• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.10B
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• pp.1963-1970
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• 1999

Researches in draft recommendation H.263 have been made in ITU-T LBC group to broaden its range of useful application and to improve its compression performance. The form of added and revised draft text of H.263 is informally known as “H.263+”. In this paper, we analyzed the characteristics of H.263+ negotiable option modes for four image classes. Based on the analysis results, we proposed the adaptive selection scheme of H.263+ option modes by using a scene change detector for a mixed image class. In case of using the proposed scheme, we obtained the 1.6dB improvement in PSNR compared to the basic mode of H.263, and the 0.4~1.0 dB improvement in PSNR compared to the fixed usage scheme of H.263+ negotiable option modes. In respect to used bits per frame, fewer bits are produced than the basic mode H.263 and the foxed usage scheme of H.263+ option modes.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.6
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• pp.745-752
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• 2002

The purpose of the paper is to enable a format transcoding between a heterogeneous compression format in a real time, and to enhance the compression ratio using characteristics of the compressed frame. In this paper, for the heterogeneous format transcoding, we tried to transcode from MPEG2 having a lower compression ratio to H.263 having a higher compression ratio. After analyzing MPEG 2 bit stream and H.263 bit stream of the same original video, we found that the number of intra coded macro blocks in MPEG 2 data is much higher than the number of the intra coded macro blocks in H.263 data. In the process of P frame generation, a intra coded macro block is generated when a motion estimation value representing the similarity between the previous frame and current frame does not meet a threshold. Especially the intra coded macro block has a great impact on the compression ratio. Hence the paper, we tried to minimize the number of intra coded macro blocks in H.263 data stream which is transcoded from MPEG 2 in a compressed domain. For the purpose, we propose a guided search method for transcoding the INTRA coded block into INTER coded block using the information about motion vectors surrounding the intra macro block in order to minimize the complexity of the motion estimation process. The experimental results show that the transcoding of MPEG 2 into H.263 can be done in a real time successfully.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1168-1175
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• 2001

H.263부호기에서 정지영상 부호화를 위한 부가 부호기법인 Annex I는 기존의 JPEG, MPEG-1, -2와는 달리 부호화하고자 하는 현재 블록의 DCT 계수를 기부호화된 블록의 DCT 계수들을 이용하여 예측부호화 (Differential Pulse Coded Modulation; DPCM)를 행하고, 이를 통한 부호화 이득의 향상을 얻고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이런 H.263 Annex I의 예측기법을 공간영역에서의 의미를 수학적으로 유도한다. 이를 통해서 H.263 Annex I의 예측기법의 비효율성을 지적하고, 영상신호의 특성에 맞게 예측방식을 수정한다. 제안된 DCT 계수 예측 방식과 기존의 H.263 Annex I 방식의 이론적인 예측성능을 평가하고, H.263 부호기에 적용하여 제안방식의 효율성을 검증한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.112-119
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• 1999

TMN5 has been used to evaluate the performance of H.263, the ITU-T/LBC standard of moving picture coding. As DCT is used as transform coding methods in TMN5, blocking effect exists seriously in reconstruction picture at low bit rate. In this pater, DWT is substituted for DCT and adaptive quantizer is designed while the structure of TMN5 is maintained to be excellent in the transplantation of conventional system. It has shown that average PSNR is reduced by 0.35dB in luminance but increased by 2dB in chrominance comparing with that of TMN5. As block effect is reduced in reconstruction picture, the subjective picture quality is better than that of TMN5. Picture drop is, also, reduced because much more frames are transmitted at same bit rate.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.263-270
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• 2009

