• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.215-221
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• 2016

We consider a design of a combined quantizer and estimator for distributed systems wherein each node quantizes its measurement without any communication among the nodes and transmits it to a fusion node for estimation. Noting that the quantization partitions minimizing the estimation error are not independently encoded at nodes, we focus on the parameter regions created by the partitions and propose a cluster-based quantization algorithm that iteratively finds a given number of clusters of parameter regions with each region being closer to the corresponding codeword than to the other codewords. We introduce a new metric to determine the distance between codewords and parameter regions. We also discuss that the fusion node can perform an efficient estimation by finding the intersection of the clusters sent from the nodes. We demonstrate through experiments that the proposed design achieves a significant performance gain with a low complexity as compared to the previous designs.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.215-220
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• 2014

We consider quantization optimized for distributed estimation, where a set of sensors at different sites collect measurements on the parameter of interest, quantize them, and transmit the quantized data to a fusion node, which then estimates the parameter. Here, we propose an iterative quantizer design algorithm with a weighted distance rule that allows us to reduce a system-wide metric such as the estimation error by constructing quantization partitions with their optimal weights. We show that the search for the weights, the most expensive computational step in the algorithm, can be conducted in a sequential manner without deviating from convergence, leading to a significant reduction in design complexity. Our experments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves improved performance over traditional quantizer designs. The benefit of the proposed technique is further illustrated by the experiments providing similar estimation performance with much lower complexity as compared to the recently published novel algorithms.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2013

클라우드 환경은 분산컴퓨팅 분야의 한가지로서, 물리 노드와 가상 노드로 구성이 되어 있다. 분산화 된 클라우드 환경에서의 최적 경로 탐색은 각 노드들이 최적 경로 탐색을 수행하는 것이다. 실시간으로 급변하는 탐색 환경은 빠른 데이터 전송을 통한 각 노드들의 동기화를 요구한다. 따라서 QoS의 보장과 최적 경로 탐색을 위해서 양자화 기법이 필요하다. 양자화 기법을 통해 중앙 서버는 각 노드로 실시간 탐색 환경 데이터를 빠르게 전송가능하며 각 노드들은 원활하게 최적 경로 탐색을 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 중앙 서버에서 각 노드들의 최적 경로 탐색 문제를 해결하기 위해 데이터의 전송량을 줄일 수 있는 양자화를 적용한다. 최적 경로 생성 시스템에 양자화 데이터 전송을 적용하는 실험을 하기 위해 클라우드 환경의 시뮬레이션을 구성하였다. 양자화 기법의 적용을 통해 클라우드 환경에서 전송 되는 총 데이터를 줄이면서 성능을 높일 수 있으며, 최적 경로 탐색을 위한 어플리케이션의 QoS를 보장할 수 있다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 분산 음성 인식 시스템에서 사용되는 멜켑스트럼 계수를 양자화 하기 위하여 예측 구조를 갖는 BC-TCQ 양자화기를 제안하였다. 분산 음성 인식 시스템을 위한 효율적인 멜켑스트럼 계수 양자화기를 설계하기 위하여, 인접 프레임간의 높은 상관도를 이용한 1차 AR 예측 필터를 적용하였다. 그리고 예측 필터에 의해서 구해지는 예측 에러 벡터는 BC-TCQ를 사용하여 양자화를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 제안된 예측 BC-TCQ멜켑스트럼 계수 양자화기는 분산 음성 인식 시스템을 위해 ETSI 규격에서 사용되는 split VQ 멜켑스트럼 계수 양자화 방식보다 cepstral distortion (CD) 측면에서 훨씬 좋은 성능을 보이며, 인코딩 연산 복잡도 및 메모리 요구량에서도 더 유리하다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2018년도 제58차 하계학술대회논문집 26권2호
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• pp.207-208
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 기계학습의 하나인 Learning Vector Quantization 알고리즘을 이용하여 컨트롤러 순서를 정하는 모델을 제안하였다. 제안한 모델은 모든 컨트롤러 정보를 수집하여 Learning Vector Quantization의 LVQ1와 LVQ2 기법을 이용하여 컨트롤러의 순서를 정한다. 이를 통해, 효율적인 컨트롤러 동기화가 이뤄질 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2018

