• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.28-36
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a frame-rate up-conversion method for temporal quality enhancement. The proposed method adaptively changes search range during hierarchical motion estimation and reconstructs hole regions using the proposed bi-direction prediction and linear interpolation. In order to alleviate errors due to inaccurate motion vector estimation, search range is adaptively changed based on reliability and for more accurate, motion estimation is performed in descending order of block variance. After segmentation of background and object regions, for filling hole regions, the pixel values of background regions are reconstructed using linear interpolation and those of object regions are compensated based on the proposed hi-directional prediction. The proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of PSNR with original uncompressed sequences. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is better than conventional methods by around 2dB, and blocky artifacts and blur artifacts are significantly diminished.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.18-27
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a frame rate conversion algorithm using adaptive search-based motion estimation (ME). The proposed ME method uses recursive search, 3-step search, and single predicted search as candidates for search strategy. The best method among the three candidates is adaptively selected on a block basis according to the predicted motion type. The adaptation of the search method improves the accuracy of the estimated motion vectors while curbing the increase of computational load. To support the proposed ME method, an entire image is divided into three regions with different motion types. Experimental results show that the proposed FRC method achieves better image quality than existing algorithms in both subjective and objective measures.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.991-999
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a fast motion estimation algorithm for video encoding. Conventional fast motion estimation algorithms have a serious problem of low prediction quality in some frames. However, full search based fast algorithms have low computational reduction ratio. In the paper, we propose an algorithm that significantly reduces unnecessary computations, while keeping prediction quality almost similar to that of the full search. The proposed algorithm uses distribution probability of motion vectors and adaptive search patterns and block matching criteria. By taking different search patterns and error criteria of block matching according to distribution probability of motion vectors, we can reduces only unnecessary computations efficiently. Our algorithm takes only 20~30% in computational amount and has decreased prediction quality about 0~0.02dB compared with the fast full search of the H.264 reference software. Our algorithm will be useful to real-time video coding applications using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC standards.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.55-62
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• 2014

This paper has proposed Hybrid QoS Routing Link State Update(LSU) Algorithm that has had a both advantage of LSU message control in periodic QoS routing LSU algorithm and QoS routing performance in adaptive LSU algorithm. Hybrid LSU algorithm can adapt the threshold based network traffic information and has the mechanism that calculate LSU message transmission priority using the flow of statistical request bandwidth and available bandwidth and determine the transmission of the message according to update rate per a unit of time. We have evaluated the performance of the proposed algorithm and the existing algorithms on MCI simulation network using the performance metric as the QoS routing blocking rate and the mean update rate per link, it thus appears that we have verified the performance of this algorithm that it can diminish to 10% of the LSU message count.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.533-544
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• 2015

Recently, most of the video services are usually transmitted in wireless networks. In networks environment, a packet of video is likely to be lost during transmission. For this reason, this paper proposes a new Error Concealment (EC) algorithm. For High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) bitstreams, the proposed algorithm includes Adaptive Prediction Unit-based Motion Vector Extrapolation (APMVE) and Boundary Matching (BM) algorithm, which employs both the temporal and spatial correlation. APMVE adaptively decides a Error Concealment Basic Unit (ECBU) by using the PU information of the previous frame and BM employing the spatial correlation is applied to only unreliable blocks. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides the higher subjective quality by reducing blocking artifacts which appear in other existing algorithms.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.6
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• pp.335-344
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• 2008

We propose an adaptive garbage collection technique for hybrid flash memory which has both SLC and MLC. Since SLC area is fast and MLC area has low cost, the proposed scheme utilizes the SLC area as log buffer and the MLC area as data block. Considering the high write cost of MLC flash, the garbage collection for the SLC log buffer moves a page into the MLC data block only when the page is cold or the page migration invokes a small cost. The other pages are moved within the SLC log buffer. Also it adjusts the parameter values which determine the operation of garbage collection adaptively considering I/O pattern. From the experiments, we can know that the proposed scheme provides better performance compared with the previous flash management schemes for the hybrid flash and finds the parameter values of garbage collection close to the optimal values.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.315-323
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• 2011

