• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1792-1801
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• 2003

In these days, image mosaic is getting interest in the field of advertisement, tourism, game, medical imaging, and so on with the development of internet technology and the performance of personal computers. The main problem of mage mosaic is searching corresponding points correctly in the overlapped area between images. However, previous methods requires a lot of CPU times and data processing for finding corresponding points. And they need repeated recording with a revolution of 360 degree around objects or background. This paper presents a new image mosaic method which generates a panorama image from a video sequence recorded by a general video camera. Our method finds the corresponding points between two successive images by using a new direction oriented 3­step block matching methods. Experimental results show that the suggested method is more efficient than the methods based on existing block matching algorithm, such as full search and K­step search algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.2209-2215
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• 2014

This paper presents, a deinterlacing method by improving the Direction-Oriented Interpolation (DOI) technique. The technique is considered to be a very strong tool for intrafield-based deinterlacing. However, DOI has some problems such as long processing time, wrong edge detection in periodic pattern. To remedy this problem, we replace the full search in DOI by a two-step search to reduce processing time and introduces two additional processes to improve image quality. In the proposed method, the spatial direction vectors (SDVs) misread data are reconsidered to prevent them utilizing in the next interpolation step, resulting in an accurate deinterlacing method. We conduct experiments with ISO experimental images to compare the proposed method with the existing methods including line evarage (LA), edge-based line averaging (ELA), DOI, selective deinterlacing algorithm (SDA). Experimental results show the proposed method gives better performance in objective and subjective quality than existing deinterlacing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.267-269
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• 2013

본 논문은 제한된 1비트 변환 (Constrained One-Bit Transform : C1BT) 알고리즘의 정합 오차 기준의 동적 범위를 확장하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. C1BT는 정합 오차 기준으로 SAD (Sum of Absolute Differences)를 사용하지 않고 CNNMP (Constrained Number of Non-Matching Points)를 사용하여 하드웨어 구현을 용이하게 하고 속도를 대폭 향상시켰다. 이는 기존의 움직임 예측 방법인 전역 탐색 알고리즘 (Full Search Algorithm: FSA)과 비교하여 연산량을 크게 줄였으나 움직임 예측의 정확도를 현저히 감소시켰다. 이 점을 개선하기 위해 이 논문에서는 C1BT의 정합 오차 기준을 확장하여 움직임 예측의 정확도를 높이는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존의 C1BT와 제안하는 알고리즘을 비교한 결과에서 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존의 C1BT에 비해 움직임 예측의 정확도의 기준인 PSNR 측면에서 더 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.336-338
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• 2009

This letter proposes a complexity reduction method to speed up the noiseless decoding of a bit-sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC) decoder. This scheme fully utilizes the group of consecutive arithmetic-coded symbols known as the decoding band and the significance tree structure sorted in order of significance at every decoding band. With the same audio quality, the proposed method reduces the number of calculations that are performed during the noiseless decoding in BSAC to about 22% of the amount of calculations with the conventional full-search method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.41.3-41
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• 2002

Motion estimation using Full-Search(FS) and Block-Matching Algorithm(BMA) is often used in the case of moving object tracking by vision sensors. However these methods often miss the real-time vision data because these schemes suffer the heavy computational load. When the image size of moving object is changed in an image frame according to the distance between the camera of mobile robot and the moving object, the tracking performance of a moving object may decline with these methods because of the shortage of active handling. In this paper, the variable-representative block that can reduce a lot of data computations, is defined and optimized by changing the size of representative block accor...

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.601-604
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• 1999

We propose a new hierarchical motion estimator architecture that supports the advanced prediction mode of recent low bit-rate video coders such as H.263 and MPEG-4. In the proposed VLSI architecture, a basic searching unit (BSU) is commonly utilized for all hierarchical levels to make a systematic and small sized motion estimator. Since the memory bank of the proposed architecture provides scheduled data flow for calculating 8$\times$8 block-based sum of absolute difference (SAD), both a macroblock-based motion vector (MV) and four block-based MVs are simultaneously obtained for each macroblock in the advanced prediction mode. The proposed motion estimator gives similar coding performance compared with full search block matching algorithm (FSBMA) while achieving small size and satisfying the advanced prediction mode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2011

비디오 압축 기법에서 움직임 추정 (Motion Estimation)은 매우 중요한 부분을 차지하는데, 그것은 움직임 추정이 화질과 인코딩 시간에 직접적으로 영향을 미치기 때문이다. 가장 기본적인 움직임 추정 기법은 전역 탐색 기법 (Full Search Algorithm, FSA)인데, 이는 가장 좋은 화질을 보여주긴 하지만 매우 많은 계산량을 필요로 한다는 단점이 있다. 따라서 좋은 화질을 유지하면서도 계산량을 낮추기 위한 많은 고속 탐색 알고리즘들이 제안되었다. 이 논문에서는 고속 탐색 알고리듬 중 하드웨어 구현 시 많은 이점을 가진 1비트 변환 알고리듬 (One-bit Transform-based Motion Estimation, 1BT)을 소개하고 1비트 변환 알고리듬의 방법에 있어서 기존의 1비트 변환 알고리듬의 PSNR을 유지하면서 좀 더 빠른 속도로 인코딩이 가능한 커널 및 알고리듬을 제시한다. 실험결과에 따르면 우리가 제안한 알고리듬은 기존의 1비트 변환 알고리듬과 비슷한 PSNR을 유지하면서 속도가 향상된 것을 볼 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.11A
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• pp.1889-1896
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• 2001

This paper proposes the hierachically regularized motion estimation technique for the efficient and accurate motion estimation. To use hierachical technique increases the reliability of motion vectors. And the regularization of neighbor vectors decreases bit rate of motion vectors. Also, using fast motion estimation algorithm with a few candidate vectors, the processing time added by regularization can be decreased. In the result of the experiment, the fast motion estimation with hierachical regularization technique achieves less computations and decreases estimation and distribution of false vectors.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.405-414
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• 2004

In this paper, we designed a 128-bits block cipher, Circle-g, which has 18-rounds modified Feistel structure and analyzed its secureness by the differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. We could have full diffusion effect from the two rounds of the Circle-g. Because of the strong diffusion effect of the F-function of the algorithm, we could get a 9-rounds DC characteristic with probability 2^{-144} and a 12-rounds LC characteristic with probability 2^{-144}. For the Circle-g with 128-bit key, there is no shortcut attack, which is more efficient than the exhaustive key search, for more than 12 rounds of the algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 1999

In this paper, picture set filter is proposed for preserving compression ratio and video qualify. This filter controls the compression ratio of each frame depending on the correlation to the reference frame by selectively eliminating less important high-resolution areas. Consequently, video quality can be preserved and bit rate can be controlled adaptively. In the simulation, to test the performance of the proposed coding method, comparisons with the full search block matching algorithm and the differential image coding algorithm are made. In the former case, video quality, compression ratio and encoding time is improved. In the latter case, video quality is degraded, but compression ratio and encoding time is improved. Consequently. the proposed method shows a reasonably good performance over existing ones.