• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.752-760
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• 2014

This paper proposes a conditional replenishment algorithm (CRA) to improve the visual quality (where spatial resolutions of the left and right views are mismatched) of a hybrid stereoscopic 3DTV that is based on the ATSC-M/H standard. So as to generate an enhanced view, the CRA is to choose the better substitute among a disparity-compensated view with high quality and a simply interpolated view. The CRA generates a disparity map that includes modes and disparity vectors as additional information. It also employs a quad-tree structure with variable block size by considering the spatial correlation of disparity vectors. In addition, it takes advantage of the disparity map used in a previous frame to keep the amount of additional information as small as possible. The simulation results show that the proposed CRA can successfully improve the peak signal-to-noise ratio of a poor-quality view and consequently have a positive effect on the subjective quality of the resulting 3D view.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2015

조건부대체 알고리즘(CRA: Conditional Replenishment Algorithm)은 좌우 영상의 해상도가 서로 다른 융합형 3DTV 서비스 환경에서 입체영상의 화질을 개선하기 위해 제안된 기법이다. 조건부대체 알고리즘에서는 비용함수를 도입하여 quad-tree 구조를 가지는 가변크기의 처리단위 (PU: Processing Unit)의 최적 모드를 결정하는데, 본 논문에서는 관심 PU 의 모드를 결정하는 단계에서 주변 PU 들의 모드를 함께 고려함으로써 모드가 고립되는 현상을 방지하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법을 통해 기존의 CRA 의 결과로 발생 가능한 특정 PU의 두드러짐 현상을 제거할 수 있기 때문에 합성된 입체 영상의 주관적 화질이 향상된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.521-532
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• 2014

ATSC-M/H based hybrid 3DTV, which is one of the service compatible 3DTV system, has considerable quality gap between the left and right views. And CRA(Conditional Replenishment Algorithm) has been proposed to deal with the issue of resolution mismatch and improve the visual quality. In CRA, the disparity vectors of stereoscopic images are estimated. The disparity compensated left view and simply enlarged right view are compared and conditionally selected for generating the enhanced right view. In order to implement CRA, a fast algorithm is strongly required because the disparity vectors need to be obtained at every layer and the complexity of CRA is quite high. In this paper, we adopted SDSP(Small Diamond Search Pattern) instead of full search and predicted the initial position of search pattern by examining the spatio-temporal correlation of disparity vectors and also suggested the SKIP mode to limit the number of processing units. The computer simulation showed that the proposed fast algorithm could greatly reduce the processing time while minimizing the quality degradation of reconstructed right view.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.15-27
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• 2017

CRA(Conditional Replenishment Algorithm) was proposed to improve the visual quality of SC-MMH(Service Compatible 3DTV using Main and Mobile Hybrid delivery) which is a kind of hybrid 3DTV system and has been standardized by ATSC. In SC-MMH system, reference view and additional view may have different resolutions and/or encoding methods. To reconstruct 3D view, additional view needs to be enlarged as same as reference view. Although the performance of CRA is quite satisfactory, there may exist some blocky artifacts in the enlarged view since it adopts block-shaped processing unit with quad-tree structure. In this paper, we analyze the main causes of blocky artifacts in CRA and show these artifacts can be successfully suppressed by applying the deblocking filter at receiver side.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.50-53
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• 2016

조건부 대체 알고리즘 (CRA: Conditional Replenishment Algorithm)은 융합형 3DTV 서비스에서 부가정보를 전송함으로써 수신기에서의 화질을 개선하는 방법이다. 이 알고리즘은 비용함수를 도입함으로써 가변크기의 처리단위 (PU: Processing Unit) 마다 최적의 모드를 결정하는데, 이 과정에서 시공간적 인접 PU 사이에 모드의 불연속이 발생하는 경우에 블록화 또는 플리커링 현상 등 주관적 화질을 저하시키는 문제가 생길 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 모드를 결정하는 과정에서 시간적으로 연속적인 PU 사이의 상관성을 고려함으로써 플리커링 현상을 방지하는 기법을 제안하고 모의실험을 통해 주관적 화질이 향상됨을 보였다.