• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.261-270
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• 2013

A stereoscopic 3D video service is able to provide a 3D video service while keeping backward compatibility with the existing 2D video service. In the terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, a stereoscopic video codec is required to have high coding efficiency in order to provide a 3D video service in the same channel capacity. A hybrid codec consisting of MPEG-2 for base video and H.264/AVC or HEVC for 3D auxiliary video is considered. Furthermore, Non-Real-Time (NRT) delivery of stereoscopic video is also considered as a service scenario for 3DTV services to overcome the limited bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a stereoscopic video coding scheme using adaptive loop filter (ALF) which had been considered in HEVC as a pre-/post-filter for enhancing coding efficiency in NRT-based 3DTV services. In order to apply ALF as a post-filter to the reconstructed additional view coded by H.264/AVC, we devise a method in which ALF is adaptively applied based on a structure determined by using macroblock (MB) coding information such as MB mode type and reference index instead of coding unit (CU) structure on which ALF is applied in the HEVC. Experimental results shows that the proposed stereoscopic video coding scheme applying ALF obtains up to 24.9% gain of bit saving.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.107-113
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• 2016

Visual discomfort is a common problem in three-dimensional videos. Among the methods to overcome visual discomfort presented in current research, disparity adjustment methods provide little guidance in determining the condition for disparity control. We propose a diaprity adjustment based on the characteristics of disparity distribution on visual comfort, where the visual comfort level is used as the adjustment paramter, in parallax barrier type auto-stereoscopic 3D display. In this paper, we use the horizontal image shift method for disparity adjustment to enhance visual comfort. The speeded-up robust feature is used to estimate the disparity distribution of 3D sequences, and the required amount for disparity control is chosen based on the pre-defined characteristics of disparity distribution on visual comfort. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we used a 3D equipment. Subjective tests were conducted at the fixed optimal viewing distance. The results show that comfortable videos were generated based on the proposed disparity adjustment method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

Recently an extension to DMB AF (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Application Format) standard has been proposed in such a way that the extended DMB AF can include stereoscopic video and stereoscopic images for interactive service data, i.e., MPEG-4 BIFS (Binary Format for Scene) data, in addition to the existing 2D video and 2D images for BIFS services. In this paper we developed a service that provides the streaming of 3D contents in DMB AF by using MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard and validated it by implementing the client software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.376-377
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 스테레오스코픽 영상 및 깊이 프레임 오류 은닉 알고리즘을 제안한다. i) 좌측 컬러 프레임 오류 발생시 시간적 상관관계를 이용하여 프레임을 복원한다. iii) 우측 컬러 프레임 오류 발생시 깊이 정보 및 DIBR 기법을 이용하여 좌 우 시점간의 매칭 픽셀을 예측하고, 매칭된 픽셀의 움직임 벡터 및 밝기 차이를 이용하여 프레임을 복원한다. iii) 좌측 깊이 프레임과 iv) 우측 깊이 프레임의 오류 발생시 좌 우측 컬러 프레임의 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 손실된 프레임을 복원한다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통해 제안하는 알고리즘의 스테레오스코픽 컬러 및 깊이 프레임 오류 복원 성능을 확인한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.769-782
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• 2009

Stereoscopic video service is one of the most widely adopted technologies for 3-Dimensional technology. However, the stereoscopic video service has not been penetrated into the market since there does not exist a proper transmission method even though the conventional MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) has support for broadcast service of mono-scopic video contents. This is partly because the MPEG-2 TS does not support displaying a stereoscopic video content which consists of several composition types widely used in the market. This paper proposes the new MPEG-2 TS specification suitable for transmitting and displaying stereoscopic video contents. In order to show feasibility of the proposal, this paper describes an end-to-end system which is implemented with consideration of the method how to multiplex and de-multiplex stereoscopic video contents as well as keeping backward compatibility with the traditional MPEG-2 TS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.1969-1977
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• 2010

James Cameron's "Avatar" has broken the national record of movie ticket sales, and it caused the boom of 3D and 3D related fields. This research is focused on the appropriate ways to embrace the stereoscopic 3D cinema and the assumable result in Korea. The new stereoscopic 3D is different from the old fashioned analogue 3D, and it has many possibilities that may influence Korean film industry. Since 1990s, the number of Korean film school has increased drastically, and many of those who graduated from the schools would experience fierce job market. 3D converting projects that require a lot of film majored personnels would solve the overly supplied film majored professionals. Through Korea's hundreds of film schools, when they include 3D filmmaking in their curriculum, they can train and educate 3D related staff such as stereographer, convergence puller, and depth continuity artists, and Korea can be an important 3D staff train center in the world. Educating 3D filmmaking can produce a noticeable result in terms of accepting 3D cinema. Stereoscopic 3D cinema has many possibilities in many fields not only in cinema but also almost every fields that related to the imagery. With government's supports, the investments from the 3D related corporations, and 3D education in colleges would be fast and efficient way to embrace and accept stereoscopic 3D cinema in Korea in terms of the size and the profit.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.5A
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• pp.688-695
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• 2000

