• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.464-473
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• 2001

Since DCT algorithm divides an image into blocks uniformly in both the spatial domain and the frequency domain, it has a weak point that it can not reflect HVS(Human Visual System) efficiently To avoid this problem, we propose a new algorithm, which combines only the merits of DCT and wavelet transform. The proposed algorithm uses the high compaction efficiency of DCT, and applies wavelet transform mode to DCT coefficients, so that the algorithm can utilize interband and intraband correlations of wavelet simultaneously After that, the proposed algorithm quantizes each coefficient based on the characteristic of each coefficient's band. In terms of coding method, the quantized coefficients of important DCT coefficients have symmetrical distribution, the bigger that value Is, the smaller occurrence probability is. Using the characteristic, we propose a new still image coding algorithm of symmetric and bidirectional tree structure with simple algorithm and fast decoding time. Comparing the proposed method with JPEG, the proposed method yields better image quality both objectively and subjectively at the same bit rate.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.39-47
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• 2000

Among the compression methods of moving picture information, a motion estimation method is used to remove time-repeating. The Block Matching Algorithm in motion estimation methods is the commonest one. In recent days, it is required the more advanced high quality in many image processing fields, for example HDTV, etc. Therefore, we have to accomplish not by means of Partial Search Algorithm, but by means of Full Search Algorithm in Block Matching Algorithm. In this paper, it is suggested a structure that reduce total calculation quantity and size, because the structure using Bit Plane select and use only 3bit of 8bit luminance signal.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.249-255
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• 2006

Purpose: The diagnostic utility of fluorine-18 2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomograhpy ($^{18}F-FDG $PET) for the non-invasive differentiation of focal lung lesions originated from cancer or inflammation disease by combined visual image interpretation and semi-quantitative uptake value analysis has been documented. In general, Standardized Uptake Value(SUV) is used to diagnose lung disease. But SUV does not contain dynamic information of lung tissue for the glucose. Therefore, this study was undertaken to hypothesis that analysis of dynamic kinetics of focal lung lesions base on $^{18}F-FDG$ PET may more accurately determine the lung disease. So we compared Time Activity Curve(TAC), Standardized Uptake Value-Dynamic Curve(SUV-DC) graph pattern with Glucose Metabolic Rate(MRGlu) from Patlak analysis. Methods: With lung disease, 17 patients were examined. They were injected with $^{18}F-FDG$ over 30-s into peripheral vein while acquisition of the serial transaxial tomographic images were started. For acquisition protocol, we used twelve 10-s, four 30-s, sixteen 60-s, five 300-s and one 900-s frame for 60 mins. Its images were analyzed by visual interpretation TAC, SUV-DC and a kinetic analysis(Patlak analysis). The latter was based on region of interest(ROIs) which were drawn with the lung disease shape. Each optimized patterns were compared with itself. Results: In TAC patterns, it hard to observe cancer type with inflammation disease in early pool blood area but over the time cancer type slope more remarkably increased than inflammation disease. SUV-DC was similar to TAC pattern. In the result of Patlak analysis, In time activity curve of aorta, even though inflammation disease showed higher blood activity than cancer, at first as time went by, blood activity of inflammation disease became the lowest. However, in time activity curve of tissue, cancer had the highest uptake and inflammation disease was in the middle. Conclusion: Through the examination, TAC and SUV-DC could approached the results that lung cancer type and inflammation disease type has it's own difference shape patterns. Also, it has outstanding differentiation between cancer type and inflammation in Patlak and MRGlu analysis. Through these analysis methods, it will helpful to separation lung disease.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.152-157
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• 2014

