• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.41-43
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• 2006

FTV (Free Viewpoint TV, 자유시점 TV)는 사용자들이 원하는 시점을 자유자재로 결정할 수 있는 차세대 TV이다. 또한 영상 획득 시 카메라가 위치하지 않은 새로운 시점을 만들 수 있다. 따라서 FTV는 개인, 산업, 사회, 의학. 사회 분야의 유망한 응용이 될 수 있다. Ray-space에 의한 데이터 표현은 FTV를 위한 데이터 포맷의 한 후보가 될 수 있으며, 실시간으로 임의시점의 영상을 구성하는 데에 있어서 우수한 장점을 가지고 있다. Ray-space에서 사용하는 기법은 컴퓨터 그래픽스가 아니라 순수한 신호 처리 방식이다. 스케일러블 구조, 계층적 구조가 Ray-space로 표현 가능하므로, Ray-space는 비디오 처리의 새로운 플랫폼을 구성할 수 있고 비디오의 개념을 확장할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 Ray-space 데이터를 이용하여 임의 시점 영상을 생성하기 위해 기존의 보간(interpolation) 기법을 보완한 새로운 기법을 제안함으로써, 보다 자연스러운 영상을 얻고자 하는데 목적이 있다.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2010

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.31-44
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• 2016

This paper presents a hole-filling algorithm based on extrapolating spatial-temporal background information used in view synthesis for free-viewpoint television. A new background codebook is constructed and updated in order to extract reliable temporal background information. In addition, an estimation of spatial local background values is conducted to discriminate an adaptive boundary between the background region and the foreground region as well as to update the information about the hole region. The holes then are filled by combining the spatial background information and the temporal background information. In addition, an exemplar-based inpainting technique is used to fill the rest of holes, in which a priority function using background-depth information is defined to determine the order in which the holes are filled. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm outperformed the other comparative methods about average 0.3-0.6 dB, and that it synthesized satisfactory views regardless of video characteristics and type of hole region.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8A
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• pp.679-688
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• 2012

In this paper, performance improved hole-filling algorithm including boundary noise removing pre-process which can be used for an arbitrary view synthesis with given two views is proposed. Boundary noise usually occurs because of the boundary mismatch between the reference image and depth map and common-hole is defined as the occluded region. These boundary noise and common-hole created while synthesizing a virtual view result in some defects and they are usually very difficult to be completely recovered by using only given two images as references. The spiral weighted average algorithm gives a clear boundary of each object by using depth information and the gradient searching algorithm is able to preserve details. In this paper, we combine these two algorithms by using a weighting factor ${\alpha}$ to reflect the strong point of each algorithm effectively in the virtual view synthesis process. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.91-100
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• 2011

Free viewpoint TV can provide multi-angle view point images for viewer needs. In the real world, But all angle view point images can not be captured by camera. Only a few any angle view point images are captured by each camera. Group of the captured images is called multi-view image. Therefore free viewpoint TV wants to production of virtual sub angle view point images form captured any angle view point images. Interpolation methods are known of this problem general solution. To product interpolated view point image of correct angle need to depth image of multi-view image. Unfortunately, multi-view video including depth image is necessary to develop a new compression encoding technique for storage and transmission because of a huge amount of data. Layered depth image is an efficient representation method of multi-view video data. This method makes a data structure that is synthesis of multi-view color and depth image. This paper proposed enhanced compression method using layered depth image representation and H.264/AVC video coding technology. In experimental results, confirmed high compression performance and good quality reconstructed image.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.28-34
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• 2014

Recently the depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) method is usually used in 3D image application filed. Virtual view image is created by using a known view with associated depth map to make a virtual view point which did not taken by the camera. But, disocclusion area occur because the virtual view point is created using a depth image based image 3D warping. To remove those kind of disocclusion region, many hole filling methods are proposed until now. Constant color region searching, horizontal interpolation, horizontal extrapolation, and variational inpainting techniques are proposed as a hole filling methods. But when using those hole filling method some problem occurred. The different types of annoying artifacts are appear in texture region hole filling procedure. In this paper to solve those problem, the multi-directional extrapolation method is newly proposed for efficiency of expanded hole filling performance. The proposed method is efficient when performing hole filling which complex texture background region. Consideration of directionality for hole filling method use the hole neighbor texture pixel value when estimate the hole pixel value. We can check the proposed hole filling method can more efficiently fill the hole region which generated by virtual view synthesis result.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.271-275
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• 2008

Corresponding recent continuous development of multimedia technology with improved desire of using various contents, a new realistic feeling media technology is being created. Of them all, multi-view video is being researched actively as foundation technology of 3D TV, free-view point video etc. But encoding time and bit-rate are increased as view numbers are increased. In this paper we propose improved GoGOP structure to enhance the coding efficiency of multi-view video by applying methods which are using techniques such as Key frame position adjustment, dynamically changing the number of I frame and B frame. As experimental results, technique proposed in this paper reduces bit-rate having similar PSNR value compared with Anchor structure.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.233-238
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• 2015

In this paper, we proposed that immersive audio effect method using the effective noise to improve engagement in free-viewpoint TV(FTV) service. In the basketball court, we monitored the frequency spectrums by acquiring continuous audio data of players and referee using shotgun and wireless microphone. By analyzing this spectrum, in case that users zoomed in, we determined whether it is effective frequency or not. Therefore when users using FTV service zoom in toward the object, it is proposed that we need to utilize unnecessary noise instead of removing that. it will be able to be useful for an immersive audio implementation of FTV.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1155-1163
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new pre-processing algorithm applied to depth map to improve the coding efficiency. Now, 3DV/FTV group in the MPEG is working for standard of 3DVC(3D video coding), but compression method for depth map images are not confirmed yet. In the proposed algorithm, after dividing the histogram distribution of a given depth map by EM clustering method based on GMM, we classify the depth map into several layered images. Then, we apply different mean shift filter to each classified image according to the existence of background or foreground in it. In other words, we try to maximize the coding efficiency while keeping the boundary of each object and taking average operation toward inner field of the boundary. The experiments are performed with many test images and the results show that the proposed algorithm achieves bits reduction of 19% ~ 20% and computation time is also reduced.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.3-19
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• 2018

With the introduction of video cameras into law enforcement, a great deal of police organizations have adopted the technology in their routine crime prevention activities. The up-to-date systems of ambient surveillance energized by CCTV, police wearable cameras, drones, and thermal imaging devices enable the police to thoroughly monitor public spaces as well as to rigorously arrest on-scene criminals. These efforts to improve the level of surveillance are often met with public resistance raising concerns over citizens' rights to privacy. Recent studies on the use of police video equipment have constantly raised the issues related to the lack of applicable legal provisions, risk of personal information and privacy infringement as well as security vulnerabilities. In this regard, the present study attempted to review the public surveillance methods currently used by law enforcement agencies worldwide within the context of public safety and individual rights to privacy. Furthermore, the present study also discussed the legal boundaries of police use of video equipment to address public concerns over privacy issues.