• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.575-584
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• 2002

This paper presents a novel DCT-based embedded zero-tree coding and optimal bit allocation algorithm for image sequence coding. In order to fully utilize the structure of the conventional standard coding algorithm and improve the coding efficiency, motion estimation and compensation(ME/MC)-DCT hybrid coding structure and a modified zero-tree coding algorithm are applied. After the rearrangement DCT coefficients into pyramidal structure according to their significance on the decoded image quality, the modified embedded zero-tree coding is performed on layered coefficients. Moreover, for a given overall bit rates, a new optimal bit control scheme is proposed to achieve the best decoded image quality in the consecutive frames. The rate control scheme can also provide the equal quality of decoded image with the control of bit rate and distortion for each frame. The various simulation results are provided to evaluate the coding performance of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.1
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• pp.124-131
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• 1997

There have been many demands for th ereal-time image compression. The image compression systems have a wide range of applications. However, real-time encoding is hard to implement because it needs a large amount of computations. In particular, the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and motion estimatio require a large number of arithmetic oeprations compared to other algorithms in MPEG-2. The conventional fasdt DCT algorithms have focused on the reduction of the number of additions more cycles and more expense in realization. Because TMS320C80 has special structure, new approach for implementation of DCT is suggested. The selection of adaptive algorithm and optimization is requried TMS320C80 are analyzed an dsome adaptive DCT algorithms are selected. The DCT algorithms are optimized and implemented. Chens and lees DCT algorithms among various fast algorithms are selected because 1-D approach is effective in the view of th einternal structure of TMS320C80. According to the simulation result, Lees algorithm is more effective in speed and has little difference in precision. On the basis of the result, the possibility of DCT implementation for real-time MPEG-2 system is verified and the required number of the processor, called advanced DSP, is decided for real-time MPEG-2 encoding and decoding.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.1329-1336
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• 1996

In many image compression applications, the discrete cosine transform (DCY) is well known for is highly efficient coding performance. However, it produces undesirable block artifacts in low-bit rate coding. In addition, in many practical applications, faster computation and easier VLST implementation of DCT coefficients are also important issues. The removal of the block artifacts and faster DCT computation are therefor of practical interest. In this paper, a modified DCTcomputation scheme was investigated, which provides a simple efficient solution to the reduction of the block artifacts while achieving faster computation. We have applied the new ap-proach to the low-bit rate coding and decoding of images. Simulation results on real images have verified the improved performance of the proposed method over the standar d method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.1C
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• pp.51-58
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to find an efficient encryption scheme for digital holograms (fringe patterns) with low encryption cost. Therefore, we introduced several encryption attempts in both hologram-domain and frequency-domain (both DCT-domain and DWT-domain) on the bases of the results from analyzing the properties of the coefficients in each domain. To effectively hide the image information, 25%, 1.5625%, and 0.0244% of the original fringe pattern need to be encrypted for hologram-domain scheme, DWT-domain scheme, and DCT-domain scheme, respectively. Consequently the DCT-domain scheme was the most efficient and it is caused by the fact that the ability for DCT to concentrate the energy of a given 2-dimensional image into a small area is the best. The encryption schemes and the analyses in this paper are expected to be used effectively on the researches on encryption and others for digital holograms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11c
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• pp.85-88
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• 2000

With the rapid growth of network distributions of digitized media(audio, image, and video), there is an urgent need for copyright protection. For now watermarking is a well-known technique for copyright protection of digital data. To embed a digital watermark to the image, discrete cosine transform(DCT) and wavelet transform are commonly used. In this paper, the performance of the DCT based watermarking technique and wavelet based watermarking technique were compared and the influences of the parameter a that decides the strength of the watermarking data were considered.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.138-148
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• 2001

Digital Video (DV) coding standards for digital video cassette recorder are based mainly on DCT and variable length coding. DV has low hardware complexity but high compressed bit rate of about 26 Mb/s. Thus, it is necessary to encode video with low complex video coding at the studios and then transcode compressed video into MPEG-2 for video-on-demand system. Because these coding methods exploit DCT, transcoding in the DCT domain can reduce computational complexity by excluding duplicated procedures. In transcoding DV into MPEC-2 intra coding, multiplying matrix by transformed data is used for 4:1:1-to-4:2:2 chroma format conversion and the conversion from 2-4-8 to 8-8 DCT mode, and therefore enables parallel processing. Variance of sub block for MPEG-2 rate control is computed completely in the DCT domain. These are verified through experiments. We estimate motion hierarchically using DCT coefficients for transcoding into MPEG-2 inter coding. First, we estimate motion of a macro block (MB) only with 4 DC values of 4 sub blocks and then estimate motion with 16-point MB using IDCT of 2$\times$2 low frequencies in each sub block, and finish estimation at a sub pixel as the fifth step. ME with overlapped search range shows better PSNR performance than ME without overlapping.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 1994

A DCT map and new cldebook design algorithm based on a two-dimension discrete cosine transform (2D-DCT) is presented for coder of image vector quantizer. We divide the image into smaller subblocks, then, using 2D DCT, separate it into blocks which are hard to code but it bears most of the visual information and easy to code but little visual information, and DCT map is made. According to this map, the significant features of training image are extracted by using the 2D DCT. A codebook is generated by partitioning the training set into a binary tree based on tree-structure. Each training vector at a nonterminal node of the binary tree is directed to one of the two descendants by comparing a single feature associated with that node to a threshold. Compared with the pairwise neighbor (PPN) and classified VQ(CVQ) algorithm, about 'Lenna' and 'Boat' image, the new algorithm results in a reduction in computation time and shows better picture quality with 0.45 dB and 0.33dB differences as to PNN, 0.05dB and 0.1dB differences as to CVQ respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.8
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• pp.1085-1090
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• 1995

The Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT) is effective technique for image compression, which is widely used in the area of digital signal processing. In this paper, an efficient DCT processor is proposed and simulated by using Verilog HDL. This algorithm is improved 60% in processing speed, but it's somewhat complicate compared with Y. Arai's algorithm. This algorithm will be used efficiently for real time image processing.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.7
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• pp.116-123
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• 1999

of a block if the method uses the quantization parameter depending on the bitrate control, and consequently it influence the image quality of video. In this paper, we propose a new method using the following three steps : calculating an averaging (Average of Sum, AS) value in each pixel's block of images, earning an average value of differences between each pixels and As (Differential Averaging Block Pixels, DABP), and finally achieving an improved coefficient values by the DABP and DCT coefficients. Simulation results show that the quality of moving picture could be improved by the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.81-86
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• 2011

Watermarking is one of the methods that insist on a copyright as it append digital signals in digital informations.(image, video, ets) In this paper, we proposed a digital watermarking algorithm which improved Gradient of DCT Coefficient. This method targets MPEG-2 TM5 system and watermarking process is to be performed during Quantization DCT. Watermark was inserted on Y components of each frames. The PSNR difference between the compressed images with and without watermarking was only 0..23dB. In each case that the resulting image was reusable the normalized correlation between the extracted watermark and the original one was above 0.99.