• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.181-191
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• 2002

Video based surveillance systems based on an active camera require a fast algorithm for real time detection and tracking of local motion in the presence of global motion. This paper presents a new fast and efficient motion detection and tracking algorithm using the displaced frame difference (DFD). In the Proposed algorithm, first, a Previous frame is adaptively selected according to the magnitude of object motion, and the global motion is estimated by using only a few confident matching blocks for a fast and accurate result. Then, a DFD is obtained between the current frame and the selected previous frame displaced by the global motion. Finally, a moving object is extracted from the noisy DFD by utilizing the correlation between the DFD and current frame. We implement this algorithm into an active camera system including a pan-tilt unit and a standard PC equipped with an AMD 800MHz processor. The system can perform the exhaustive search for a search range of 120, and achieve the processing speed of about 50 frames/sec for video sequences of 320$\times$240. Thereby, it provides satisfactory tracking results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.93-98
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 영상 내 존재하는 의미 있는 객체단위로 초상권을 보호하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 초상권 보호 객체선택 단계와 객체에 마스크를 적용하는 단계 그리고 마스크가 적용된 객체를 추적하는 단계로 나누어진다. 초상권 보호 객체선택 단계에서는 블록분류(block classification) 및 워터쉐드(watershed) 알고리듬을 이용하여 분할된 결과영상을 얻고 이를 이용하여 사용자가 원하는 객체를 마우스로 클릭함으로써 손쉽게 초상권 보호법을 적용시킬 객체를 추출할 수 있다. 이렇게 정의된 객체는 다음 단계에서 마스크를 적용 받게 된다. 첫 번째 프레임에서 마스크가 적용되면 다음 프레임부터는 객체추적과정에서 연된 화면사이의 움직임 및 밝기정보에 의해 객체를 추적, 계속 마스크를 적용함으로써 초상권을 보호할 수 있다. 제안된 알고리듬은 초상권 보호를 위한 모자이크 처리 시 화질 저하에 따른 시청자의 화면 거부감을 최소화시키고, 반자동영상분할 알고리듬을 사용하여 객체 단위로 초상권 마스크를 적용하여 초상권 보호대상물을 놓치지 않고 추적할 수 있어 신뢰도를 높일 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.699-702
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• 2003

트랜스코딩은 통신 및 방송 등과 융합되어 활발히 진행되어질 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2에서 MPEG-4로 비디오 트랜스코딩을 할 때 MPEG-2로 디코딩하고 MPSG-4로 재인코딩하지 않고 MPEG-2로 디코딩할 때 움직임 벡터에 대한 정보와 매크로블록에 대한 타입 등의 파라미터를 추출하여 이를 수정하여 MPEG-4로 인코딩할 때 이를 재 사용함으로써 인코딩하는 시간을 줄이는 방법이다. 실험 결과 별다른 화질의 열화가 없었고 처리 시간의 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

A video segmentation algorithm, which can extract objects even with non-stationary backgrounds, is proposed in this work. The proposed algorithm is composed of three steps. First, we perform an initial segmentation interactively to build the probability density functions of colors per each macro block via kernel density estimation. Then, for each subsequent frame, we construct a coherence strip, which is likely to contain the object contour, by exploiting spatio-temporal correlations. Finally, we perform the segmentation by minimizing an energy function composed of color, coherence, and smoothness terms. Experimental results on various test sequences show that the proposed algorithm provides accurate segmentation results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.851-859
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the method that automatically extracts the silhouette and the joints of consecutive input image, and track joints to trace object for interaction between human and computer. Also the proposed method presents the action of human being to map human body using joints. To implement the algorithm, we model human body using 14 joints to refer to body size. The proposed method converts RGB color image acquired through a single camera to hue, saturation, value images and extracts body's silhouette using the difference between the background and input. Then we automatically extracts joints using the corner points of the extracted silhouette and the data of body's model. The motion of object is tracted by applying block-matching method to areas around joints among all image and the human's motion is mapped using positions of joints. The proposed method is applied to the test videos and the result shows that the proposed method automatically extracts joints and effectively maps human body by the detected joints. Also the human's action is aptly expressed to reflect locations of the joints

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.275-280
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• 2013

In this paper, a new stereo object extraction algorithm using a block-based MSE (mean square error) algorithm and the configuration parameters of a stereo camera is proposed. That is, by applying the SSD algorithm between the initial reference image and the next stereo input image, location coordinates of a target object in the right and left images are acquired and then with these values, the pan/tilt system is controlled. And using the moving angle of this pan/tilt system and the configulation parameters of the stereo camera system, the mask window size of a target object is adaptively determined. The newly segmented target image is used as a reference image in the next stage and it is automatically updated in the course of target tracking basing on the same procedure. Meanwhile, a target object is under tracking through continuously controlling the convergence and FOV by using the sequentiall extracted location coordinates of a moving target.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.405-417
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• 2001

In this paper, since we currently using surveillance system of analog type bring about waste of resource and efficiency deterioration problems, we describe new solution that design and implementation to the digital surveillance system of new type applying compression techniques and encoding techniques of image data using MPEG-2 international standard. Also, we proposed fast motion estimation algorithm requires much less than the convectional digital surveillance camera system. In this paper a fast motion estimation algorithm is proposed the MPEG-2 video encoding. This algorithm is based on a hybrid use of the block matching technique and gradient technique. Also, we describe a method of moving object extraction directly using MPEG-2 video data. Since proposed method is very simple and requires much less computational power than the conventional object detection methods. In this paper we don't use specific H/W and this system is possible only software encoding, decoding and transmission real-time for image data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.3 s.303
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• pp.91-98
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a temporal error concealment method based on the edge adaptive masking. In the method, four regions around the corrupted block - top, bottom, left, and right - are defined and the edge features of the regions are extracted by applying an edge operator for each direction. The size of a mask for the boundary matching is determined by the edge information, which can be considered as a criterion to measure the activity of the boundary region. In other words, it is determined such that the size of the mask is proportional to the amount of edge-component extracted from each region in order to yield the higher reliability on boundary matching. This process is equivalent to applying weights depending on the edge features, which leads the improved motion vector. In experiments, it is verified that the proposed method outperforms the conventional methods in terms of image quality, and then its merits and demerits are discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2647-2654
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose H.264 Encoder integrating Intra Prediction, Deblocking Filter, Context-Based Adaptive Variable Length Coding, and Motion Estimation encoder module. This designed module can be operated in 440 cycle for one-macroblock. To verify the Encoder architecture, we developed the reference C from JM 9.4 and verified the our developed hardware using test vector generated by reference C. The designed circuit can be operated in 166MHz clock system, and has 1800K gate counts using Charterd 0.18 um process including SRAM memory. Manufactured chip has the size of $6{\times}6mm$ and 208 pins package.