• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 1999

기존의 이산 웨이브렛 변환 기반 플랙탈 영상 압축은 프랙탈 부호화시 고정된 블럭 크기를 사용하므로 낮은 비트율에서 PSNR을 감소시킨다. 본 논문에서는 플랙탈 부호화시 가변 블록 크기를 사용하여 PSNR을 개선하는 이산 웨이브렛 기반 프랙탈 영상 부호화를 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 먼저 이산 웨이브렛 변환 계수들의 절대값을 최하고, 같은 공간 영역에 해당하는 다른 고주파 부대역의 이산 웨이브렛 변환 계수들을 묶어서 레인지 블록과 도메인 블록을 만든다. 그리고 각각의 레인지 블록 레벨의 레인지 블록에 대한 프랙탈 코드를 지정하고, 프랙탈 부호화,\ulcorner0\ulcorner부호화와 스칼라 양자화중 하나를 선택하여 만든 집합인 결정 트리 C를 만들고 스칼라 양자화기의 집합 q를 선택한다. 웨이브렛 계수, 프랙탈 코드와 결정 트리를 적응적 산술 부호화기를 사용하여 엔트로피 nq호화 한다. 제안된 방법은 낮은 비트율에서 PSNR을 개선하고 복원 영상의 블록킹 현상을 제거한다. 실험 결과를 통해서 제안한 방법은 기존의 프랙탈 부호화 방법과 웨이브렛 변환 부호화 방법에 비해 더 좋은 PSNR과 더 높은 압축율을 얻었다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제15권
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• pp.93-101
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• 1995

Fractal coding is a promising method for image compression, but it has not lived up to its promise as low bit-rate image compression scheme. The existing algorithms for finding self-mapping contractive transforms are computationally expensive and offer a poor rate-quality tradeoff. In this paper, we propose a segment based fractal coding. We classify the range blocks into shade, midrange or edge blocks, and segment edge block along the edge. And we apply midrange coding scheme for each segment. Our experiments show that our method gives better rate-qualty trade of than current fractal block coding methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.242-259
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• 2015

Three-dimensional video coding is one of the main challenges restricting the widespread applications of 3D video and free viewpoint video. In this paper, a novel fractal coding algorithm with motion-vector-field-based motion estimation for depth map sequence is proposed. We firstly add pre-search restriction to rule the improper domain blocks out of the matching search process so that the number of blocks involved in the search process can be restricted to a smaller size. Some improvements for motion estimation including initial search point prediction, threshold transition condition and early termination condition are made based on the feature of fractal coding. The motion-vector-field-based adaptive hexagon search algorithm on the basis of center-biased distribution characteristics of depth motion vector is proposed to accelerate the search. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reach optimum levels of quality and save the coding time. The PSNR of synthesized view is increased by 0.56 dB with 36.97% bit rate decrease on average compared with H.264 Full Search. And the depth encoding time is saved by up to 66.47%. Moreover, the proposed fractal depth map sequence codec outperforms the recent alternative codecs by improving the H.264/AVC, especially in much bitrate saving and encoding time reduction.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.559-566
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 프랙털 영상 부호화시 부호화 시간이 장시간 소요되는 단점을 보완하기 위한 고속 프랙털 영상 부호화 알고리즘을 제안하고, 그 알고리즘의 성능을 기존의 방법과 비교 분석하였다. 기존의 프랙털 영상 부호화 방식은 원 영상을 축소하여 비교될 영상으로 만들고, 축소된 영상에 대한 원 영상의 축소변환의 고정점을 얻기 위해 축소된 영상의 전체 영역을 탐색함으로써 많은 부호화 시간이 소요되었다. 그러나 제안한 알고리즘은 스케일링과 탐색영역제한 방식을 이용하여 부호화 시간을 대폭 단축시켰다. 그 결과로서 Jacquin 방법과의 비교 시 제안한 알고리즘은 수십배 이상의 부호화 시간을 단축시켰으며, 복원된 영상의 화질은 다소 감소하고 압축률은 약간 증가하였다. 따라서 제안한 알고리즘이 기존의 방법들에 비해 부호화 시간 면에서 크게 향상되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.305-312
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• 1996

