• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1613-1631
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• 2011

Several metrics have been reported in the literature to assess stereo image quality, mostly based on visual attention or human visual sensitivity based distortion prediction with the help of disparity information, which do not consider the combined aspects of human visual processing. In this paper, visual attention and depth assisted stereo image quality assessment model (VAD-SIQAM) is devised that consists of three main components, i.e., stereo attention predictor (SAP), depth variation (DV), and stereo distortion predictor (SDP). Visual attention is modeled based on entropy and inverse contrast to detect regions or objects of interest/attention. Depth variation is fused into the attention probability to account for the amount of changed depth in distorted stereo images. Finally, the stereo distortion predictor is designed by integrating distortion probability, which is based on low-level human visual system (HVS), responses into actual attention probabilities. The results show that regions of attention are detected among the visually significant distortions in the stereo image pair. Drawbacks of human visual sensitivity based picture quality metrics are alleviated by integrating visual attention and depth information. We also show that positive correlation with ground-truth attention and depth maps are increased by up to 0.949 and 0.936 in terms of the Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients, respectively.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.300-306
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• 2012

An image attention model and its application to image quality assessment are discussed in this paper. The attention model is based on rarity quantification, which is related to self-information to attract the attention in an image. It is relatively simpler than the others but results in taking more consideration of global contrasts between a pixel and the whole image. The visual attention model is used to develop a local distortion predictor, named color visual differences predictor (CVDP), in color images in order to effectively detect luminance and color distortions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.429-438
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• 2012

This study presents two reversible data hiding schemes based on the coefficient shifting (CS) algorithm. The first scheme uses the CS algorithm with a mean predictor in the spatial domain to provide a large payload while minimizing distortion. To guard against manipulations, the second scheme uses a robust version of the CS algorithm with feature embedding implemented in the integer wavelet transform domain. Simulations demonstrate that both the payload and peak signal-to-noise ratio generated by the CS algorithm with a mean predictor are better than those generated by existing techniques. In addition, the marked images generated by the variant of the CS algorithm are robust to various manipulations created by JPEG2000 compression, JPEG compression, noise additions, (edge) sharpening, low-pass filtering, bit truncation, brightness, contrast, (color) quantization, winding, zigzag and poster edge distortion, and inversion.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(5)
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• pp.189-192
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• 2001

A new configuration of acoustic echo canceler with stepsize predictor and comparator is proposed in this paper. Conventional acoustic echo cancelers using ES(Exponential Step)algorithm has fast convergence speed, but very weak in interference of environment. The proposed stepsize predictor and comparator improve conventional acoustic echo canceler's defects. The Stepsize predictor generates a stepsize value using residual power of error signal. The stepsize comparator selects the stepsize value that is better performance in a acoustic echo canceler using a stepsize decision factor. The Simulation results show superiority of the proposed acoustic echo canceler in environment interference.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.974-986
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• 2016

Reversible image watermarking, a type of digital data hiding, is capable of recovering the original image and extracting the hidden message with precision. A number of reversible algorithms have been proposed to achieve a high embedding capacity and a low distortion. While numerous algorithms for the achievement of a favorable performance regarding a small embedding capacity exist, the main goal of this paper is the achievement of a more favorable performance regarding a larger embedding capacity and a lower distortion. This paper therefore proposes a reversible data hiding algorithm for which a novel piecewise 2D auto-regression (P2AR) predictor that is based on a rhombus-embedding scheme is used. In addition, a minimum description length (MDL) approach is applied to remove the outlier pixels from a training set so that the effect of a multiple linear regression can be maximized. The experiment results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is superior to those of previous methods.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2009

양이 재생 환경에서 다양하고 정확한 공간 이미지 형성을 위해서는 다양하고 세분화된 머리 전달 함수가 요구된다. 방대한 양의 머리 전달 함수를 효과적으로 감축하기 위한 방법으로, 모든 방향에 대한 머리 전달 함수를 몇 개의 대표 값들을 이용해 보간을 통해 얻는 방법이 주로 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 머리 전달 함수의 보간 시 중요한 역할을 하는 보간 왜곡의 측정 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 다양한 객관적 왜곡 측정 방법을 이용하여 보간된 머리전달 함수와 본래의 머리전달 함수 간 차이를 표현하였으며 차이 값과 청취 테스트의 결과를 비교, 분석하였다. 분석 결과로부터 음원의 공간 이미지 차이를 가장 잘 반영하는 객관적 왜곡 측정 방법을 선택하였으며 이를 실제 보간 기법에 적용하였다. 3명의 사람으로부터 측정된 머리전달함수와 1개의 마네킹에서 측정된 머리 전달함수에 제안된 방법을 적용한 결과, 3명의 사람에 대한 머리전달 함수에 대해서는 멜-주파수 켑스트럼 왜곡이, 4 종류의 머리전달 함수에 대해서는 시간 영역의 신호 대 왜곡비자 음원의 공간 이미지 차이를 가장 잘 예측하는 왜곡 척도임을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.102-111
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• 2004

