은 기술의 흐름에 맞춰 3D 디스플레이 장치를 위한 눈 추적 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 본 논문에는 카메라에서 입력되는 영상에서 얼굴영역을 Haar training 방법을 통하여 추출하였으며 PCA 방법을 통하여 눈 영역을 추출하였다. 알고리즘의 복잡도로 인하여 연산량을 줄이기 위하여 Downsampling 방법을 활용하여 연산량을 약 26% 감소시켰다. 본 연구 결과를 통하여 얼굴 및 눈 추적 알고리즘 구현시 최적화를 위하여 필요한 프로세스를 예측할 수 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.246-251
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• 2014

The recent rise of the three-dimensional television (3DTV) industry has led to a wide exploitation of the dual-lens stereoscopic camera. However, when the zoom-in function is used, it is possible that a camera object is magnified only with a fixed convergence point, thereby leading to visual discomfort. In this paper, we propose several methods based on which a convergence point can be adjusted to prevent visual discomfort during zoom-in for a dual-lens stereoscopic camera. Further, we produce 3D contents by applying the proposed methods to certain cases and at certain distances and conduct a subjective evaluation. On the subjective evaluation, 48 subjects watch the 3D contents created by the proposed methods and score the stages of the visual comfort. The result of the subjective evaluation shows that some of the proposed methods are more efficient than the others. We hope that these proposed high-efficiency methods can be applied to produce a dual-lens stereoscopic camera that allows convenient stereoscopic photography.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2009

In a single frequency network (SFN) for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, the interference due to the use of same frequency among multiple transmitters or repeaters is inevitable for receivers. This problem can be solved by adjusting transmit power and time of each transmitter and repeater. To adjust SFNs, the ATSC recommended practice (RP) introduces a transmitter identification (TxID) signal which is embedded in a signal from each transmitter or repeater. This paper proposes an efficient method to estimate the individual reception power from each transmitter or repeater based on the channel profile of SFN and the total reception power. Moreover, field test results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.255-265
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• 2013

3DTV is expected to be a promising next-generation broadcasting service. On the other hand, the visual discomfort/fatigue problems caused by viewing 3D videos have become an important issue. This paper proposes a perceptual quality assessment metric for a stereoscopic video (SV-PQAM). To model the SV-PQAM, this paper presents the following features: temporal variance, disparity variation in intra-frames, disparity variation in inter-frames and disparity distribution of frame boundary areas, which affect the human perception of depth and visual discomfort for stereoscopic views. The four features were combined into the SV-PQAM, which then becomes a no-reference stereoscopic video quality perception model, as an objective quality assessment metric. The proposed SV-PQAM does not require a depth map but instead uses the disparity information by a simple estimation. The model parameters were estimated based on linear regression from the mean score opinion values obtained from the subjective perception quality assessments. The experimental results showed that the proposed SV-PQAM exhibits high consistency with subjective perception quality assessment results in terms of the Pearson correlation coefficient value of 0.808, and the prediction performance exhibited good consistency with a zero outlier ratio value.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

The depth camera measures range information of the scene in real time using Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology. Measured depth data is then regularized and provided as a depth image. This depth image is utilized with the stereo or multi-view image to generate high-resolution depth map of the scene. However, it is required to correct noise and distortion of TOF depth image due to the technical limitation of the TOF depth camera. The corrected depth image is combined with the color image in various methods, and then we obtain the high-resolution depth of the scene. In this paper, we introduce the principal and various techniques of sensor fusion for high-quality depth generation that uses multiple camera with depth cameras.