• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.333-339
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• 2004

This Paper proposes the vector quantizer-pyramid vector quantizer(VQ-PVQ) structure. Also both predictive structure and safety-net concept are combined into the VQ-PVQ to quantize the IPC parameter of wideband speech codec. The Performance is compared to the LPC vector quantizer used in the AMR-WB(ITU-T G.722.2). demonstrating reduction in both spectral distortion and encoding memory.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1227-1237
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose a lossless progressive image transmission scheme using hierarchical pyramid structure and classified vector quantizer in DCT domain. By adopting DCT to the hierarchical pyramid signals, we can reduce the spatial redundance. Moreover, the DCT coefficients can be encoded efficiently by using classified vector quantizer in DCT domain. The classifier is simply based on the variance of a subblock. Also, the mirror set of training set of images can improve the robustness of codebooks. Progressive image transmission can be achieved through following processes: from top to bottom level of planes in a pyramid, and from high to low AC variance class in a plane. Some simulation results with real images show that the proposed coding scheme yields a good performance at below 0.3 bpp and an excellent result at 0.409 bpp. The proposed coding scheme is well suited for lossless progressive image transmission as well as image data compression.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.550-558
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• 1988

This paper presents laplacian pyramid vector quantization (LPVQ) approach in which a vector quantizer is used to encode a series of quasi-bandpassed images generated by the laplacian pyramid processing. Performance of the LPVQ is compared to those of DCT domain methods at the same bit rate via computer simulations. Experimental results show that the PSNR's (peak signal-to-noise ratio) for the LPVQ are almost the same as those of the DCT based methods. However, subjective study indicates the LPVQ obtains slightly higher scores than the DCT based techniques.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.29-34
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• 2001

In this paper, we designed an LSF coefficient quantizer of the wideband speech codec that can produce high quality speech service. For the efficient LSF coefficient quantizer, the interframe correlation was used. Also we separately quantized the LSF coefficients with high and low interframe correlation. Predictive pyramid vector quantizer (PVQ) was used for quantizing the LSF coefficients with high interframe correlation, and PVQ was used for quantizing the LSF coefficients with low interframe correlation. Experiments show that the proposed UF quantizer can quantize LSF information in 40 bits/frame, with an average spectral distortion (SD) of 1 dB and less than 3.87% frames having SD greater than 2 dB.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1561-1570
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose an image coding scheme which combines the Laplacian pyramid structure and a hierarchical finite state classified vector quantizer in the DCT domain, namely FSDCT-CTQ. First, an optimal bit allocation problem for fixed rates DCT-CVQ on the Laplacian pyramid structure is described. In an asymptotic case, with an optimal bit allocation, a coding gain over scalar quantization of each Laplacian plane is derived. Second, it is experimentallhy shown that the Laplacian pyramid structure provides a considerable codng gain in the sense of total MMSE (minimum mean squared error). Finally, we propose an FS-DCT-CVQ which exploits the hierarchicla correlation between the Laplacian planes. Simulation results on real images show that the proposed coding scheme can reconstruct an image with 30.33 dB at 0.192 bpp, 32.45 dB at 0.385 bpp, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.4
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• pp.88-96
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• 1994

In this paper, we propose a subband pyramid image coding scheme that uses ECVQ (ntropy Constrained Vector Quantizer). In subband pyramid image coding, each subband can be encoded with a coder matched to the statistics of that particular subband, and available versions of the original image at different resolution are easily obtained. ECVQ, aiming at the minimization of the distortion for a fixed entropy of the quantizer output, is well combined with the subband pyramid image coding which yields high compression ratio and good image quality. The optimum bit allocation to each subbands corresponds to the points where the individual distortion rate curves are of particular slope, weighted to the number of samples in that subband, in designing ECVQ.