• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.762-765
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• 2003

본 논문에서 제안하는 분절된 화소들의 특징추출 방법은 이진화 영상에서 수직/수평 화소들의 분절점을 탐색하여 추출하는 특징 탐색기이다. 숫자의 구조적인 면을 고려하여 사소한 부분들도 명확한 특징으로 탐지하여 추출하였고, 이러한 방법은 일반적으로 사용하여지는 특징추출방법 몇가지를 선택하여 이용하였고, 제안하는 방법과 결합하여 필기체 숫자를 인식하였다. 인식기를 구현하기 위하여 3개층 구조를 갖는 클러스터 MLP 신경망을 사용하였다 실험 결과 단순히 일반적인 특징만을 활용하여 얻는 인식률 보다 훨씬 향상됨을 보여주었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.411-417
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• 2006

Motion Estimation (ME) is an important part of video coding process and it takes the largest amount of computation in video compression. Half-pixel and quarter-pixel motion estimation can improve the video compression rate at the cost of higher computational complexity In this paper, we suggest a new efficient low-complexity algorithm for half-pixel and quarter pixel motion estimation. It is based on the experimental results that the sum of absolute differences(SAD) shows parabolic shape and thus can be approximated by using interpolation techniques. The sub-pixel motion vector is searched from the minimum SAD integer-pixel motion vector. The sub-pixel search direction is determined toward the neighboring pixel with the lowest SAD among 8 neighbors. Experimental results show that more than 20% reduction in computation time can be achieved without affecting the quality of video.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.146-155
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• 2006

A handful of previous studies have attempted to integrate socioeconomic data and remotely sensed data for urban quality of life assessment with their spatial dimension in a zonal unit. However, such a zone-based approach not only has the unrealistic assumption that all attributes of a zone are uniformly spatially distributed throughout the zone, but also has resulted in serious methodological difficulties such as the modifiable areal unit problem and the incompatibility problem with environmental data. An alternative to the zone-based approach can be a pixel-based approach which gets its spatial dimension through a pixel. This paper proposes a pixel-based approach to linking remotely sensed data with socioeconomic data in GIS for urban quality of life assessment. The pixel-based approach uses dasymetric mapping and spatial interpolation to spatially disaggregate socioeconomic data and integrates remotely sensed data with spatially disaggregated socioeconomic data for the quality of life assessment. This approach was implemented and compared with a zone-based approach using a case study of Fulton County, Georgia. Results indicate that the pixel-based approach allows for the calculation of a microscale indicator in the urban quality of life assessment and facilitates efficient data integration and visualization in the assessment although it costs an intermediate step with more processing time such as the disaggregation of zonal data. The results also demonstrate that the pixel-based approach opens up the potential for the development of new database and increased analytical capabilities in urban analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1299-1309
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a new approach for reducing the blocking artifact that is one of drawbacks of the block-based Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) without introducing additional information or significant blurring. We modify the inter-block discontinuity minimization technique to preserve edges within a block as well as to reduce visible block boundaries. The homogeneity of each block is decided by the threshold value reated to Q-factor, which is included in a JPEG as well as MPEG streams. The quantization error is estimated by minimizing the discontinuity, which is weighted in proportion to block discontinuity and added to each pixel in the block to compensate block artifacts. The proposed algorithm reconstructs images which have less noticeable block boundaries from a subjective viewpoit without anyconstraints.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.229-234
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• 2018

Texture is one of the most useful features in classifying and segmenting images. The LBP-based approach previously presented in the literature has been successful in many applications. However, it's theoretical foundation is based only on the difference of pixel values, and consequently it has a number of drawbacks like it performs poorly for the images corrupted with noise, and especially it cannot be used as a multiscale texture descriptor due to the exploding increase of feature vector dimension with increase of the number of neighbor pixels. In this paper, we present a method to address these drawbacks of LBP-based approach. More specifically, our approach quantizes the range of pixels values and construct a 3D histogram which captures the correlative information of pixels. This histogram is used as a texture feature. Several tests with texture images show that the proposed method outperforms the LBP-based approach in the problem of texture classification.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.9
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• pp.70-76
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• 1998

By controlling the pixel of a LCD spatial light modulator electronically, we made a real-time moving window passing through the light on a LCD spatial light modulator. By using this LCD moving window, we suggested an angular multiplexed holographic memory system and in case of windows of 10$\times$10 pixels and 2$\times$2 pixels the total numbers of address are 1,536 and 38,400, respectively. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method, we recorded and reconstructed 30 images by 30 input addresses.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.271-276
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• 2000

