• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.87-94
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• 2007

Imbalances in focus, luminance and color between stereo Pairs could cause disparity vector estimation error and increment of transmission data. If the distribution of errors in residual image is large, it may influence to lowering of compression performance. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient balancing method between stereo pairs to reduce the effect. For this, we registrated stereo images using a FFT based method to consider the pixels in the occluded region, we eliminated the pixels of blocks which has large error of disparity vector estimation in balancing function estimation. The balancing function has estimated using histogram specification, local information of target image and residual image between stereo images. Experiments show that the proposed method is effective in error distribution, PSNR and disparity vector estimation. We expect that our method can be improving compression efficiency in stereo coding system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2001

For efficient transmission of 3DTV video signals, it is necessary to eliminate the inherent redundancy between the stereo image pairs. Though disparity estimation provides a powerful tool for eliminating the redundancy, it is very time consuming. This paper presents a novel disparity estimation scheme based on the human visual property. The disparity vectors of image blocks spatially adjacent to the current block are used as initial guesses fur the disparity vector of the current block. In addition, mixed-resolution coding is applied to reduce the computational complexity of disparity estimation. Through computer simulations on a stereoscopic sequence we show that the proposed method gives rise .to visually pleasing results with much reduced computational complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.196-206
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• 2004

This paper presents an efficient joint disparity-motion estimation algorithm for stereo sequence CODEC. Disparity vectors are estimated by the left and right motion vectors and previous disparity vectors for every frame. In order to obtain more accurate disparity vectors. we include a spatial prediction Process after the feint estimation. From joint estimation and spatial prediction, we can obtain accurate disparity vectors and then Increase coding efficiency. Finally, we proposed the backward quadtree decomposition. which helps the encoder to have a more detailed disparity vector map without transmitting additional coding bits for quadtree information. We confirmed superior performance of the proposed method through computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.343-343
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new fast algorithm which reduces search range by checking reliability of predicted vector in multi-view video coding (MVC). Block position matching algorithm is implemented to improve the proposed algorithm. The processing time is decreased by from 40 to 60% in each frame in the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.560-563
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• 2007

다시점 영상은 관찰자가 원하는 시점을 선택할 수 있고, 자연스러운 입체감을 제공한다. 하지만 카메라의 수가 증가함에 따라 데이터양이 늘어나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 시.공간적 상관성을 고려한 시점 간 움직임 벡터 예측 기법을 제안한다. 인접한 시점의 영상이 비슷한 움직임 정보를 가지는 특징을 이용해 현재 블록의 움직임 벡터의 예측간을 계산한다. 또한 시간적으로 연속한 프레임의 경우 비슷한 변이 벡터를 가지므로, 이전 프레임의 변이 벡터 정보를 현재 매크로블록의 변이벡터로 활용하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.788-792
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a method that uses the constrained inter-view prediction for multi-view video coding. In the multi-view video, there exists occluded area because of the locations and angles of cameras. This increases the computational complexity, as it still uses both reference pictures for predicting the area which is not shown in the current frame. In this paper, we propose a method that does not use the inter-view prediction in cases of the occluded macroblocks. Experimental results show that benefits about 4% can be achieved compared with the conventional approaches.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.161-170
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• 2012

This paper presents an efficient and robust approach for determining the correspondence between unbalanced stereo images. The disparity vectors were used instead of feature points, such as corners, to calculate a correspondence relationship. For a faster and optimal estimation, the vectors were classified into several regions, and the homography of each region was calculated using the RANSAC algorithm. The correspondence image was calculated from the images transformed by each homography. Although it provided good results under normal conditions, it was difficult to obtain reliable results in an unbalanced stereo pair. Therefore, a balancing method is also proposed to minimize the unbalance effects using the histogram specification and structural similarity index. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach outperformed the baseline algorithms with respect to the speed and peak-signal-to-noise ratio. This work can be applied to practical fields including 3D depth map acquisition, fast stereo coding, 2D-to-3D conversion, etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.259-262
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 다시점 비디오와 깊이 정보의 상관도를 이용해서 현재 JVT(joint video team)에서 표준화 된 다시점 비디오 부호화 (multi-view video coding : MVC)의 참조 소프트웨어인 JMVM(joint multi-view video model)을 기반으로 하여 효율적인 다시점 비디오 압축 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 일반적인 비디오 부호화 방식은 단일 시점에 대한 비디오 부호화 기술이기 때문에 다시점 비디오 전송을 위해서는 시점 당 각각 전송 채널에 필요하다. 하지만 다시점 비디오 부호화 기법을 이용하게 되면, 단일 전송 채널을 이용하여 전송이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법은 입력된 다시점 입력 영상과 해당 하는 깊이 정보를 이용하여 시점 간의 예측 방법의 효율성을 높였다. 다시점 입력 영상과 깊이 정보의 전역 변이 벡터 (global disparity vector : GDV)의 상관도를 이용하였으며, 다시점 영상과 깊이 정보를 동시에 전송해야 할 경우 복잡도를 낮출 수 있고, 약 $0.01{\sim}0.1dB$의 PSNR 이득을 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.170-171
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다시점 영상 부호화 시 효율적인 부호화를 위해 이웃한 시점 영상의 부호화 정보를 이용하는데 있어 영상 간의 최대 시차 정보를 이용하여 부호화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 다시점 비디오 부호화 방법은 일반적인 단일 시점 영상의 부호화와 같이 화면 내 참조, 화면 간 참조를 수행할 뿐만 아니라, 이웃한 시점의 영상을 참조하여 부호화 하는 시점 간 참조를 수행한다. 현재 표준화가 진행중인 HEVC 기반의 다시점 부호화 방법에서는, 시점 간 참조 시 이미 부호화가 완료된 이웃한 블록으로부터 시차 벡터 (Disparity vector)를 유도하여 부호화 하는 방법도 사용된다. 이 때 이웃한 블록들로부터 얻어낼 수 있는 시차 벡터가 여러 개일 때, 최대의 절대값을 갖는 시차 벡터를 선택함으로써 부호화 효율을 높일 수 있다.