This paper proposes two methods of estimating prior distribution to improve the performance of rapid speaker adaptation based on maximum a posteriori linear regression (MAPLR). In general, prior distribution of the transformation matrix used in MAPLR adaptation is estimated from all of the training speakers who are employed to construct the speaker-independent model, and it is applied identically to all new speakers. In this paper, we propose a method in which prior distribution is estimated from a group of reference speakers, selected using adaptation data, so that the acoustic characteristics of the selected reference speakers may be similar to that of the new speaker. Additionally, in MAPLR adaptation with block-diagonal transformation matrix, we propose a method in which the mean matrix and covariance matrix of prior distribution are estimated from two groups of transformation matrices obtained from the same training speakers, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methods, we examine word accuracy according to the number of adaptation words in the isolated word recognition task. Experimental results show that, for very limited adaptation data, statistically significant performance improvement is obtained in comparison with the conventional MAPLR adaptation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.41-49
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• 2008

H.264/AVC supports variable block motion compensation, multiple reference images, 1/4-pixel motion vector accuracy, and in-loop deblocking filter, compared with the existing compression technologies. While these coding technologies are major functions of compression rate improvement, they lead to high complexity at the same time. For the H.264 video coding technology to be actually applied on low-end / low-bit rates terminals more extensively, it is essential to improve tile coding speed. Currently the deblocking filter that can improve the moving picture's subjective image quality to a certain degree is used on low-end terminals to a limited extent due to computational complexity. In this paper, a performance improvement method of the deblocking filter that efficiently reduces the blocking artifacts occurred during the compression of low-bit rates digital motion pictures is suggested. In the method proposed in this paper, the image's spatial correlational characteristics are extracted by using the variable block information of motion compensation; the filtering is divided into 4 modes according to the characteristics, and adaptive filtering is executed in the divided regions. The proposed deblocking method reduces the blocking artifacts, prevents excessive blurring effects, and improves the performance about $30{\sim}40%$ compared with the existing method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.192-195
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• 2010

영상 정보의 정확성을 필요로 하는 다양한 서비스 및 여러 학문 분야의 적용성으로 인해 물리적인 한계성을 극복할 수 있는 고해상도 영상처리 기법의 요구가 대두되고 있다 뿐만 아니라, 인터넷 상의 디지털 콘텐츠 중의 하나인 동영상 UCC의 제작환경이 보편화됨으로써 비전문적인 제작으로 인한 다양한 형태의 해상도 저하 및 영상의 왜곡 현상이 발생하여 고품질의 영상을 추구하는 사용자들의 요구를 충족시키지 못하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 압축 동영상의 개선 된 영상 정보를 획득하기 위한 연구가 이루어지고 있지만 다음과 같은 문제점이 있다. 기존의 방법은 일반적으로 저역 통과 필터 기법과 정규화 영상 복원 방식으로 구분되어 연구되고 있으며, 저역 통과 기법은 계산량 측면에서 장점이 있으나, 영상과 양자화 정도에 따라 적응적이지 못한 단점이 있다. 또한 정규화 복원 방식은 압축 영상의 시각적으로 불편한 현상의 완화 정도를 결정하는 정규화 매개변수를 일괄적으로 모든 화소에 적용해, 화소의 위치에 대한 적응도가 낮고 정규화 매개 변수 선택 시 원 영상에 대한 정보를 알고 있다는 가정을 사용했으므로 실제 사용이 불가능하며, 영상들 사이의 불균일로 인해 적응적으로 처리하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 극복할 수 있도록 압축 정보 활용을 통한 POCS 방식을 사용한 coding artifact 제거 방식에 대해 기술한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.256-259
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 적응적 평활화 필터를 이용한 스캔된 하프톤 문서의 하프톤 잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 하프톤 잡음은 잡음의 편차가 커서 에지 영역과 유사한 특성을 나타내므로 일반적인 에지 보존 평활화 필터를 적용할 경우에는 잡음 제거 효과가 떨어진다. 또한 인쇄물에 주로 사용되는 집중형 도트 방식의 하프톤은 컬러 영상에서 채널간의 간섭 현상으로 인해 모아레 패턴을 생성한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 스캔된 하프톤 문서의 하프톤 잡음과 모아레 패턴을 효과적으로 제거하기 위해 하프톤 잡음의 방향성에 기반한 적응적 평활화 필터 방법을 제안한다. 하프톤 잡음의 경우 영상의 에지와 달리 등방성을 가지므로 영상을 블록 단위로 나누어 지배적인 에지의 크기와 방향성을 살핌으로써 적응적 평활화 필터를 구성할 수 있다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법은 다양한 인쇄 매체를 통해 생성된 하프톤 문서에 대하여 효과적으로 하프톤 잡음을 제거하면서도 영상의 에지를 보존하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.