We present a multi-view autostereoscopic display system based on volume holographic storage technique. In this proposed system, the interference pattern of spatial multiplexed plane reference and angular multiplexed plane object beams are recorded into a photorefractive crystal, which plays a role of guiding object beams of multi-view images into the desired persfective directions. For reconstruction, object beams containing the desired multi-view image information, which satisfy Bragg matching condition, are illuminated in the time-division multiplexed manner onto the crystal. Then multiple stereoscopic images are Projected to the display plane for autostereoscopic 3D viewing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.333-334
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 안경식 스테레오스코픽 3DTV에 대한 효율적인 주관적 화질평가 방법에 대한 논의를 한다. 3DTV의 주관적 화질평가는 시각피로나 신체적 불편감을 유발하는 요인들을 규명하고 평가하여 사용자가3D 영상물을 관람할 때 이들을 최소화하면서 컨텐츠 제공자가 의도한 입체 깊이를 시청자가 지각 할 수 있도록 도와 줄 수 있도록 가이드라인을 제공하기 위해 이루어진다. 주관적 화질평가를 위해 적절한 깊이감을 갖는 카메라기반의 실영상과 컴퓨터 그래픽 기반의 3D컨텐츠를 사용하였다. 설문은 디스플레이 자체와 3D컨텐츠에 대한 화질평가 구분을 하고, 전문가와 일반인들을 대상으로 이루어졌다. 주관적 평가에 앞서 평가결과에 대한 객관성을 유지하기 위해 Random-dot Stereogram을 이용하여 개인별 입체시 평가를 하였다. 일반인들의 경우 전문가들에 비해 상대적으로 응답편차가 많이 발생하였으나 전문가 집단과 일반인 집단의 설문응답 경향은 대체적으로 일치하였다. 전문가 그룹의 주관적 평가 결과를 적절히 반영하고 일반인들의 응답편차를 줄임으로써 3DTV에 대한 주관적 평가에 대한 시간과 비용을 효율적으로 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.584-595
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• 2012

Recently, 3D stereoscopic video and HTTP adaptive streaming technologies have received a lot of attention from relevant industrial fields and markets in terms of multimedia contents and delivery services, respectively. It is expected that promising and marketable service models can be created by means of these noticeable two technologies. However, current standard specifications do not provide a method for organized connection between those two technologies. 3D stereoscopic video services are weighted in broadcasting and storage services that are only available under environments in which the network bandwidth is guaranteed or free. Also, HTTP adaptive streaming technologies only provide plain 3D service methods that are dependent on particular Codec. Therefore, this paper proposes 3D video delivery format for HTTP adaptive streaming service which enables stable and seamless display for various stereoscopic video sequences over internet networks. The proposed technology is designed on the basis of Stereoscopic Video Application Format which is a service-oriented standard specification for storing stereoscopic video sequences. Also, this delivery format is directly applicable over DASH that is the representative standard technology for HTTP adaptive streaming services. The delivery format proposed in this paper has been submitted to MPEG and it has been accepted as a working draft, thus it expected to pave the way for practical industrialization in relevant fields from now on.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.83-85
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• 2010

최근 소형 무안경식 스테레오스코픽 디스플레이가 저가에 양산될 수 있게 되어 이를 장착한 휴대형 기기를 통한 스테레오스코픽 서비스에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 지상파 DMB 수신 겸용 휴대폰의 경우에도 이러한 3D 디스플레이를 장착할 수 있으므로, 지상파 DMB를 통해 3D 비디오 서비스를 제공하는 데에도 관심이 고조되고 있다. 그러한 현재 지상파 DMB 채널은 가용 전송률이 거의 남아 있지 못한 상태이므로, 실시간으로 이러한 서비스를 제공할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 기존 지상파 DMB 비디오 서비스를 위해 전송되는 비디오 압축 데이터를 3D 영상의 좌우 영상 중 한 영상으로 사용하고, 다른쪽 영상은 비실시간적인 방법으로 수신기로 전송함으로써 기존 지상파 DMB 비디오 서비스와 호환적으로 3D 비디오 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 방법 2 가지를 제안한다. 첫 번째 방법은 지상파 DMB의 파일 다운로드 프로토콜인 MOT(Multimedia Object Transfer)를 이용하여 3D 영상에 필요한 한 쪽 영상을 파일 형태로 미리 수신기로 다운로드해 준 후, 실시간으로 전송되어 오는 2D 비디오 데이터와 함께 디스플레이하는 MOT/스트림 모드 비실시간 3D 비디오 서비스이며, 두 번째 방법은 광고 영상과 같이 일정 기간 중에 반복적으로 전송되는 콘텐트에 대해 추가로 필요한 전송률이 거의 없이 3D 비디오로 제공할 수 있는 반복 콘텐트 비실시간 3D 비디오 서비스이다.