• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.1124-1134
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• 2016

The tone reservation method is one of the most effective pre-distortion methods for peak-to-average power ratio reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Its direct application to OFDM systems with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) is, however, not effective. In this paper, two novel TR-based methods are proposed, specifically designed for OFDM/OQAM systems by taking into consideration the overlapping nature of OQAM signals. These two methods have different approaches to the generation of the peak-cancelling signal. The first one (overlapped scaling tone reservation) generates the peak-cancelling signal using a least squares approximation algorithm with possible adjacent symbol overlap; the second one (multi-kernel tone reservation) generates the peak-cancelling signal by using multiple impulse-like time domain kernels. It is shown by simulation that, when used in OFDM/OQAM systems, the proposed methods can provide better performance than the direct application of the existing controlled clipping tone reservation method, and even outperform the multi-block tone reservation method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.268-271
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 고해상도 비디오를 위한 프레임 레이트 변환 방법을 제시한다. 서로 다른 방식이나 포맷을 가진 영상 신호를 변환할 때에는 시각적으로 거슬리는 움직임 지터(motion jitter)나 영상의 모서리에서의 블러링(blurring) 현상이 일어날 수 있다. 제시하는 방법에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 양방향 움직임 추정/보상을 이용하여 프레임 레이트를 증가 변환한다. 또한 보다 정확한 움직임 벡터를 찾기 위해 다중 프레임을 통한 양방향 탐색 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 픽셀 값을 알고 있는 현재 프레임과 이전 프레임간의 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 양방향 움직임 벡터를 얻는다. 얻은 움직임 벡터는 벡터 스무딩 블록을 거친다. 그 후 OBMC(Overlapped Block Motion Compensation)를 이용하여 보간 프레임을 구성한다. 실험 결과는 기존 방법들보다 제안 방법이 주관적 화질 면에서 우수함을 나타낸다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.111-113
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• 2004

Histogram Equalization is the most popular algorithm for contrast enhancement due to its effectiveness and simplicity. In this paper, We propose the advanced contrast enhancement method using genetic algorithm. We propose a novel objective criterion for enhancement, and attempt finding the best image according to the respective criterion. Due to the high complexity of the enhancement criterion proposed, we employ a Genetic Algorithm. We compared our method with other enhancement techniques, like Global Histogram Equalization and Partially Overlapped Sub-Block Histogram Equalization(POSHE).

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.1447-1453
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a method for no-reference quality assessment of sports videos using 3D shearlet transform and deep residual neural networks. In the proposed method, 3D shearlet transform-based spatiotemporal features are extracted from the overlapped video blocks and applied to logistic regression concatenated with a deep residual neural network based on a conditional video block-wise constraint to learn the spatiotemporal correlation and predict the quality score. Our evaluation reveals that the proposed method predicts the video quality with higher accuracy than the conventional no-reference video quality assessment methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.155-157
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• 2020

본 논문은 딥러닝 기반의 중첩 블록 단위 이미지 압축 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 이미지를 블록 단위로 나누어 압축을 진행하며, 그 과정에서 생길 수 있는 블록화 현상을 제거하기 위해 블록의 주변부를 압축에 이용한다. 이로 인한 추가적인 부하를 제거하기 위해 복호화에 필요한 부하 영역을 제거한 뒤, 복호화기에서 특징맵들을 병합하여, 제거한 영역에 대해 주변 블록의 정보를 사용하여 복호화를 진행한다. 압축을 진행하고자 하는 이미지의 크기에 따라 급격하게 증가하는 요구 메모리를 이미지의 크기에 상관 없이 고정된 작은 메모리로 이미지 압축을 진행할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 실험 결과로써 4K 이미지를 통해서 복원된 화질과 메모리의 사용량을 측정한 결과, 동일한 화질을 유지함과 동시에, 기존 방법대비 약 500배 적은 메모리 사용량을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9A
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• pp.1401-1410
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a fast block matching algorithm using the lower and upper bound of mean absolute difference (MAD) which is calculated at the search region overlapped with neighbor blocks. At first, we calculate the lower bound of MAD and reduce the search point by using this lower bound. In this method, we can get good prediction error performance close to full search block matching algorithm (FSBMA), but there exists some computational complexity that has to be reduced. Therefore, we further reduce the computational complexity by using pixel subsampling besides the lower and upper bound of MAD. Experimental results show that we can remarkably reduce the computational complexity with good prediction error performance close to FSBMA.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.17-30
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• 2013

Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) induces massive actin filament thickening at the infection front of infected Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. To determine the mechanisms leading to actin remodeling, fluorescent protein fusions of the BSMV triple gene block (TGB) proteins were coexpressed in cells with the actin marker DsRed: Talin. TGB ectopic expression experiments revealed that TGB3 is a major elicitor of filament thickening, that TGB2 resulted in formation of intermediate DsRed:Talin filaments, and that TGB1 alone had no obvious effects on actin filament structure. Latrunculin B (LatB) treat-ments retarded BSMV cell-to-cell movement, disrupted actin filament organization, and dramatically decreased the proportion of paired TGB3 foci appearing at the cell wall (CW). BSMV infection of transgenic plants tagged with GFP-KDEL exhibited membrane proliferation and vesicle formation that were especially evident around the nucleus. Similar membrane proliferation occurred in plants expressing TGB2 and/or TGB3, and DsRed: Talin fluorescence in these plants colocalized with the ER vesicles. TGB3 also associated with the Golgi apparatus and overlapped with cortical vesicles appearing at the cell periphery. Brefeldin A treatments disrupted Golgi and also altered vesicles at the CW, but failed to interfere with TGB CW localization. Our results indicate that actin cytoskeleton interactions are important in BSMV cell-to-cell movement and for CW localization of TGB3.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.117-126
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm which can relocate the datablock of an aircraft when it is overlapped. If the datablock which represents the aircraft information in the control display is overlapped, relocation without overlapping is necessary because it is difficult to control the air traffic in this situation. The proposed algorithm relocates the data block with minimum movement by considering the characteristics of datablock. The moving distance of minimum movement is calculated using the height or width of rectangle which is created during overlapping. And the moving direction of minimum movement is calculated by considering the directivity of the datablock. When the distance between the target symbol and datablock is distant enough, the relocation is carried out using the existing algorithm as a special case. The proposed algorithm shows improved performance in comparison with the existing algorithm due to the fact that it considers many different cases of the datablock.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.329-341
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• 2012

Magai Wareiishi Jizo (Buddhist statue carved on rock surface) is close to shoreline and a part of rock block is periodically immersed by seawater. Rock material of the Wareiishi-jizo statue is composed mainly of medium or coarse-grained biotite granite and very durable. However, physical properties of the rock have been changed according to the complex interactions of the salt solution and surrounding environment. Exfoliation of the rock surface is a serious condition by salt crystallization. Exfoliation (14.6%) is concentrated on the upper part of the rock block with mainly boundary of seawater as the center. On the other hand, lower part of the rock block show black layers by contaminants deposition. In addition, brown discoloration and biological contaminants is overlapped. Rock surface show high discoloration rate of 50.5% (black discoloration, 29.2% > yellow discoloration, 14.1% > brown discoloration, 4.4% > green discoloration, 2.9%). Upper part of the rock block had a lot of change in the physical properties than lower part that is immersed by seawater. In particular, surface properties of the rock block was very weak state at the boundary surface of seawater permeation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.135-142
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• 2009

Since hold-type display systems have been developed, frame-rate up conversion (FRUC) is an essential technique to improve the temporal resolution in the display. FRUC improves the temporal resolution by interpolating one or multiple intermediate frames between two adjacent frames. In this paper, a new frame-rate up-conversion algorithm based on bilateral motion refinement with rotation is proposed. First, we perform bi-directional motion estimation between adjacent two frames to obtain a motion vector for each block. Then, we apply a modified median filtering to motion vectors for outlier-rejection and motion field smoothing. The filtered motion vectors are updated by the bilateral motion refinement with rotation. After the refined motion vector is obtained, the intermediate frame is generated by applying the overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC). Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides a better performance than the previous methods subjectively and objectively.