• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3C
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• pp.387-397
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• 2004

The wavelet transform providing both of the frequency and spatial information of an image is proved to be very much effective for the compression of images, and recently lot of studies on coding algorithms for images decomposed by the wavelet transform together with the multi-resolution theory are going on. This paper proposes a quadtree decomposition method of image compression applied to the images decomposed by wavelet transform by using the correlations between pixels and '0'data grouping. Since the coefficients obtained by the wavelet transform have high correlations between scales and high concentrations, the quadtree method can reduce the data quantity effectively. the experimental infrared image with 256${\times}$256 size and 8〔bit〕, was used to compare the performances of the existing and the proposed compression methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.127-137
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the method of extracting edge information from MPEG video sequences for the detection of scene changes. In a the proposed method, five significant AC coefficients of each MPEG block are utilized to obtain edge images from the MPEG video. AC edge images obtained by the proposed scheme not only produce better object boundary information than conventional methods using only DC coefficients, but also can reduce the boundary effects produced by DC-based. Since the AC edge image contains the content information of each frame, it can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene change as well as the content-based video query. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene changes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.552-555
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• 2007

지상파 DMB등에서 많이 사용하고 있는 기술은 H.264이다. 이 H.264는 적은 비트율에 비하여 고해상도의 영상을 만들어 낸다. 이런 손실압축을 하기 위해서 인트라와 인터등과 같은 전처리 과정과 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform), 양자화 등등이 존재하지만 H.264에서 실제로 압축이 되는 부분은 엔트로피코딩이다. H.264에서는 Exp-Golomb과 CAVLC(Context-Adaptive Variable Length Coding), CABAC(Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding) 세 가지를 지원하고 있다. 이중 CAVLC는 테이블을 기반으로한 압축기법을 사용한다. 테이블을 이용할 때는 코드워드의 길이와 값을 비교하는 방식을 사용하게 된다. 이는 수 많은 메모리 접속으로 인한 전력소모와 연산지연을 가져온다. 본 논문에서는 전송된 비트스트림에서 데이터를 찾을 때 코드워드의 길이와 값을 테이블에 비교해서 찾지 않고 테이블에 존재하는 규칙을 수식화 하여 찾을 수 있도록 하였다. 이는 최초 '1'이 나올때까지의 '0'의 개수와 그 이후 존재하는 코드의 값을 이용하여서 각 단계에 필요한 데이터를 추출해 낸다. 위와 같은 알고리즘을 이용하여 VHDL언어로 설계하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10A
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• pp.1772-1781
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템의 성능을 구하였다. OFDM/HL-16QAM은 계층적 16QAM을 채용하는 OFDM 시스템으로서 열악한 다중경로 페이딩 환경에서 고품질의 고속 데이터 전송이 가능하고 서로 다른 품질의 두 가지 데이터 서비스를 동시에 제공할 수 있는 시스템이다. 성능평가를 위한 무선 채널로서는 AWGN과 다중경로 페이딩이 존재하는 무선 환경을 고려했다. 각각의 채널환경에서의 시뮬레이션을 통해 데이터 전송시의 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템에 대해 Eb/No와 반송파 수에 따른 BER 성능을 구해냈고, 이로부터 고품질과 저품질의 데이터 서비스를 모두 만족시키기 위해 요구되는 최소 평균 SNR 값을 제시했다. 이미지 전송에 응용하기 위한 방안으로는, 영상 압축을 위해 DCT 기반의 고정길이 부호기법을 채용하는 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템을 제안하고, 수신 영상의 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise power Ratio)을 최대화시키는 최적 계층 변조 파라미터를 구했다. 또한, 최적화된 계층 변조 파라미터를 사용하는 경우, 제안한 시스템을 통한 수신 영상 품질이 기존의 OFDM/16QAM 시스템보다 우수하다는 것을 보였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 수신 영상에 대한 PSNR의 상한과 하한을 구해냈다. 성능분석 결과들로부터 제안한 OFDM/HL-16QAM 시스템이 데이터와 이미지 전송에 적합한 시스템이라는 것을 알 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.520-529
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• 2007

In this paper, we study the characteristics of parameters which are related to performance of MCTF which is a key technique for wavelet-based scalable video coding, and propose an improved MCTF method. The proposed MCTF method adopts the motion estimation of which motion vector field is distributed more uniformly using variable block sizes. By using the proposed method, the decomposition performance of temporal filter is improved, and the energy in high-frequency frames is reduced. It can help the entropy coder to generate lower bitrate. From simulation results, we verify the decomposed energy on high-frequency frame using the proposed method is reduced by 25.86% at the most in terms of variance of the high-frequency frame.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.40-56
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• 2017

Since the progress of digital medical imaging techniques, it has been needed to compress the variety of medical images. In medical imaging, reversible compression of image's region of interest (ROI) which is diagnostically relevant is considered essential. Then, improving the global compression rate of the image can also be obtained by separately coding the ROI part and the remaining image (called background). For this purpose, the present work proposes an efficient reversible discrete cosine transform (RDCT) based embedded image coder designed for lossless ROI coding in very high compression ratio. Motivated by the wavelet structure of DCT, the proposed rearranged structure is well coupled with a lossless embedded zerotree wavelet coder (LEZW), while the background is highly compressed using the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) technique. Results coding shows that the performance of the proposed new coder is much superior to that of various state-of-art still image compression methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.93-114
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• 2007

