• 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 Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2751-2756
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• 2012

Selection of training set influences the classification accuracy in supervised classification using satellite imagery. Generally, if pure pixels which character of training set is clear were selected, whole accuracy is high while if mixed pixels were selected, accuracy is decreased because of low-resolution imagery or unclear distinguishment. However, it is too difficult to choose the pure pixels as training set actually. Accordingly, this study should be suggested the suitable classification method in case of mixed pixels choice. To achieve this, a few pure pixels were chosen as training set and classification accuracy was calculated which was compared with classification result using an equal number of mixed pixels. As a result, accuracy of SVM was the highest among the classification method using mixed pixels and it was a relatively small difference with the result of classification using pure pixels. Therefore, imagery classification using SVM is most suitable in the mixed area of construction and green because it is high possibility to choose mixed pixels as training set.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1363-1368
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• 2011

This paper describes an analysis on the granular noise in pixel-to-pixel mapping-based computational integral imaging. The pixel mapping-based method provides a high-resolution reconstructed images and also its computational cost is very lower than the previous back-projection-based method. In this paper, a signal model for the pixel mapping-based method is introduced, which defines and analyzes the granular noise. Computer experiments provides the granular noise properties based on the proposed signal model. The experimental results indicates that the granular noise pattern differs from that of the back-projection based method. The results is also utilized in the pixel mapping-based method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.2 s.46
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• pp.47-52
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• 2007

Conventional pixel based region segmentation methods have problems of long processing time and incorrect region split on account of performing region split through comparison of neighboring pixels. In this paper, we propose the method which segments a large size of satellite image effectively using modified centroid linkage method. This method is a sort of region split and merge. The proposed method merges pixels and makes them as a new region through only two directional comparing the current positioning pixel with neighbor ones, if they are satisfied with given conditions. Therefore, this method has less comparing time than the cases of previous ones. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is very efficient because of having less processing time and more exact segmented regions than the previous ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.262-265
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 그래픽 하드웨어와 그래픽 프로그램 기술을 이용하여 고속으로 스테레오 영상의 시차를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 우선, 컬러 스테레오 영상에 대하여 mean-shift 기법을 이용하여 컬러를 이용한 영역분할을 수행한다. 분할된 컬러 영역 단위로 가중치를 계산함으로써, 화소단위로 가중치를 계산하는 기존의 방식에 비하여 속도를 높일 수 있다. 블록정합함수를 계산하는 과정에서는 슬라이딩 윈도우 방식을 채택하여, 새로 블록안으로 들어오는 화소열과 빠져나가는 화소열의 정합함수값을 가감하여 화소마다 반복적으로 합산되는 정합함수의 계산량을 크게 줄인다. Middlebury 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 실험 및 평가를 수행한 결과, VGA 급 스테레오 영상을 기준으로 10 프레임 이상을 처리하면서도 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 갖는 블록정합 방식의 성능과 유사한 결과를 확인하였다. 이러한 고속화 방법을 통하여, 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 이용한 블록정합 방식에 비하여 훨씬 고속으로 스테레오 정합을 수행할 수 있으며, 실시간 시차추정이 필요한 시스템에 적용하는 것이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.219-221
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• 2012

본 논문은 무손실 데이터 은닉 기법중 주변 화소의 통계적 특성을 이용하여 어떠한 추가적인 맵 정보 없이 키 파라미터로써 원본 영상과 삽입한 데이터를 정확히 분리해 내는 기법이다. 오버/언더 플로우에 더 강한 데이터 은닉을 위해, 데이터 삽입에 대한 변수로 작용할 수 있는 주변 화소값들의 범위 뿐만 아니라 주변 화소값들의 표준 편차와 평균값을 모두 키 파라미터의 인자로 사용하여 화소값이 낮은, 즉 영상의 밝기가 어두운 부분에 더 많은 데이터를 삽입할 수 있는 기법을 제안하였고, 실험을 통하여 기존 기법 대비 평균 2배 이상의 삽입 용량이 증진된 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.357-358
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 VVC(Versatile Video Coding)의 색차 채널을 위한 화면 내 예측 모드 중 하나인 CCLM (Cross-Component Linear Model) 모드의 부호화 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 CCLM 모드는 예측과정에서 대응 휘도 영역의 화소로만 색차 블록의 예측자를 생성하기 때문에 현재 색차 블록과 그 주변의 참조 화소와의 연관성을 고려하지 않는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 참조 화소를 사용하는 예측 모드를 유도하여 예측자를 생성한 후 기존 CCLM 을 통해 생성된 예측자와 가중 결합하는 방법을 제안함으로써 문제점을 극복하고 부호화 성능의 향상을 가져오고자 한다. 실험 결과 제안 방법은 기존 VVC 방법 대비 BDBR 측면에서 Y(0.10%), Cb(-0.22%), Cr(-0.22%)의 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2007

This paper proposes a defective pixel detection algorithm and its hardware structure for CCD/CMOS image sensor. In previous algorithms, the characteristics of image have not been considered. Also, some algorithms need quite a time to detect defective pixels. In order to make up for those disadvantages, the proposed defective pixel detection method detects defective pixels efficiently by considering the edges in the image and verifies them using several frames while checking scene-changes. Whenever scene-change is occurred, potentially defective pixels are checked and confirmed whether it is defective or not. Test results showed that the correct detection rate in a frame was increased 6% and the defective pixel verification time was decreased 60%. The proposed algorithm was implemented with verilog HDL. The edge indicator in color interpolation block was reused. Total logic gate count was 5.4k using 0.25um CMOS standard cell library.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.9 no.2 s.18
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• pp.37-46
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• 2001

Spectral pattern recognition techniques are most used in classification of remotely sensed data. Yet, in any real image, adjacent pixels are related, because imaging sensors acquire significant portions of energy from adjacent pixels. And, with the continued improvement in the spatial resolution of remote sensing systems, another spatial pattern recognition approach is must considered. In this study, we aim to show the potentiality of spatial classification methods through comparing the accuracies of spectral classification methods and those of spectral classification methods. By the comparisons between the two methods, classification accuracies of 6 different spatial classification methods are higher than that of spectral classification method by 2-6% or so. Additionally, we can show it statistically through the classification experiments with different band combinations.

• 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.