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All Phase Discrete Sine Biorthogonal Transform and Its Application in JPEG-like Image Coding Using GPU

  • Shan, Rongyang;Zhou, Xiao;Wang, Chengyou;Jiang, Baochen
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.4467-4486
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    • 2016
  • Discrete cosine transform (DCT) based JPEG standard significantly improves the coding efficiency of image compression, but it is unacceptable event in serious blocking artifacts at low bit rate and low efficiency of high-definition image. In the light of all phase digital filtering theory, this paper proposes a novel transform based on discrete sine transform (DST), which is called all phase discrete sine biorthogonal transform (APDSBT). Applying APDSBT to JPEG scheme, the blocking artifacts are reduced significantly. The reconstructed image of APDSBT-JPEG is better than that of DCT-JPEG in terms of objective quality and subjective effect. For improving the efficiency of JPEG coding, the structure of JPEG is analyzed. We analyze key factors in design and evaluation of JPEG compression on the massive parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) using the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) programming model. Experimental results show that the maximum speedup ratio of parallel algorithm of APDSBT-JPEG can reach more than 100 times with a very low version GPU. Some new parallel strategies are illustrated in this paper for improving the performance of parallel algorithm. With the optimal strategy, the efficiency can be improved over 10%.

A Fast Algorithm for Fractal Image Coding

  • Kim, Jeong-Il;Kwak, Seung-Uk;Jeong, Keun-Won;Song, In-Keun;Yoo, Choong-Yeol;Lee, Kwang-Bae;Kim, Hyen-Ug
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.521-525
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for fractal image coding to shorten long time to take on fractal image encoding. For its performance evaluation, the algorithm compares with other traditional fractal coding methods. In the traditional fractal image coding methods, an original image is contracted by a factor in order to make an image to be matched. Then, the whole area of the contracted image is searched in order to find contractive transformation point of the original image corresponding to the contacted image. It needs a lot of searching time on encoding and remains limitation in the improvement of compression ratio. However, the proposed algorithm not only considerably reduces encoding tin e by using scaling method and limited search area method but also improves compression ratio by using bit-plane. When comparing the proposed algorithm with Jacquin's method, the proposed algorithm provides much shorter encoding time and better compression ratio with a little degradation of the decoded image quality than Jacquin's method.

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A GQM Approach to Evaluation of the Quality of SmartThings Applications Using Static Analysis

  • Chang, Byeong-Mo;Son, Janine Cassandra;Choi, Kwanghoon
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.2354-2376
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    • 2020
  • SmartThings is one of the most popular open platforms for home automation IoT solutions that allows users to create their own applications called SmartApps for personal use or for public distribution. The nature of openness demands high standards on the quality of SmartApps, but there have been few studies that have evaluated this thoroughly yet. As part of software quality practice, code reviews are responsible for detecting violations of coding standards and ensuring that best practices are followed. The purpose of this research is to propose systematically designed quality metrics under the well-known Goal/Question/Metric methodology and to evaluate the quality of SmartApps through automatic code reviews using a static analysis. We first organize our static analysis rules by following the GQM methodology, and then we apply the rules to real-world SmartApps to analyze and evaluate them. A study of 105 officially published and 74 community-created real-world SmartApps found a high ratio of violations in both types of SmartApps, and of all violations, security violations were most common. Our static analysis tool can effectively inspect reliability, maintainability, and security violations. The results of the automatic code review indicate the common violations among SmartApps.

Objective Picture Quality Assessment of Block Based Moving Picture Coder (블록기반 동영상 부호화기의 객관적 화질평가)

  • Chung, Tae-Yun;Hong, Min-Suk;Park, Kang-Seo;Kim, Hyun-Sool;Park, Sang-Hui
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.12
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    • pp.1589-1598
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    • 1999
  • Conventional MSE or PSNR based methods for objective picture quality assessment of moving picture coder are not well correlated with subjective human evaluation. In recent years, the design of better objective quality assessment has attracted much intention and several picture quality metrics based on the properties of Human Visual System has been proposed. This paper proposes new metric which is appropriate for objective picture quality assessment of block based moving picture coder by considering frequency sensitivity, inter-intra channel masking and several distortion artifacts caused by block based coding. The experimental results show that the proposed method is good correlated with subjective assessment.

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Implementation of H.264/SVC Decoder Based on Embedded DSP (임베디드 DSP 기반 H.264/SVC 복호기 구현)

  • Kim, Youn-Il;Baek, Doo-San;Kim, Jae-Gon;Kim, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1018-1025
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    • 2011
  • Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC is a new video coding standard for media convergence by providing diverse videos of different spatial-temporal-quality layers with a single bitstream. Recently, real-time SVC codecs are being developed for the application areas of surveillance video and mobile video, etc. This paper presents the design and implementation of a H.264/SVC decoder based on an embedded DSP using Open SVC Decoder (OSD) which is a real-time software decoder designed for the PC environment. The implementation consists of porting C code of the OSD software from PC to DSP environment, profiling the complexity performance of OSD with further optimization, and integrating the optimized decoder into the TI Davinci EVM (Evaluation Module). 50 QCIF/CIF frames or 15 SD frames per second can be decoded with the implemented DSP-based SVC decoder.

