• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

The depth camera measures range information of the scene in real time using Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology. Measured depth data is then regularized and provided as a depth image. This depth image is utilized with the stereo or multi-view image to generate high-resolution depth map of the scene. However, it is required to correct noise and distortion of TOF depth image due to the technical limitation of the TOF depth camera. The corrected depth image is combined with the color image in various methods, and then we obtain the high-resolution depth of the scene. In this paper, we introduce the principal and various techniques of sensor fusion for high-quality depth generation that uses multiple camera with depth cameras.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.463-473
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a super-resolution (SR) image reconstruction algorithm using multi-view images. We acquire 25 images from multi-view cameras, which consist of a $5{\times}5$ array of cameras, and then reconstruct an SR image of the center image using a low resolution (LR) input image and the other 24 LR reference images. First, we estimate disparity maps from the input image to the 24 reference images, respectively. Then, we interpolate a SR image by employing the LR image and matching points in the reference images. Finally, we refine the SR image using an iterative regularization scheme. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides higher quality SR images than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.796-803
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a depth scaling method for multiview images that could provide an 3D depth that a user prefers. Unlike previous works that change a camera configuration, the proposed method utilizes depth data in order to carry out the scaling of a depth range requested by users. From multivew images and their corresponding depth data, depth data is transformed into a disparity and the disparity is adjusted in order to control the perceived depth. In particular, our method can deal with multiview images captured by multiple cameras, and can be expanded from stereoscopic to multiview images. Based upon a DSCQS subjective evaluation test, our experimental results tested on an automultiscopic 3D display show that the perceived depth is appropriately scaled according to user's preferred depth.

• Review of Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.12-17
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.236-239
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• 2014

3차원 영상을 제작하기 위해서는 여러 시점의 색상 영상과 함께 깊이 정보를 필요로 한다. 하지만 깊이 정보를 얻을 때 사용하는 ToF 카메라는 해상도가 낮으며 적외선 신호의 주파수 문제 때문에 최대 3대까지 사용할 수 있다. 따라서 깊이 정보를 색상 영상과 함께 사용하기 위해서 깊이 정보의 업샘플링이 필수적이다. 업샘플링은 깊이 정보를 색상 카메라 위치로 3차원 워핑하고 결합형 양방향 필터(joint bilateral filter, JBF)를 사용하여 빈 영역을 채우는 방법으로 진행된다. 업샘플링은 오랜 시간이 소요되지만 그래픽스 프로세싱 유닛(graphics processing units, GPU)를 이용하여 빠르게 수행될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중 GPU의 병렬 수행을 통하여 빠르게 다시점 깊이맵을 생성할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 다중 GPU 병렬 수행은 범용 목적 GPU(general purpose computing on GPU, GPGPU) 중의 하나인 CUDA를 이용하였으며, 본 논문에서 제안된 방법을 이용하여 3개의 GPU 사용한 실험 결과 초당 35 프레임의 다시점 깊이맵을 생성했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.822-823
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• 2014

The usual method of generating an image for a multiview display system requires acquiring a color image and depth information of a reference camera. Then, intermediate images, generated using DIBR method, will be captured at a number of different viewpoints and composed to construct an multiview image. When such intermediate views are generated, several holes would be shown because some hidden parts are shown when the screenshot is taken at different angle. Previous research tried to solve this problem by creating a new hole-filling algorithm or enhancing the depth information. This paper describes a new method of enhancing the intermediate view images by applying the Ball Pivoting algorithm, which constructs meshes from a point cloud. When the new method is applied to the Microsoft's "Ballet" and "Break Dancer" data sets, PSNR comparison shows that about 0.18~1.19 increasement. This paper will explaing the new algorithm and the experiment method and results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.248-249
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• 2017

최근 들어, 실감형 콘텐츠를 제작하기 위한 무안경 다시점 3DTV 와 가상, 증강현실 콘텐츠에 대한 기술개발이 활발해 지고 있다. 또한, UHDTV 의 등장으로 무안경 다시점 3DTV 의 걸림돌이던 해상도 저하문제가 해결되면서 시점당 해상도가 향상된 다시점 3D 디스플레이 상용품 및 시제품들이 발표되고 있다. 하지만, 시청 위치가 한정되어 있고, 시청자에게 눈의 피로를 일으키며, 비싼 가격으로 인해 아직까지 소비자에게 좋은 반응을 얻지 못하고 있다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해, 본 논문은 다시점 영상을 증강현실로 보여주는 방법을 소개한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하기 위해, 다시점 카메라 시스템으로 영상을 획득하고, HMD (head mounted display)와 휴대용 (handheld) 장치를 사용하여 다시점 영상을 시청한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 기존의 시점 제한 문제를 해결할 수 있음을 확인했으며, 제안한 방법을 활용하여 다양한 실감형 콘텐츠를 제작할 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.900-910
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• 2014

Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of multi view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, improved prediction structure and motion estimation method is proposed in this paper. The proposed prediction structure exploits an average distance between the current picture and its reference pictures. The proposed prediction structure divides every GOP into several groups to decide the maximum index of hierarchical B layer and the number of pictures of each B layer. And the proposed motion estimation method uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of modified diamond search pattern, progressive diamond search pattern and modified raster search pattern. Experiment results show that the complexity reduction of the proposed prediction structure and motion estimation method over JMVC (Joint Multiview Video Coding) reference model using hierarchical B pictures of Fraunhofer-HHI and TZ search method can be up to 40~70% while maintaining similar video quality and bit rates.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1093-1101
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• 2012

Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. Multi-view video coding exploits inter-view correlations among pictures of neighboring views and temporal correlations among pictures of the same view. Multi-view video coding which uses many cameras requires a method to reduce the computational complexity. In this paper, we proposed an efficient prediction structure to improve performance of multi-view video coding. The proposed prediction structure exploits an average distance between the current picture and its reference pictures. The proposed prediction structure divides every GOP into several small groups to decide the maximum index of hierarchical B layer and the number of pictures of each B layer. Experimental results show that the proposed prediction structure shows good performance in image quality and bit-rates. When compared to the performance of hierarchical B pictures of Fraunhofer-HHI, the proposed prediction structure achieved 0.07~0.13 (dB) of PSNR gain and was down by 6.5(Kbps) in bitrate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.77-79
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• 2010

본 논문은 다시점 비디오의 조명 불일치 현상을 효과적으로 보상하기 위한 히스토그램 매칭 기법의 성능을 향상시키는 영상의 에지 방향성을 고려한 전처리 기법을 제안하였다. 다시점 비디오는 카메라 간 서로 다른 위치와 방위로 인해 인접한 시점 영상 간에 존재하는 동일 물체에 색상 차이가 발생할 수 있다. 히스토그램 매칭 기법은 모든 시점 영상의 히스토그램을 정해진 참조시점 영상의 히스토그램에 매칭시켜 다시점 비디오의 조명 불일치 현상을 보상하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 매칭을 수행하기 전에 ELA(Edge-based Line Averaging) 선형 보간 기법과 Cosited 대표 값 추출 필터를 결합한 전처리 필터를 선행하여 조명 보상 효과와 다시점 부호화 성능을 향상시켰다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 전처리 기법이 일반적인 다시점 비디오 부호화에 비해 약 2 dB의 평균 PSNR 향상과 34%의 비트율 절감 효과를 가짐을 확인하였다.