• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2554-2575
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• 2020

Data hiding technology hides secret information into the carrier, so that when the carrier is transmitted over network, it will not attract any malicious attention. Using data compression, it is possible to reduce the data size into a small compressed code, which can effectively reduce the time when transmitting compressed code on the network. In this paper, the main objective is to effectively combine these two technologies. We designed a data hiding scheme based on two techniques which are turtle-shell information hiding scheme and absolute moment block truncation coding. The experimental results showed that the proposed scheme provided higher embedding capacity and better image quality than other hiding schemes which were based on absolute moment block truncation coding.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2009

본 논문은 H.264/AVC 비디오 압축영역에서 비디오 복제 방지기법의 일종인 CBCD(Content Based Copy Detection)에 사용 될 수 있는 비디오 시그너쳐 (Video Signature) 추출 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 비디오 시그너쳐 추출방법은 모두 비디오 공간영 역에서 수행되기 때문에 압축된 비디오 스트립으로부터 시그너쳐를 추출하기 위해서는 비디오를 모두 복호해야 하는 단점을 가지고 있었다. 하지만 제안하는 방법에서는 비디오 압축영역에서 섬네일(Thumbnail)을 빠르게 구성하고 구성된 섬네일을 이용하여 비디오 시그너쳐를 추출하여 이와 같은 단점을 극복하였다. 밝기 순서 정보를 추출하는 실험결과로부터 제안하는 방법은 기존의 방법보다 80.98%의 정확도를 유지하면서 약 2.8배 빠르게 시그너쳐를 추출할 수 있었다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.962-968
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• 2011

기존의 무손실 압축은 일반적으로 채널간의 상관관계를 고려하지 않고 각각의 채널을 따로 압축하였다. 채널 간 상관관계를 이용하는 경우도 있으나 이들은 위성/항공 영상과 같은 경우에 제한된 것으로서 일반적인 이미지에 대해서는 만족할만한 성능을 얻지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 이미지가 갖는 채널 간의 상관관계를 이용하여 무손실 압축의 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 채널 간 상관관계를 표현할 수 있도록 하기 위하여, 비대칭 샘플링을 통해 주어진 영상의 모자이크 이미지를 구성하여 압축을 수행하였고, 압축된 모자이크 이미지의 정보를 이용해서 샘플링되지 않은 나머지 이미지를 예측하여 압축할 정보의 양을 감소시켰다. 제안된 방법은 압축 성능을 평가하는데 일반적으로 사용되는 데이터들에 대해서 채널 간 상관관계를 이용하지 않는 방법에 대해 35%, 채널 간 상관관계를 이용한 기존 방법에 대해 10%의 성능 개선을 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1408-1411
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a method that converts motion vectors on MPEG coded domain as a uniform set, independent of the frame type and the direction of prediction, and directly utilizes these normalized motion vectors for understanding video contents. This frame-type-independent motion vectors are utilized as feature information for image retrieval or moving object tracking on compressed domain. By simulation, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method and compare its performance to the conventional method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.461-484
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• 2021

Compressed sensing in image reconstruction has attracted attention and many studies are proposed. As we know, adding prior knowledge about the distribution of the support on the original signal to CS can improve the quality of reconstruction. However, it is still difficult for a recovery framework adjusts its strategy for exploiting the prior knowledge efficiently according to the current estimated signals in serial iterations. With the theory of information geometry, we propose an adaptive strategy based on the current estimated signal in each iteration of the recovery. We also improve the performance of existing algorithms through the adaptive strategy for exploiting the prior knowledge according to the current estimated signal. Simulations are presented to validate the results. In the end, we also show the application of the model in the image.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1700-1721
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• 2017

