• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3C
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• pp.269-277
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a efficient transcoding method from MPEG-2 to H.264. The proposed transcoder is the transcoding method for spatial domain which consists of MPEG-2 decoder part and H.264 encoding part. In transcoder, we can get useful information to estimate less probable modes from MPEG-2 decoder. Using this information, H.264 encoder chooses the macroblock mode of I-frame and P-frame adaptively to reduce the whole complexity of the transcoder. Our experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm can archive about $30\sim60%$ computational saving without significant degradation of visual quality and increasing of bit rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.11-20
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• 2002

This paper proposes a hardware/software codesign of the MLSE equalizer for GSM.GPRS systems. We analyze algorithms of the MLSE equalizer which consists of a channel estimator using the correlation method and the Viterbi processor. We estimate the computational complexity requirement based on the simulation of TI TMS320C5x DSP. We also estimate the gate count from the results of logic synthesis using the samsung 0.5㎛ standard cell library (STD80). Based on the results of the complexity estimation and gate count, we propose the efficient software/hardware codesign of the MLSE equalizer based on the results of the complexity estimation and gate count.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7A
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• pp.568-577
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose the transmission scheme for the space-time block coded spatial multiplexing systems that have adaptive rate and power allocation per each transmit antenna through the use of feedback information related to channel state. Simulation results show that the adaptive power and rate transmission scheme gain more than 4.5 dB over conventional equal-power and rate transmission scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11C
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• pp.1058-1065
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new motion vector coding algorithm suitable for MPEG-4 Part 10 video coding standard. In the proposed algorithm, the amount of the motion for a given video sequence is Predicted by using a characteristic of the motion vector distribution for the neighboring blocks as well as the MB_type, which is the syntax element in the standard. And one of the independent coding and the combined coding methods is adaptively employed to compress the motion vector difference. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional methods without additional memory and calculations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.102-107
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• 2000

In general text compression techniques cannot be used directly in image compression because the model of text and image are different Recently, a new class of text compression, namely, block-sorting algorithm which involves Burrows and Wheeler transformation(BWT) gives excellent results in text compression. However, if we apply it directly into image compression, the result is poor. So, we propose simple method in order to improve the lossless compression performance of image. The proposed method can be divided into three steps. It is decomposed into ten subbands with the help of symmetric short kernel filter. The resulting subbands are block-sorted according to the method by BWT, and the redundancy is removed with the help of an adaptive arithmetic coder. Experimental results show that the proposed method is better than lossless JPEG and LZ-based compression method(PKZIP).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1587-1594
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• 1994

The pitch predictor is one of the most important part for the robust tree coder. The hybrid backward pitch adapation which is a combination of a block adaptation and a recursive adaptation is used for the pitch predictor. In order to improve the error performance and track the pitch period change of the input speech, it is proposed to smooth the input of the pitch predictor. The smoother with three taps can have fixed coefficients or variable coefficients depending on the estimated autocorrelation function of the output of the pitch synthesizer. The inclusion of a variable smoother can track the pitch period change within a block and reduce the effect of channel errors.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2002

In this paper. we propose a new video coding scheme with multi-resolution motion compensation and residual quantization. The main functional blocks of the proposed scheme include multi-level wavelet decomposition. motion estimation and motion compensation. raster scanning within each subband. formation of block trees and blocking partitioning. and adaptive arithmetic coding. Although the proposed ceding scheme is simple and requires low computational complexity, it produces bitstreams tilth good features. such as the embedded structure and SNR scalability. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed coding scheme is quote competitive to and often outperforms other wavelet-based video coding schemes in the literature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2012

로컬 히스토그램 평활화(LHE)는 영상에서 로컬 정보를 강조하기 위한 효율적인 알고리즘 중 하나이다. 그러나 이 알고리즘은 스펙클 노이즈를 증폭시키는 단점을 가진다. 따라서, 기존의 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 확장한 다중 레이어 블록 오버랩 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 이용하여 기존 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법들의 문제점을 해결하고자 하였다. 이 방법은 3단계-컨트라스트 향상 단계, 노이즈 제거 단계, 통합 단계로 이루어진다. 제안된 방법에서는 기존 방법의 컨트라스트 향상 단계에서 일반적인 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 방법이 아닌 컨트라스트를 제한하는 적응적인 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 적용하고, 노이즈 제거 단계에서 새로운 바이레터럴 필터를 적용하였다. 즉, 기존 방법의 문제점들을 해결하도록 알고리즘을 변형하여 기존 알고리즘의 성능을 개선하였다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법 및 잘 알려진 로컬 히스토그램 평활화 기법들과 비교하여 좋은 성능을 내는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.120-125
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• 2009

For effective noise removal prior to video processing, noise power or noise variance of an input video sequence needs to be found exactly, but it is actually a very difficult process. This paper presents an accurate noise variance estimation algorithm based on motion compensation between two adjacent noisy pictures. Firstly, motion estimation is performed for each block in a picture, and the residue variance of the best motion-compensated block is calculated. Then, a noise variance estimate of the picture is obtained by adaptively averaging and properly scaling the variances close to the best variance. The simulation results show that the proposed noise estimation algorithm is very accurate and stable irrespective of noise level.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.3B
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• pp.549-556
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a new adaptive stereo object tracking system that can be used when the back ground image is complex and the cameras are not fixed . In this method, we used the Block Matching Algorithm to separate the tracking object form the background image and then the optical JTC system is used to obtain the convergence-controlling and pa/tilt-controlling values fro the left and right cameras. the experimental results are found to track the object robustly & adaptively for the object tracking in various background images, and the possibility of real-time implementation of the proposed system by using the optical JTC is also suggested.