• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2315-2320
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• 2006

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.609-617
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• 2020

Non-destructive inspection using X-rays is used as a method to check the inside of products. In order to accurately inspect, a X-ray image requires a higher spatial resolution. However, the reduction in pixel size of the X-ray detector, which determines the spatial resolution, is time-consuming and expensive. In this regard, a DMM has been proposed to obtain an improved spatial resolution using the same X-ray detector. However, this has a limitation that the motion blur phenomenon, which is a decrease in spatial resolution. In this paper, motion blur was removed by applying Non-Blind Deconvolution to the DMM image, and the increase in spatial resolution was confirmed. DMM and Non-Blind Deconvolution were sequentially applied to X-ray images, confirming 62 % MTF value by an additional 29 % over 33 % of DMM only. In addition, SSIM and PSNR were compared to confirm the similarity to the 1/2 pixel detector image through 0.68 and 33.21 dB, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2933-2942
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• 2015

This paper proposes a new method which traces significant element of 2-dimensional natural images and encrypts them by using Fresnelet transform (FRNLT). After analyzing property of the subbands obtained by the FRNLT, we estimated the information for ciphering 2D images. Considering FRNLT levels, energy of subbands, and visual effect, we estimated the optimized point for encryption. By selecting various levels and encrypting region, we can encrypt 2D image with various robustness. Encryption effectiveness was showed by analyzing numerical result, executing time for encryption, area of encrypted region, and visual observation. Therefore encryption for various application can be applied by using the suggested parameters without additional analysis. Identifying the experimental result, in the case of $L_{TH}=4$ and $L_{TH}=4$, an image was not recognized through encrypting only 0.42% among the entire data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3C
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• pp.158-166
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• 2005

Even though post-processing methods based on projections onto convex sets (POCS) have shown good performance for blocking artifact reduction, it is infeasible to implement POCS for real-time practical applications. This paper proposes DCT domain post-processing method based on POCS. The proposed method shows very similar performance compared to the conventional POCS method, while it reduces tremendously the computational complexity. DCT domain POCS performs the lowpass filtering in the DCT domain, and it removes the inverse DCT and forward DCT modules. Through the investigation of lowpass filtering in the iterative POCS method, we define kth order lowpass filtering which is equivalent to the lowpass filtering in the kth iteration, and the corresponding kth order DCT domain POCS. Simulation results show that the kth order DCT domain POCS without iteration gives very similar performance compared to the conventional POCS with k iterations, while it requires much less computations. Hence the proposed DCT domain POCS method can be used efficiently in the practical post-processing applications with real-time constraints.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.10-20
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• 2013

Nowadays, video technology has been successfully improved creating tremendous results. As video technology improve, multimedia devices and demands from users are diversified. Therefore, a video codec used in these devices should support various displays with different resolutions. The technology to generate a higher resolution image from the associated low-resolution image is called interpolation. Interpolation is generally performed in either the spatial domain or the DCT domain. To use the advantages of both domains, we have proposed the new adaptive interpolation algorithm based on edge direction, which adaptively exploits the advantages of both domains. The experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm performs well in terms of PSNR and reduces the blocking artifacts.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.519-524
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• 2018

Chest examinations and mass chest examinations using the CR(computed radiography) System are frequently used clinically. a factor that degrades image quality in the acquisition process is the use of unused IPs long times. this paper addresses the estimation of winer filter and improved wiener filter to restoration of Chest CR images Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce noise. in low noise variation image wiener method was excellent than improved method and the result was the opposite at high noise varience. the application of algorithms to chest CR images effectively eliminates noise. the classic Wiener filter was better than the improved method. Multiple patients examined during the process without any erase IP(image plate) process, The proposed algorithm determines that the images can be restored to a good quality and will help to read the images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.29
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• pp.463-473
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose Adaptive GOP Structure to enhance the coding performance of scalable video coding in JVT. Adaptive GOP Structure considers temporal variances of video sequence. In general, SVC encodes a video sequence with fixed GOP size. The coding performance is varying according to the temporal variance of a video sequence. Thus, Adaptive GOP Structure method is proposed. It selects GOP size adaptively by considering temporal variance of video sequence. In the experiments, the propose method showed the enhanced coding performance in most sequences. The PSNR gain of Crew sequence is up to 0.63 dB.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.174-180
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• 2006

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC. It provides efficient coding efficiency compared with previous video standards. It reduced the bit rate by approximately $30%{\sim}70%$ while providing the same or better image quality. And, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC supports not only lossy coding but also lossless coding. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve lossless coding efficiency. Proposed method is based on Intra residual DPCM, it has same effect with the prediction from spatially nearest pixel. Also, proposed method does not broken decoder pipe-line. Experimental results, the method reduced the bit rate by approximately 12% in comparison with the H.264 Intra lossless coding. As a result, it is adopted into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Advanced 4:4:4 profile.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.578-581
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• 2011

H.264/AVC에서는 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용하여 부호화 성능을 이전 보다 대폭 향상시켰다. 율-왜곡 최적화 기법은 선택할 수 있는 모든 코딩 모드들의 비용을 계산한 후, 최소의 비용을 가진 모드를 선택하여 부호화를 한다. 따라서 코딩 모드들이 많아질수록 복잡도 역시 증가하며, 기존 표준보다 다양한 코딩모드를 지원하는 H.264에서는 복잡도가 더 많이 증가한다. 본 논문에서는 SAHTD(Sum of Absolute Hadamard Transform Difference)를 이용하여 화면 내 모드 결정부에서 빠른 화면내 모드 결정을 하면서도 압축 손실이 적게 발생하는 방법을 제시하였다. 휘도 신호 $16{\times}16$블록, 휘도 신호 $4{\times}4$블록, 색차 신호 $8{\times}8$블록 모두 SAHTD를 기준으로 최적의 모드가 결정된다. 휘도 신호 $16{\times}16$블록에서 SAHTD값에 따라 $4{\times}4$블록 부호화 과정을 조기 종결이 가능하게 하는 것과, 휘도 신호 $4{\times}4$에서는 SAHTD 값이 가장 낮은 3개의 모드와 MPM(Most Probable Mode)을 후보 모드로 선택하여 율-왜곡 최적화를 수행하는 방식이 사용되었다. MPM이 SAHTD값이 가장 낮을 경우 MPM이 휘도신호 $4{\times}4$블록의 최적의 모드로 선택되고 종료된다. JM 참조 소프트웨어를 통한 실험결과 제안된 기법은 기존 JM의 방식에 비해 화면 내 프레임의 부호화 시간의 84.7% 감소와 0.049dB의 PSNR 감소율, 0.595%의 비트 증가율을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.471-479
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• 2012

Intra prediction is one of the significant techniques in H.264/AVC reference software; however, it has heavy computational complexity. In order to solve this problem, many fast algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a fast intra mode decision algorithm which predicts the edge direction of the current block using sub-sampled pixels to reduce high computational complexity of the H.264/AVC encoder. The proposed algorithm shows that it not only improves the coding performance but also reduces the computational complexity of the H.264/AVC encoder compared to previous algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves the encoding time reduction of 75.93% on an average with slight peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) drop and bit-rate increment.