This paper is concerned with a deadbeat current control implementation of shunt-type three-phase active power filter (APF). Although the one-dimensional deadbeat control method can attain time-optimal response of APF compensating current, one sampling period is actually required fur its settling time. This delay is a serious drawback for this control technique. To cancel such a delay and one more delay caused by DSP execution time, the desired APF compensating current has to be predicted two sampling periods ahead. Therefore an adaptive predictor is adopted for the purpose of both predicting the control error of two sampling periods ahead and bringing the robustness to the deadbeat current control system. By adding the adaptive predictor output as an adjustment term to the reference value of half a source voltage period before, settling time is made short in a transient state. On the other hand, in a steady state, THD (total harmonic distortion) of the utility grid side AC source current can be reduced as much as possible, compared to the case that ideal identification of controlled system could be made.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2010

H.264/AVC와 같은 영상압축표준에서 움직임 추정 및 보상은 비디오 코딩 과정에서 가장 많은 연산량을 차지하는 중요한 처리과정이다. 영상 코덱에서 일반적으로 사용되는 전역 탐색 기법(Full Search)은 가장 좋은 화질을 보여주긴 하지만 매우 많은 계산량이 필요하다는 단점이 있다. 따라서 좋은 화질을 유지하면서도 계산량을 낮추기 위한 많은 고속 알고리즘들이 제안되었다. 그 중 NPDS(Normaized Partial Distortion Search)는 개선된 블록 정합 오류 연산을 이용하여 계산량을 낮추면서도 전역 탐색 기법에 거의 근접한 화질을 얻어 낼 수 있었다. 본 논문에서는 움직임 예측 벡터를 이용하여 초기에 최소 정합에러를 결정하고, 새로운 탐색 순서를 적용한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험결과에 따르면 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존의 전역탐색 알고리즘에 비해 비교적 화질 열화가 없고 계산량이 평균적으로 약 95% 감소하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.90-96
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• 1995

잡음섞인 관측데이타로부터 AR 모수를 추정하는 방법을 제안하였다. AP 방법이라고 이름붙인 이 방법은 단순하고도 신뢰성있는 적응예측기를 이용하려는 시도의 산물이다. 잡음섞인 입력수열로부터 계산된 AR 모수의 추정치보다 예측수열로부터 계산된 AR 모수의 추정치가 원래의 모수에 스펙트럼상의 거리가 더 가깝다는 것을 이론적으로 증명하였다. 실제 음성 신호와 칼만필터를 사용한 실험결과도 이론과 일치함을 보였다. 대략적으로, AP방법으로 계산된 추정치를 사용하였을때의 잡음감쇠성능은 잡음섞인 입력수열로부터 계산된 AP 모수의 추정치를 사용하였을때보다는 우수하였고, EM반복법에 의한 추정치를 사용하였을때보다는 약간 못한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 제안된 방법은 그 단순성으로 인하여 경우에 따라 더 복잡한 다른 방법의 대안으로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2012

Efficient Global Optimization (EGO) method is a global optimization technique which can select the next sample point automatically by infill sampling criteria (ISC) and search for the global minimum with less samples than what the conventional global optimization method needs. ISC function consists of the predictor and mean square error (MSE) provided from the kriging model which is a stochastic metamodel. Also the constrained EGO method can minimize the objective function dealing with the constraints under EGO concept. In this study the constrained EGO method applied to the RAE2822 airfoil shape design formulated with the constraint. But the noisy CFD data caused the kriging model to fail to depict the true function. The distorted kriging model would make the EGO deviate from the correct search. This distortion of kriging model can be handled with the interpolation(p=free) kriging model. With the interpolation(p=free) kriging model, however, the search of EGO solution was stalled in the narrow feasible region without the chance to update the objective and constraint functions. Then the accuracy of EGO solution was not good enough. So the three-step search method was proposed to obtain the accurate global minimum as well as prevent from the distortion of kriging model for the noisy constrained CFD problem.