본 논문은 칼라 성분들간의 차분 영상과 휘도 영상을 이용하여 산출한 색차 휘도합 영상을 대상으로 블록에 기반한 영상 분할을 수행하여 객체의 형상 정보를 추출함으로써 분할 특성을 개선한 블록 기반 칼라 영상 분할 기법에 관한 것이다. 우선, R, G, B 영상들 간의 차분 성분들을 구하여 합산한 후, 이를 정규화하여 색차합 영상을 구한다. 다음으로 화소 단위로 휘도 영상의 상위 2비트와 정하화된 색차합 영상의 하위 6비트를 결합하여 색차 휘도합 영상을 얻는다. 이후, 기설정된 크기의 블록으로 분할된 색차 휘도합 영상의 각 블록을 질감 블록과 단순 블록 및 에지 블록으로 분류하고 각 유형의 블록별로 병합한 후, 기설정된 마커 배정 규칙에 따라 선택적으로 마커를 부여한다. 마지막으로, 마커가 부여되지 않은 블록을 대상으로 화소 단위의 워터쉐드 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 자연스러운 형상 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 고찰할 때, 제안된 방범은 질감 영역에서의 과분할의 문제와 과도한 연산량의 부담을 효과적으로 경감시킬 수 있으나, 더불어, 영상 분할용 파라미터들의 민감도가 낮아 서로 다른 화소 분포 특성온 갖는 영상들에 전역적인 파라미터들사용할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 특히, 색차 휘도합 영상에 반영된 색차 성분에 힘입어 저대조 경계면에서의 분할 특성을 현저히 개선시킬 수 있는 이점이 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.738-742
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• 2007

The variations in the device characteristics of hydrogenated amorphous thin-film transistors (a-Si:H TFTs) were studied according to the processes of pixel electrode fabrication to make active-matrix flat-panel displays. The off-state current was about 1 pA and the switching ratio was over $10^6$ before fabrication of pixel electrodes; however, the off-state current increased over 10 pA after fabrication of pixel electrodes. Surface treatment on SiNx passivation layers using plasma could improve the off-state characteristics after pixel electrode process. $N_2$ plasma treatment gave the best result. Charge accumulation on the SiNx passivation layer during the deposition of transparent conducting layer might cause the increase of off-state current after the fabrication of pixel electrodes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.236-238
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 HEVC 코덱에서 프레임 단위로 수행되던 디블록킹 필터를 하드웨어 구현 시에 LCU 단위로 처리되는 파이프라인 구조를 적용하여 병렬적으로 수행할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 파이프라인 구조에서는 현재 처리되고 있는 하나의 LCU 에 대해 디블록킹 필터를 수행하기 위해서 현재 처리하고 있는 LCU 뿐만 아니라 주변의 LCU 의 화소 값 등의 정보가 필요하며 주변의 LCU 의 화소 값을 모두 저장하는 것은 불필요한 메모리소모를 야기해 HEVC 코덱의 복잡도를 증가시킬 수 있다. 또한 현재 처리되는 LCU 의 경계에 디블록킹 필터를 수행하는 경우 현재 처리되는 LCU 이전의 수정할 수 없는 LCU 의 화소 값도 수정되어야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 수평 버퍼 와 수직 버퍼의 개념을 도입하여 처리되는 LCU 의 왼쪽 LCU 의 오른쪽 끝 4 열의 화소와 위쪽 LCU 의 아래쪽 끝 4 행의 화소만을 저장하여 메모리를 합리적으로 사용하는 방법을 제시하고 평행이동 LCU 개념을 적용하여 수정 불가능한 화소 값들을 처리하는 방법을 제시한다. 제안된 구조에 따라 구현된 소프트웨어 상에서 기존의 참조 소프트웨어인 HM6.0 과 동일한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.205-210
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• 2022

A novel OLED pixel circuit is proposed in this paper that uses only n-type thin-film transistors(TFTs) to improve the luminance non-uniformity of the AMOLED display caused by the threshold voltage variation of an OLED driving TFT. The proposed OLED pixel circuit is composed of 6 n-channel TFTs and 2 capacitors. The operation of the proposed OLED pixel circuit consists of the capacitor initializing period, threshold voltage sensing period of an OLED·driving TFT, image data voltage writing period, and OLED·emitting period. As a result of SmartSpice simulation, when the threshold voltage of·OLED·driving TFT varies from 1.2 V to 1.8 V, the proposed OLED pixel circuit has a maximum current error of 5.18 % at IOLED = 1 nA. And, when the OLED cathode voltage rises by 0.1 V, the proposed OLED pixel circuit has very little change in the OLED current compared to the conventional OLED pixel circuit. Therefore, the proposed pixel circuit exhibits superior compensation characteristics for the threshold voltage variation of an OLED driving TFT and the rise of the OLED cathode voltage compared to the conventional OLED pixel circuit.