• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.421-424
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a window warping method to solve stereo matching problems in projective distortion region. Because the projective distortion region cant t be estimated with fixed-size block matching algorithm, we use the window warping technique in block matching process. The position of a reference window to resample is obtained adaptively according to the degree of reliability in disparity estimated previously. The initial disparity and reliability are obtained by applying a well known hierarchical strategy. The experimental result shows that considerable improvement is obtained in the projective distortion region.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.197-204
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• 2006

Recent advances in information technology have resulted in rapid growth in the mobile communication. With this explosive growth, reliable transmission and error concealment technique become increasingly important to offer high quality multimedia services. In this paper, we propose an improved BMA(Boundary Matching Algorithm) method using gradient vectors to conceal channel errors in inter-frames of H.264 video images. General BMA method computes the sum of pixel differences of adjacent pixels of the candidate block and its neighbouring blocks, assuming that adjacent pixels have almost the same value. In real images, however, there exist some gradients, which means that the pixel values are increasing or decreasing in a specific direction. In this paper, we develop a precise estimation method of errors in candidates blocks using gradient information and try to recover lost blocks with this technique. Experimental results show the improvement of picture quality about $1{\sim}3dB$ compared to existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.288-293
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• 2016

Electronic Image Stabilization(EIS) is widely used as a technique for correcting a shake of an image. The case requiring the EIS function has been increased in high magnification thermal image observation on portable military equipment. Projection Algorithm(PA) for EIS is easy to implement but its performance is sensitive to the projection area. Especially, projection profiles of thermal image have very modest change and are difficult to extract image shifts between frames. In this paper, we proposed algorithm to extract a feature image for the thermal image and compared Block Matching Algorithm(BMA) with PA using our proposed feature image. When using our proposed feature image, BMA was simply implemented using FPGA's internal small memory. And we were able to obtain 30 % PSNR improved results compared to PA.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.927-936
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• 2002

This paper presents the extraction of a feature by motion vector for efficient content-based retrieval for digital video. in this paper, divided by general size block for the current frame by video, using BMA(block matching algorithm) for an estimate by block move based on a time frame. but in case BMA appeared on a different pattern fact of motion in the vector obtain for the BMA. solve in this a problem to application for full search method this method is detected by of on many calculations. I propose an alternative plan in this paper Limit the search region to $\pm$15 and search is a limit integer pixel. a result, in this paper is make an estimate motion vector in more accurately using motion vector in adjoin in blocks. however, refer to the block vector because occurrence synchronism. Such addition information is get hold burden receive to transmit therefore, forecasted that motion feature each block and consider for problems for establish search region. in this paper Algorithm based to an examination Motion Estimation method by for motion Compensation is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.114-117
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 video stream내의 움직이는 객체 정보를 추정하고 동적 GTM(genetic tree-map) 알고리즘을 사용하여 얼굴 영역 검출 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 일반적인 객체 추정 기법은 클러스터(cluster)과정을 통하여 영상 정보를 분할하고 그 중 움직이는 객체 부분을 복원함으로서 추정하였다. 제안하는 기법은 BMA(block matching algorithm)［1］ 알고리즘을 사용하여 video stream 에서 움직이는 객체 정보를 얻고 클러스터 알고리즘으로 PCA(principal component analysis)를 사용한다. PCA 기법은 입력 데이터에 관해 통계적 특성을 이용하여 주성분을 찾는다. 주축과 영역분할 알고리즘을 사용하여 데이터를 분할하고, 분할된 객체 정보를 사용하여 특정 객체만을 추정하는 것이 가능하다. 이렇게 추정된 객체를 얼굴영역의 feature에 대하여 신경망 학습인 동적 GTM 알고리즘을 사용하여 생성된 동적 GTM 맵의 정보에 따라 객체의 얼굴영역만을 추출해 낼 수 있다［2-6］.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.95-98
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 동영상 압축 방식에서 압축 효율을 증가시키는 움직임 벡터 추정 방식의 개선된 방법에 대해 제안한다. 움직임 벡터 추정 방식의 하나인 BMA(block matching algorithm) 중에 가장 좋은 성능을 보이는 FSA(full search algorithm)은 움직임의 정도를 예측하지 않고 모든 블록에 대해 고정적인 탐색 영역이 결정되어 있다. 이는 계산량을 상당히 크게 하는 원인이 된다. 제안된 방식은 블록 사이의 움직임이 유사한 특성을 이용하여 블록 단위의 동적인 탐색 영역을 결정하여 계산량을 효율적으로 줄이면서 FSA와 유사한 특성을 유지하게 된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.861-872
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• 2011

Many fast block-matching algorithms (BMAs) in motion estimation field reduce computational complexity by screening the number of checking points. Although many fast BMAs reduce computations, sometimes they should endure matching errors in comparison with full-search algorithm (FSA). In this paper, a novel fast BMA for constrained one-bit transform (C1BT)-based motion estimation is proposed in order to decrease the calculations of the block distortion measure. Unlike the classical fast BMAs, the proposed algorithm shows a new approach to reduce computations. It utilizes the binomial distribution based on the characteristic of binary plane which is composed of only two elements: 0 and 1. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm keeps its peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) performance very close to the FSA-C1BT while the computation complexity is reduced considerably.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.310-316
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose an adaptive search range decision algorithm for fast motion estimation of video coding. Block matching algorithm for motion vector estimation that improves coding efficiency by reduction of temporal redundancy has trade-off problem between the motion vector accuracy and the complexity. The proposed algorithm playing as a pre-processing of fast motion estimation adaptively determines the motion search range by the local statistics of neighboring motion vectors. resulting in dramatic reduction of the computational cost without the loss of coding efficiency. Experimental results show the capability of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.11A
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• pp.1925-1938
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• 2001

In this paper, a new block-matching algorithm for standard video encoder is presented. The slice competition method is proposed as a new scheme, as opposed to a coarse-to-fine approach. The order of calculating the SAD(Sum of Absolute Difference) to fad the best matching block is changed from a raster order to a dispersed one. Based on this scheme, the increasing SAD curve during its calculation is more linear than that of other curves. Then, the candidates of low probability can be removed in the early stage of calculation. And new MV prediction technique with an adaptive search range scheme also assists the proposed block-matching algorithm. As a result, an average of 13% improvement in computational power is recorded by only the proposed MV prediction technique. Synthetically, the computational power is reduced by 3977∼77% than that of the conventional BMAs. The average MAD is always low in various sequences. The results are also very close to the MAD of the full search block-matching algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.767-774
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• 2002

Conventional research on image restoration has focused on restoring degraded images resulting from image formation, storage and communication, mainly in the signal processing field. Related research on recovering original image information of caption regions includes a method using BMA(block matching algorithm). The method has problem with frequent incorrect matching and propagating the errors by incorrect matching. Moreover, it is impossible to recover the frames between two scene changes when scene changes occur more than twice. In this paper, we propose a method for recovering original images using EBMA(Extended Block Matching Algorithm) and a region compensation method. To use it in original image recovery, the method extracts a priori knowledge such as information about scene changes, camera motion and caption regions. The method decides the direction of recovery using the extracted caption information(the start and end frames of a caption) and scene change information. According to the direction of recovery, the recovery is performed in units of character components using EBMA and the region compensation method. Experimental results show that EBMA results in good recovery regardless of the speed of moving object and complexity of background in video. The region compensation method recovered original images successfully, when there is no information about the original image to refer to.