• 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.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.22-33
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• 2005

In this paper. we propose an image registration algorithm based on variable-sized blocks of ellipsoidal prototype model which is similar in shape to human face. While matching blocks, the existing cylindrical prototype model which only takes into account left and right curvature can accomplish a correct alignment on left and right images. But, registration errors are produced from up and down images because the cylindrical prototype model not reflects characteristics of head shape and jaw structure of human. The proposed method is a block matching algorithm which uses variable-sized blocks with considering left-right and up-down curvature of ellipsoidal face model and can correctly align images by using the correlation between them. We then adapt image mosaic technique to generate a face texture from aligned images. For this purpose, we stitch them with assigning linear weights according to the overlapped region and remove ghost effects to make more realistic facial texture.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.651-659
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• 2005

For segmentation of constrained and handwritten Hangul, a new method, which has been not introduced, was proposed and implemented to use virtual network search system in the space between characters. The proposed system was designed to be used in all cases in unconstrained handwritten Hangul by various writers and to make a number of curved segmentation path using a virtual network to the space between characters. The proposed system prevented Process from generating a path in a wrong position by changing search window upon target block within a search process. From the experimental results, the proposed virtual network search system showed segmentation accuracy of $91.4\%$ from 800 word set including touched and overlapped characters collected from various writers.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2S
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• pp.701-710
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• 2000

This paper presents a new method for an efficient coding of very low bit-rate color video based on adaptive wavelet transform. Our approach reveals that the coding process works more efficiently if the quantized wavelet coefficients are preprocessed by a mechanism exploiting the redundancies in the wavelet subband structure. Thus, we focuses optimized activity of coding part, and exhaustive overlapped block motion compensation is utilized to ensure coherency in motion compensated error frames, and raised cosine window is applied. The horizontal and vertical components of motion vectors are encoded separately using adaptive arithmetic coding while significant wavelet coefficients are encoded in bit-plane order using adaptive arithmetic coding. On average the proposed codec exceeds H.263 and ZTE in peak signal-to-noise ratio by as much as 2.07 and 1.38dB at 28 kbits, respectively. Fore entire sequence coding, 3DWCVC method is superior to H.263 and ZTE by 0.35 and 0.71dB on average, respectively.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.855-863
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• 2001

We propose an image alignment algorithm based on variable-sized blocks of cylindrical prototype model to generate a face texture for a realistic 3D face model. This is a block matching algorithm which aligns 2D images of a 3D cylindrical model using th correlation between them. While matching blocks, it does not use same sized blocks with considering a curvature of 3D model. And we make a texture of aligned images using a technique of image mosaic. For this purpose, we stitch them with assigning linear weights according to the overlapped region and using the cross-dissolve technique.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.883-886
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• 2001

이동 통신 채널과 같이 에러 발생율이 높은 환경에서 부호화된 비디오 스트림을 전송시 발생된 에러는 비디오 화질에 큰 영향을 줄 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 널리 사용되고 있는 H.263의 복호화기에서 전송도중 에러가 발생했을 경우 추가적인 데이터 스트림의 삽입 없이 효율적으로 에러를 은닉할 수 있는 기법에 관하여 연구하였다. 특히 인터프레임 영상에서 손상되거나 손실된 움직임벡터에 대해 시간영역에서 관계가 깊은 이전 프레임에서 손실블록과 같은 위치에 있는 블록의 움직임벡터와 현재 프레임에서 손실블록과 인접한 블록들의 움직임벡터 정보를 이용하여 이 블록들의 움직임 방향을 구하게된다. 이러한 블록의 움직임 방향을 이용하여 동일한 움직임 방향을 갖는 영역을 찾아 손실 블록이 어떤 움직임 영역에 속하는 지를 판단하여 손실된 움직임 벡터를 복원하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 제안한 알고리즘에 중복블록 움직임 보상(Overlapped Block Motion Compensation)을 적용하여 블록화 현상을 줄였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.360-373
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• 2017

This paper presents a novel digital video steganalysis scheme against the spatial domain video steganography technology based on a spatial temporal detector (ST_D) that considers both spatial and temporal redundancies of the video sequences simultaneously. Three descriptors are constructed on XY, XT and YT planes respectively to depict the spatial and temporal relationship between the current pixel and its adjacent pixels. Considering the impact of local motion intensity and texture complexity on the histogram distribution of three descriptors, each frame is segmented into non-overlapped blocks that are $8{\times}8$ in size for motion and texture analysis. Subsequently, texture and motion factors are introduced to provide reasonable weights for histograms of the three descriptors of each block. After further weighted modulation, the statistics of the histograms of the three descriptors are concatenated into a single value to build the global description of ST_D. The experimental results demonstrate the great advantage of our features relative to those of the rich model (RM), the subtractive pixel adjacency model (SPAM) and subtractive prediction error adjacency matrix (SPEAM), especially for compressed videos, which constitute most Internet videos.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2012

로컬 히스토그램 평활화(LHE)는 영상에서 로컬 정보를 강조하기 위한 효율적인 알고리즘 중 하나이다. 그러나 이 알고리즘은 스펙클 노이즈를 증폭시키는 단점을 가진다. 따라서, 기존의 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 확장한 다중 레이어 블록 오버랩 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 이용하여 기존 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법들의 문제점을 해결하고자 하였다. 이 방법은 3단계-컨트라스트 향상 단계, 노이즈 제거 단계, 통합 단계로 이루어진다. 제안된 방법에서는 기존 방법의 컨트라스트 향상 단계에서 일반적인 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 방법이 아닌 컨트라스트를 제한하는 적응적인 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 적용하고, 노이즈 제거 단계에서 새로운 바이레터럴 필터를 적용하였다. 즉, 기존 방법의 문제점들을 해결하도록 알고리즘을 변형하여 기존 알고리즘의 성능을 개선하였다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법 및 잘 알려진 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법들과 비교하여 좋은 성능을 내는 것을 확인하였다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.49-56
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed a method for representing local facial features based on LDP (Local Directional Pattern). To represent both PFF (Permanent Facial Features) and TFF (Transient Facial Features) effectively, the proposed method configure local facial feature vectors based on overlapped blocks for each facial feature in the forms of various size and shape. There are three advantages - it take advantages of geometric feature based method; it shows robustness about detection error using movement characteristics of each facial feature; and it shows reduced sampling error because maintain spatial information caused by block size variability. Proposed method shows better classification accuracy and reduced amount of calculation than existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.220-227
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• 2002

An one-dimensional VLSI array for high speed processing of Fractal image compression was designed. Using again the overlapped input data of adjacent domain blocks in the existing one-dimensional VLSI array, we can save the number of total input for the operations, and so we can save the total computation time. In the design procedure, we considered the data dependences between the input data, reordered the input data to the array, and designed the processing elements. Registers and multiplexors are added for the storing and routing of the input data in some processing elements. Consequently as adding a little hardware, this design shows (N-4B)/4(N-B) times of speed-up compared with the existing array, where N is image size and B is block size.