• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.784-793
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 이산 여현변환에 기반으로 한 고압축의 복원된 영상으로 발생하는 블록화 현상을 제거하기 위한 개선된 후처리 기법을 제안한다. 먼저 압축으로부터 복원된 영상에 대하여, 변환 블록단위로 계산된 블록 경계 불연속값을 이용하여 블록화현상 블록과 에지블록을 구별한다. 블록화현상 블록은 다시 블록 경계면의 격차 정도에 따라 적응적으로 블록경계에서 필터링되는 화소 범위를 다르게 하여 필터링하며, 에지 블록은 다시 화소단위로 에지화소 여부를 조사하여, 에지가 아닌 화소만 필터링을 취하여 좀 더 세밀하게 블록화 현상을 제거하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 방법이 기존 방법에 비해 시각적으로 향상된 영상을 얻을 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.98-105
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• 1989

Various models incorporating Human Visual System (HVS) with the Hadamard transform (HT) represented by Walsh functions are considered. Using the exact frequency components of HT basis functions, the optimum modulation transfer function (MTF) which has a higher peak frequency than DCT schemes is obtimum modulation transfer function (MTF) which has a higher peak frequency than DCT schemes is obtained analytically and visually. The main criterion, for error measurement, is errors at the block boundaries which is an important factor in transform coding. The scheme which has no inverse HVS is proposed. It causes some degradation of image data but it is insignigicant. Crossing area of 4 blocks is equalized by the HVS weighting coefficients. The HVS weighted coding results in perceptually higher quality images compared with the unweighted scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.257-266
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• 2007

In many multimedia applications, image compression is required to substantially reduce the amount of image data. This compression, however, sometimes brings artifacts. Typical artifacts are blocking artifacts and mosquito noise in DCT-coded images, and ringing artifacts around edges in wavelet-coded images. We propose a new directional postprocessing algorithm, which includes detection of the edge direction, interpolation scheme, and directional nonlinear filtering, to enhance the quality of decoded images. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is as effective as or more effective than other nonlinear filtering techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.77-80
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• 1998

영상 데이터는 방대하므로 한정된 대역폭을 통하여 영상을 전송하기 위해서는 압축을 필요로 한다. 그러나 압축으로 전송 비트율은 낮아지지만 고압축률에서는 여러 가지 화질 열화가 발생한다. 화질 열화에는 이산 여현 변환을 수행하는 압축 부호화 알고리듬에서 나타나는 블록킹 현상 또는 모기잡음이 있고 웨이브렛 기반 압축 영상에서는 에지 부근에 나타나는 링잉 현상이 있다. 이와 같은 화질 열화들은 후처리를 통해 제거되지만, 많은 처리 시간이 소요되지 않도록 해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 기반 영상 압축에서 링잉 현상을 효율적으로 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에 대한 모의실험 결과 기존의 방법과 비교하여 처리 속도를 빠르게 하면서 유사한 주관적, 객관적 화질을 얻었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.9C
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• pp.851-859
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• 2003

최근 사용자들의 멀티채널 선호도는 급속도로 전파되고 있다. MPEG은 동영상 및 음향시스템의 데이터 압축기술을 제공하는데, 현재 각광을 받고있는 것이 디지털 오디오이다. MPEG 표준안은 MPEG-1오디오 알고리즘을 MPEG-2 알고리즘에 동일하게 사용해도 멀티채널 및 5.1채널 사운드륵 제공한다. MDCT(Modified Discrete Cosine Transform)는 TDAC(Time Domain Aliasing Cancellation)에 기반을 두고있는 변형이산 여현 변환을 나타낸 것이다. 본 논문에서는 오디오 부분의 핵심이라 할 수 있는 MDCT/IMDCT(Inverse MDCT) 알고리즘을 최적화하여 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 연산과정에서 중복되는 영역을 묶음으로써 연산에 필요한 계수를 줄였다. 최적화 전에 비해 코사인 계수를 0.5%이하로 최적화하였고, 승산에서 0.098%, 가산에서 0.58% 효율을 보였다. 알고리즘 검증은 C언어를 사용하여 검증하였고, 최적화된 알고리즘을 적용하여 마이크로 프로그램 방식의 하드웨어 구조론 설계하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1677-1690
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• 1997

