• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.42-48
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• 2009

Purpose: The introduction of image guided radiation therapy/four-dimensional radiation therapy (IGRT/4DRT) potentially increases the accumulated dose to patients from imaging and verification processes as compared to conventional practice. It is therefore essential to investigate the level of the imaging dose to patients when IGRT/4DRT devices are installed. The imaging dose level was monitored and was compared with the use of pre-IGRT practice. Materials and Methods: A four-dimensional CT (4DCT) unit (GE, Ultra Light Speed 16), a simulator (Varian Acuity) and Varian IX unit with an on-board imager (OBI) and cone beam CT (CBCT) were installed. The surface doses to a RANDO phantom (The Phantom Laboratory, Salem, NY USA) were measured with the newly installed devices and with pre-existing devices including a single slice CT scanner (GE, Light Speed), a simulator (Varian Ximatron) and L-gram linear accelerator (Varian, 2100C Linac). The surface doses were measured using thermo luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) at eight sites-the brain, eye, thyroid, chest, abdomen, ovary, prostate and pelvis. Results: Compared to imaging with the use of single slice non-gated CT, the use of 4DCT imaging increased the dose to the chest and abdomen approximately ten-fold ($1.74{\pm}0.34$ cGy versus $23.23{\pm}3.67$cGy). Imaging doses with the use of the Acuity simulator were smaller than doses with the use of the Ximatron simulator, which were $0.91{\pm}0.89$ cGy versus $6.77{\pm}3.56$ cGy, respectively. The dose with the use of the electronic portal imaging device (EPID; Varian IX unit) was approximately 50% of the dose with the use of the L-gram linear accelerator ($1.83{\pm}0.36$ cGy versus $3.80{\pm}1.67$ cGy). The dose from the OBI for fluoroscopy and low-dose mode CBCT were $0.97{\pm}0.34$ cGy and $2.3{\pm}0.67$ cGy, respectively. Conclusion: The use of 4DCT is the major source of an increase of the radiation (imaging) dose to patients. OBI and CBCT doses were small, but the accumulated dose associated with everyday verification need to be considered.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.63-72
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a novel reconfigurable coprocessor for multimedia mobile terminals. Because most of multimedia operations require fast operations of large amount of data in the limited clock frequency, it is necessary to enhance the performance of the embedded processor that is widely used in current multimedia mobile terminals. Therefore, we proposed and have designed the coprocessor which had the ability of fast operations of multimedia data. The proposed coprocessor was not only reconfigurable, but also flexible and expandable. The proposed coprocessor has been designed by using VHDL and compared with previous reconfigurable coprocessors and a commercial embedded processor in architecture and speed. As a result of the architectural comparison, the proposed coprocessor had better structure in terms of hardware size and flexibility. Also, the simulation results of DCT application showed that the proposed coprocessor was 26 times faster than a commercial ARM processor and 11 times faster than the ARM processor with fast DCT core.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1380-1386
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose and evaluate OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)-SSB(Singe Side Band) for improving spectral efficiency. The proposed system is based on OFDM system using DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) and DHT(Discrete Hilbert Transform) for SSB modulation, this proposed system transmit a BPSK modulation signal through a single sideband and BPSK modulation signal through the other single sideband. In other words, we design and evaluate the proposed system which transmit two BPSK signal through each other single sideband. Also each BPSK BER performance is similar with theoretical BPSK BER performance. the proposed system transmits BPSK signal using half of spectrum of conventional OFDM system or transmit two BPSK signal in same time.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2000

In this paper we present a face recognition and face detection algorithm in MPEG compressed video. The proposed method consists three stage of processing steps. The first step is to produce a spatially reduced DC image form MPEG compressed video for processing. And the second step is face detection on reduced DC image. Finally, the last step is face recognition on partially extracted compressed frames which contain the detected faces. The spatially reduced DC image is produced from two dimensional inverse DCT of the DC coefficient and the first two AC coefficients. The face detection is performed on DC image and face recognition is performed on one extracted frame per GOP by using the K-L transform. In order to evaluate the proposed method, we carried out experiments on video database. The experiment results show the proposed method is very efficient and helpful for target tasks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.106-113
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• 2003

The modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) and inverse MDCT (IMDCT) are employed in subband/transform coding schemes as the analysis/synthesis filter bank based on time domain aliasing cancellation (TDAC). And the MDCT and IMDCT are the most computational intensive operations in layer III of the MPEG audio coding standard. In this paper, we propose a new efficient algorithm for the MDCT/IMDCT computation in various audio coding systems. It is based on the MDCT/IMDCT computation algorithm using the discrete cosine transforms (DCTs), and It employs two discrete cosine transform of type II (DCT-II) to compute the MDCT/IMDCT In addition, it takes advantage of ability in calculating the MDCT/IMDCT computation, where the length of a data block Is divisible by 4. The Proposed algorithm in this paper requires less calculation complexity than the existing method does. Also, it can be implemented by the parallel structure, therefore its structure is particularly suitable for VLSI realization