We present a practical design algorithm for quantizers at nodes in distributed systems in which each local measurement is quantized without communication between nodes and transmitted to a fusion node that conducts estimation of the parameter of interest. The benefits of vector quantization (VQ) motivate us to incorporate the VQ strategy into our design and we propose a low-complexity design technique that seeks to assign vector codewords into sets such that each codeword in the sets should be closest to its associated local codeword. In doing so, we introduce new distance metrics to measure the distance between vector codewords and local ones and construct the sets of vector codewords at each node to minimize the average distance, resulting in an efficient and independent encoding of the vector codewords. Through extensive experiments, we show that the proposed algorithm can maintain comparable performance with a substantially reduced design complexity.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권12호
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• pp.1043-1053
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• 2012

In distributed video coding (DVC) systems, the complexity of encoders is greatly reduced by removing the motion estimation operations in encoders, since the correlation between frames is utilized in decoders. The transmission of parity bits is requested through the feedback channel, until the related errors are corrected to decode the Wyner-Ziv frames. The requirement to use the feedback channel limits the application of DVC systems. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to remove the feedback channel in DVC systems. First, a simple side information generation method is proposed to calculate the amount of parity bits in the encoder, and it is shown that the proposed method yields good performance with low complexity. Then, by calibrating the theoretical entropy with three parameters, we can calculate the amount of parity bits in the encoder and remove the feedback channel. Moreover, an adaptive method to determine quantization parameters for key frames is proposed. Extensive computer simulations show that the proposed method yields better performance than conventional methods.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.558-564
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• 2018

In distributed estimation where each node can collect only partial information on the parameter of interest without communication between nodes and quantize it before transmission to a fusion node which conducts estimation of the parameter, we consider a novel quantization technique employed at local nodes. It should be noted that the performance can be greatly improved if each node can transmit its measurement to one designated node (namely, head node) which can quantize its estimate using the total rate available in the system. For this case, the best strategy at the head node would be simply to partition the parameter space using the generalized Lloyd algorithm, producing the global codewords, one of which is closest to the estimate is transmitted to a fusion node. In this paper, we propose an iterative design algorithm that seeks to efficiently assign the codewords into each of quantization partitions at nodes so as to achieve the performance close to that of the system with the head node. We show through extensive experiments that the proposed algorithm offers a performance improvement in rate-distortion perspective as compared with previous novel techniques.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.2067-2070
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• 2002

In this paper, a VLSI architecture for transform and quantization module, which consists of 2D-DCT, quantization, AC/DC prediction block, scan conversion, inverse quantization and 2D-IDCT, is presented. The architecture of the module is designed to handle a macroblock data within 1064 cycles and suitable for MPEG-4 video codec handling CIF image formats. Only single 1-D DCT/IDCT cores are used for the design instead of 2-D DCT/IDCT, respectively. 1-bit serial distributed arithmetic architecture is adopted for 1-D DCT/IDCT to reduce the hardware area in this architecture. As the result, the maximum utilization of hardware can be achieved, and power consumption can be minimized. The proposed design is operated on 27MHz clock. The experimental results show that the accuracy of DCT and IDCT meet the IEEE specification.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 요부 초음파 영상에서 퍼지 C-Means 클러스터링을 이용한 양자화 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 초음파 영상에서 나타난 명암도를 이용하여 n개의 그룹으로 클러스터링한다. 그리고 각클러스터의 중심 값을 기준으로 정렬한 뒤, 각 그룹에 지정된 색상을 요부 초음파 영상에 나타낸다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법과 히스토그램 기반 양자화 기법에 대해 15장의 요부 초음파 영상에 적용한 결과, 본 논문에서 제안된 양자화 방법이 효과적인 것을 확인할 수 있었다.