Block-transform coding is one of the most popular approaches for image compression. For example, DCT is widely used in the internaltional standards standards such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, JPEG, and H.261. In the block-based transform coding, blocking artifacts may appear along block boundaries, and they can cause severe image degradation eqpecially when the transform coefficients are coarsely quantized. In this paper, we propose a new method for blocking artifacts reduction in transform-coded images. For blocking artifacts reduction, we add a correction term, on a block basis, composed of a linear combination of 28 basis images that are orthonormal on block boundaries. We select 28 DCT kernel functions of which boundary values are linearly independent, and Gram-Schmidt process is applied to the boundary values in order to obtain 28 boundary-orthonormal basis images. A threshold of bolock discontinuity is introduced for improvement of visual quality by reducing image blurring. We also investigate the number of basis images needed for efficient blocking artifacts reduction when the compression ratio changes.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.1
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• pp.124-131
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• 1997

There have been many demands for th ereal-time image compression. The image compression systems have a wide range of applications. However, real-time encoding is hard to implement because it needs a large amount of computations. In particular, the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and motion estimatio require a large number of arithmetic oeprations compared to other algorithms in MPEG-2. The conventional fasdt DCT algorithms have focused on the reduction of the number of additions more cycles and more expense in realization. Because TMS320C80 has special structure, new approach for implementation of DCT is suggested. The selection of adaptive algorithm and optimization is requried TMS320C80 are analyzed an dsome adaptive DCT algorithms are selected. The DCT algorithms are optimized and implemented. Chens and lees DCT algorithms among various fast algorithms are selected because 1-D approach is effective in the view of th einternal structure of TMS320C80. According to the simulation result, Lees algorithm is more effective in speed and has little difference in precision. On the basis of the result, the possibility of DCT implementation for real-time MPEG-2 system is verified and the required number of the processor, called advanced DSP, is decided for real-time MPEG-2 encoding and decoding.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.609-614
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• 2002

Watermarking is embedding a digital signal called as watermark into images to claim the ownership. In this paper, a new digital watermarking algorithm based on DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) which enhances invisibility and robustness is proposed to improve contentional digital watermarking method using DCT. In the proposed method, it is possible to enhance invisibility and robustness using watermark reordering in which the relative significance of original DCT coefficients can be preserved in watermarked DCT coefficients, and the distortions of original DCT coefficients can be minimized. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves invisibility approximately 9～12[dB] and is more robust to various attacks than the conventional method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.16-29
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• 1995

Choosing initial codevectors in the LBG algorithm controls the performance of a codebook, because it only guarantees a locally optimal codebook. In this paper, we propose the decision method of initial codevectors by a decision radius which takes for feature vectors DC, low frequency, medium frequency and high frequency terms generated by a DCT. The more the decision radius is increased in order to decide initial codevectors, the more the number of membership vectors and the standard deviation for distance among the initial codevectors are increased. To obtain improved performance for a codebook, the decision radius for DC term is required above 0.9 of the membership rate and those for low frequency, medium frequency and high frequency terms under 0.6 of it.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2014

Blocking and ringing artifacts continue to be the most serious defects that occur in images and video streams compressed to low bit rates using block-based discrete cosine transform(DCT) compression standards. These artifacts contain the high frequency components near the block and the edge boundaries. Usually the lowpass filter can remove them. However, simple lowpass filter results into blur by removing important information such as edges at the same time. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel postfiltering algorithm that calculate the weight value based on the intensity similarity in the neighboring pixels and multiply this weight to the Gaussian lowpass filter coefficient. Experimental results show that the proposed technique provides satisfactory performance in both objective and subjective image quality.