• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.191-194
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• 2012

The split flag and the skip flag in CU syntax have high correlation on spatial domain as well as temporal domain. This paper suggests a method for enhancing coding efficiency by using not only spatial correlation but also temporal correlation when coding CU information. In the CABAC case, temporal collocated CU information is used for selecting context model of the split flag and the skip flag. In the CAVLC case, current CU information is estimated from temporal collocated CU information then encoded. As a result, a coding efficiency was increased by 0.1%~0.6% in CABAC, 0.1%~0.4% in CAVLC compared with HM 3.0. This method shows better performance on lowdelay condition which uses reference frame close to current frame.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.387-394
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• 2019

In this study, a new method of audio high-band coding based on autoencoder with side information is proposed. The proposed method operates in the MDCT domain, and improves the performance by using additional side information consisting of the previous and current low bands, which is different from the conventional autoencoder that only inputs information to be encoded. Moreover, the side information in a time-frequency domain enables the high-band coder to utilize temporal characteristics of the signal. In the proposed method, the encoder transmits a 4-dimensional latent vector computed by the autoencoder and a gain variable using 12 bits for each frame. The decoder reconstructs the high band by applying the decoded low bands in the previous and current frames and the transmitted information to the autoencoder. Subjective evaluation confirms that the proposed method provides equivalent performance to the SBR at approximately half the bit rate of the SBR.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.100-108
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• 2023

In hybrid block-based video coding, transform coding converts spatial domain residual signals into frequency domain data and concentrates energy in a low frequency band to achieve a high compression efficiency in entropy coding. The state-of-the-art video coding standard, VVC(Versatile Video Coding), uses DCT-2(Discrete Cosine Transform type 2), DST-7(Discrete Sine Transform type 7), and DCT-8(Discrete Cosine Transform type 8) for primary transform. In this paper, considering that DCT-2, DST-7, and DCT-8 are all linear transformations, we propose an inverse transform that reduces the number of multiplications in the inverse transform by using the linearity of the linear transform. The proposed inverse transform method reduced encoding time and decoding time by an average 26%, 15% in AI and 4%, 10% in RA without the increase of bitrate compared to VTM-8.2.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.187-190
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• 2022

본 논문은 메타버스 등 인공지능 연계 증강/가상현실 부동 중계 플랫폼에서 부동산 영상 기반 매물 소개 시스템 구축에서 사생활 및 개인정보가 영상에 담기게 될 수 있는 위험이 존재하기에 부동산 영상 내의 개인정보 및 민감 정보를 인공지능 기술을 기반으로 검출하여 삭제해주고 복원해주는 인공지능 기술 연구개발을 목표로 하였다. 한국형 부동산 내 민감 object 를 정의하고, 최신 인공지능 딥러닝 기술 기반 민감 object detection 알고리즘을 연구 개발하며, 영상에서 삭제된 부분은 인공지능 기술을 기반으로 물체가 없는 실제 공간영상으로 복원해주는 영상복원 기술도 연구 개발하였다. 한국형 부동산 환경 (영상 촬영 조도, 디스플레이 스타일, 주변 가구 배치 등)에 맞는 인공지능 모델 구축을 위하여, 자체적으로 한국 영상 database 구축 및 Transfer learning for target domain adaptation 을 진행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 일반적인 환경에서 98%의 정확도와 challenge 환경에서 (occlusion 빛 반사, 저조도 등) 81%의 정확도를 보였다. 본 기술은 Proptech 분야에서 주목받고 있는 메타버스 기반 온라인 중계 서비스 기술을 활성화하기 위하여 기획되었으며, 특히 메타버스 부동산 중계 플랫폼의 활성화를 위하여 사생활 보호 측면에서 필요한 중요 기술을 인공지능 기술을 활용하여 연구 개발하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.433-439
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• 2016

