• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권8호
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• pp.50-59
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• 1996

In this paper, a new hierarchical motion estiamtion scheme using the wavelet transformed multi-resolution image layers is proposed. Compared with the full search motion estimation method, the existing hierarchical methods remarkably reduce the amount of the computation but their efficiencies are depreciated by the local minima problem. In order to solve the local minima problem, the multi-resolution image layers are composed using the wavelet transform and the number of layers participated in the motion estimation for a block is determined by considering of its low band energy and higher band energy on the first wavelet transformed layer. The ratio between higher band energy and low band energy of each block is evaluated and in the case of the blocks which include relatively large higher band energy, the motion estimation is carried out in the high resolution layer. Otherwise, all layers are used. The final motion vectors are obtained in the first wavelet transformed layer. So less bits for motion vectors are transmitted, and the decomposition of received image using inverse wavelet transform decreases the blocking effect.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권3호
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• pp.351-358
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• 2002

DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) 기반 동영상 압축 기법은 블록화 현상과 해상도 변화 시 픽셀의 손상이 생기는 단점이 있다. DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)을 기반한 기법은 이러한 문제점을 극복할 수 있다. Wavelet을 기반한 동영상 부호화 기법 중 하나인 SAMCoW(Scalable Adaptive Motion Compensation Wavelet)에서 화면내 부호화와 움직임 보상된 오차 영상은 EZW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) 부호화 방식으로 부호화한다. 그러나 움직임 보상된 오차 영상의 wavelet 변환 계수의 특성은 정지 영상의 wavelet 변환 계수의 특성과는 다르다. 신호의 에너지는 대부분의 정지 영상의 경우와는 달리 저주파 대역에 집중되지 않고 오히려 모든 주파수 대역에 고르게 분포한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 특성을 이용한 새로운 동영상 부호화 방식을 제안하였다. EZW 부호화 대신 고주파 성분이 많이 포함된 영상의 부호화에 효율적이며 계수사이의 대역별 상관관계에 의존하지 않는 공간 부호화를 화면내 부호화와 화면간 부호화에 적용하였다. 공간 부호화는 EZW와는 달리 wavelet 분해를 통해 얻어진 각 대역을 대역간의 상관 관계를 이용하지 않으면서 각 대역내의 중요 계수의 존재 여부와 위치를 점진적으로 부호화하는 기법이다. Wavelet 기반 동영상 부호화에 EZW 부호화 대신 공간 부호화를 적용하였을 때 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.493-505
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• 1997

In this paper, a wavelet image compression method using human visually estimated quantizer is proposed. The quantizer has three components. These are constructed by using effects of frequency band, background luminance, and spatial masking. The first quantization factor is a fixed constant value for each band. The second factor is calculated by averaging four wavelet coefficients in the lowest frequency band. The third factor is determined by the difference between wavelet coefficients in the lowest frequency band. Arithmetic coding is used for encoding quantized wavelet coefficients. Coefficients in the lowest band are transmitted without loss. Therefore the compressed image is decompressed by using three quantization factors which can be calculated in the receiver. Compared with previous image compression methods which adopted human visual system, the proposed method shows improved results with less computational cost.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.776-782
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• 2003

This paper develops an approach to fuse 1-meter resolution spatial panchromatic and 4-meter resolution multi-spectral IKONOS images. The approach is based on the characteristics of four-band wavelet transformation. The experiment shows that the fused images based on four-band wavelet method contain with not only high spatial resolution but also rich spectral characteristic.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.745-748
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• 1998

Recently, image and voice processing part is using wavelet transform. We propose thining algorithm using wavelet tranform. Wavelet transform consists of low frequency and high frequency in the spatial and frequency domain. After the wavelet decomposition, more than 90 percents of energy are contained in lowest frequency band. Therefor, for images with large difference of gray value between foreground and background like character images, we can more accurately in the lowest frequency band. Lowest frequency band has wavelet transform significant coefficient(WTS) that is required for the thinning algorithm we proposed Paper [3][5][7][8] can not separate consonants and vowels of korean characters. Becuase korean characters have structural feature. This paper can separate consonants and vowels. Simulation executed low frequency image and data compression can reduce 1/4$^{n}$ with level n. we can redcue time complexity 3/8.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.923-926
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• 2000

