• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2230-2250
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• 2015

Multiple projectors with partially overlapping regions can be used to project a seamless image on a large projection surface. With the advent of high-resolution photography, such systems are gaining popularity. Experts set up such projection systems by subjectively identifying the types of errors induced by the system in the projected images and rectifying them by optimizing (correcting) the parameters associated with the system. This requires substantial time and effort, thus making it difficult to set up such systems. Moreover, comparing the performance of different multi-projector display (MPD) systems becomes difficult because of the subjective nature of evaluation. In this work, we present a framework to quantitatively determine the quality of an MPD system and any image projected using such a system. We have divided the quality assessment into geometric and photometric qualities. For geometric quality assessment, we use Feature Similarity Index (FSIM) and distance-based Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). For photometric quality assessment, we propose to use a measure incorporating Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Intensity Magnitude Ratio (IMR) and Perceptual Color Difference (ΔE). We have tested the proposed framework and demonstrated that it provides an acceptable method for both quantitative evaluation of MPD systems and estimation of the perceptual quality of any image projected by them.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.448-463
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• 2017

Multimedia is a ubiquitous and indispensable part of our daily life and learning such as audio, image, and video. Objective and subjective quality evaluations play an important role in various multimedia applications. Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is used to indicate the perceptual quality of a distorted image, while its reference image is not considered and used. Blur is one of the common image distortions. In this paper, we propose a novel BIQA index for Gaussian blur distortion based on the fact that images with different blur degree will have different changes through the same blur. We describe this discrimination from three aspects: color, edge, and structure. For color, we adopt color histogram; for edge, we use edge intensity map, and saliency map is used as the weighting function to be consistent with human visual system (HVS); for structure, we use structure tensor and structural similarity (SSIM) index. Numerous experiments based on four benchmark databases show that our proposed index is highly consistent with the subjective quality assessment.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2007

다시점 비디오의 일반적인 형태인 3차원 방송 서비스는 최근 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 그렇지만 3차원 방송의 성공을 위해서는 상용 가능한 컨텐츠의 개발, 사용의 용이성, 방송 품질 개선, 비용 절감 등의 과제가 남아있다. 본 논문은 이러한 과제들 중 방송 품질 개선 측면, 특히 인간 요소를 고려한 주관적 화질 개선을 중심으로 접근하여 양안식 영상과 다시점 영상에 적합한 비대칭 코딩 방법을 설명하고 최적의 주관적 화질을 유지하는 비대칭 율의 정량적인 값을 제안한다. 또한 저화질의 2차원 영상들의 경계선들이 3차원 영상의 인지에 미치는 영향을 실험적으로 분석하고 경계선 왜곡의 문제점을 주관적 화질 측면에서 개선하는 경계선 보호 알고리듬을 제안한다. 실험 결과를 통해 기존의 부호화 방법보다 주관적 화질을 개선시킴을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.895-898
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose an efficient marker extraction algorithm for initial image segmentation in a bottom-up segmentation scheme. The proposed algorithm generates dense markers in visually complex areas and coarse markers in visually uniform areas. which conforms to the human perceptual system. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better subjective quality for fine initial image segmentation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2008

디스플레이 기술이 급격히 발전함과 동시에 디스플레이 종류 또한 다양해지면서 디스플레이의 화질평가에 대한 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 화질평가에는 명암비, 색재현율, 색온도 및 감마 특성 등 물리적인 측정에 의한 정량적인 평가 방법이 사용되어 왔지만, 최종적인 화질의 비교 평가는 관측자가 느끼는 주관적인 인지 화질에 의해 이루어진다. 이에 디스플레이가 가지고 있는 물리적 특성과 관측자가 느끼는 감성 화질 사이의 상관관계를 정립할 필요성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Video Electronics Standards Association(VESA) Flat Panel Display Measurements(FPDM) version 2.0의 표준에 따른 측정을 통하여 모바일용 TFT-LCD와 AMOLED가 가지고 있는 색재현 특성-명암비, 기준 백색에 대한 색온도, 회색 계조의 색도 일관성 및 감마 특성, RGB 채널별 계조의 감마 특성, 디스플레이 장치의 색역 크기-을 객관적으로 비교 평가한다. 그 다음, 주요평가 항목을 중심으로 일반 관측자뿐만 아니라 색채 전공자에 의한 다양한 주관적 화질 평가를 수행하고, 이 평가 결과를 뒷받침 할 수 있는 정량적인 자료 및 근거를 제시한다. 이를 통해 화질 향상을 위해 색재현 관점에서 TFT-LCD와 AMOLED가 고려해야할 방향을 제시한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.426-445
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• 2012

