• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.19-22
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a new multiple description embedded zerotree wavelet coding method using the two splitted thresholds. We first model a half EZW coder and then we present multiple description coder which has two coding channels using wide threshold EZW(WTEZW) coders. To evaluate the performance of the proposed coder, we provide an image coding applications with two descriptions and compare MDC image coding results reported to date.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.287-290
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• 2000

본 논문은 threshold 에 기반한 (threshold-adjusted) EZW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) 부호화 모듈의 설계와 구현에 대하여 소개한다. EZW 부호화는 먼저 입력된 정지 영상에 대하여 Haar 웨이브릿 변환을 수행한다. Haar 웨이브릿 변환된 영상은dominant와 subordinate의 2-pass과정을 거쳐 zerotree를 구성함으로서 EZW 부호화 과정을 수행한다. Threshold에 기반한 EZW는 부호화 과정에서 인간의 시각 체계를 고려하여 threshold 값을 적절히 조절함으로서 효율적인 출력 영상을 얻을 수 있도록 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.10
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• pp.112-119
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• 1997

Zerotreeimage coding is known as a simple and effective image comprssion algorithm. It has the property that the compression is generated in order of improtance. Conventionally, a fixed threshold is applied to the entire wavelet coefficients regardless of frequency and local features of an image. In this paper, we propose a new zerotree coding scheme with adaptive threshold. The adaptive threshold is determined by human visual characteristics. It is shown that the image quality of the proposed method is better than that of the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.212-214
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• 2000

본 논문은 웨이브릿을 기반으로 하는 EZW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) 복호기의 설계와 구현에 대하여 소개한다. EZW 부호화는 zerotree를 이용하는 부호화 방법으로서 웨이브릿 변환된 영상이 지니고 있는 계수의 특징을 잘 활용한 부호화 방법이다. EZW 복호화는 EZW 부호화와 대칭 관계를 갖는 구조로 구성되어 있다. EZW 복호기는 부호화의 결과로 생성된 파일의 bit stream을 입력으로 받아서 dominant와 subordinate pass로 구성된 2-pass의 EZW 복호화 과정을 수행하여 부호화 이전의 웨이브릿 변환된 입력 영상의 계수값을 복원한다. 복원된 웨이브릿 변환된 영상의 계수 값은 IDWT(Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform)를 수행하여 부호화 되기 이전의 원래의 영상으로 재구성된다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.19-28
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• 2009

This paper is a study on method that the EZW algorithm is proposed effective compression technique of wavelet transformed image. The EZW algorithm is encoded by zerotree coding technique using self-similarity of wavelet coefficients. If the coefficient is larger than the threshold a POS coded, if the coefficients is smaller than minus the threshold a NEG is coded. If the coefficient is the root of a zerotree than a ZTR is coded and finally, if the coefficient is smaller then the threshold but it is not the root of a zerotree, than an IZ is coded. This process is repeated until all the wavelet coefficients have been encoded completely. This paper was compared to EZW algorithm and a widely available version of JPEG. As the results of compare, it is shown that the PSNR of the EZW algorithm is better than JPEG.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.7A
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• pp.1028-1036
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• 2000

In this paper, an error-resilient image compression technique using wavelet transform is proposed. The zerotree technique that uses properties of statistics, energy and directions of wavelet coefficients in the space-frequency domain shows effective compression results. Since it is highly sensitive to the propagation of channel errors, evena single bit error degrades the whole image quality severely. In the proposed algorithm, the image is encoded by the SPIHT(Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees) algorithm using the zerotree coding technique. Encoded bitstreams are partitioned into some blocks using the subband correlations and then fixed-length blocks are made by using the effective bit reorganization algorithm. finally, an effective bit allocation technique is used to limit error propagation in each block. Therefore, in low BER the proposed algorithm shows similar compression performance to the zerotree compression technique and in high BER it shows better performance in terms of PSNR than the conventional methods.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.53-58
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• 2006

In this paper, We proposed extraction method using EZW a specific character and then add watermark significant coefficient of image. After wavelet transform in image, the significant coefficient value add to watermark information image. In this method, the locations of nonzero wavelet coefficients are encoded with a tree structure, called zerotree, which can exploit the self-similarity of the pyramid decomposition across different scales. The simulation shows that this method provides a superior performance over conventional method and can be successfully applied to the application areas that requires of progressive transmission and search for image data.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.442-449
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• 2002

EZW (Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) is an efficient algorithm to encode wavelet-transformed image. In this algorithm, each coefficient of wavelet transformed image is given one of the specific symbols and encoded according to its significant priority. In this paper, we analysis the occurrence conditions of symbols in EZW and propose a modified EZW algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the significance of an IZ (Isolated Zero) symbol is determined by the additional conditions as well as its absolute value. The occurrence of IZ symbols is decreased and the required bits for insignificant IZ symbols is saved, so we obtained good quality of the reconstructed image.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.8A
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• pp.814-821
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• 2002

The SPIHT(set partitioning in hierarchical tree) is efficient and well-known in the zerotree coding algorithm. However SPIHT's high memory requirement is a major difficulty for hardware implementation. In this paper we propose low-memory and fast zerotree algorithm. We present following three methods for reduced memory and fst coding speed. First, wavelet transform by lifting has a low memory requirement and reduced complexity than traditional filter bank implementation. The second method is to divide the wavelet coefficients into a block. Finally, we use NLS algorithm proposed by Wheeler and Pearlman in our codec. Performance of NLS is nearly same as SPIHT and reveals low and fixed memory and fast coding speed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.681-684
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 EZW(embedded zerotree wavelet)를 사용하여 영상을 압축하는 과정에서 워터마크를 삽입하는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 비트열에 워터마크를 삽입하는 기존의 방법은 DCT를 기반의 MPEG과 JPEG 비트열에 워터마크를 삽입하였다. 하지만 DCT 기반의 압축 방법은 낮은 비트율로 압축할 몌에 블록화현상이 생기고 비트율을 제어하기 어려운 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 웨이블릿을 이용한 압축 방법이 사용되었고, 대표적인 방법으로 EZW가 많이 쓰인다. 본 논문에서는 EZW의 주부호화 과정(dominant pass)에서 발생하는 4가지의 심벌을 이용하여 부호화된 이진의 워터마크 영상을 삽입하는 방법을 제안하였다. 웨이블릿 분해된 계수 상에서 마지막 레벨에 위치한ZTR(Zerotree root) 심벌에 워터마크를 삽입함으로 원 영상에 손상을 주지 않고, 워터마크를 간단히 추출할 수 있었다. 또 낮은 비트율에서도 워터마크의 손상이 적었고, 많은 양의 워터마크 영상을 삽입할 수 있었다.