• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.2530-2538
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• 2015

The pixel value of depth image is depth value so that different objects which are placed on nearby position have similar pixel value. Moreover, the pixels of depth image have distinct pixel values compared to adjacent pixels while those of color image has very similar values. Accordingly distorted depth image of multiview video plus depth (MVD) needs proper error concealment methods considering the characteristics of depth image when transmission errors are happened. In this paper, classifying regions of depth image to consider edge directions and then applying adaptive error concealment methods to each region are proposed. Recovered depth images utilize with multiview video data to synthesize intermediate-view point video. The synthesized view is evaluated by objective quality metrics to demonstrate proposed method performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.31-33
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• 2012

MPEG 3DV 그룹에서는 재생되는 시점 수 보다 적은 시점의 다시점 비디오와 그에 대응하는 깊이영상 및 관련 파라미터를 하나의 비트스트림으로 부호화하는 다시점 및 깊이영상 부호화(MVD: Multiview Video plus Depth) 표준화가 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문은 3DV MVD 비트스트림 포맷을 MPEG-2 TS 로 다중화하기 위한 TS 다중화 확장기법을 제안한다. 또한, MVD 재현 시나리오에 따른 효율적인 TS 전송 구조를 제시하고, TS 다중화 SW 툴의 설계 및 구현을 통하여 그 장단점을 고찰한다. 제안된 기법은 프로그램 및 ES 에 대한 정보를 함께 다중화하여 MVD 의 다양한 재현 시나리오 적응 및 효율적인 복호화 및 가상시점 합성을 지원할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.270-272
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• 2011

다시점 비디오는 사용자들에게 자유로운 시점 선택 및 넓은 시점에서의 입체감을 제공하지만, 시점의 증가에 따른 데이터 량의 증가가 불가피하다. 이에 따라 최근 MPEG 에서는 재생되는 시점 수 보다 적은 수의 다시점 비디오와 그에 대응하는 깊이 영상 및 관련 파라미터를 메타데이터 형태로 제공하는 다시점 및 깊이 영상 부호화(MVD: Multiview plus Depth)에 대한 표준화를 진행하고 있다. 본 논문은 MVD 가 방송망에서 서비스되는 시나리오를 가정하여 다시점 비디오와 그에 대응하는 깊이 영상을 MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream)로 전송하기 위한 기법을 제시한다. 제안한 기법은 기존의 단일 영상 및 깊이 영상을 전송하기 위한 부가비디오스트림 서술자(Auxiliary Video Stream Descriptor) 및 MPEG-C Part 3 표준을 확장하여 다시점 비디오와 그에 대응하는 깊이 영상간의 매핑 정보 및 각 시점의 깊이 파라미터를 제공할 수 있다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.620-624
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• 2009

In this paper, we present a new camera system combining a high-quality 3-D scanner and hybrid camera system to generate a multiview video-plus-depth. In order to get the 3-D video using the hybrid camera system and 3-D scanner, we first obtain depth information for background region from the 3-D scanner. Then, we get the depth map for foreground area from the hybrid camera system. Initial depths of each view image are estimated by performing 3-D warping with the depth information. Thereafter, multiview depth estimation using the initial depths is carried out to get each view initial disparity map. We correct the initial disparity map using a belief propagation algorithm so that we can generate the high-quality multiview disparity map. Finally, we refine depths of the foreground boundary using extracted edge information. Experimental results show that the proposed depth maps generation method produces a 3-D video with more accurate multiview depths and supports more natural 3-D views than the previous works.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.51-53
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• 2022

고정된 위치를 중심으로 회전운동만 체험할 수 있는 3 자유도(DoF: Degrees of Freedom)를 넘어 위치를 변경하며 운동시차까지 포함된 6 자유도를 지원하는 몰입형 미디어에 대한 연구가 지속해서 진행되고 있다. 특히 부드러운 시점 변경을 제공하기 위해 특정 위치에서 샘플링 된 여러 개의 텍스쳐(또는 컬러) 및 깊이맵 영상(MVD: Multiview Video plus Depth)으로 구성된 다시점 영상을 통해 실제로 획득되지 않은 위치에서의 영상을 만들어내는 가상시점 합성(virtual view synthesis) 기술이 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 몰입형 미디어의 대표적인 데이터 형식인 다시점 영상을 실사 및 컴퓨터 그래픽스(CG: Computer Graphics) 환경에서 획득하는 방법에 관해 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.452-454
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• 2015

This paper provides the coding performance comparisons of depth map resolution in 3D video system. In multiview plus depth map system, depth map is used for synthesis view rendering, and affects to synthesis views quality. In the paper, we show the experimental results as depth map resolution in 3D video system, and show performance variation as dilation filter.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.224-241
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• 2015

Multiview plus depth (MVD) videos are widely used in free-viewpoint TV systems. The best-known technique to determine depth information is based on stereo vision. In this paper, we propose a novel local stereo matching algorithm which is radiometric invariant. The key idea is to use a combined matching cost of intensity and gradient based similarity measure. In addition, we realize an adaptive cost aggregation scheme by constructing an adaptive support window for each pixel, which can solve the boundary and low texture problems. In the disparity refinement process, we propose a four-step post-processing technique to handle outliers and occlusions. Moreover, we conduct stereo reconstruction tests to verify the performance of the algorithm more intuitively. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and robust against local radiometric distortion. It has an average error of 5.93% on the Middlebury benchmark and is compatible to the state-of-art local methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.878-888
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• 2016

This paper proposes an efficient method to remove the boundary artifacts of rendered views caused by damaged depth maps in the 3D video system. First, characteristics of boundary artifacts with the compression noise in depth maps are carefully studied. Then, the artifacts suppression method is proposed by the iterative projection onto convex sets (POCS) algorithm with setting the convex set in pixel and frequency domain. The proposed method is applied to both texture and depth maps separately during view rendering. The simulation results show the boundary artifacts are greatly reduced with improving the quality of synthesized views.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.375-384
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• 2016

In this paper, when stereo image, satellite view and corresponding depth maps were used as the input data, we propose a new method that convert these data to data format suitable for compressing, and then by using these format, intermediate view is synthesized. In the transmitter depth maps are merged to a global depth map and satellite view are converted to residual image corresponding hole region as out of frame area and occlusion region. And these images subsampled to reduce a mount of data and stereo image of main view are encoded by HEVC codec and transmitted. In the receiver intermediate views between stereo image and between stereo image and bit-rate are synthesized using decoded global depth map, residual images and stereo image. Through experiments, we confirm good quality of intermediate views synthesized by proposed format subjectively and objectively in comparison to intermediate views synthesized by MVD format versus total bit-rate.