Digital still camera generally uses optical low-pass filter(OLPF) to enhance its image quality because it removes high spatial frequencies causing aliasing. However, the use of OLPF causes some loss of detail. On the other hand, when image are captured by using no OLPF, the moir$\acute{e}$ is generally existed in high spatial frequency region of an image. Therefore, in this paper, moir$\acute{e}$ reduction method in case of using no OLPF is suggested. To detect the moir$\acute{e}$, spatial frequency response(SFR) of camera was firstly analyzed by using ISO 12233 resolution chart. Then, moir$\acute{e}$ region is detected by using the patterns that are related to the SFR of camera. next, this region is analysed in the frequency domain. Then, the moir$\acute{e}$ is reduced by removing its frequency component, which represents inflection point between high frequency and DC components. Through the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed method can achieve moir$\acute{e}$ reduction with preserving the detail.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.138-148
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• 2001

Digital Video (DV) coding standards for digital video cassette recorder are based mainly on DCT and variable length coding. DV has low hardware complexity but high compressed bit rate of about 26 Mb/s. Thus, it is necessary to encode video with low complex video coding at the studios and then transcode compressed video into MPEG-2 for video-on-demand system. Because these coding methods exploit DCT, transcoding in the DCT domain can reduce computational complexity by excluding duplicated procedures. In transcoding DV into MPEC-2 intra coding, multiplying matrix by transformed data is used for 4:1:1-to-4:2:2 chroma format conversion and the conversion from 2-4-8 to 8-8 DCT mode, and therefore enables parallel processing. Variance of sub block for MPEG-2 rate control is computed completely in the DCT domain. These are verified through experiments. We estimate motion hierarchically using DCT coefficients for transcoding into MPEG-2 inter coding. First, we estimate motion of a macro block (MB) only with 4 DC values of 4 sub blocks and then estimate motion with 16-point MB using IDCT of 2$\times$2 low frequencies in each sub block, and finish estimation at a sub pixel as the fifth step. ME with overlapped search range shows better PSNR performance than ME without overlapping.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.381-388
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• 2015

In this paper, a wireless video streaming system is designed and implemented for TV white space applications. It consists of a RF transceiver module, a digital modem, a camera, and a LCD screen. A VGA resolution video is captured by a camera, modulated by modem, and transmitted by RF transceiver module, and finally displayed at a destination 2.6-inch LCD screen. The RF transceiver is based on direct-conversion architecture. Image leakage is improved by low pass filtering LO, which successfully covers the TVWS. Also, DC offset problem is solved by current steering techniques which control common mode level at DAC output node. The output power of the transmitter and the minimum sensitivity of the receiver is +10 dBm and -82 dBm, respectively. The channel bandwidth is tunable among 6, 7 and 8 MHz according to regulations and standards. Digital modem is realized in Kintex-7 FPGA. Data rate is 9 Mbps based on QPSK and 512ch OFDM. A VGA video is successfully streamed through the air by using the developed TV white-space RF communication module.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.4-7
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• 2010

3D 콘텐츠에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 3D 시청 및 제작에 대한 가이드라인의 필요성도 함께 증가하고 있다. 3D 안정 시청 가이드 라인은 3D 시청으로 인한 시청자의 시각적 불쾌감이나 피로감을 방지하는데 목적을 두고 있으며, 최근 일본의 3DC에서는 과도한 수렴-조절 불일치를 방지하기 위해 양안 시차 $1^{\circ}$를 쾌적 시차 범위로 권고하고 있다. 하지만 이 쾌적 시차는 절대적인 수치가 아니며, 콘텐츠의 특성 및 시청 조건에 따라 변하는 것으로 추정된다. 본 논문에서는 쾌적 시차를 갖는 3D 영상 콘텐츠에서 객체의 모션으로 인해 양안시차가 시공간적으로 변할 때, 야기되는 시각적 불편함의 변화에 대하여 관찰한다. 특히, 깊이 방향 모션 및 수평 방향 모션에서 객체의 속도 변화에 대한 시각적 피로감의 정도를 주관적 평가를 통하여 측정한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.64-65
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• 2014

