• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2319-2322
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• 2003

We propose ROI(region of interest) image coding application to still image using PSBS(partial significant bitplane shift)method combined with human face region detecting system. PSBS is an encoding algorithm for ROI image coding in JPEG2000, and takes advantages of both generic scaling based method and maximum shift method defined in JPEG2000. The Powerful advantages of PSBS are able to adjusting image quality in ROI and background flexibly, and support arbitrarily shaped ROI coding without coding the shape. In this letter, we show how to compress an image for human face region using PSBS method combined with human face region detecting system, and propose its application.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.123-126
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• 1995

The waveform coding are concerned with simply preserving the wave shape of speech signal through a redundancy reduction process. In the case of speech synthesis, the wave form coding with high quality are mainly used to the synthesis by analysis. However, because the parameters of this coding are not classified as either excitation and vocal tract parameters, it is difficult to applying the waveform coding to the synthesis by rule. In this paper, we proposed a new pitch alteration method that can change the pitch period in waveform coding by using scaling the time-axis and compensating the spectrum. This is a time-frequency domain method that is preserved in the phase components of the waveform and that has a little spectrum distortion with 2.5% and less for 50% pitch change.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.114-123
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• 2003

This paper proposes an efficient method for encoding the shape information of the object in the image. The polygonal approximation method is categorized into a loss coding method and is widely used for approximating object's shape information. The proposed method selects less number of vertices than IRM (iterated refinement method) or PVS (progressive vertex selection) when the maximum distortion is given, so reduces the bit-rates. The proposed method selects the vertices of a polygon with a simple and efficient method considering the rate-distortion sense. We construct the shape information coder, which shows the outstanding performance in the rate-distortion sense, based on the conventional progressive vertex selection method and the new vertex selection condition that we propose in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed method has better performance than other conventional vertex selection methods in the tate-distortion sense.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1087-1099
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• 1998

In the content-based image coding, where each object in the scene is encoded independently, the shape, texture and motion information are very important factors. Though the contours representing the shape of an object occupy a great amount of data in proportion to the whole information, they strongly affect the subjective image quaility. Therefore, the distortion of contour coding has to be minimized as much as possible. In this paper, we propose a new method for the contour coding in which the contours are approximated to polygon and the eorror signal occurring from polygonal approximation are transformed with new basis functions. Considering the facts that confour segments occurring from polygonal approximation are smooth curves and error signals have two zero-ending points, we design new basis functions based on the Legendre polynomial and then transform the error signals with them. When applied to synthetic images such as circles, ellipses and etc., the proposed method provides, in overall, outstanding results in respect to the transform coding gain compared with DCT and DST. And in the case when applied to natural images, the proposed method gives better image quality over DCT and comparable results with DST.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.14-21
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• 1992

The waveform coding is concerned with simply preserving the wave shape of speech signal through a redundancy reduction process. In area of the speech synthesis, the waveform codings with high quality are mainly used to the synthesis by analysis. However, because the parameters of this coding are not classified as either excitation parameters and vocal tract parameters, it is difficult to applying the waveform coding to the synthesis by rule. In this paper, we proposed a new pitch alternation method that can change the pitch periods in the waveform coding by using the cepstrum analysis. Thus, it is possible that the waveform coding is carried out the synthesis by rule in speech processing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.114-124
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• 1997

In object based coding, binary shape ccx:ling plays an important role by ccx:ling the outer shape of object. Here we propose a new shape ccx:ling tool, which enccx:les the outline of shape from a baseline. Different from 2-D (Vertex) shape ccx:ling algorithms. the proposed method encodeds the data that are extracted in a I-D fashion. The enccx:led data consist of the starting position, distance lists, and turning point lists. In the lossless ccx:ling mode, every contour pixel is input for ccx:ling, whereas variable sampling has been employed to enccx:le fewer contour pixels while preserving reasonable distortion. For interframe ccx:ling, a fast motion compensation was achieved by use of distance and turning point lists. Subjective viewing tests proved that the proposed method outperforms the current shape ccx:ling standard, CAE, in MPEG-4. In objective results for compression efficiency, the proposed method was significantly better in intraframe coding than CAE, whereas CAE was better in interframe ccx:ling.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.151-160
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• 2004

Genetic algorithm is the theory of grafting the principle of survival of the fittest in genetics on to the computer algorithm and it is used to solve the optimization problems, especially the shape and size optimization of the structure in Architectural problems. In the size optimization problem discrete variables are used, but series variables have to be used in the shape optimization problem because of the incongruenty. The purpose of this study is to obtain the optimum shape of cable domes by using the real coding genetic algorithm. Generally, the structural performance of the cable domes is influenced very sensitively by pre-stress, geometry and length of the mast because of its flexible characteristic. So, it is very important to decide the optimum shape to get maximum stiffness of cable domes. We use the model to verify the usefulness of this algorithm for shape optimization and analyze the roof system of Seoul Olympic Gymnastic Arena as analytical model of a practical structures. It is confirmed lastly that the optimum shape domes have more stiffness than initial shape ones.

• MALSORI
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• no.56
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• pp.159-172
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• 2005

This paper analyzes the vocal tract area estimation algorithm used as a part of a speech analysis program to help deaf children correct their pronunciations by comparing their vocal tract shape with normal children's. Assuming that a vocal tract is a concatenation of cylinder tubes with a different cross section, we compute the relative vocal tract area of each tube using the reflection coefficients obtained from linear predictive coding. Then, we obtain the absolute vocal tract area by computing the height of lip opening with a formula modified for children's speech. Using the speech data for five Korean vowels (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/), we investigate the effects of the sampling frequency, frame size, and model order on the estimated vocal tract shape. We compare the vocal tract shapes obtained from deaf and normal children's speech.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.597-604
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• 1986

This paper describes various mismatch phenomena in differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) coding, such as the mismatch effects of probability density functin(pdf), signal variance, and correlation. At a high transmission rate(i.e., above 32 kbits/s), the performance of DPCM can be improved by matching the pdf shape between the input signal and the quantizer. However, the same gain cannot be obtained at a lower transmission rate. Also, it is shown that the gamma quantizer is realtively robust to the variation of pdf shaper and signal variance. Moreover, as the transmission rate increases, the performance of DPCM for the input signal with large variance is worse than that of DPCM for the signal with small variance due to the increase of overload noise. According to our simuladiton results, the mismatch effects of pdf shape and variance appear to yield more degradatin than that of correlation in a DPCM system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.233-238
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• 1998

To manage a phase of coding and unit-test, project managers have used to pay attention to a number of completed programs. And the manager makes a graph of progress. Usually, this graph of progress has S shape and doesn't linearly depend on the workload. So the degree of progress seems to be behind. In actual, many projects tend to be behind the schedule. Because of this reason, it is difficult to judge whether the project is behind or not in the early stage. In this paper, We propose the 'four-division model' to solve this difficulty.