A new three dimensional fractal coding is proposed with a perceptually enhanced matching. Since most of medical images (e.g. computed tomoyaphy or magnetic resonance images) have three dimensional characters, searching regions are extended to adjacent slices. For a perceptually enhanced matching, a high frequency boost filter is used for pre-filtering images to be encoded, and a least mean square error matching is applied to the edge enhanced Images rather than the original images. From simulation with magnetic resonance images($255\times255$, 8bits/pixel), reconstructed images by the proposed compression algorithm show much improved subjective image quality with higher peak signnal-to-noise ratio compared to those by existing fractal coding algorithms at compression ratios of about 10.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.131-134
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• 1995

A three dimensional fractal coding with a perceptually enhanced matching is proposed. Since most of medical images (e.g. computed tomography or magnetic resonance image) have three dimensional character, the searching region is extended to adjacent slices. For perceptually enhanced matching, a high frequency booster filter is used for prefiltering of the original image, and the least mean square error matching is applied to this edge enhanced image rather than the original image. From the simulation with the magnetic resonance images ($255{\times}255$, 8bits/pixel). the proposed algorithm provides excellent image quality with compression rations higher than 10. Compared to existing fractal coding the algorithm also provides better subjective image quality with higher compression ratio.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1999년도 KOBA 방송기술 워크샵 KOBA Broadcasting Technology Workshop
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• pp.57.2-62
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• 1999

Fractal coding is image compression techniques using one of image characteristics self-transformability. In fractal image coding, the encoding process is to select the domain block similar to a range block. The reconstructed image quality of fractal image coding depends on similitude between a range block and the selected domain block. Domain block similar to a range blocks. In fact, the error of the reconstructed image adds up the generated error in encoding process and the generated error in decoding process. But current domain block estimating function considered only the encoding error. We propose a domain block estimating function to consider not only the encoding error but also the decoding error. By computer simulation, it was verified to obtain the high quality reconstructed image.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2003

최근, 새로운 영상 부호화로서 프랙탈 부호화가 높은 압축률의 가능성으로 폭넓게 연구되고 있다. 프랙탈 부호화는 초기에 흑백 영상과 선영상의 압축 방식으로서 검토되었다. 더욱이 Jacquin은 프랙탈 변환(LIFS)을 제안하여 프랙탈 부호화를 농담 영상으로 확장하였다. 현재, Gram-Schmidt 직교화 방식을 이용한 YTKT의 LIFS방식 등은 정지 영상 압축의 국제표준 방식인 JPEG와 경합이 가능할 정도의 압축률이 얻어졌다. 본 연구에서는 YTKT방식의 직교화 연산 알고리즘의 연산량을 크게 삭감할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1998년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.521-525
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for fractal image coding to shorten long time to take on fractal image encoding. For its performance evaluation, the algorithm compares with other traditional fractal coding methods. In the traditional fractal image coding methods, an original image is contracted by a factor in order to make an image to be matched. Then, the whole area of the contracted image is searched in order to find contractive transformation point of the original image corresponding to the contacted image. It needs a lot of searching time on encoding and remains limitation in the improvement of compression ratio. However, the proposed algorithm not only considerably reduces encoding tin e by using scaling method and limited search area method but also improves compression ratio by using bit-plane. When comparing the proposed algorithm with Jacquin's method, the proposed algorithm provides much shorter encoding time and better compression ratio with a little degradation of the decoded image quality than Jacquin's method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.713-724
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• 2005

This paper focuses on the problem of key-frames coding and proposes a new promising approach based on the use of fractals. The summary, made of a set of key-frames selected from a full-length video sequence, is coded by using a 3D fractal scheme. This allows the video presentation tool to expand the video sequence in a "natural" way by using the property of the fractals to reproduce the signal at several resolutions. This feature represents an important novelty of this work with respect to the alternative approaches, which mainly focus on the compression ratio without taking into account the presentation aspect of the video summary. In devising the coding scheme, we have taken care of the computational complexity inherent in fractal coding. Accordingly, the key-frames are first wavelet transformed, and the fractal coding is then applied to each subband to reduce the search range. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.