• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1294-1310
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• 2010

User authentication using fingerprint information provides convenience as well as strong security. However, serious problems may occur if fingerprint information stored for user authentication is used illegally by a different person since it cannot be changed freely as a password due to a limited number of fingers. Recently, research in fuzzy fingerprint vault system has been carried out actively to safely protect fingerprint information in a fingerprint authentication system. In addition, research to solve the fingerprint alignment problem by applying a geometric hashing technique has also been carried out. In this paper, we propose the hardware architecture for a geometric hashing based fuzzy fingerprint vault system that consists of the software module and hardware module. The hardware module performs the matching for the transformed minutiae in the enrollment hash table and verification hash table. On the other hand, the software module is responsible for hardware feature extraction. We also propose the hardware architecture which parallel processing technique is applied for high speed processing. Based on the experimental results, we confirmed that execution time for the proposed hardware architecture was 0.24 second when number of real minutiae was 36 and number of chaff minutiae was 200, whereas that of the software solution was 1.13 second. For the same condition, execution time of the hardware architecture which parallel processing technique was applied was 0.01 second. Note that the proposed hardware architecture can achieve a speed-up of close to 100 times compared to a software based solution.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.298-306
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• 2013

The scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) is an effective algorithm used in object recognition, panorama stitching, and image matching. However, due to its complexity, real-time processing is difficult to achieve with current software approaches. The increasing availability of parallel computers makes parallelizing these tasks an attractive approach. This paper proposes a novel parallel approach for SIFT algorithm implementation using a block filtering technique in a Gaussian convolution process on the SIMD Pixel Processor. This implementation fully exposes the available parallelism of the SIFT algorithm process and exploits the processing and input/output capabilities of the processor, which results in a system that can perform real-time image and video compression. We apply this implementation to images and measure the effectiveness of such an approach. Experimental simulation results indicate that the proposed method is capable of real-time applications, and the result of our parallel approach is outstanding in terms of the processing performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권2C호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2008

병렬 처리 구조 터보 부호에서 메모리 충돌을 피하기 위한 구성 인터리버 설계가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 설계된 인터리버들과 라틴 방진 행렬로 구성된 충돌 방지 인터리버를 제안한다. 제안된 인터리버는 다양한 블록 길이와 다양한 병렬 처리 차수에 대하여 쉽게 최적화 할 수 있다. 제안된 인터리버의 성능을 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.301-326
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• 1998

In this paper, we have modeled and evaluated a new parallel processing system called Scalable Parallel computer Architecture based on Xbar (SPAX) for commercial applications. SMP systems are widely used as servers for commercial applications; however, they have very limited scalability. SPAX cost-effectively overcomes the SMP limitation by providing both scalability and application portability. To investigate whether the new architecture satisfies the requirements of commercial applications, we have built a system model and a workload model. The results of the simulation study show that the I/O subsystem becomes the major bottleneck. We found that SPAX can still meet the I/O requirement of the OLTP workload as it supports flexible I/O subsystem. We also investigated what will be the next most important bottleneck in SPAX and how to remove it. We found that the newly developed system network called Xcent-Net will not be a bottleneck in the I/O data path. We also show the optimal configuration that is to be considered for system tuning.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.409-410
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• 2008

This paper presents nonlinear and parallel design for synchronous pipelining in IP-based H.264 decoder implementation. Since H.264 decoder includes the dataflow of feedback loop, the data dependency requires one NOP stage per pipelining latency to drop the throughput into 1/2. Further, it is found that, in execution time, the stage scheduled for MC is more occupied than that for CAVLD/ITQ/DF. The less efficient stage would be improved by nonlinear scheduling, while the fully-utilized stage could be accelerated by parallel scheduling of IP. The optimization yields 3 nonlinear {CAVLD&ITQ}|3 parallel (MC/IP&Rec.)| 3 nonlinear {DF} pipelined architecture for IP-based H.264 decoder. In experiments, the nonlinear and parallel pipelined H.264 decoder, including existing IPs, could deal with full HD video at 41.86MHz, in real time processing.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.397-403
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• 2014

