• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.853-867
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• 2010

Recently, thumbnail techniques are required to index a high-performance video at digital convergence-based multimedia service like IPTV and DMB. Therefore a thumbnail extraction method in H.264/AVC bitstreams has been proposed. However, thumbnail quality deterioration problem at converting the general equation of spatial domain to frequency domain which is generated by not considering about H.264/AVC transform and quantization processing and rounding-off operation in intra prediction. In this paper, we propose a new thumbnail extraction method in H.264/AVC bitstreams. The proposed scheme is based on H.264/AVC core-transform for a thumbnail extraction in frequency domain, and probability theory, intra rounding-off error compensation. Through the implementation and performance evaluation, the subjective quality difference between the output of our scheme and the output of reference decoder is negligible and better than the conventional method, and moreover PSNR gain by up to 8.66 dB.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.481-488
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• 2003

A method to select the proper file formats of thumbnail images is proposed. After the experimental works for image file formats such as JPEG, GIF, and those effectiveness to the features contained in images, four features are obtained by feature extraction methods used in contents based image indexing, those are, the details, highly saturated colored area, the number of clustered color, and the amount of continuously varying hue. Also it is described the way to select the proper file format with those four features. In the thumbnail image generation experiments, 6 sample images are used, and with subjective assessment experiments, the resulted thumbnail images are shown to be consistent to the file formats chosen by human subjects, that is, favorable to human vision, which means the proposed method can be utilized as an automatic and systematic generation of thumbnail images for a lot of images on Web.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.431-436
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• 2018

In this paper, a simple but effective algorithm to reduce the computational complexity of thumbnail generation and to improve image quality without aliasing artifacts is proposed. For the high speed decoding, the proposed algorithm performs partial decoding per $4{\times}4$ boundary in TU(Transform Unit), and preforms TU boundary in PU(Prediction Unit). The proposed method defines the weights based on intra prediction directions and estimates the thumbnail pixel by using that weights. this method remains thumbnail extraction time and improves thumbnail image quality compared with conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.169-171
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• 2011

최근 통신 환경의 진화와 고사양 모바일 단말기의 대중화로 인하여 모바일 통신 환경에서 동영상 서비스를 이용하는 사용자가 급증하고 있다. 사용자들은 제한적인 데이터 사용량을 이용하여 필요한 영상을 효율적으로 검색 및 탐색하기 위하여 미리보기 서비스 또는 Thumbnail을 이용한다. 이 중 Thumbnail은 동영상의 복호화 과정에서 제공되는 서비스이며, 이를 효과적으로 추출하는데 있어서 낮은 복잡도의 기술들이 사용되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 히스토그램의 특징을 이용한 Thumbnail 추출 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 추출 기법에서는 각 영상의 히스토그램을 비교 및 분석하여 하나의 video을 다수의 구간으로 분할하고, 각 구간의 대표 Thumbnail을 추출하는 방법을 사용한다. 다양한 영상을 이용한 실험 결과는 제안하는 알고리즘이 효과적으로 Thumbnail을 추출함을 보여준다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.525-534
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• 2007

H.264/AVC for DMB is the most advanced video compression standard which provides a high compression rate and a video quality by adopting new technologies. However, these new technologies prevent us from applying some conventional algorithms directly to the H.264/AVC compression domain. For example, we need to study new image resizing schemes in the compressed bit-stream. So, in this paper, we propose a new thumbnail extraction method which can be applied to H.264. The proposed method shows that it can extract a 1/16 size thumbnail video, saving the operation time up to 50% to 70%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.10-17
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• 2009

This paper proposes a compressed domain signature extraction method which can be used for CBCD (Content Based Copy Detection). Since existing signature extraction methods for the CBCD are executed in spatial domain, they need additional computations to decode the compressed video before the signature extraction. To avoid this overhead, we generate a thumbnail image directly from the compressed video without full decoding. Then we can extract the video signature from the thumbnail image. Experimental results of extracting brightness ordering information as the signature for CBCD show that our proposed method is 2.8 times faster than the spatial domain method while maintaining 80.98% accuracy.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.622-635
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• 2008

Recently, high definition media services like HDTV and IPTV are growing. A fast reduced-size image extracting method is required to meet what those services require. Conventional DC image extracting methods, however, can't be applied to H.264/AVC streams since a spatial domain prediction scheme is adopted in H.264/AVC intra mode. To solve this problem, a thumbnail extraction method in H.264/AVC was proposed. However, the method has mismatch problem which was caused by round-off operation in intra prediction and mismatch between integer and floating point calculation. In this paper, we propose an error compensation method for extracting thumbnail directly in H.264/AVC bitstreams. The compensation method introduces the mismatch problem in thumbnail extraction and presents compensation values. Through the implementation and performance evaluation, proposed method compensated round-off error efficiently in D1 and HD sequences while the additional extraction time is negligible.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.222-235
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• 2008

Recently, as growing of high definition media services like HDTV and IPTV, fast moving picture manipulation techniques need to meet what those services require. Especially, a fast reduced-size image extracting method is required in the areas of video indexing and video summary Conventional DC image extracting methods, however, can't be applied to H.264/AVC streams since a spatial domain prediction scheme is adopted in H.264/AVC intra mode. In this paper, we propose a theoretical method for extracting a thumbnail image from an H.264/AVC intra frame in the frequency domain. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can extract the thumbnail very fast since all operations are applied to transform coefficients directly, after a general equation for the thumbnail extraction in nine H.264/AVC intra prediction modes is introduced, an LUT(Look Up Table) for each mode is designed. Through the implementation and performance evaluation, while the subject quality difference between the output of our scheme and a conventional output is negligible, the former can extract the thumbnail faster then the latter by up to 63%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2009

IPTV, 블루레이 디스크, DMB 등과 같은 멀티미디어 서비스에서 H.264/AVC 비디오 표준기술을 채택하고 있다. 따라서 H.264/AVC 비트스트림을 고속으로 인덱싱하기 위한 썸네일 기술이 요구 된다. 그러나 H.264/AVC는 기존 표준기술과는 다르게 인트라 모드에서도 예측방법을 이용하기 때문에 새로운 썸네일 추출방법이 요구되어 최근에 H.264/AVC 비트스트림 상에서 썸네일을 추출하는 방법이 제안되었다. 그러나 이 방법에서는 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 모드와 연관된 블록에서 심각한 화질의 저하가 발생하며, QP 값이 커질수록 그 증상이 더 심해지는 문제점이 있다. 그리고 공간주파수 영역에서 처리하기 때문에 예측 모드에 따라 연산오류가 발생하여 이 오류가 파급되는 문제가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 공간주파수 영역에서 H.264/AVC 썸네일을 추출할 때 인트라 $16{\times}16$ 예측 모드에서도 오류가 발생하지 않도록 하는 방법과 공간주파수 영역에서 발생하는 연산 오류를 보상하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 제안한 방법을 다양한 시험 비디오 시퀀스에 적용하여 이전 썸네일 추출 방법과 비교하여 프레임에 따라 최대 PSNR 약 4dB 증가 및 주관적 화질을 향상시켰다.