• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.23-40
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• 2002

This study is to examine brain regions that are involved in picture encoding in normal adults using fMRI methods. In Scan 1, the picture encoding was studied during a semantic categorization task in comparison with word. In Scan 2 task type effects were studied both during a picture naming task and during a semantic categorization task with pictures. Subjects were asked to make decision either by pressing a mouse button (Scan 1) or by responding subvocally (naming or saying yes/no) (Scan 2). Regardless of stimulus type, left prefrontal, bilateral occipital, and parietal activations were observed during semantic processing in comparison with fixation baseline. Processing of word stimulus relative to picture resulted in activations in prefrontal and parieto-temporal regions in the left side while that of picture stimulus relative to word resultd in activations in bilateral extrastriatal visual cortices and parahippocampal regions. In spite of the same task demands, stimulus-specific information processings were involved and mediated by different neural substrates; the word encoding was associated with more semantic/lexical processings than pictures and the picture processing associated with more perceptual and novelty related information processings than word. Activations of dorsal part of inferior prefrontal region, i.e., Broca's areas were found both during the picture naming and during the semantic tasks subvocally performed Especially, during the picture naming task, greater occipital activations were found bilaterally relative to the semantic categorization task. indicating a possibility that greater and higher visual processing was involved in retrieving the name referred by picture stimuli.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.21-30
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• 2015

Image coding based on mixed raster content model generates don't care regions (DCR) in foreground and background layers, and its overall coding performance is greatly affected by region filling methods for DCRs. Most conventional methods for DCR filling fail in utilizing the local signal properties in hole regions and thus the high frequency components in non-DCR regions are reflected into DCR after signal filling. In addition, further high frequency components are induced to the filled signal because of signal discontinuities in the boundary of DCR. To solve this problem, a new DCR filling algorithm using the priority-based adaptive region growing is proposed in this paper. The proposed method uses the watershed algorithm and the flooding priority of each pixel for region filling is determined from the degree of smoothness in the neighborhood area. By growing the filled region into DCR based on the computed priority, the expansion of high-textured area can be minimized which can improve the overall coding performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms conventional algorithms.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.11
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• pp.152-165
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• 1998

The contour coding usually occupies the biggest part in the encoded bitstream, which causes the bottleneck problem of a region-based coding scheme. In this paper, new adaptive contour coding technique is proposed for the segmentation-based image coding. By adaptive contour coding considering contrast of neighbor regions in the proposed method, the overall bitrate can be significantly reduced without loss of the subjective image quality. After segmentation using watershed algorithm to the image, the contour segments are classified according to the contrast of the adjacent regions. Then, the contour segments between classified low contrast regions are highly compressed using morphological low pass filtering. The needed bits for encoding the contour information is reduced without loss of subjective image quality in the experiment.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.765-773
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• 2017

Ultra-high definition videos, panorama contents, and ultra-wide viewing videos have a huge spatial resolution. However, a whole region of images is not always interesting to viewers due to limitations of system resources and display devices. To allow one or more interesting tiles to be decoded freely without decoding other tiles, this paper introduces a tile-based independent coding method. The propose method restraints motion vectors to be within a tile region shifting motion search area and modifying an initial motion vector. Experiments results show that any desired tile is capable to be decoded independently of other tiles.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

JPEG2000 offers the technique which compresses the interested regions with higher quality than the background. It is called by an ROI(Region-of-Interest) coding method. In this paper, we use images including the human faces, which are processed uppermost and compressed with high quality. The proposed method consists of 2 steps. The first step extracts some faces and the second one is ROI coding. To extract the faces, the method cuts or scale-downs some regions with $20{\times}20$ window pixels for all the pixels of the image, and after preprocessing, recognizes the faces using neural networks. Each extracted region is identified by ROI mask and then ROI-coded using Maxshift method. After then, the image is compressed and saved using EBCOT. The existing methods searched the ROI by edge distributions. On the contrary, the proposed method uses human intellect. And the experiment shows that the method is sufficiently useful with images having several human faces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.634-636
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• 2003