A new video compression standard called High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has recently been released onto the market. HEVC provides higher coding performance compared to previous standards, but at the cost of a significant increase in encoding complexity, particularly in motion estimation (ME). At the same time, the computing capabilities of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become more powerful. This paper proposes a parallel integer-pel ME (IME) algorithm for HEVC on GPU using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). In the proposed IME, concurrent parallel reduction (CPR) is introduced. CPR performs several parallel reduction (PR) operations concurrently to solve two problems in conventional PR; low thread utilization and high thread synchronization latency. The proposed encoder reduces the portion of IME in the encoder to almost zero with a 2.3% increase in bitrate. In terms of IME, the proposed IME is up to 172.6 times faster than the IME in the HEVC reference model.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제44권10호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 3D 그래픽스(graphics), H.264/H.263/MPEG-4 같은 동영상 코덱, JPEG 혹은 JPEG2000 같은 정지영상 코덱, MP3 같은 오디오 코덱 등 다양한 멀티미디어 관련 기술을 효율적으로 구현하기 위한 재구성형 병렬 프로세서 구조가 제안된다. 제안된 구조는 메모리와 프로세서를 직접 연결하여 메모리 접근 시간과 소비전력를 감소시키고, 3D 그래픽스 처리 과정중 기하 단계의 부동소수점 연산을 지원한다. 또한 분할 SIMD(partitioned SIMD) 방식을 사용하여 하드웨어 비용을 줄이고, 명령어(instruction)의 조건부 실행(conditional execution)을 지원하여 알고리듬 개발이 용이하다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.345-355
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• 2014

Today's System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is designed with reusable IP cores to meet short time-to-market requirements. However, the increasing cost of testing becomes a big burden in manufacturing a highly integrated SoC. In this paper, an efficient parallel scan test technique is introduced to minimize the test application time. Multiple scan enable signals are adopted to implement scan architecture to achieve optimal test application time for the test patterns scheduled for concurrent scan test. Experimental results show that testing times are considerably reduced with little area overhead.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.112-120
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 UHD($3840{\times}2160$)영상을 실시간 처리하는 고성능 H.264/AVC CAVLC 부호화기를 설계하였다. 연산처리 성능을 높이기 위해 통계값 탐색 과정과 코드워드 부호화 과정을 각각 1사이클에 처리하도록 설계하였다. 통계값 탐색과정을 1사이클에 처리하기 위해 16개 계수들의 '0' 또는 '0'이 아님을 표시하는 비트열을 만들어 산술 및 논리연산을 통해 통계값을 한 번에 구하였다. 그리고 코드워드 부호화 과정을 1사이클에 처리하기 위해 레벨의 코드워드 길이를 결정하는 계수들과 임계값들과의 비교 연산을 동시에 처리함으로써 코드워드 부호화 과정의 재귀적 연산을 제거하였다. 제안하는 H.264/AVC 병렬 CAVLC 부호화기는 통계값 탐색 단계과 코드워드 부호화 단계로 나뉘는 2단 파이프라인 구조로 고속 병렬 연산 회로를 구현하였으며, 산술 연산을 적용하여 코드워드 부호화 테이블을 회로의 크기를 줄이고자 하였다. 0.13um 공정에서 시뮬레이션한 결과, 게이트 수는 33.4Kgates이며, 최대동작주파수 100MHz에서 UD 영상을 초당 100프레임으로 실시간 처리가 가능하다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2022

The WK-recursive network proposed by Vecchia and Sanges[1] is widely used in the design and implementation of local area networks and parallel processing architectures. It provides a high degree of regularity and scalability, which conform well to a design and realization of distributed systems involving a large number of computing elements. In this paper, the routing of a message is investigated on the WK-recursive network, which is key to the performance of this network. We present an efficient shortest path algorithm on the WK-recursive network, which is simpler than Chen and Duh[2] in terms of design complexity.