신재생에너지원의 급속한 보급, 고신뢰 및 고효율 전원망에 대한 고객의 요구, 디지털부하의 급증 등 기술적 사회적 환경의 변화에 따라 직류배전망에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이에 따라 직류배전망의 안전성에 대한 문제도 지속적으로 제기되고 있다. 특히 지락, 단락사고, 절연고장, 낙뢰, 아크, 전식 등으로부터 인체 감전과 기기의 소손, 정지 또는 오동작이 발생될 수 있으며 이로 인해 심각한 문제를 야기될 수 있다. 국제표준 IEC 60364에서는 전기설비에 따른 접지시스템을 TT, TN 및 IT접지의 3가지로 분류하고 있다. TN접지방식은 전원선과 설비외함의 노출 도전부를 보호도체를 사용하여 공통으로 접지하는 계통을 말한다. 따라서, 전원선이 외함에 접촉되거나 인체의 감전에 의한 누전사고가 발생하였을 때 전원선 전체를 통하여 흐르는 전류의 차이를 검출함으로서 사고전류의 검출이 즉각 이루어 질 수 있다. 교류계통에서는 영상전류검출기에 의하여 누설전류의 검출이 가능하지만 직류계통에서는 영상전류검출기를 사용할 수 없으므로 새로운 방식의 누전검출장치의 개발이 요구된다. 또한 감전 사고는 인체의 사고와 설비의 사고 두 가지로 구별되며, 효율적인 전력운영과 안전을 위하여 두가지 사고에 대해 통합적으로 구분 동작이 가능한 누설전류 검출기 개발이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 TN접지계통에서 직류누설전류 검출이 가능한 홀 센서(HCT)를 사용하여 인체 및 설비의 누설전류 패턴에 따라 구분 동작이 가능한 직류용 누설전류 검출기 개발에 관한 연구를 수행하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.9A
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• pp.2355-2364
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• 1998

In conventional fractal decoding procedure, the reconstructed image is obtained by a rpredefined number of iterations starting with an arbitrary initial image. Its convergence speed depends on the selection of the initial image. It should be solved to get high speed convergence. In this paper, we theoretically reveal that conventional method is approximately decomposed into the decoding of the DC and AC components. Based on this fact, we proposed a novel fast fractal decoding algorithm made up of two steps. The averaged-image considered as an optimal initial image is estimated in the first step. In the second step, the reconstructe dimag eis genrated from the output image obtained in the first step. From the simulations, it is shown that the output image of the first step approximately converges to the averaged-image with only 15% calculations for one iteration of conventional method. And the proposed method is faster than various decoding mehtods and evenly equal to conventioanl decoding with the averaged-image. In addition, the proposed method can be applied to the compressed data resulted from the various encoding methods because it does not impose any constraints in the encoding procedure to get high decoding speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.345-345
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• 2007

본 연구는 x선 영상검출기 적용을 위한 $HgI_2$ 필름의 누설전류 특성 향상을 위한 연구로서, $HgI_2$기반의 다양한 물질을 이용하여 다층구조 방식으로 제작된 필름의 누설전류 특성평가 및 제작된 다층구조의 상부전극물질의 변화에 따른 누설전류 특성을 평가하였다. $HgI_2$기반 다층구조의 제작 물질은 Parylene, $PbI_2$, a-Se을 사용하여 시편(parylene/ITO, ITO/$HgI_2/PbI_2$/ITO, ITO/$HgI_2$/a-Se/ITO)을 제작하였으며, 필름 제작공정은 Screen print, PVD공정으로 다층구조 필름을 제작하였다. 또 한, 다층구조로 제작된 필름에 상부 전극물질은 Au, In, ITO를 사용하여 누설전류의 특성을 평가하였다. 측정 장치로 DC Power Supply(556H. EG&G : 50~200V), X 선 발생장치(Toshiba KXO-50N), 차폐체 (Al 및 Cu), Oscilloscope (LeCroy, LC334AM, USA), Electrometer (Keithley, 6517), Ion chamber 2060 (Radical Co.)을 이용하여, 제작된 $HgI_2$기반 다층구조 sample의 누설전류 특성을 실험하였다. 이 결과로 다층구조에 제작된 물질 및 상부전극에 따른 누설전류의 특성을 평가하였다.