본 논문은 마스크 방식의 관심 영역(ROI, Region Of Interest) 부호 설계와 구현에 대하여 제시한다. 관심 영역에 대한 정지 영상 압축 알고리즘은 웨이블릿 변환과 사용자가 지정한 관심 영역을 결합하여 설계하였다. 즉, 사용자가 지정한 관심 영역을 이용하여 관심 영역 마스크를 생성한다. 양자화 과정에서 웨이블릿 계수들을 각 레벨과 서브밴드로 구분하고 생성된 관심 영역 마스크 정보를 이용하여 양자화 과정을 처리하여 부호화한다. 관심 영역에 대하여서는 높은 영상 품질과 그리고 전체 영상에 대하여서는 높은 압축을 동시에 실현시킬 수 있는 마스크 방식의 관심 영역 부호화 알고리즘을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.2704-2712
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• 1998

In this paper, a MRI image compression technique, which allocates bits effectively by using lossless coding for region having important infommtion to decide disease and lossy coding for the rest, is proposed. In the proposed method, for MHI images needed to rccognize disk disease, we recognizc region having important objects by using the characteristics of c1isease. As the recognized region is imrxlrtant to decide whether disease exists or not, it is compressed by lossless coding and the rest is compressed by lossy coding, Also for the region compressed by lossy coding, we can obtain fine reconstructed images without blocking effect by adopting fractal coding in wavelet transform domain.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.42-45
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• 2003

일반적으로 영상내의 중요한 정보는 객체 영역에 많이 포함되어 있다. 객체 영역 우선 전송 방법은 영상의 전 영역에 대해 동일한 중요도로 전송하는 일반적인 점진적 부호화 방법과는 달리 객체 영역만을 우선적으로 부호화 하여 전송하기 때문에 짧은 시간 내에 원 영상을 보다 빨리 파악할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 양방향 반올림 필터를 이용한 MRWD기반 객체 영역 우선 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 양방향 반올림 필터에 의해 객체 영역을 추출한 후, MRWD를 이용하여 부호화를 수행하므로, 객체 영역의 웨이브릿 계수들을 우선 전송함으로써 매우 낮은 비트율에서 영상내의 중요 정보를 파악할 수 있다. 따라서, 인터넷상에서 사용자가 영상을 검색할 경우 보다 빨리 원하는 정보를 파악할 수 있어 검색 시간과 검색 효율을 개선시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.129-131
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• 2001

오류 제어 부호화(ECC : Error Control Coding) 의 기법을 이용한 이진 영상의 강인한 워터마킹에 관하여 다룬다. 워터마크를 채널 부호화법을 이용하여 부호화하고, 매입할 대상 영상을 DCT변환을 하여 주파수 영역으로 표현한 후, 부호화된 워터마크를 저전력 영역과 고전력 영역에 매입한다. 이러한 과정을 거친 워터마크된 영상은 외부의 다양한 공격에 대해 강인함을 실험을 통하여 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.735-738
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• 2001

디지털 캠코더에서 이용하는 영상 압축 방식인 DV 부호화방식은 DCT와 가변장 부호화 방식을 이용한다. DV 방식은 하드웨어 복잡도가 낮은 반면 압축된 비트 율이 약 26Mbps로 높은 편이다. 따라서 스튜디오에서 낮은 복잡도로 영상을 부호화 한 후 VOD 시스템에서 이용하기 위하여 MPEG-2로 변환부호화 할 필요가 있다. 이때의 두 압축방식이 DCT를 이용하므로, DCT영역에서 변환부호화 하면 중간과정을 줄일 수 있어서 계산상의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 DV방식에서 MPEG-2의 인트라로 변환부호화시, DV방식의 4:1:1 색차포맷을 MPEG-2의 4:2:2 색차 포맷으로 변환할 때 변환영역에 있는 데이터에 미리 계산된 행렬을 곱하여 병렬처리가 가능하게 설계하였다. 또한 MPEG-2 율제어는 중요한 서브 블록의 분산을 완전히 DCT영역에서 계산하여 하드웨어 복잡도를 줄였다. 색차포맷변환부 하드웨어 구현을 위하여 VHDL로 코딩한 후 FPGA-EXPRESS(synopsys), ALTERA MAX-PLUS II를 사용하여 모의실험을 하였다. 각 모듈별로 기능을 검증한 후, FPGA EXPRESS(synopsys)를 사용하여 합성 및 검증을 하였다.