The problem of blocking artifacts is very common in block-based image and video compression, especially at very low bit rates. In this paper, we propose a post-processing method for JPEG-coded image deblocking via sparse representation and adaptive residual threshold. This method includes three steps. First, we obtain the dictionary by online dictionary learning and the compressed images. The dictionary is then modified by the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) feature descriptor and K-means cluster. Second, an adaptive residual threshold for orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is proposed and used for sparse coding by combining blind image blocking assessment. At last, to take advantage of human visual system (HVS), the edge regions of the obtained deblocked image can be further modified by the edge regions of the compressed image. The experimental results show that our proposed method can keep the image more texture and edge information while reducing the image blocking artifacts.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2817-2834
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• 2016

The existing reversible data hiding methods for block truncation coding (BTC) compressed images often utilize difference expansion or histogram shifting technique for data embedment. Although these methods effectively embed data into the compressed codes, the embedding operations may swap the numerical order of the higher and lower quantization levels. Since the numerical order of these two quantization levels can be exploited to carry additional data without destroying the quality of decoded image, the existing methods cannot take the advantages of this property to embed data more efficiently. In this paper, we embed data by shifting the higher and lower quantization levels in opposite direction. Because the embedment does not change numerical order of quantization levels, we exploit this property to carry additional data without further reducing the image quality. The proposed method performs no-distortion embedding if the payload is small, and performs reversible data embedding for large payload. The experimental results show that the proposed method offers better embedding performance over prior works in terms of payload and image quality.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2021

This paper deals with accurate image reconstruction of gamma camera using a coded-aperture mask based on pixel-type CsI(Tl) scintillator coupled with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) array. Coded-aperture imaging (CAI) system typically has a smaller effective viewing angle than Compton camera. Thus, if the position of the gamma source to be searched is out of the fully-coded field-of-view (FCFOV) region of the CAI system, artifacts can be generated when the image is reconstructed by using the conventional cross-correlation (CC) method. In this work, we propose an effective method for more accurate reconstruction in CAI considering the source distribution of partially-coded field-of-view (PCFOV) in the reconstruction in attempt to overcome this drawback. We employed an iterative algorithm based on compressed-sensing (CS) and compared the reconstruction quality with that of the CC algorithm. Both algorithms were implemented and performed a systematic Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate the possiblilty of the proposed method. The reconstructed image qualities were quantitatively evaluated in sense of the root mean square error (RMSE) and the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). Our simulation results indicate that the proposed method provides more accurate location information of the simulated gamma source than the CC-based method.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.631-643
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• 2016

Due to the block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT), JPEG compressed images usually exhibit blocking artifacts. When the bit rates are very low, blocking artifacts will seriously affect the image's visual quality. A bilateral filter has the features for edge-preserving when it smooths images, so we propose an adaptive-weighted bilateral filter based on the features. In this paper, an image-deblocking scheme using this kind of adaptive-weighted bilateral filter is proposed to remove and reduce blocking artifacts. Two parameters of the proposed adaptive-weighted bilateral filter are adaptive-weighted so that it can avoid over-blurring unsmooth regions while eliminating blocking artifacts in smooth regions. This is achieved in two aspects: by using local entropy to control the level of filtering of each single pixel point within the image, and by using an improved blind image quality assessment (BIQA) to control the strength of filtering different images whose blocking artifacts are different. It is proved by our experimental results that our proposed image-deblocking scheme provides good performance on eliminating blocking artifacts and can avoid the over-blurring of unsmooth regions.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.264-272
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• 2012

In the field of medical diagnostics, interested parties have resorted increasingly to medical imaging. It is well established that the accuracy and completeness of diagnosis are initially connected with the image quality, but the quality of the image is itself dependent on a number of factors including primarily the processing that an image must undergo to enhance its quality. This paper introduces an algorithm for medical image compression based on the quincunx wavelets coupled with SPIHT coding algorithm, of which we applied the lattice structure to improve the wavelet transform shortcomings. In order to enhance the compression by our algorithm, we have compared the results obtained with those of other methods containing wavelet transforms. For this reason, we evaluated two parameters known for their calculation speed. The first parameter is the PSNR; the second is MSSIM (structural similarity) to measure the quality of compressed image. The results are very satisfactory regarding compression ratio, and the computation time and quality of the compressed image compared to those of traditional methods.