A Study on Fractal Image Coding (프랙털 영상 부호화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Yeon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.559-566
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose a fast fractal image coding algorithm to shorten long time to take on fractal image encoding. For its performance evaluation, the algorithm compares with other traditional fractal coding methods. In the traditional fractal image coding methods, an original image is contracted by a factor in order to make the corresponding image to be compared with. Then, the whole area of the contracted image is searched in order to find the fixed point of contractive transformation of the original image corresponding to the contracted image. It needs a lot of searching time on encoding. However, the proposed algorithm considerably reduces encoding time by using scaling method and limited search area method. On comparison of the proposed algorithm with Jacquin's method, the proposed algorithm is dozens of times as fast as that of Jacquin's method on encoding time with a little degradation of the decoded image quality and a little increase of the compression rate. Therefore, it is found that the proposed algorithm largely improves the performance in the aspect of encoding time when compared with other fractal image coding methods.

Evaluation Performance of Speech Coder in Speech Signal Processing

  • Lee, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.177-180
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    • 2007
  • We compared CS-ACELP with QCELP speech coder in CDMA cellular under channel error environment and experimented performance with its measured value under channel error environment. Also, we specified the effective coding scheme to overcome. CS-ACELP speech coder using a LSP vector quantizer shows transparent speech quality from the results that SD is 0.92dB and outlier frames over 2dB is 2.9% in the BER 0.10% condition. CS-ACELP speech coder which is utilizing MA predictor shows better results on SVR and SEGSNR than QCELP speech coder(IS-96) adopting DPCM type predictor when bit error occurs from BER 0.01% to 0.50%.

QoS-Oriented Solutions for Satellite Broadcasting Systems

  • Vargas, Aharon;Gerstacker, Wolfgang H.;Breiling, Marco
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.558-567
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we analyze the capability of satellite broadcasting systems to offer different levels of quality of service (QoS). We focus on the European telecommunications standards institute satellite digital radio and digital video broadcasting satellite handheld (DVB-SH) standards, which have recently been proposed for satellite broadcasting communications. We propose a strategy to provide different levels of QoS for the DVB-SH standard on the basis of an extension of the interleaving scheme, referred to as molded interleaver, which supports low latency service requirements for interactive services. An extensive analysis based on laboratory measurements shows the benefits of this solution. We also present a multilevel coding (MLC) scheme with multistage decoding designed for broadcasting communications as an alternative to the existing standards, where services with different levels of QoS are provided. We present a graphical method based on mutual information for the design and evaluation of MLC systems used for broadcasting communications. Extensive simulations for a typical satellite channel show the viability of the proposed MLC scheme. Finally, we introduce multidimensional constellations in the proposed MLC scheme in order to increase the number of different protection levels.

An ACLMS-MPC Coding Method Integrated with ACFBD-MPC and LMS-MPC at 8kbps bit rate. (8kbps 비트율을 갖는 ACFBD-MPC와 LMS-MPC를 통합한 ACLMS-MPC 부호화 방식)

  • Lee, See-woo
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2018
  • This paper present an 8kbps ACLMS-MPC(Amplitude Compensation and Least Mean Square - Multi Pulse Coding) coding method integrated with ACFBD-MPC(Amplitude Compensation Frequency Band Division - Multi Pulse Coding) and LMS-MPC(Least Mean Square - Multi Pulse Coding) used V/UV/S(Voiced / Unvoiced / Silence) switching, compensation in a multi-pulses each pitch interval and Unvoiced approximate-synthesis by using specific frequency in order to reduce distortion of synthesis waveform. In integrating several methods, it is important to adjust the bit rate of voiced and unvoiced sound source to 8kbps while reducing the distortion of the speech waveform. In adjusting the bit rate of voiced and unvoiced sound source to 8 kbps, the speech waveform can be synthesized efficiently by restoring the individual pitch intervals using multi pulse in the representative interval. I was implemented that the ACLMS-MPC method and evaluate the SNR of APC-LMS in coding condition in 8kbps. As a result, SNR of ACLMS-MPC was 15.0dB for female voice and 14.3dB for male voice respectively. Therefore, I found that ACLMS-MPC was improved by 0.3dB~1.8dB for male voice and 0.3dB~1.6dB for female voice compared to existing MPC, ACFBD-MPC and LMS-MPC. These methods are expected to be applied to a method of speech coding using sound source in a low bit rate such as a cellular phone or internet phone. In the future, I will study the evaluation of the sound quality of 6.9kbps speech coding method that simultaneously compensation the amplitude and position of multi-pulse source.

The Method of fast Fractal Image Coding (고속 프랙탈 영상 부호와 기법)

  • Kim, Jeong-Il;Song, Gwang-Seok;Gang, Gyeong-In;Park, Gyeong-Bae;Lee, Gwang-Bae;Kim, Hyeon-Uk
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.1317-1328
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we propose a fast image coding algorithm to shorten long time to take on fractal image encoding. For its Performance evaluation, the algorithm compares with other traditional fractal coding methods. In the traditional fractal image coding methods, an original image is contracted by a factor in order to make the corresponding image to be compared with. Them, the whole area of the contracted image is searched in order to find the fixed point of contractive transformation of the orignal image corresponding to the contracted image. It needs a lot of searching time on encoding However, the proposed algorithm considerable reduces encoding time by using scaling method and limited search area method. On comparison of the proposed algorithm with Joaquin's method, the proposed algorithm is at least 180 times as fast as that of Jacquin's method on encoding time with a little degradation of the decoded image quality and a little increase of the compression rate. There-for, it is found that the proposed algorithm largely improves the performance in the aspect of encoding time when compared with other fractal image coding methods.

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