The effect of photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) degradation for different dyes with the CNT/$TiO_2$ electrode was studied. The prepared electrode was characterized with surface properties, structural crystallinity, elemental identification, and PEC activity. The $N_2$ adsorption data showed that the composites had decreased surface area compared with the pristine CNT. This indicated the blocking of micropores on the surface of CNT, which was further supported by observation via FESEM. XRD patterns of the composites showed that the CNT/$TiO_2$ composite contained a mixing anatase and rutile phase. EDX spectra showed the presence of C, O and Ti peaks for all samples. The decomposition efifciency of the prepared electrode was evaluated by the PEC degradation of three dyes (methylene blue (MB), rhodamine B (RH.B), methyl orange (MO)). The variations of the FT-IR spectra and pH value of dye solutions were measured during the PEC system; it was found that the CNT/$TiO_2$ electrode has better PEC degradation for MB solution than that of RH.B and MO. The proposed degradation mechanism was present.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.538-540
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 적응적인 웨이블릿 변환에 기초한 저속 비트율 비디오 코딩 방법의 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 접근 방법은 양자화된 웨이블릿 계수들이 웨이블릿 서브밴드 구조내에서 중복성을 활용하는 메커니즘에 의해서 전처리 된다면 코딩 절차가 더욱 효과적으로 나타난다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 코딩부분의 최적화 활동에 초점을 맞추어 완전한 중복 블록 움직임 보상된 에어프레임에서 일치를 확보하기 위해 이용하고, 향상된 코사인 윈도우를 적용하였다. 또한 웨이블릿 변환은 각 일치한 움직임 보상된 에러 프레임을 전체적인 에너지 컴팩션에 도달하도록 적용된다. 움직임 벡터의 수평적, 수직적 컴포넌트는 적응적 산술적 코딩을 사용하여 독립적으로 인코드되는 반면에 의미있는 웨이블릿 계수는 적응적 산술 코딩을 사용함에 의해서 비트-플레인 순서로 인코드된다. 제안된 부호기는 28Kbits에서 PSNR이 평균적으로 각각 대략 2.07과 1.38dB에 존재하는 H.263과 ZTE를 초과한다. 전체순서 코딩에 대하여도 3DWCVC 방법은 평균적으로 각각 0.35와 0.71dB을 나타내는 H.263과 ZTE보다 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.440-443
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• 2007

In this paper, microstrip antenna is designed for industrial-scientific-medical(ISM)band of S-Band. We proposed that radiation element of antenna, which is rectangle patch shape. The feeding structure used L-shaped structure. Center frequency and -l0dB bandwidth are investigated by change of length and width in patch plane. And maximum gain, front to back ratio and 3dB beam width is presented by simulation radiation pattern of antenna in frequency ISM Band. The center frequency is 2.45GHz, band width is $2.314{\sim}2.577GHz$ with 263MHz(11%). And the antenna maximum gain is 9.3dBi, 3dB beam width E-plane is $52.5^{\circ}$, H-plane is $64.7^{\circ}$.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 2003

In transmitting compressed video bit-stream over Internet, packet loss causes error propagation in both spatial and temporal domain, which in turn leads to severe degradation in image quality. In this paper, a new approach for the recovery of lost or erroneous Motion Vector(MV)s by classifying the movements of neighboring blocks by their homogeneity is proposed. MVs of neighboring blocks are classified according to the direction of MVs and a representative value for each class is determined to obtain the candidate MV set. By computing the distortion of the candidates, a MV with the minimum distortion is selected. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits better performance in many cases than existing methods.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.112-119
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• 2003

Purpose: Helicobacter pylori infection is thought to be correlated with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) at puberty. The H. pylori feoB gene, a high-affinity ferrous iron transporter, plays a central role in iron acquisition. This study aims to analyze the H. pylori feoB status according to the presence of antral gastritis with or without IDA. Methods: Fourteen H. pylori-positive patients aged from 10~18 years were categorized into subgroups based on the presence or absence of IDA. Eight patients had IDA, and the other six showed normal hematological findings. Genomic DNA was isolated from cultured H. pylori. Five sets of primers were used for PCR amplification of the feoB gene. The feoB region, 1.93 kb, was generated by linking of the PCR products and sequenced. The feoB gene sequences of H. pylori J99 and 26695 were used to compare with the clinical strains. Sequence comparisons of the feoB regions between the IDA (+) and (-) groups were performed. Results: Sequence analysis of the complete coding region of the feoB revealed 16 sites of polymorphism. Among these, 3 polymorphisms-Glu/Thr254Ala, Ile263Val, and Lys511Gln - were indigenous to Korean strains. Although statistically significant differences appear in 4 sites between IDA (+) and (-), the number of specimens are too low to assess the real differences. Conclusion: The 4 polymorphisms in the feoB gene seem to be related with IDA, but it is unclear yet because of small number of study strains. Further studies are required to prove the correlation of IDA and H. pylori infection.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.271-279
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• 2009

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) have developed a new standard that promises to outperform the earlier MPEG-4 and H.263 standards. The new standard is called H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) and is published jointly as MPEG-4 Part 10 and ITU-T Recommendation H.264. In particular, the H.264/AVC intra prediction coding provides nine directional prediction modes for every $4{\times}4$ block in order to reduce spatial redundancies. In this paper, an ABS (Adaptive Bit Skip) mode is proposed. In order to achieve coding efficiency, the proposed method can remove the mode bits to represent the prediction mode by using the similarity of adjacent pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the PSNR gain of about 0.2 dB in R-D curve and reduces the bit rates about 3.6% compared with H.264/AVC.