• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.996-1007
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• 1996

In this paper, a blind adaptation method for a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is proposed to deal with nominimum phase channels. This equalizer is composed of a linear transversal filter and a prediction error filter which are trained separately using constant modulus and decision feedback prediction algorithms, respectively, during the learnign time. The proposed algorithm guaranetees the DFE to converge to a suboptimal point on the condition that a linear transversal of the proposed scheme is illustrated and the performance is compared with conventional blind equlization algorithms.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.480-490
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• 2012

When interpolating chrominance signal, the H.264/AVC standard uses linear interpolation. In this paper, we suggest more effective method that uses a high precision filter, 6-tap FIR filter, 2-tap linear filter for chroma interpolation. The experimental result shows that the proposed method achieves the BD-Rate decrease without the PSNR decrease compared with Jm11.0kta2.7. The maximum BD-rate improvements on Y component are 1.3%, those of Cb and Cr components are 19.8%, 25.0%, respectively. The average BD-rate improvements on Y component are 0.5%, those of Cb and Cr components are 6.1%, 6.9%, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1309-1314
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• 2012

The SAMED filter is introduced as a wide class of multi-stage filters which encompass linear FIR and nonlinear order statistic filters. The output of SAMED filter is linear combination of sub-median outputs. In this paper, optimal SAMED filter is designed for images corrupted by various noise, and performance is analogized. The experimental result shows that the efficiency of each order of SAMED filters is depends on type of noise. It is shown that low order filters are effective in Gaussian environments but high order filters are effective in impulsive case. This result may be used to follow-up research on successive SAMED filters.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.461-467
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• 2003

We propose an efficient method for separable symmetric linear filtering in the DCT domain. First, separable 2-D linear filtering is decomposed into the cascade of 1-D filtering in the DCT domain. We investigate special characteristics of DCT domain filtering matrices when the filter coefficients are symmetric. Then we present the DCT domain 2-D filtering method using these characteristics. The proposed method requires smaller number of multiplications including typical sparseness of DCT coefficients compared to previous DCT domain linear filtering methods. Also, the proposed method is composed of simple and regular operations, which would be appropriate for efficient VLSI implementation.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.6-12
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• 2013

Mammography is the most common technique for the early detection of breast cancer. To diagnose correctly and treat of breast cancer efficiently, many image enhancement methods have been developed. This paper presents a nonlinear image enhancement method for the enhancement of digital mammogram. The proposed method is composed of a nonlinear function for brightness improvement and a nonlinear filter for contrast enhancement. The nonlinear function improves the brightness of dark area and extends the dynamic range of bright area, and the nonlinear filter efficiently enhances the specific regions and objects of the mammogram. The final enhanced image was obtained by combining the processed image with the nonlinear function and the filtered image with the nonlinear filter. The proposed nonlinear image enhancement method was confirmed the enhanced performance comparing with other existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.30-36
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• 2002

This paper describes a nonlinear adaptive noise canceler(ANC) using neural networks(NN) based on filter to make up for the drawback of the conventional ANC with the linear adaptive filter. The proposed ANC was tested its noise rejection performance using broadband time-varying noise signal and compared with the ANC of TDL linear filter. Experimental results show that in cases of nonlinear correlations between the noise of primary input and reference input, the neural network based ANC outperforms the linear ANC with respect to mean square error It is also verified that the recurrent NN adaptive filter is superior to the feedforward NN filter. Thus, we identify that the NN adaptive filter is more effective than the linear adaptive filter for rejection of broadband time-varying noise in the ANC.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.26-30
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• 2009

We propose an adaptive Recursive Least Rank(RLR) L-filter which uses an L-estimator in order statistics and is based on rank estimate in robust statistics. The proposed RLR L-filter is a non-linear adaptive filter using non-linear adaptive algorithm and adapts itself to optimal filter in the sense of least dispersion measure of errors with non-homogeneous step size. Therefore the filter may be suitable for applications when the transmission channel is nonlinear channels such as Gaussian noise or impulsive noise, or when the signal is non-stationary such as image signal.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.624-634
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• 2011

Recently, the JCT-VC is developing the next generation video coding standard that is called HEVC. HEVC has adopted many coding technologies increasing coding efficiency. For chroma interpolation, DCT-based interpolation filter showing better performance than the linear filter in H.264/AVC was adopted in HEVC. In this paper, a combined filter that utilizes the FIR filter and the linear filter in H.264/AVC is proposed to increase coding efficiency. When the proposed method is compared with DCT-based interpolation filter, the experimental results for various sequences show that the average BD-rate improvements on chroma U and V components are 0.9% and 1.1%, respectively, in the high efficiency case of random access structure, those on U and V components are 1.1% and 1.1%, respectively, in the low complexity case of random access structure, those on U and V components are 0.9% and 1.4%, respectively, in the high efficiency case of low delay structure, and those on U and V components are 1.8% and 1.8%, respectively, in the low complexity case of low delay structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.398-402
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 유ㆍ무선 통신 채널을 통한 데이터 전송시 발생하는 비선형 왜곡을 적응 필터를 이용하여 보상하였다. 특히 통신채널에서는 심볼간 간섭(ISI)이 발생하는데 이러한 간섭을 비선형 필터를 이용하여 제거하였다. 비선형 채널을 모델링하는 방법에는 볼테라급수를 이용하는 방법과 쌍선형 방법이 있다. 쌍선형 방법은 볼테라 방법에 비하여 계산량이 적은 장점을 지니고 있다. 따라서 쌍선형 필터에 적응 알고리듬을 적용하여 신호의 왜곡을 보상하였다. 적응 알고리듬에는 LMS 계열과 LS 계열 알고리듬이 있으나 통신 채널에서는 알고리듬의 안정도가 중요하므로 LMS 계열 알고리듬을 적용하였다. 또한 적응 알고리듬은 입력 데이터의 상관성과 데이터 수에 의존하여 수렴속도와 안정도가 결정된다. 알고리듬의 수렴속도를 증가시키기 위하여 입력신호를 신호파형으로부터 다량의 데이터를 검출하는 방법을 적용하였다. 이러한 방법을 입증하기 위하여 입력신호는 2진 랜덤 가우시안 데이터를 이용하였고, 통신채널에서 채널간 간섭을 발생시켰으며 화이트 가우시안 잡음을 부가 시켰다. 이러한 신호를 수신한 수신기에 적응 등화기를 설계하여 대량의 데이터를 생성시키고, 적응 알고리듬을 적용하여 채널의 왜곡을 빠른 속도로 보상하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2005

블록기반의 비디오 부호화 표준은 비디오 신호의 압축방식으로 가장 널리 쓰이는 구조이지만 무선 환경과 같은 저 비트율 응용에서는 양자화에 의한 고주파 성분의 손실로 인해 블록킹 현상 및 링잉 현상이 두드러져 화질열화의 주된 원인이 된다. 이러한 화질열화를 제거하기 위해서 디블록킹 필터와 디링잉 필터를 사용하지만, 영상에 따라 블륵 경계의 모서리 부분과 대각선 에지가 만나는 부분에서 나타나는 corner outlier 현상으로 인해 화질이 충분히 개선되지 못하는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 저 비트율 비디오에서 에지의 방향과 그 에지를 포함하는 블록의 평탄한 정도를 이용하여 corner outlier 현상을 검출하고, 이를 제거할 수 있는 비선형 필터를 제안한다. MPEG-4 호화 영상 및 MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 적용한 영상에 대해서 제안한 비선형 필터를 적용하여 주관적 화질이 개선됨을 실험을 통하여 보인다.