• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.1378-1388
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• 2004

This paper proposes method to improve the image quality degradation that show when reconstructing compressed images at low bit rate by using wavelet transform. The image quality distortion is blocking artifacts and noise in DCT's compression but blocking artifacts of wavelet transform does not appear and ringing artifacts was appeared near the edge. This proposed technique is classified to part which is ringing artifacts of the edge vicinity appears which is not, apply adaptive filter to each region improved image. A edge region which is harsh to the eye is applied by Canny mask and finding strong edge region, search the neighborhood classify the flat region and the texture region, and apply to each region suitable filter, As experiment result, PSNR value of method that is proposed in that low bit rate compression image that ringing artifact appears became low about 0.05db, but 0.023db degree rose strong edge region and nat region's image. Also, showed picture quality improved more than ringing artifacts in nat region when see from subjective viewpoint of human.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.587-590
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 변환(wavelet transform)을 이용하여 저 비트율로 압축한 영상을 복원하였을 때 나타나는 화질열화를 개선하는 방법을 제안하였다. 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 정지영상을 압축하는 방법에서는 에지부근에 링잉현상(ringing artifacts)이 나타나게 되었다. 이는 강한 에지성분이 있는 곳이므로 캐니 마스크(Canny mask)를 적용하여 강한 에지부근을 찾아낸 후 그 주변을 탐색하여 평탄한 영역(flat region)과 텍스쳐 영역(texture region)을 구분하여 각각에 맞는 필터를 적용하게 된다. 실험결과, 링잉현상이 나타나는 저비트율 압축 영상에서 제안된 방법의 PSNR 값은 0.05db정도 낮아졌지만 인간 시각의 주관적 관점에서 볼 때 평탄한 영역에서의 링잉현상이 보다 개선된 화질을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.39-45
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a new postprocessing algorithm using interpolation and signal adaptive filter according to the each block characteristic which is acquired in block classification process. We applied blocking artifact reduction algorithm for four neighbor low frequency block and ringing artifacts is removed with preserving edges by applying a signal adaptive filter in high frequency block based on edge map. The computer simulation results confirmed a better performance by the proposed method in both the subjective and objective image qualities.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.80-82
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• 2018

위상천이 풀-브릿지 컨버터(PSFB converter)는 다양한 전원장치에 응용되고 있다. 하지만 2차측에 링잉(ringing)현상이 생겨 다이오드에 과도한 전압 스트레스를 유발하는 문제가 있다. 링잉 현상을 억제하기 위해 스너버 회로를 추가하여 사용해야 하지만 저항 값에 대한 주파수응답 해석이 이루어지지 않아 스너버 튜닝에 많은 시간이 소요되었다. 본 논문에서는 저항 값에 따른 스너버 회로의 주파수 응답특성 분석을 통해 링잉으로 인한 전압 스파이크를 최소화 할 수 있는 저항 값 선정 기법을 제안하며 PSIM/Matlab 시뮬레이션으로 검증한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2014

Blocking and ringing artifacts continue to be the most serious defects that occur in images and video streams compressed to low bit rates using block-based discrete cosine transform(DCT) compression standards. These artifacts contain the high frequency components near the block and the edge boundaries. Usually the lowpass filter can remove them. However, simple lowpass filter results into blur by removing important information such as edges at the same time. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel postfiltering algorithm that calculate the weight value based on the intensity similarity in the neighboring pixels and multiply this weight to the Gaussian lowpass filter coefficient. Experimental results show that the proposed technique provides satisfactory performance in both objective and subjective image quality.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1521-1530
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• 2004

In this paper, we present effective quantization noise reduction algorithm using signal adaptive filter and linear combination between blocks in multimedia system. In the proposed method, all of the blocks are classified into low frequency blocks, high frequency blocks, and midrange blocks according to DCT coefficients. Ringing artifacts are shown in high frequency blocks. So ringing artifact reduction algorithm is performed in high frequency blocks using a signal adaptive filter. And the blocking artifact reduction is performed by replacing the pixel value of blocky blocks using linear combination between blocky block and remote unblocky block. The simulation results shows better performance in respective of the subjective and objective image quality than the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.77-80
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• 1998

영상 데이터는 방대하므로 한정된 대역폭을 통하여 영상을 전송하기 위해서는 압축을 필요로 한다. 그러나 압축으로 전송 비트율은 낮아지지만 고압축률에서는 여러 가지 화질 열화가 발생한다. 화질 열화에는 이산 여현 변환을 수행하는 압축 부호화 알고리듬에서 나타나는 블록킹 현상 또는 모기잡음이 있고 웨이브렛 기반 압축 영상에서는 에지 부근에 나타나는 링잉 현상이 있다. 이와 같은 화질 열화들은 후처리를 통해 제거되지만, 많은 처리 시간이 소요되지 않도록 해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 기반 영상 압축에서 링잉 현상을 효율적으로 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에 대한 모의실험 결과 기존의 방법과 비교하여 처리 속도를 빠르게 하면서 유사한 주관적, 객관적 화질을 얻었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8B
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• pp.1518-1531
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• 1999

The reconstructed images from highly compressed MPEG or H.263 data have noticeable image degradations, such as blocking artifacts near the block boundaries, corner outliers at cross points of blocks, and ringing noise near image edges, because the MPEG or H.263 quantizes the transformed coefficients of 8$\times$8 pixel blocks. A post-processing algorithm has been proposed by authors to reduce quantization effects, such as blocking artifacts, corner outliers, and ringing noise, in MPEG-decompressed images. Our signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm reduces the quantization effects adaptively by using both spatial frequency and temporal information extracted from the compressed data. The blocking artifacts are reduced by one-dimensional (1-D) horizontal and vertical low pass filtering (LPF), and the ringing noise is reduced by two-dimensional (2-D) signal-adaptive filtering (SAF). A comparison study of the subjective quality evaluation using modified single stimulus method (MSSM), the objective quality evaluation (PSNR) and the computation complexity analysis between the signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm and the MPEG-4 VM (Verification Model) post-processing algorithm is performed by computer simulation with several MPEG-4 image sequences. According to the comparison study, the subjective image qualities of both algorithms are similar, whereas the PSNR and the comparison complexity analysis of the signal-adaptive post-processing algorithm shows better performance than the VM post-processing algorithm.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.23-29
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• 2002

This paper suggest the image compression that is needed to process PACS in medical information system. The image decoding method is used Linear-predictor and Lloyd-Max quantizer(quantization) in the Wavelet transform domain. Wavelet Transform Method is processed the multi-resolution by dividing image into 10 sub-bands of 3 levels. Low frequency domain that is sensitive to human visual characteristic is encoded by DPCM which is lossless encoding methods, and Lloyed-Max quantizer, the optimal quantizer for reducing ringing and aliasing in the image of inter sub-band, is used in the remaining high frequency domain of sub-band. The examination verifies that decompressed images are superior by the result that PSNR is 28.53dB on the input image, 512$\times$152 abdominal CT image and Chest image.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.576-582
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed the improved Advanced Detail Enhancement algorithm that improve the blurring by the lossy compression with CODEC and reduce the ringing artifacts in restoration. The conventional algorithm needs much amount of the process by the use of RGB color space. To improve this, we only used the luminance value in YCbCr color space. We verified that the performance of the improved algorithm with Y color value, the luminance value, is equal to the conventional algorithm with RGB color value and that the operation time of the improved is shorter about 24% than the conventional through the measurement of the operation time with Kodak standard images.