• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.7B
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• pp.1384-1392
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• 1999

A high compression rate is required to transmit video sequences over low bit rate networks such as low bit rate communication channels. When highly compressed videos are transmitted over mobile channels of high error rate, bitstreams corrupted by channel errors are not only difficult to be decoded, but also have fatal effects on the other parts of the bitstreams. In this Paper, we propose an error concealment algorithm for recovering the blocks which can not be decoded due to damaged bitstreams. The proposed error concealment algorithm recovers the damaged blocks using the information of adjacent blocks which are correctly decoded. In the proposed algorithm, the motion vector of the damaged block is estimated using the overlapped block motion compensation(OBMC) and block boundary matching(BBM) techniques. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits better performance in PSNR than existing error concealment methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.4
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• pp.152-161
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• 1996

In tis work, a three-stage pipelined A/D converter (ADC) was implemented to obtain 10-bit resolution at a conversion rate of 20 msamples/s for video applications. The ADC consists of three identical stages employing a mid-rise coding technique. The interstage errors such as offsets and clock feedthrough are digitally corrected in digitral logic by one overlapped bit between stages. The proposed ADC is optimized by adopting a unit-capacitor array architecture in the MDAC to improve the differential nonlinearity and the yield. Reduced power dissipation has been achieve dby using low-power latched comparators. The prototype was fabricated in a 0.8$\mu$m p-well CMOS technology. The ADC dissipates 160 mW at a 20 MHz clock rate with a 5 V single supply voltage and occupies a die area of 7 mm$^{2}$(2.7 mm $\times$ 2.6mm) including bonding pads and stand-alone internal bias circuit. The typical differential and integral nonlinarities of the prototype are less than $\pm$ 0.6 LSB and $\pm$ 1 LSB, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.19-24
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• 1997

This paper describes an image segmentation technique for the object-oriented coding at very low bit rates. By noting that, in the object-oriented coding technique, each objects are represented by 3 parameters, namely, shape, motion, and color informations, we propose a segmentation technique, in which the 3 parameters are fully exploited. To achieve this goal, starting with the color space conversion and the noise reduction, the input image is divided into many small regions by the K-menas algorithm on the O-K-S color space. Then, each regions are merged, according to the shape and motion information. In simultations, it is shown that the proposed technique segments the input image into relevant objects, according to the shape and motion as well as the colors. In addition, in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed technique, we introduce the notion of the interesting regions, and provide the results of encoding the image with emphasizing the interesting regions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.284-289
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• 2008

H.264/AVC among moving picture compression standard is the standard format for high compression rate and reliable video transimission. It generates blocking effects in video due to compressing video using block-based DCT and includes de-blocking filter to reduce blocking effect. Therefore, the filter makes the video over-smoothing and the quality of it is reduced. In this paper, we propose a improved de-blocking filter to solve the demerit. The proposed de-blocking filter redetermine the block boundary strength and apply the comer filtering to eliminate artifacts in low frequency domain. To evaluate the performance, we apply the proposed deblocking filter and exiting method to various video and evaluated the quality of image subjectively and objectively by analyzing the result. The simulation result shows the proposed method preserves the edge of video, reduces blocking effects and improves PSNR than the existing method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.243-249
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new watermarking algorithm to embed watermarks in thr process of sample adaptive offsets (SAO) for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) compressed videos. The proposed method embeds two-bit watermark into the SAO offsets for each coding tree unit (CTU). To minimize visual quality degradation caused by embedding watermark, watermark bits are embedded into SAO offset depending on the SAO types of block. Furthermore, the embedded watermark can be extracted by simply adding four offsets and checking their least significant bits (LSB) at the decoder side. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.3% BD-rate increase without much visual quality degradation. Two-bit watermark for each CTU is embedded for more bit watermarking. In addition, the proposed method requires negligible computational load for watermark insertion and extraction.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.176-181
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• 2005

This paper presents an equal bit rate control algorithm utilizing the statistical change between the previous frame and the current frame. The previous studies on the model-based rate control have focused on the models of bit rate and distortion in types of coders, in terms of the quantization parameter. The proposed algorithm improves the typical model-based rate control by updating a model parameter instead of modeling a better model of the rate and distortion. The proposed algorithm updates this model parameter by recognizing the change in statistics between the previous frame and the current frame. We implement the proposed algorithm in MPEG-4 coders and verify its performance while comparing it to the TMN8's approach (up to 0.6dB of improvement).

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.120-126
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• 2005

This paper presents the 3D wavelet based video compression system using quad-tree algorithm. The 3D wavelet based video compression system removes the temporal correlation of the input sequences using the motion compensation filter and decomposes the spatio-temporal subband using the spatial wavelet transform. The proposed system allocates the higher bit rate to the low frequency image of the 3D wavelet sequences and improves the 0.64dB PSNR performance of the reconstructed image in comparison with that of H.263. In addition to the limitation on the propagation of the motion compensation error by the 3D wavelet transform, the proposed system progressively transmits the input sequence according to the resolution and rate scalability.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.43-45
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• 2000

For motion estimation, the block matching algorithm is widely used to improve the compression ratio of low bit-rate motion video. As a newly developed fast search algorithm, the nearest-neighbors search technique has a drawback of degrading video quality while providing fisher speed in search process. In this paper, a modified nearest-neighbors search algorithm is proposed in which a double rectangular shaped search-candidate area is used to improve video quality in encoding process with a small increasing of search time. To evaluate the proposed algorithm. other methods based on the nearest-neighbors search algorithm are investigated.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.23-26
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 정확한 비트 제어가 가능한 I-frame의 효율적인 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 기존 H.263＋의 DCT 계수들을 트리 구조로 재구성하여 각 계수에 대해 임베이드 제로트리 부호화 알고리즘을 적용시켜 부호화함으로써 코딩 효율을 향상시킴과 동시에 비트 율의 제어가 용이하도록 한다. 제안 방법의 유효성을 검증하기 위해 표준 동영상에 대한 컴퓨터 모의 실험 결과 제안 방법은 기존의 부호화 방법에 비해 비트 제어가 용이하고 부호화 성능이 개선됨을 확인했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.105-108
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 초기 비트율 부호화(very low bit-rate coding)를 위한 새로운 움직임 예측 부호화를 제안한다. 움직임 추정 및 움직임 보상은 영역 기반으로 행해지며, 움직임 보상 후 예측 오차는 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 통해 변환되어 부호화 된다. 제안된 내용으로는 이전 영상을 이용하여 역방향(backward) 움직임 추정 후 얻어지는 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 움직임 보상된 영상을 구성하고, 여기에 보상되지 않은 영역은 순방향(forward) 움직임 추정을 선택적으로 행함으로써 영상을 재구성한다. 제안된 알고리듬은 모의 실험 결과 양질의 화질을 얻었다.