Vaccinium uliginosum L. (VU) is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium has berry fruit. This study was performed to investigate the effect of water extract of Vaccinium uliginosum L. and fractions on inhibition of melanogenesis and wrinkle formation. One hundred grams of the Vaccinium uliginosum L. was extracted with 2,000 mL of water ($90^{\circ}C$, 16h, 2 times). The water extracts were lyophilized and stored at $4^{\circ}C$ until used. Vaccinium uliginosum L. extracts showed scavenger activities on DPPH radical, superoxide anion radical, hydroxyl radical, hydrogen peroxide and singlet oxygen radical, dose dependently. And VU extract and fractions reduced melanin contents on B16F10 melanoma and inhibited the expression of melanogenesis-related proteins, tyrosinase, tyrosinase-related protein (TRP-1) and dapachrometa utomerase (Dct, TRP-2). Moreover VU extract and fractions stimulated procollagen production and inhibited MMP-1 production in human fibroblast. And it decreased degree of wrinkle formation in hairless mouse skin that induced by DVB irradiation for 9 weeks. From the above results, it is possible that Vaccinium uliginosum L. may be developed to be the health functional food and functional cosmetics that have anti-melanogenesis and anti-wrinkle effect.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.225-254
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to contrast the patterns of realization and understanding of refusal speech acts between Korean and Thai learners. This study intends to answer the following questions: (1) Do Koreans and Thai learners perform refusal speech acts differently? (2) Do Koreans and Thai learners understand refusal speech acts differently? A DCT and a follow-up interview were conducted to collect data of two groups of 30 native Korean speakers and 30 native Thai speakers. For research question 1, we analyzed the refusal strategy and provided reasons given by Koreans and Thai learners depending on the context. For research question 2, we ran a chi-squared test on the elements of the follow-up interviews, such as the weight of burden of refusing, and whether the participant would actually refuse or not. The differences between the refusal strategies of the two groups could be categorized by the preceding inducing speech act. In refusing a request, the difference was prominent in the apologizing strategy, whereas in refusing a suggestion, the difference was mainly in the direct refusal strategy. When refusing an invitation, the most evident difference was the number of refusal strategies employed. When providing an explanation of refusal to people with high social status, Koreans gave more specific reasons for refusals, whereas Thai learners tended to use more vague reasons. Moreover, when refusing an invitation, Koreans primarily mentioned the relationship, and Thai learners showed the spirit of Greng Jai. When asked the weight of burden of refusing, Koreans felt pressured to refuse a request from people with high social status, and a suggestion or invitation from people with high level of intimacy while Thai learners found it highly difficult to make a refusal in all cases. In answering whether they would actually refuse or not, Koreans tried not to make a refusal to people with high level of intimacy, and such a trend was not evident among the Thai. This study can help us better understand the learner's pragmatic failure, and serve as a basis in establishing a curriculum for teaching speech acts.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.117-123
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• 2018

In this study, we suggest a fast image reconstruction scheme using Poisson equation from image gradient domain. In this approach, using the Poisson equation, a guided vector field is created by employing source and target images within a selected region at the first step. Next, the guided vector is used in generating the result image. We analyze the problem of reconstructing a two-dimensional function that approximates a set of desired gradients and a data term. The joined data and gradients are able to work like modifying the image gradients while staying close to the original image. Starting with this formulation, we have a screened Poisson equation known in physics. This equation leads to an efficient solution to the problem in FFT domain. It represents the spatial filters that solve the two-dimensional screened Poisson model and shows gradient scaling to be a well-defined sharpen filter that generalizes Laplace sharpening. We demonstrate the results using a discrete cosine transformation based this Poisson model.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.151-159
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nasal deviation in mandibular prognathism with mandibulo-facial asymmetry. There were 40 patients whose mandibular prognathism with/without facial asymmetry were treated with orthognathic surgery from March 2002 to October 2003. The Group A(n=20) had a mandibulo-facial asymmetry over 6mm menton deviation in cephalogram PA and the Group B(n=20) had a mandibular prognathism. The preoperative frontal photograph, cephalogram PA and three dimensionalcomputed tomography(divided in hard tissuse image and soft tissue image) of two group was evaluated NDA(nasal deviation angle) and MDA(mandibular deviation angle). The NDA was statistical difference between asymmetry Group A and symmetry Group B(p<0.01), and was deviated in affected side of asymmetry. The MDA were also statistical difference between Group A and Group B(p<0.01), however the measurements of MDA between the frontal photograph, 3D-CT and cephalogram PA were similar to each others. The low correlation of NDA between frontal photograph and cephalogram PA in Group A and B demonstrate that we couldn't assess nasal deviation in cephalogram PA. It could be concluded that patients with mandibulo-facial asymmetry have a nasal deviation and clinician must remember this fact when they assess and treat patients.