• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2003

In this paper. an image compression of embedded zerotree structure using multiwavelet filter banks is proposed. Multiwavelet is used DGHM(Donovan, Geronimo, Hardin, and Massopust) scaling functions and wavelet functions of a new method with two channel fillet banks. The important properties of the DGHM multiwavelet are orthogonality and approximation order. The DCHM muitiwavelet using the this paper preserves the approximation order=2 for better energy compaction and perfect reconstruction. Image compression using the preposed DGHM multiwavelet is better PSNR for compression ratio than single Daubechies wavelet(D4), Biorthogoanl wavelet, and GHM(Geronimo, Hardin, and Massopust) multi wavelet.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.23-33
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• 2011

In this paper, the wavelet image coder, that can encode the bit-level information of wavelet coefficients, is proposed. The proposed coder is used the modified EZW algorithm and significant coefficient array that has bit level information of the wavelet coefficients to reduce the memory requirement in coding process. The significant coefficient array is two dimensional data structure that has bit level information of the wavelet coefficients. The proposed algorithm performs the coding of the significance coefficients and coding of bit level information of wavelet coefficients at a time by using the significant coefficient array. Experimental results show a better or similar performance of the proposed method when compared with conventional embedded wavelet coding algorithm. Especially, the proposed algorithm performs stably without image distortion at various bit rates with minimum memory usage by using the significant coefficient array.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.8
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• pp.48-54
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• 1999

A new method for wavelet embedded image coding is presented extending the bases of the Shapiro's algorithm by incorporating edge detection, zerotree scheme, and classified VQ(CVQ). Generally edges in the image are regarded an visually important components and the previous literatures have proved that significant coefficients in wavelet transform domain correspond to the edges in spatial domain. Hence, by identifying the edge elements, the significant coefficient can be easily detected in wavelet domain without investigating descendant coefficients across layer. Hierarchical trees for the significant components are organized, and then CVQ method is applied to these trees. Since the significant information has higher priority in transmission, the simulation shows that our coder provides a superior performance over the conventional method and can be successfully applied to the application areas that require of progressive transmission.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.3B
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• pp.323-331
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• 2001

새로운 변환 방식으로 최근 많이 사용하고 있는 웨이블릿 변환은 영상을 시간(위치정보)와 주파수 공간(주파수 정보)에서 동시에 표현함으로서 다른 변환 방식과는 큰 차이를 보여준다. 이런 웨이블릿 변환의 통계적 특성을 이용한 제로트리 분호화 기법은 영상 전체에서 의미 있는 영상 계수를 선별하여 약속된 우선 순위대로 부호화함으로서 매입 파일(embedded file)을 생성한다. 본 논문에서는 압축율이 큰 경우 제로 트리 부호화 과정 중 불확실 구간에서 발생하는 오차를 측정하여 최적의 오차 코드북을 생성한 후 복원시 참조함으로서 결과의 향상을 보이고자 하였다. 오차 교정은 제로트리 부호화 과정에서 손실되기 쉬운 고주파수 밴드에 적용하여 복원시 영상의 자세한 성분을 살리는데 효과적이었다. JPEG과 DCT기반 영상압축 결과에 비하여 화질에서 더 좋은 성분을 보일 뿐 아니라 고압축 복원시 발생하는 DCT 특유의 블록화 현상도 제거되었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.624-631
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• 2012

For many medical imaging systems, volume datasets are stored as a compressed form, so that the dataset has to be decompressed before it is visualized. Since the decompression process takes quite a long time, we present an acceleration method for medical volume decompression using GPU. Our method supports that both lossy and lossless compression and progressive refinement is possible to satisfy variable user requirements. Moreover, our decompression method is well parallelized for GPU so that the decompression takes a very short time. Finally, we designed that the decompression and volume rendering work in one framework so that the selective decompression is available. As a result, we gained additional improvement in volume decompression.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 1997

In this paper, an interframe coding method for volumetric medical images is proposed. By treating interslice variations as the motion of bones or tissues, we use the motion compensation (MC) technique to predict the current frame from the previous frame. Instead of a block matching algorithm (BMA), which is the most common motion estimation (ME) algorithm in video coding, image warping with biolinear transformation has been suggested to predict complex interslice object variation in medical images. When an object disappears between slices, however, warping prediction has poor performance. In order to overcome this drawback, an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) technique is combined with carping prediction. Motion compensated residual images are then encoded by using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) coder with small modification for consistent quality of reconstructed images. The experimental results show that the interframe coding suing warping prediction provides better performance compared with interframe coding, and the OBMC scheme gives some additional improvement over the warping-only MC method.