Several low-cost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers do not support general range-domain correction, and DGNSS-CP (differential GNSS) method had been suggested to solve this problem. It improves its position accuracy by projecting range-domain corrections to the position-domain and then differentiating the stand-alone position by the projected correction. To project the range-domain correction, line-of-sight vectors from the receiver to each satellite should be calculated. The line-of-sight vectors can be obtained from GNSS broadcast ephemeris data or satellite direction information, and this paper shows positioning performance for the two methods. Stand-alone positioning result provided from Septentrio PolaRx4 Pro receiver was used to show the difference. The satellite direction information can reduce the computing load for the DGNSS-CP by 1/15, even though its root mean square(RMS) of position error is bigger than that of ephemeris data by 0.1m.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.194-205
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• 1997

In video compression standards such as MPEG and H.263. rate control is one of the key components for good coding performance. This paper presents a simple adaptive rate control scheme using a piecewise linear approximation model. While conventional buffer control approach is performed by adjusting the quantization parameter linearly according to the buffer fullness. the proposed approach uses a piecewise linear approximation model derived from logarithmic relation between the quantization parameter and bitrate in data compression. In addition. a forward analyzer performed in the spatial domain is used to improve image quality. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method provides better performance than the conventional one and reduces the fluctuation of the PSNR per frame while maintaining the quality of the reconstructed frames at a relatively stable level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2010

본 논문은 차세데 3D-TV 방송을 위해 수정된 ATSC (Modified Advanced Television Systems Committee) 시스템 [1]에서 파일럿 (Pilot)을 이용한 채널 추정 대신, PN 시퀀스 (Pseudo-Noise Sequence)를 이용한 채널 추정 방식의 문제점에 대하여 2가지 방법으로 연구하였다. PN 시퀀스를 이용하여 채널을 추정하는 TDS-OFDM (Time Domain Synchronous - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)시스템은 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 변조 방식을 사용하기 때문에 수신측 PN 시퀀스의 위상 변화가 일어나지 않는다. 하지만 수정된 ATSC 시스템에서 사용하는 VSB (Vestigial Side Band)변조 방식에서 직교위상 (Quadrature) 채널을 통해 전송되는 값은 동위상 (In-Phase) 채널을 통해 전송되는 값의 단순한 힐버트 변환 (Hilbert Transform)에 의해 생성되어 불규칙한 위상 변화가 발생한다. 따라서 수정된 ATSC 시스템에서 채널 추정을 위해 PN 시퀀스를 사용하게 된다면 상관 (Correlation) 특성을 잃어버릴 것이며 올바른 채널 임펄스 응답 (Channel Impulse Response)을 얻을 수 없다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.108-117
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• 1996

In this paper we propose a Wavelet- based compression algorithm of HDTV video signals for the purpose of recording HDTV signals in the digital VTR. Comparing to the DCT- based compression method, which only yields unrecognizable DCT coefficients, the low frequency components of Wavelet coefficients maintain recognizable spatial domain information. So, it is more suitable for various VTR operations such as editing and multi-speed mode operations. Also, the adopted Wavelet filter can be Implemented with simple shift operations, which can reduce the computational complexities substantially. The quality of reconstructed HDTV signals with a 4:1 compression ratio turns out to be good enough for the studio use.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.51-59
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• 2016

This paper presents a method of DCT-based illuminant compensation to enhance the accuracy of face recognition under an illuminant change. The basis of the proposed method is that the illuminant is generally located in low-frequency components in the DCT domain. Therefore, the effect of the illuminant can be compensated by controlling the low-frequency components. Moreover, a directional high-order local pattern descriptor is used to detect robust features in the case of face motion. Experiments confirm the performance of the proposed algorithm got up to 95% when tested using a real database.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.233-241
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• 2020

In this paper, a new buffer control method is proposed for improving the performance of the frequency domain part of the 3D audio (3DA) core codec. For the proposed buffer control method, we first combine the 3DA RM9 with the 3GPP AAC buffer control method which includes the psychoacoustic model and rate-distortion control process with the spectral hole avoidance algorithm. Then, we revise the 3GPP buffer control method so as to achieve a faithful bit allocation to the frames with higher activity. With the MUSHRA test, we prove that the proposed buffer control method demonstrates better performance than the 3DA RM9 and 3GPP AAC.