• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.311-321
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• 2003

In an emergency telemedicine system such as the High-quality Multimedia based Real-time Emergency Telemedicine(HMRET) service, it is very important to examine the status of the patient continuously using the multimedia data including the biological signals(ECG, BP, Respiration, $SpO_2)$ of the patient. In order to transmit these data real time through the communication means which have the limited transmission capacity, it is also necessary to compress the biological data besides other multimedia data. For this purpose, we investigate and compare the ECG compression techniques in the time domain and in the wavelet transform domain, and present an effective lossless compression method of the biological signals using PEG Huffman table for an emergency telemedicine system. And, for the HMRET service, we developed the lossless compression and reconstruction program or the biological signals in MSVC++ 6.0 using DPCM method and JPEG Huffman table, and tested in an internet environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1482-1489
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• 1998

This paper aims to extract characteristics of the spectrum of fingerprint image and to apply them to image enhancement techniques in spatial frequency domain. Based on 1$\times$64 window as a processing unit and the different record lengths(32, 16, 8), the estimate of power spectrum density for each length was made. Each acquired spectrum characteristics was applied to the re-synthesis process of the fingerprint image, an improved gray scale image was obtained. In order to select an optimal predictor and the Huffman table for the fingerprint iamge, the lossless JPEG algorithm was used. Experiments were performed for extracting distribution characteristics for the each of 7 predictors from the fingerprint image and modeling processes, and the result was applied to the data compression algorithm and the selection of the optimal predictor.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.5C
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• pp.344-354
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a new lifting architecture for JPEG2000 and implemented to ASIC. We proposed a new cell to execute unit calculation of lifting using the property of lifting which is the repetitious arithmetic with same structure, and then recomposed the whole lifting by expanding it. After the operational sequence of lifting arithmetic was analyzed in detail and the causality was imposed for implementation to hardware, the unit cell was optimized. A new lifting kernel was organized by expanding simply the unit cell, and a lifting processor was implemented for Motion JPEG2000 using it. The implemented lifting kernel can accommodate the tile size of $1024{\times}1024$, and support both lossy compression using the (9,7) filter and lossless compression using (5,3) filter. Also, it has the same output rate as input rate, and can continuously output the wavelet coefficients of 4 types(LL, LH, HL, HH) at the same time. The implemented lifting processor completed a course of ASIC using $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS library of SAMSUNG. It occupied about 90,000 gates, and stably operated in about 150MHz though difference from the used macro cell for the multiplier. Finally, the improved operated in about 150MHz though difference from the used macro cell for the multiplier. Finally, the performance can be identified in comparison with the previous researches and commercial IPs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7C
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• pp.647-657
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a new lifting architecture for JPEG2000 and implemented to ASIC. We proposed a new cell to execute unit calculation of lifting using the property of lifting which is the repetitious arithmetic with same structure, and then recomposed the whole lifting by expanding it. After the operational sequence of lifting arithmetic was analyzed in detail and the causality was imposed for implementation to hardware, the unit cell was optimized. A new lifting kernel was organized by expanding simply the unit cell, and a lifting processor was implemented for Motion JPEG2000 using it. The implemented lifting kernel can accommodate the tile size of 1024$\times$1024, and support both lossy compression using the (9,7) filter and lossless compression using (5,3) filter. Also, it has the same output rate as input rate, and can continuously output the wavelet coefficients of 4 types(LL, LH, HL, HH) at the same time. The implemented lifting processor completed a course of ASIC using 0.35$\mu$m CMOS library of SAMSUNG. It occupied about 90,000 gates, and stably operated in about 150MHz though difference from the used macro cell for the multiplier. Finally, the improved operated in about 150MHz though difference from the used macro cell for the multiplier. Finally, the performance can be identified in comparison with the previous researches and commercial IPs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.304-306
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• 2006

본 논문은 16비트 칼라 LCD 디스플레이 장치를 갖는 휴대용 단말기에 영상을 이용한 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스(Graphic User Interface : GUI)를 제공함에 있어 단말기의 저장 공간을 효율적으로 사용하기 위하여 대부분 비손실 영상 압축 기법을 사용하는데, 이들 압축 기법의 압축 효과를 높이기 위한 전처리 과정 방법에 대하여 기술한다. 전처리 과정은 일반적인 칼라 영상의 각 8비트로 구성된 R, G, B 컴포넌트를 16비트로 구성된 RGB 비트 수에 맞도록 원 영상의 칼라를 조정, 16비트로 축소된 칼라 영상에서 사용된 칼라 수를 계산하는 단계 칼라 수가 사용자가 입력한 칼라수의 임계값 보다 작은 경우 인덱스 칼라 이미지를 만드는 단계, 인덱스화된 영상과 칼라 수가 임계값 보다 큰 경우 16비트 칼라 영상을 대상으로 영상을 겹치지 않게 분할하는 단계 분할된 영상의 각 블록 단위로 Run의 평균 개수가 가장 많은 스캐닝 방법을 결정하는 단계 그리고 스케닝 순서에 따른 기존의 비손실 압축 기법을 적용의 순으로 이루어진다. 본 논문에서 기술한 전처리 단계를 거친 영상을 JPEG-LS에 적용하였을 경우 동일한 영상에서 약 $10{\sim}20%$의 압축 효율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 무손실 위성 영상 압축의 효율을 높이기 위해 H.264/AVC의 무손실 화면내 부호화에 기반한 새로운 문맥기반 적응적 가변 길이 부호화 (CAVLC) 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 H.264/AVC의 CAVLC는 손실 압축에 적합하게 설계되었기 때문에, 변환과 양자화 과정을 수행하지 않는 무손실 압축에서 최적의 압축 성능을 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 손실 압축과 무손실 압축 환경에서 잔여 영상 신호의 통계적 차이가 있음을 확인하고, 무손실 위성 영상 압축 환경에서 잔여 신호의 통계적 특성을 고려하여 향상된 CAVLC 기반의 무손실 위성 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 위성 영상을 압축한 결과 기존의 대표적인 무손실 영상 압축 방법인 JPEG-LS와 CALIC 보다 약 12% 정도 비트 수를 감소시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.479-481
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• 2011

