• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.207-210
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• 1998

기존의 DPCM에 의한 압축방법은 예측오차를 양자화하여 전송한 후 복원하는 것으로 8레벨로 양자화하는 경우 3bpp의 비트율을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 화소값의 압축에 의해 기존의 DPCM보다 예측오차값의 분포를 0을 중심으로 더 집중시킴으로써 더 낮은 비트율을 갖는 압축방법을 제안한다. 압축된 각 화소의 예측오차값은 DPAM방법에 의해 8-레벨로 양자화되고, 양자화된 예측오차의 열을 4와 2 단위로 분할하여 예측오차의 학습된 열로 구성된 각각의 코드북과 비교한다. 비교 결과 코드북의 주소를 생성하여 전송하고, 복원시 화소값을 확장한다. 제안된 방법은 DPCM방법보다 2.4~4.06dB 낮은 복원 영상의 화질을 보이지만, 비트율은 2.17~2.34bpp를 얻음으로써 0.66~0.83bpp정도 개선할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.12C
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• pp.1193-1200
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed an image hiding method which decreases the amount of calculation encrypting partial data rather than the whole image data using a discrete wavelet transform and a linear scalar quantization which have been adopted as the main technique in JPEG2000 standard and then implemented the proposed algorithm to hardware. A chaotic system was used instead of encryption algorithms to reduce further amount of calculation. It uses a method of random changing method using the chaotic system of the data in a selected subband. For ciphering the quantization index it uses a novel image encryption algorithm of cyclical shifting to the right or left direction and encrypts two quantization assignment method (Top-down coding and Reflection coding), made change of data less. The experiments have been performed with the proposed methods implemented in software for about 500 images. The hardware encryption system was synthesized to find the gate-level circuit with the Samsung $0.35{\mu}m$ Phantom-cell library and timing simulation was performed, which resulted in the stable operation in the frequency above 100MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 컨테이너 BIC-code 자동인식 시스템의 전 처리 과정으로서 다중 임계값을 이용한 BIC-code 영역 추출 방법을 제안한다. 기후요소, 빛, 카메라 위치, 컨테이너의 색과 같은 다양한 요인으로 인해 고정된 임계값을 사용할 수 없다. 따라서 각 영상에 대해 다양한 임계값으로 실험하여 컨테이너 BIC-code 인식에 가장 우수한 임계값을 결정하여 영상을 이진화한다. 다음으로, 가장 우수한 임계값으로 이진화 한 영상에 대하여 레이블링, 닫힘 연산을 통해 BIC-code의 가로, 세로 여부를 판단하게 된다. 또한 레이블링 된 각 영역을 판단하여 잡음을 제거하고, 개별 code를 분리한다. 제안된 방법에 대한 실험결과 성공적인 코드 영역 분리가 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.56-69
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 움직임 보상 차영상 ( motion compensated difference image; MCDI)을 대역 분할한 뒤, 움직임 정보를 이용하여 에너지가 큰 부분만을 선택하여 적응적으로 벡터 양자화를 행함으로써 효율적으로 동영상을 부호화 할 수 있는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기법에서는 MCDI의 특성들을 고려하여 에너지가 낮은 부분은 부호화를 행하지 않고, 에너지가 높은 부분에 대하여서만 움직임 벡터의 크기에 따라 클래스를 분류한 뒤 각 클래스에 맞는 코드북을 설계하여 벡터 양자화를 행한다. 이를 위해서는 부호화 되는 에너지가 높은 부분에 대한 정보와 클래스 부분에 대한 정보가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 부가 정보의 양을 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 최소화함으로써 비트율을 크게 줄이면서도 우수한 화질의 복원 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.95-102
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• 2008

