• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.573-578
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• 2023

This paper introduces a new locking technique applicable to high-performance digital Phase-Locked Loops (DPLL). The study employs additional thermometer codes to reduce quantization errors in LC-based Digital Controlled Oscillators (DCO). Despite not implementing the entire DCO codes in thermometer mode, this method effectively reduces quantization errors through enhanced linearity. In the initial locking phase, binary codes are used, and upon completion of locking, the system transitions to thermometer codes, achieving high frequency linearity and reduced jitter characteristics. This approach significantly reduces the number of switches required and minimizes the oscillator's area, especially in applications requiring low DCO gain (Kdco), compared to the traditional method that uses only thermometer codes. Furthermore, the jitter performance is maintained at a level equivalent to that of the thermometer-only approach. The efficacy of this technique has been validated through modeling and design at the RTL level using SystemVerilog and Verilog HDL.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.11C
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• pp.655-661
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• 2011

The transmission issues for the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC (H.264 SVC) video has been widely studied. In this paper, we propose an objective video-quality assessment metric based on no-reference for H.264 SVC using scalability information. The proposed metric estimate the perceptual video-quality reflecting error conditions with the consideration of the motion vectors, error propagation patterns with the hierarchical prediction structure, quantization parameters, and number of frame which damaged by packet loss. The proposed metric reflects the human perceptual quality of video and we evaluate the performance of proposed metric by using correlation relationship between differential mean opinion score (DMOS) as a subjective quality and proposed one.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.20-28
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• 2012

DVC(Distributed Video Coding) technique is a new paradigm, which is based on the Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv theorems. DVC offers not only flexible partitioning of the complexity between the encoder and decoder, but also robustness to channel errors due to intrinsic joint source-channel coding. Many conventional research works have been focused on the light video encoder and its rate-distortion performance improvement. However, in this paper, we propose a new DVC codec which is effectively applicable for error-prone environment. The proposed method adopts a quantiser without dead-zone and symmetric Gray code around zero value. Through computer simulations, the proposed method is evaluated by the bit errors position as well as the number of burst bit errors. Additionally, it is shown that the maximum and minimum transmission rate for the given application can be linearly determined by the number of bit errors.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.149-158
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• 2005

This paper proposed a blind watermarking method for video contents which satisfies both the invisibility and the robustness to attacks to prohibit counterfeiting, modification, illegal usage and illegal re-production of video contents. This watermarking algorithm targets MPEG compression system and was designed to control the amount of watermarking to be inserted according to the adaptive quantization scale code to follow the adaptive quantization of the compression system. The inserting positions of the watermark were chosen by considering the frequency property of an image and horizontal, vertical and diagonal property of a $8{\times}8$ image block. Also the amount of watermarking for each watermark bit was decided by considering the quantization step. This algorithm was implemented by C++ and experimented for invisibility and robustness with MPEG-2 system. The experiment results showed that the method satisfied enough the invisibility of the inserted watermark and robustness against attacks. For the general attacks, the error rate of the extracted watermark was less than $10\%$, which is enough in robustness against the attacks. Therefore, this algorithm is expected to be used effectively as a part in many MPEG systems for real-time watermarking, especially in the sensitive applications to the network environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.538-540
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 적응적인 웨이블릿 변환에 기초한 저속 비트율 비디오 코딩 방법의 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 접근 방법은 양자화된 웨이블릿 계수들이 웨이블릿 서브밴드 구조내에서 중복성을 활용하는 메커니즘에 의해서 전처리 된다면 코딩 절차가 더욱 효과적으로 나타난다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 코딩부분의 최적화 활동에 초점을 맞추어 완전한 중복 블록 움직임 보상된 에어프레임에서 일치를 확보하기 위해 이용하고, 향상된 코사인 윈도우를 적용하였다. 또한 웨이블릿 변환은 각 일치한 움직임 보상된 에러 프레임을 전체적인 에너지 컴팩션에 도달하도록 적용된다. 움직임 벡터의 수평적, 수직적 컴포넌트는 적응적 산술적 코딩을 사용하여 독립적으로 인코드되는 반면에 의미있는 웨이블릿 계수는 적응적 산술 코딩을 사용함에 의해서 비트-플레인 순서로 인코드된다. 제안된 부호기는 28Kbits에서 PSNR이 평균적으로 각각 대략 2.07과 1.38dB에 존재하는 H.263과 ZTE를 초과한다. 전체순서 코딩에 대하여도 3DWCVC 방법은 평균적으로 각각 0.35와 0.71dB을 나타내는 H.263과 ZTE보다 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.637-640
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 Watershed변환을 이용하여 영상을 분할할 때 과분할되는 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 영상의 경계를 강화하고 작은 지역 최소들을 효과적 제거하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 영상속의 양자화와 노이즈에 의한 에러를 제거하는 영상필터링 단계와 제안된 방법에 의해 CERM변환을 수행하는 영상재구성단계 그리고 Watershed변환을 수행하여 영상을 분할하는 단계로 구성되어 있다. 제안된 방법으로 영상을 분할해본 결과 과분할을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있었다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.38-41
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• 2007