Conventional rate control (RC) schemes for H.264 video coding usually regulate output bit rate to match channel bandwidth by adjusting quantization parameter (QP) at fixed full frame rate, and the passive frame skipping to avoid buffer overflow usually occurs when scene changes or high motions exist in video sequences especially at low bit rate, which degrades spatial-temporal quality and causes jerky effect. In this paper, an active content adaptive frame skipping scheme is proposed instead of passive methods, which skips subjectively trivial frames by structural similarity (SSIM) measurement between the original frame and the interpolated frame via motion vector (MV) copy scheme. The saved bits from skipped frames are allocated to coded key ones to enhance their spatial quality, and the skipped frames are well recovered based on MV copy scheme from adjacent key ones at the decoder side to maintain constant frame rate. Experimental results show that the proposed active SSIM-based frameskip scheme acquires better and more consistent spatial-temporal quality both in objective (PSNR) and subjective (SSIM) sense with low complexity compared to classic fixed frame rate control method JVT-G012 and prior objective metric based frameskip method.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권1호
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• pp.64-72
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• 1995

We propose a new image coding method which takes into account both statistical redundancy and perceptual irrelevancy of the DCT coefficients so as to provide a high quality of the reconstructed images with a reduced transmission bit rate First, a block of DCT coefficients are decomposed into 16 subvectors so as for a subvector to convey key information about one of the low-pass or the dirctional filtered images. Then, the most significant subvector is selected as the principal edge of the block and then vector quantized. After that, the residuals of the block are computed and then sequentially quantized through aforementioned procedure until the quantization distortion is smaller than the target distortion. The proposed scheme is good at encoding images with a variety of transmission bit rates, especially at very low bit rate coding. In addition, it is another benifit of the proposed scheme that an image can be quantized with a wide range of the transmission bit rates by simply adapting the stopping criterion of the sequential vector quantizer according to the target distortion of the reconstructed image.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권2호
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• pp.1661-1663
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• 2007

The contrast of display is one of the important specifications. Even if the contrast indicates luminance range which is a capability of the display and is greater in lower luminance or higher luminance, we consider that the greater contrast gets not the better performance. It is not the same value in human visual system. In practice, it is difficult to achieve the full dynamic range seen by human beings using electronic equipment. Therefore, we consider ambient condition and human perception to calculate perceptual contrast using the CIECAM02. In this paper, we propose perceptual contrast that is calculated using the brightness of CIECAM02.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.466-469
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• 2000

In this paper, a watermarking technique for digital images is proposed. In our method, an image is 1-1eve1 wavelet transformed, and then the watermark of a binary stamp is embedded into the baseband. The watermark is embedded by inverting the polarities of the selected coefficient pairs. In the inverting process, we can increase perceptual image quality by finding means and differences of the selected neighboring coefficient pairs, and then adding values, which are inversely proportional to the differences, to the means. The experimental results show that the proposed method has good quality and is robust to JPEG lossy compression and various image processing operations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.790-809
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• 2019

The design of an efficient scaler to enhance the edge data is one of the most important issues in video signal applications, because the perceptual quality of the processed image is sensitively affected by the degradation of edge data. Various conventional scaling schemes have been proposed to enhance the edge data. In this paper, we propose an efficient scaling algorithm for this purpose. The proposed method is based on the discrete cosine transform-based interpolation filter (DCT-IF) because it outperforms other scaling algorithms in various configurations. The proposed DCT-IF incorporates weighting parameters that are optimized for training data. Simulation results show that the quality of the resized image produced by the proposed DCT-IF is much higher than that of those produced by the conventional schemes, although the proposed DCT-IF is more complex than other conventional scaling algorithms.