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2014

Blocking and ringing artifacts continue to be the most serious defects that occur in images and video streams compressed to low bit rates using block-based discrete cosine transform(DCT) compression standards. These artifacts contain the high frequency components near the block and the edge boundaries. Usually the lowpass filter can remove them. However, simple lowpass filter results into blur by removing important information such as edges at the same time. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel postfiltering algorithm that calculate the weight value based on the intensity similarity in the neighboring pixels and multiply this weight to the Gaussian lowpass filter coefficient. Experimental results show that the proposed technique provides satisfactory performance in both objective and subjective image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.469-472
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• 2005

This paper propose about effective speech feature parameter that have robust character in effect of noise in realizing speech recognition system. Established MFCC that is the basic parameter used to ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition) and DCTCs that use DCT in basic parameter. Also, proposed delta-Cepstrum and delta-delta-Cepstrum parameter that reconstruct Cepstrum to have information for variation of speech. And compared recognition performance in using HMM. For dimension reduction of each parameter LDA algorithm apply and compared recognition. Results are presented reduced dimension delta-delta-Cepstrum parameter in using LDA recognition performance that improve more than existent parameter in noise environment of various condition.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.341-351
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• 2003

Digital image watermarking is the method that can protect the copyright of the image by embedding copyright information, which is called watermark. Watermarking must have robustness to intentional or unintentional data changing, called attack. The conventional watermarking schemes are robust to waveform attacks such as image compression, filtering etc. However, they are vulnerable to geometrical attacks such as rotation, scaling, translation, and cropping. Accordingly, this paper proposes new watermarking scheme that is robust to geometrical attacks by using invariant centroid. Invariant centroid is the gravity center of a central area in a gray scale image that remains unchanged even when the image is attacked by RST including cropping and proposed scheme uses invariant centroids of original and inverted image as the template. To make geometrically invariant domain, template and angle compensated Log -Polar Map(LPM) is used. Then Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT) is performed and the watermark is embedded into the DCT coefficients. Futhermore, to prevent a watermarked image from degrading due to interpolation during coordinate system conversion, only the image of the watermark signal is extracted and added to the original image. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is especially robust to RST attacks including cropping.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.303-316
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• 2021

Digital content protection has recently become an important requirement in biometrics-based authentication systems due to the challenges involved in designing a feasible and effective user authentication method. Biometric approaches are more effective than traditional methods, and simultaneously, they cannot be considered entirely reliable. This study develops a reliable and trustworthy method for verifying that the owner of the biometric traits is the actual user and not an impostor. Watermarking-based approaches are developed using a combination of a color face image of the user and a mobile equipment identifier (MEID). Employing watermark techniques that cannot be easily removed or destroyed, a blind image watermarking scheme based on fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCuT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) is proposed. FDCuT is applied to the color face image to obtain various frequency coefficients of the image curvelet decomposition, and for high frequency curvelet coefficients DCT is applied to obtain various frequency coefficients. Furthermore, mid-band frequency coefficients are modified using two uncorrelated noise sequences with the MEID watermark bits to obtain a watermarked image. An analysis is carried out to verify the performance of the proposed schema using conventional performance metrics. Compared with an existing approach, the proposed approach is better able to protect multimedia data from unauthorized access and will effectively prevent anyone other than the actual user from using the identity or images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.17-31
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• 2004

This paper proposes an algorithm for the robust transmission of video in error Prone environment using multiple description codingby optimal split of DCT coefficients and rate-distortionoptimization framework. In MDC, a source signal is split Into several coded streams, which is called descriptions, and each description is transmitted to the decoder through different channel. Between descriptions, structured correlations are introduced at the encoder, and the decoder exploits this correlation to reconstruct the original signal even if some descriptions are missing. It has been shown that the MDC is more resilient than the singe description coding(SDC) against severe packet loss ratecondition. But the excessive redundancy in MDC, i.e., the correlation between the descriptions, degrades the RD performance under low PLR condition. To overcome this Problem of MDC, we propose a hybrid MDC method that controls the SDC/MDC switching according to channel condition. For example, the SDC is used for coding efficiency at low PLR condition and the MDC is used for the error resilience at high PLR condition. To control the SDC/MDC switching in the optimal way, RD optimization framework are used. Lagrange optimization technique minimizes the RD-based cost function, D+M, where R is the actually coded bit rate and D is the estimated distortion. The recursive optimal pet-pixel estimatetechnique is adopted to estimate accurate the decoder distortion. Experimental results show that the proposed optimal split of DCT coefficients and SD/MD switching algorithm is more effective than the conventional MU algorithms in low PLR conditions as well as In high PLR condition.