데이타 마이닝을 위하여 수집된 대용량의 데이타를 여과 없이 기계학습에 적용하는 것은 많은 시간과 비용이 요구될 뿐만 아니라 저장 공간면에서도 비효율적이다. 선별적 샘플링은 이러한 상황에서 매우 효율적으로 적용할 수 있도록 원본 데이타의 특성을 가능한 반영하여 새로운 훈련 데이타를 생성하는 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 신경망의 하나인 SOM을 적용한 선별적 샘플링을 수행하는데 있어서 여러 가지 선택 문제를 효과적으로 해결하기 위한 실험을 수행한다. 실험 결과로는 두 가지 결과를 얻었다. 1) 충분한 맵 사이즈를 선택해야 학습 데이타의 함축적인 특성을 잘 반영한다, 2) 선택적 샘플링을 위한 유닛선택 방법에서는 의미없는 유닛을 제거함으로서 분류 성능향상을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.9
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• pp.33-38
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• 2009

The group CSD (GCSD) multiplier was recently proposed based on the variation of canonic signed digit (CSD) encoding and partial product sharing. This multiplier provides an efficient design when the multiplications are performed only with a few predetermined coefficients (e.g., FFT). In many DSP applications such as FFT, the (2W-1)-bit product obtained from W-bit multiplicand and W-bit multiplier is quantized to W-bits by eliminating the (W-1) least-significant bits. This paper presents an error compensation method for a fixed-width GCSD multiplier that receives a W-bit input and produces a W-bit product. To efficiently compensate for the quantization error, the encoded signals from the GCSD multiplier are used for the generation of error compensation bias. By Synopsys simulations, it is shown that the proposed method leads to up to 84% reduction in power consumption and up to 79% reduction in area compared with the fixed-width modified Booth multiplier.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.387-396
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• 2009

No-Reference video-quality assessments are divided into two kinds of metrics based on decoding pixel domain or the bitstream one. Traditional full-/reduced- reference methods have difficulty to be deployed as realtime video transmission because it has problems of additional data, complexity, and assessment accuracy. This paper presents simple and highly accurate no-reference video-quality assessment in realtime video transmission. Our proposed method uses quantization parameter, motion vector, and information of transmission error. To evaluate performance of the proposed algorithm, we perform subjective test of video quality with the ITU-T P.910 Absolute Category Rating(ACR) method and compare our proposed algorithm with the subjective quality assessment method. Experimental results show the proposed quality metric has a high correlation (85%) in terms of subjective quality assessment.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.66-75
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• 2002

For the theoretical performance analysis of Viterbi Decoder for wireless LAN with data rate 12Mbps, code rate 1/2 and constraint length 7 defined in IEEE 802.11a, the transfer function is derived using Cramer's rule and the first-event error probability and bit error probability is derived under the AWGN. In the design process, input symbol is quantized into 16 steps for 4 bit soft decision and register exchange method instead of memory method is proposed for trace back, which enables the majority at the final decision stage. In the implementation, the Viterbi decoder based on parallel architecture with pipelined scheme for processing 12Mbps high speed data rate and AWGN generator are implemented using FPGA chips. And then its performance is verified in real time.