This paper presents an appropriate approach for modeling noise in Computed Radiography(CR) images of high strength materials. The approach is specifically designed for types of noise with the statistical and nonlinear properties. CR images Ere degraded even before they are encoded by computer process. Various types of noise often contribute to contaminate radiography image, although they are detected on digitalization. Quantum noise, which is Poisson distributed, is a shot noise, but the photon distribution on Image Plate(IP) of CR system is not always Poisson process. The statistical properties are relative and case-dependant due to its material characteristics. The usual assumption of a distribution of Poisson, binomial and Gaussian statistics are considered. Nonlinear effect is also represented in the process of statistical noise model. It leads to estimate the noise variance in regions from high to low intensity, specifying analytical model. The analysis approach is tested on a database of steel tube step-wedge CR images. The results are available for the comparative parameter studies which measure noise coherence, distribution, signal/noise ratios(SNR) and nonlinear interpolation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 1995.12a
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• pp.177-182
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 문서 인식 시스템에서 정확한 문서 인식의 기본이 되고 인식 결과에 중요한 영향을 미치는 전처리 알고리즘 중 테이블 입력의 효율적인 처리 방법을 연구한다. 테이블 내의 문자를 인식하기 위해서는 테두리선과 문자부분을 먼저 분리하는 작업이 필요하다. 왜냐하면, 테이블을 인식하기 위해서는 테두리선에 의해 블록화된 테두리선 안의 문자를 인식해야 하며 또한 테두리선을 효율적으로 벡터화하는 방법이 필요하다. 따라서 테이블을 벡터화하는 방법으로 8방향 체인 코드를 이용하여 테이블 선 성분을 추출하는 방법과 히스토그램을 이용하여 테이블의 수평, 수직 성분을 추출하여 얻어진 교차점을 이용하여 대각선 성분을 찾아내는 방법 및 화소의 run-length를 이용하여 수평, 수직 성분을 추출하여 얻어진 교차점을 이용해 대각선 성분을 찾아내는 방법 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 문서 영상 내의 테이블을 효율적으로 벡터화하기 위한 방법을 연구한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.188-199
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• 2008

In conventional video coding, encoder complexity is much higher than that of decoder. However, investigations for lightweight encoder to eliminate motion prediction/compensation claiming most complexity in encoder have recently become an important issue. The Wyner-Ziv coding is one of the representative schemes for the problem and, in this scheme, since encoder generates only parity bits of a current frame without performing any type of processes extracting correlation information between frames, it has an extremely simple structure compared to conventional coding techniques. However, in Wyner-Ziv coding, channel decoding errors occur when noisy side information is used in channel decoding process. These channel decoding errors appear more frequently, especially, when there is not enough correlation between frames to generate accurate side information and, as a result, those errors look like Salt & Pepper type noise in the reconstructed frame. Since this noise severely deteriorates subjective video quality even though such noise rarely occurs, previously we proposed a computationally extremely light encoding method based on selective median filter that corrects such noise using spatial correlation of a frame. However, in the previous method, there is a problem that loss of texture from filtering may exceed gain from error correction by the filter for video sequences having complex torture. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an improved lightweight encoding method that minimizes loss of texture detail from filtering by allowing information of texture and that of noise in side information to be utilized by the selective median filter. Our experiments have verified average PSNR gain of up to 0.84dB compared to the previous method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.876-890
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• 2012

In this paper, we investigated the performances of the distributed video codec with adaptive Gray code to apply for frame-difference signal. That is, the best cases and the worst cases were analyzed and compared by considering the statistical characteristics of the frame difference signal in view of the Gray code allocation. Through computer simulations, if 9-bit data for frame difference signal is generated for luminance signal with 8-bit definition and so n-bit is allocated to the quantized coefficient, we were able to find the best method to reduce the virtual channel noise by adding $256+2^{9-n-1}$ to the frame difference signal. Through computer simulation with test video sequences, it was shown that the performance difference between the best cases and the worst cases is larger than about 1.5dB at same rate. It is expected that the results in this paper are applicable for the transform-domain scheme as well as the pixel-domain scheme.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.8
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• pp.309-314
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• 2014

To generate a complete 3D model from depth images of multiple RGB-D cameras, it is necessary to find 3D transformations between RGB-D cameras. This paper proposes a convenient view calibration technique using a spherical object. Conventional view calibration methods use either planar checkerboards or 3D objects with coded-pattern. In these conventional methods, detection and matching of pattern features and codes takes a significant time. In this paper, we propose a convenient view calibration method using both 3D depth and 2D texture images of a spherical object simultaneously. First, while moving the spherical object freely in the modeling space, depth and texture images of the object are acquired from all RGB-D camera simultaneously. Then, the external parameters of each RGB-D camera is calibrated so that the coordinates of the sphere center coincide in the world coordinate system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.459-464
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• 2003

This paper proposes the use of a wavelet based image transform algorithm in human iris recognition method and the effectiveness of this technique will be determined in preprocessing of extracting Iris image from the user´s eye obtained by imaging device such as CCD Camera or due to torsional rotation of the eye, and it also resolves the problem caused by invariant under translations and dilations due to tilt of the head. This technique values through the proposed translation-invariant wavelet transform algorithm rather than the conventional wavelet transform method. Therefore we extracted the best-matching iris feature values and compared the stored feature codes with the incoming data to identify the user. As result of our experimentation, this technique demonstrate the significant advantage over verification when it compares with other general types of wavelet algorithm in the measure of FAR & FRR.