기존의 무손실 압축은 일반적으로 채널간의 상관관계를 거의 이용하지 않고, 각각의 채널을 따로 압축하였다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 이미지가 갖는 채널 간의 상관관계를 이용하여 무손실 압축의 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안하는 방법에서는 채널 간 상관관계를 표현할 수 있도록 비대칭 샘플링을 이용하여 모자이크 이미지와 나머지 이미지로 나누어 압축을 수행하였고, 압축된 모자이크 이미지의 정보를 이용해서 나머지 이미지를 예측하여 압축할 정보의 양을 감소시켰다. 압축 성능을 평가하는데 일반적으로 사용되는 데이터들에 대하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 압축표준인 JPEG2000 lossless에 대해 평균 4.75%의 성능 향상을 보여주었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.2714-2726
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• 1997

In this paper, adaptive symbol changes-based medical image compression method is presented. First, the differenctial image domain is obtained using the differentiation rules or obaptive predictors applied to original mdeical image. Also, the algorithm determines the context associated with the differential image from the domain. Then prediction symbols which are thought tobe the most probable differential image values are maintained at a high value through the adaptive symbol changes procedure based on estimates of the symbols with polarity coincidence between the differential image values to be coded under to context and differential image values in the model template. At the coding step, the differential image values are encoded as "predicted" or "non-predicted" by the binary adaptive arithmetic encoder, where a binary decision tree is employed. The simlation results indicate that the prediction hit ratios of differential image values using the proposed algorithm improve the coding gain by 25% and 23% than arithmetic coder with ISO JPEG lossless predictor and arithmetic coder with differentiation rules or adaptive predictors, respectively. It can be used in compression part of medical PACS because the proposed method allows the encoder be directly applied to the full bit-planes medical image without a decomposition of the full bit-plane into a series of binary bit-planes as well as lower complexity of encoder through using an additions when sub-dividing recursively unit intervals.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.2 no.2 s.3
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• pp.185-193
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• 1998

Fractal-based monochrome image coding method can be easily applied for color image compression by splitting the color image into different primary spectral channels such as RGB, YIQ or $YC_bC_r$, and encoding each channel independently According to this method, it needs to repeat the fractal coding for each channel, so it have the problem of encoding time. In this paper, a fractal-based coder for color still image is proposed which features the enhancement of compression rate and the reduction of coding time. As the result of the experiment where the proposed algorithm is applied far color images, the compression rate is enhanced by 28 : 1 above with average PSNR value $28{\sim}29[dB]$, do not lossless encoding process using JPEG. And the encoding time is reduced by maximum 11.5 %.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.14
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• pp.37-51
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• 2008

The computer has become an indispensable tool for animation works. However if you don't understand the characteristics of the computer and its software, you might not have the result satisfying your efforts. The incorrect understanding of image format sometimes causes it. Habitually image formats are selected usually for most of works but there is a distinct difference among those image formats while the efficient usages of them are different from each other. For your more efficient work therefore, you need to identify the characteristics of various kinds of image format used mostly for animation works. First I took a look at the theories of the lossy compression and lossless compression, which are two types of data compression widely used in the whole parts of computer world and the difference between bitmap method and vector method, which are respectably different in terms of the way of expressing images and finally the 24 bit true color and 8 bits alpha channel. Based on those characteristics, I have analyzed the functional difference among image formats used between various types of animation works such as 2D, 3D, composing and editing and also the benefits and weakness of them. Additionally I've proved it is wrong that the JPEG files consume a small space in computer work. In conclusion, I suggest the TIF format as the most efficient format for whatever it is editing, composing, 3D and 2D in considering capacity, function and image quality and also I'd like to recommend PSD format which has compatibility and excellent function, since the Adobe educational programs are used a lot for the school education. I hope this treatise to contribute to your right choice of image format in school education and practical works.