• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.10
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• pp.98-103
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• 1997

Given the small bit allocation for motion information in very low bit-rate coding, motion estimation using the block matching algorithm(BMA) fails to maintain an acceptable level of prediction errors. The reson is that the motion model, or spatial transformation, assumed in block matching cannot approximate the motion in the real world precisely with a small number of parameters. In order to overcome the drawback of the conventional block matching algorithm, several triangle-based methods which utilize triangular patches insead of blocks have been proposed. To estimate the motions of image sequences, these methods usually have been based on the combination of optical flow equation, affine transform, and iteration. But the compuataional cost of these methods is expensive. This paper presents a fast motion estimation algorithm using a multiple linear regression model to solve the defects of the BMA and the triange-based methods. After describing the basic 2-D triangle-based method, the details of the proposed multiple linear regression model are presented along with the motion estimation results from one standard video sequence, representative of MPEG-4 class A data. The simulationresuls show that in the proposed method, the average PSNR is improved about 1.24 dB in comparison with the BMA method, and the computational cost is reduced about 25% in comparison with the 2-D triangle-based method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.244-247
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• 2010

현대 사회에서 영상 콘텐츠 (contents)의 사용량이 급증함에 따라 영상압축 기술은 이동통신이나 DMB 등의 시스템에 필수적인 기술이 되었으며 이에 따라 MPEG-x와 H.26x 등 국제적인 표준들이 존재한다. 전역 탐색 알고리듬은 주어진 검색 범위(search range) 내에서 모든 후보들의 변위의 에러 기준에 따라 최솟값을 이용해 위치를 검색하는 알고리듬이다. 그러나 전역 탐색 알고리듬은 각 화소에 대해 엄청난 양의 계산 로드를 가지며 이로 인해 심각한 문제를 발생시키는 단점이 있다. 1비트 변환 (one-bit transform) 을 이용한 고속 움직임 추정 알고리듬은 참조 프레임과 현재 프레임을 1비트, 즉 0 또는 1만 갖는 값으로 변환하는데, 이에는 exclusive-OR 연산을 통해 블록 매칭 에러 (block matching error)를 계산하는 과정과 변환하는 과정이 포함된다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 커널 (kernel)들을 이용한 1비트 변환과 움직임 추정에 대해 다루었으며, 기존에 있었던 1비트 변환에 이용된 커널과는 다른 다양한 커널을 이용한 움직임 추정 결과들을 비교해봄으로써 화질열화를 최소로 하는 커널을 찾는 것에 대해 연구했다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.60-64
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• 2001

The degradation process of silicone rubber was investigated by leakage current monitoring in Inclined-Plane method. DAS (Data Acquisition System) with 12-bit, 8-channel A/D converter was prepared. Average current, cumulative charge, current waveform and the number of peak pulses were measured on-line. And, FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) analysis was performed with stored current waveform. Besides, maximum erosion depth was measured in order to use as the indicator of the degradation process. So, the results of leakage current components and maximum erosion depth measurements were compared to find one or more components which have trends of changing similarly to that of erosion process. The result suggests that the ratio of peak current to r.m.s. current, harmonic contents and the number of peak pulses are well corresponding with the degradation process.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.244-251
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• 2011

We propose a new 2-step phase-shifting digital holographic optical encryption technique and analyze tolerance error for this cipher system. 2-step phase-shifting digital holograms are acquired by moving the PZT mirror with phase step of 0 or ${\pi}$/2 in the reference beam path of the Mach-Zehnder type interferometer. Digital hologram with the encrypted information is Fourier transform hologram and is recorded on CCD camera with 256 gray-level quantized intensities. The decryption performance of binary bit data and image data is analyzed by considering error factors. One of the most important errors is quantization error in detecting the digital hologram intensity on CCD. The more the number of quantization error pixels and the variation of gray-level increase, the more the number of error bits increases for decryption. Computer experiments show the results to be carried out encryption and decryption with the proposed method and the graph to analyze the tolerance of the quantization error in the system.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.2341-2348
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• 2000

The special effects on the compressed :vII'EG domain become one of the interesting problems. In this paper, we developed minimal deCilder to effect in DCT compressed domain, proposed the video effects including wipe, dissolve, and zooming. To increase the expandability and portabilitv, the minimal decoder and the effects arc implemented to filters of COM based DirectShow.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.908-911
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• 2002

Over the past 30 years, many efficient 2D video coding techniques have been presented and developed from many research centers for commercialization. However, direct application of these monocular compression schemes is not optimal for stereo video coding. In this paper, we present a new technique for coding stereo video sequences based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The proposed technique exploits Zerotree Entropy Coding (ZTE) that makes use of the wavelet block concept to achieve low bit rate stereo video coding. The one of two image streams, called main stream, is independently coded by modified MPEG-4 encoder and the other stream, called auxiliary stream, is coded by predicting from its corresponding image, its previous image or its follow image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2013

본 논문에서 적응적 탐색 영역(Adaptive Search Range)을 이용하여 개선한 제한된 1비트 변환 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이 변환은 전역 검색 알고리즘 (Full Search Algorithm)을 사용한다. 그러나 이것은 매우 많은 연산량과 복잡도를 가진다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 각 블록의 탐색범위를 결정하기 위한 움직임 벡터 (Motion Vector)와 함께 제한된 1비트 변환 알고리즘의 제한된 마스크 (Constrained Mask)를 사용한다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 알고리즘은 움직임 예측의 정확도에 대한 성능을 비슷하게 유지하면서 평균적으로 Search Point의 수를 84% 줄일 수 있음을 보여준다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.7A
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• pp.683-694
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• 2002

In this paper, a digital image compression codec using 2D DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform) is designed using the FPGA technology for real time operation The implemented image compression codec using wavelet decomposition consists of a wavelet kernel part for wavelet filtering process, a quantizer/huffman coder for quantization and huffman encoding of wavelet coefficients, a memory controller for interface with external memories, a input interface to process image pixels from A/D converter, a output interface for reconstructing huffman codes, which has irregular bit size, into 32-bit data having regular size data, a memory-kernel buffer to arrage data for real time process, a PCI interface part, and some modules for setting timing between each modules. Since the memory mapping method which converts read process of column-direction into read process of the row-direction is used, the read process in the vertical-direction wavelet decomposition is very efficiently processed. Global operation of wavelet codec is synchronized with the field signal of A/D converter. The global hardware process pipeline operation as the unit of field and each field and each field operation is classified as decomposition levels of wavelet transform. The implemented hardware used FPGA hardware resource of 11119(45%) LAB and 28352(9％) ESB in FPGA device of APEX20KC EP20k600CB652-7 and mapped into one FPGA without additional external logic. Also it can process 33 frames(66 fields) per second, so real-time image compression is possible.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.57-67
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• 2006

Intellectual property rights are gathering strength theses days. Because digital contents are easily reproduced and distributed by advanced computers and networks. Digital watermarking is one of the best solutions for this problem. Generally, frequency-domain watermarking algorithms are preferred since they are more robust than spatial-domain algorithms. However, coefficients in the frequency domain are floating-point numbers. Thus, it is not easy to manipulate those floating-point coefficients and frequency-domain watermarking algorithms have some limitations in their applications. In order to overcome this difficulty, we employ an integer transform in this paper. In addition, our proposed algerian can extract the watermark from both the spatial and frequency domains. We embed the watermark into a specific bit-plane of mid-frequency coefficients. This is equivalent to the differential energy watermarking (DEW) in the spatial domain. Our simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is imperceptible, good for the watermark payload, and robustness against various attacks. Moreover, it is more efficient than any other algorithm working in only one domain.