In this paper we address the problem of detecting and estimating an unknown narrow band signal in a noise interference environment A new practical band estimation method, yielding good performance even in case of finite-length data, is presented. More specifically, wavelet packet transform is utilized to detect the more accurate time-variant band, then we estimate the power from wavelet filter-coefficients of the respective band. Also, third-order cumulants, and projection cross-correlation (PCC) criterion are utilized to achieve an effective SNR improvement for the time-variant band estimation. In case of time variant band estimation, the PCC method yields better performance than the correlation method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.415-419
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• 2001

This paper proposes and adaptive nonlinear equalizer based on Volterra Series along with M-band wavelet transform(M-DWT). The proposed wavelet transform-domain approach leads to diagonalization of the input vector auto-correlation matrix, which yields clustering its eigenvalue spread around one, and improving the convergence rate of the corresponding transform-domain LMS algorithm. In particular, the proposed adaptive Volterra equalizer is employed to compensate for the output distortion produced by a weakly nonlinear system. Finally, some simulation results obtained by using a TWT amplifier model are provide to demonstrated the converging performance of the proposed approach.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.1115-1128
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• 2023

In this paper, a novel hybrid method for multi-focus image fusion is proposed. The method combines the advantages of wavelet transform-based methods and focus-measure-based methods to achieve an improved fusion result. The input images are first decomposed into different frequency sub-bands using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The focus measure of each sub-band is then calculated using the Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) operator, and the sub-band with the highest focus measure is selected as the focused sub-band. The focused sub-band is sharpened using an unsharp masking filter to preserve the details in the focused part of the image.Finally, the sharpened focused sub-bands from all input images are fused using the maximum intensity fusion method to preserve the important information from all focus images. The proposed method has been evaluated using standard multi focus image fusion datasets and has shown promising results compared to existing methods.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.8-18
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm using wavelet transform for still image database retrieval. Especially, it uses only the lowest frequency sub-band in multi-level wavelet transform so that a retrieval system uses a smaller quantity of memory and takes a faster processing time. We extract different textured features, statistical information such as mean, variance and histogram, from low frequency sub-band. Then we measure the distances between the query image and the images in a database in terms of these features. To obtain good retrieval performance, we use the first feature (mean and variance of wavelet coefficients) to filter out most of the unlikely images. The rest of the images are considered to be candidate images. Then we apply the second feature (histogram of wavelet coefficient) to rank all the candidate images. To evaluate the algorithm, we create various distorted image databases using MIT VisTex texture images and PICS natural images. Through simulations, we demonstrate that our method can achieve performance satisfactorily in terms of the retrieval accuracy as well as the both memory requirement and computational complexity. Therefore it is expected to provide good retrieval solution for JPEG-2000 using wavelet transform.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제14권1E호
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• pp.46-55
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 대역선택 웨이브릿 변환 CELP 보호화기라 명명한 4.8 kbps 전송률의 새로운 웨이브릿 변화형 CELP 부호화기를 구현하였다. 제안된 알고리듬에서는 이산 웨이브릿 주파수 대역에 대한 대역 선택과 선택적 벡터 양자화 기법을 사용하였다. 이러한 대역 선택 및 선택적 벡터 양자화 구조는 구분형 VQ 구조를 이용하여 구현하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 계산량 및 저장용량을 크게 줄이면서도, 기존의 불규칙 잡음 코드북 검색 구조에 비해 0.5에서 1 dB 가량 개선된 segmental SNR을 갖는다. 많은 실험 결과를 통해 확인한 결과, 제안된 대역 선택 웨이브릿 변환 CELP 부호화기는 기존의 CELP 구조나 웨이브릿 변환 구조에 비해서 실제 응용에 훨씬 적합함을 확인하였다.