• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.51-58
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• 2005

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for extracting a tumor region from an breast ultrasound volume image by using rate-distortion (R-D) based seeded region growing. In the proposed algorithm the rate and the distortion represent the roughness of the contour and the dissimilarity of pixels in a region, respectively. Staring from an initial seed region set in each cutting plane of a volume, a pair of the seed region and one of adjacent regions whose R-D cost is minimal is searched and then they are merged into a new updated seed region. This procedure is recursively performed until the averaged R-D cost values per the number of contour pixels in the seed region becomes maxim. As a result, the final seed region has good pixel homogeneity and a much smooth contour. Finally, the tumor volume is extracted using the contours of the final seed regions in all the cutting planes. Experimental results show that the averaged error rate of the proposed method is shown to be below 4%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.901-906
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• 2004

For a digital image watermarking some autostereograms are used such as random dot images. In there, the extraction efficiency is good and the distortion rate is low. In this paper, we shall select an optimized scaling parameter which derives low distortion rate and high extraction efficiency, when we use a random dot images as like as autostereograms into some images except for extremely biased gray level images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.910-913
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an improved SBIHT algorithm based on double significance criteria. According to the defined relationship between a threshold and a boundary rate-distortion slope, we choose significant coefficients and trees. The selected significant coefficients and trees are quantized and entropy-coded. Experimental results demonstrate that the boundary rate-distortion slope is well adapted and the proposed algorithm is quite competitive to and often outperforms the SPIHT algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1325-1341
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• 1998

A conventional CBR channel is now capable of delivering several digitally compressed video programs due to recent advances in video compression, such as MPEG-2, and digital transmission technology. This paper presents a joint video coding scheme that is to maintain a constant sum of bit rates for all the programs but to allow the variable bit rate for individual program in the transimission environment mentioned above. Thus advantages of VBR video compression can be obtained. This paper contributes in two aspects. First, a rate-distortion estimation method for MPEG-2 video is proposed, which enavle us predict the amount of bits and the distortion generated from an encoded picture at a given quantization step size and vice versa. The most attractive features of the proposed rate-distortion estimation method are its accuracy and a computational complexity low enough to be applied to real-time video coding applications. Second, this paper presents an efficient and accurate joint rate control scheme using the rate-distortion estimation results and verifies its performance with experiments. The experimental results show that our coding scheme gives a significant gain even though a small number of video programs are coded jointly. For example, a stable picture quality is maintained among the video programs as well as within a program, and additional extra programs can be transmitted over the same channel bandwidth if the proposed joint video coding scheme is used.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.271-274
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• 2000

In this paper, the distortion of an electrical pulse with rise/fall time resulting from dispersion and reflection as it propagates along a tapered microstrip line is investigated, and the delay time and distortion rate with respect to input and load impedances are analyzed on triangular and exponential tapered lines and analyzed the influence of the reflection and frequency dispersion on the distorted voltage wave in the tapered lines. The observed overshoot in front of the distorted wave is caused due to the frequency dispersion and the sustained tail of that comes from the reflection in the tapered line.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1987.10b
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• pp.541-546
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• 1987

An experimental study has been conducted to investigate the suction performance of a designed inlet. Total pressure distortion in the inlet S-duct was measured and the effect of lip thickness and throat area was analyzed. The volume flow rate of air into the turbojet engine was controlled to observe the effect of engine RPM to the total pressure distortion. The pressure data from 36 air tubes were obtained using scanivalve, pressure transducer, and visicoder system.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.44-53
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• 2011

H.264/SVC provides scalable video streams which consist of a base layer and one or more enhancement layers. Thus, it can efficiently adapt encoded streams to individual network conditions by dropping some layers of bit streams. However, on a dynamic environment such as the Internet, random packet losses due to network congestion can cause drastic effect on SVC quality. To avoid network congestion, the rate of video streams should be adjusted by carefully selecting a layer of each stream. In this paper, we propose three layer selection algorithms which can avoid network congestion by using the rate-distortion characteristics of streams. Simulation results show that FS(Far-Sighted) algorithm can maximize the overall PSNR value of streams by efficiently using the characteristics of video streams.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a rate-distortion optimization method to improve the coding efficiency of the conventional 3D-DCT based compression method using adaptive block mode selection for integral images. In the conventional 3D-DCT based compression method, 3D-DCT blocks of variable block sizes are adaptively selected depending on the characteristics of integral images, and then 3D-DCT is performed. The proposed method applies a rate-distortion optimization to determine the optimal block mode. In addition, we suggest the optimal Lagrangian parameter for integral images. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives bit-rate reduction of about 5%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2778-2791
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• 2017

In the age of big data, distributed data providers need to ensure the privacy, while data analysts need to mine the value of data. Therefore, how to find the privacy-utility tradeoff has become a research hotspot. Besides, the adversary may have the background knowledge of the data source. Therefore, it is significant to solve the privacy-utility tradeoff problem in the distributed environment with side information. This paper proposes a distributed privacy-utility tradeoff method using distributed lossy source coding with side information, and quantitatively gives the privacy-utility tradeoff region and Rate-Distortion-Leakage region. Four results are shown in the simulation analysis. The first result is that both the source rate and the privacy leakage decrease with the increase of source distortion. The second result is that the finer relevance between the public data and private data of source, the finer perturbation of source needed to get the same privacy protection. The third result is that the greater the variance of the data source, the slighter distortion is chosen to ensure more data utility. The fourth result is that under the same privacy restriction, the slighter the variance of the side information, the less distortion of data source is chosen to ensure more data utility. Finally, the provided method is compared with current ones from five aspects to show the advantage of our method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.165-170
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• 1998

In this paper, the effect of nonlinear distortion, caused by a high-power amplifier (HPA) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, on the receiver part is analyzed. Since the HPA, which can be modeled by a memoryless Volterra system, distorts OFDM signals in a nonlinear fashion, the received signal at each subchannel includes the multiplicative distortion of 1-st order as well as additive nonlinear distortion of higher-order. The nonlinear distortion can be viewed as a nonlinear interchannel interference (NICI) since it consists of harmonic distortions and intermodulation distortions, produced by other subchannels affecting the subchannel of interest. In this paper, were analytically derive the variance of NICI in terms of average input power using the Volterra model for HPA, and then calculate the bit-error rate (BER) performance of an OFDM system. Also, we propose a simple method to compensate for the phase distortion in OFDM system amplified by HPA, and calculate its BER performance. Validity of the proposed approach is verified by computer simulations for an OFDM system employing 16-QAM constellation input.