• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.956-962
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• 2005

To improve video quality and coding efficiency, H.264/AVC adopts different half pixel calculating method compared with the previous standards. So, the transcoder requires additional works to transcode the pre-coded video contents with the previous standards to H.264/AVC in DCT domain. In this paper, we propose the first half-pixel correction method for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding in DCT domain. In the proposed method, MPEG-2 block is added to the correction block obtained by difference calculation of half-pixel values between two standards using DCT reference frame. Experimental results show that the proposed achieves better quality than pixel based cascaded transcoding method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.364-366
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• 2005

최신 동영상 압축 표준인 H.264는 압축 효율을 높이기 위해 기존의 표준과는 다른 1/2 화소 생성 방법을 사용한다. 그러므로 기존의 동영상 압축표준으로 압축된 비트열을 DCT 상에서 H.264로 트랜스코딩(transcoding)하기 위해서는 추가적인 보정 작업이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2로 압축된 비트열을 DCT 상에서 H.264로 트랜스코딩 할 때 두 표준 간 1/2 화소 값의 차이를 보정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 1/2 화소 보정 기법에서는 DCT 상태의 창조 프레임을 이용하여 두 표준 간의 차이 값을 구하여 입력으로 들어온 블록의 값에 더하여 보정한다. 픽셀 기반에서 보정하는 기법과 성능을 비교한 결과 제안하는 기법이 화질 면에서 우수하며 움직임이 빠른 비디오의 경우 계산량이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.47-55
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• 2004

We have constructed a level-1 processor to generate brightness temperatures using the direct-broadcast data from the passive microwave radiometer onboard Aqua satellite. Although 50-minute half-orbit data, called a granule, are being routinely produced by global data centers, to our knowledge, this is the first attempt to process 10-minute long direct-broadcast (DB) data. We found that the processor designed for a granule needs modification to apply to the DB data. The modification includes the correction to path number, the selection of land mask and the manipulation of dummy scans. Pixel-to-pixel comparison with a reference indicates the difference in brightness temperature of about 0.2 K rms and less than 0.05 K mean. The difference comes from the different length of data between 50-minute granule and about 10-minute DB data. In detail, due to the short data length, DB data do not always have correct cold sky mirror count. The DB processing system is automated to enable the near-real time generation of brightness temperatures within 5 minutes after downlink. Through this work, we would be able to enhance the use of AMSR-E data, thus serving the objective of direct-broadcast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.481-483
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• 2004

다양한 동영상 압축표준에서 압축효율을 높이기 위해 1/2 화소를 이용한다. 1/2 화소는 프레임 간 참조시 압축 효율을 높이기 위한 프레임 내 화소를 연산하여 생성되는 가상의 값이며 이 연산식은 표준에 따라 다르다. MPEG-2에서 H.264로의 포맷 변환시 이 1/2 화소값의 차이로 인해 MPEG-2의 모션벡터와 움직임 보상된 값을 그대로 사용할 수 없게 된다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2의 모션벡터를 그대로 사용하고 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) 도메인에서 두 표준의 화소값의 차이를 보정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 픽셀 도메인의 창조 블록을 이용하여 보정 할 위치를 찾고 두 표준의 1/2 화소 계산식의 차이를 이용하여 보정 할 값을 구하게 된다. 구해진 보정 값을 DCT하여 DCT 도메인의 현재 블록에 더하여 보정하게 된다. 이 기법은 모든 블록의 값을 완벽하게 보정할 수는 없지만 두 표준 간 차이값이 큰 1/2 화소를 보정할 수 있으며 IDCT라 DCT로 인한 화질 열화도 감소된다 또한, DCT 상태에서 보정을 수행하므로 픽셀 도메인에서 보다 약 7%의 계산복잡도도 낮출 수 있다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.72-79
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• 2009

Scatter correction for I-131 plays a very important role to improve image quality and quantitation. I-131 has multiple and higher energy gamma-ray emissions. Image quality and quantitative accuracy in I-131 imaging are degraded by object scatter as well as scatter and septal penetration in the collimator. The purpose of this study was to estimate scatter and septal penetration and investigate two scatter correction methods using Monte Carlo simulation. The gamma camera system simulated in this study was a FORTE system (Phillips, Nederland) with high energy, general-purpose, parallel hole collimator. We simulated for two types of high energy collimators. One is composed of lead, and the other is composed of artificially high Z number and high density. We simulated energy spectrum using a point source in air. We estimated both full width at half maximum (FWHM) and full width at tenth maximum (FWTM) using line spread function (LSF) in cylindrical water phantom. We applied two scatter correction methods, triple energy window scatter correction (TEW) and extended triple energy window scatter correction (ETEW). The TEW method is a pixel-by pixel based correction which is easy to implement clinically. The ETEW is a modification of the TEW which corrects for scatter by using abutted scatter rejection window, which can overestimate or the underestimate scatter. The both FWHM and FWTM were estimated as 41.2 mm and 206.5 mm for lead collimator, respectively. The FWHM and FWTM were estimated as 27.3 mm and 45.6 mm for artificially high Z and high density collimator, respectively. ETEW showed that the estimation of scatter components was close to the true scatter components. In conclusion, correction for septal penetration and scatter is important to improve image quality and quantitative accuracy in I-131 imaging. The ETEW method in scatter correction appeared to be useful in I-131 imaging.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.146-158
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• 2022

The detector of a focal-plane-array mid-wave infrared (MWIR) camera has different response characteristics for each detector pixel, resulting in nonuniformity between detector pixels. In addition, image nonuniformity occurs due to heat generation inside the camera during operation. To solve this problem, in the process of camera manufacturing it is common to use a gain-and-offset table generated from a blackbody to correct the difference between detector pixels. One method of correcting nonuniformity due to internal heat generation during the operation of the camera generates a new offset value based on input frame images. This paper proposes a technique for dividing an input image into block image patches and generating offset values using only homogeneous patches, to correct the nonuniformity that occurs during camera operation. The proposed technique may not only generate a nonuniformity-correction offset that can prevent motion marks due to camera-gaze movement of the acquired image, but may also improve nonuniformity-correction performance with a small number of input images. Experimental results show that distortion such as flow marks does not occur, and good correction performance can be confirmed even with half the number of input images or fewer, compared to the traditional method.