• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.516-527
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• 2008

This paper introduces a derivation method of both P-SKIP and B-SKIP modes for illumination compensation in the multi-view video coding scheme. In this proposed method, mismatches between IC flag and IC offset in P-SKIP mode are removed, and also computational complexity is far reduced in B-SKIP mode in comparison to a multi-view video coding scheme. In simulation results, proposed method has the almost same coding efficiency in comparison with the referenced coding scheme. However computational complexity in 11m-time decoding process is tremendously reduced, such that the average number of blocks that should be processed in P-SKIP mode is saved in about 7.47%, and the average number of operations per block in B-SKIP mode is saved in about 50.36% and corresponding average decoding time per block is also saved in 46%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.401-410
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• 2008

Multiview Video Coding contains a macroblock-based illumination compensation tool which can compensate the variations of illuminations according to view or temporal directions. Thanks to illumination compensation tool, the coding efficiency of Multiview Video Coding has been enhanced. However illumination compensation tool also generates additional subjective drawbacks of the blocking artifacts due to macroblock-based compensations of mean values. A deblocking filtering method for Multiview Video Coding which is the same as in H.264/AVC does not consider illumination difference between the illumination compensated blocks, thus it can not effectively eliminate the blocking artifacts. Therefore, this paper analyzes the phenomena of blocking artifacts caused by illumination compensation and proposes a method which can effectively eliminate the blocking artifacts with the minimum changes of the H.264 deblockding filtering method. In the simulation results, it can be easily found the blocking artifacts are clearly eliminated in the subjective comparisons, and the average bit-rate reduction is up to 1.44%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 효율적인 다시점 비디오 부호화를 위해 히스토그램(histogram)을 이용한 다시점 비디오의 휘도(luminance)와 색차(chrominance)성분 보상 기법을 제안한다. 다시점 비디오는 카메라의 기하학적인 위치 차이와 여러 대의 카메라가 동일한 특성을 가지도록 완벽히 조정되지 못함으로 인해 동일한 시간대에 촬영된 인접한 시점 영상 간에 휘도와 색상의 차이가 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 특성은 인접한 카메라로부터 획득된 영상을 참조하여 시점간 움직임 예측 시에 오정합의 원인이 되어 부호화 효율을 떨어뜨리게 된다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 다시점 비디오 부호화를 위해 시점간의 히스토그램을 비교하여 정합하는 휘도 및 색차 보상 기법을 수행한다. 일정한 시간 대역(time interval)에서 다시점 비디오의 평균 누적 히스토그램을 이용하여 참조 영상을 생성하고 각 시점별로 정합 함수를 통해 다시점 영상 간의 휘도와 색상의 불일치성을 보상한다. 제안하는 조명 보상 기법을 통하여 다시점 비디오 부호화 효율을 높일 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.132-145
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• 2009

We present the framework for JND based Illumination and Color Restoration Using Edge-preserving filter for restoring distorted images taken under the arbitrary lighting conditions. The proposed method is effective for appropriate illumination compensation, vivid color restoration, artifacts suppression, automatic parameter estimation, and low computation cost for HW implementation. We show the efficiency of the mean shift filter and sigma filter for illumination compensation with small spread parameter while considering the processing time and removing the artifacts such as HALO and noise amplification. The suggested CRF (color restoration filter) can restore the natural color and correct color distortion artifact more perceptually compared with current solutions. For the automatic processing, the image statistics analysis finds suitable parameter using JND and all constants are pre-defined. We also introduce the ROI-based parameter estimation dealing with small shadow area against spacious well-exposed background in an image for the touch-screen camera. The object evaluation is performed by CMC, CIEde2000, PSNR, SSIM, and 3D CIELAB gamut with state-of-the-art research and existing commercial solutions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2007

여러 동영상 부호화 방식에서 영상프레임을 분할해서 이전에 부호화된 프레임으로부터 움직임을 추정하여 현재의 블록을 예측하는 움직임 보상을 사용하고 있다. 움직임 보상에 사용되는 화소정밀도가 높을수록 보다 좋은 성능을 갖지만 연산량은 증가하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 1/4 화소 정밀도를 지원하는 H.264/AVC 부호화기에 적합한 움직임 보상기를 연구하였다. 전치 배열과 휘도 6-tap 필터 3개를 사용하여 높은 하드웨어 이용률을 갖게하였다. VHDL을 사용하여 Xilinx ISE툴을 사용하여 합성하고, 보드 수준에서 PCI인터페이스를 사용하여 검증하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 움직임 보상기는 실시간 처리를 요구하는 분야에 응용 가능할 것으로 예견된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.33-39
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• 2006

Trichromatic LED backlight renders higher colour gamut and panel transmittance to the LCDs than the phosphor-converted white LED backlight. In realization, however, several technical challenges arise, such as colour shift, due to the ambient temperature change, brightness decrease along with the temperature increase, colour mixing, minimizing the total number of chips and so on. In this paper we designed and tested the low cost temperature compensating circuit, using a thermistor as a temperature compensating element, for stabilizing the brightness and maintaining the colour coordinates of the trichromatic backlight units. By applying the temperature compensating circuit, the decrement rate of the brightness and colour shift rate were achieved by 54% and 51% respectively comparing with uncompensated case.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.47-60
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• 2006

Due to the uneven illumination of FPD panel surface, it is difficult to detect the defects. The paper proposes a method to find the uneven illumination compensation using wavelets, which are done based on multi-resolution structure. The first step is to decompose the image into multi-resolution levels. Second, elimination of lowest smooth sub-image with highest frequency band removes the high frequency noise and low varying illumination. In particular, the main algorithm was implemented by lifting scheme for realtime inline process.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1739-1742
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 입력영상의 휘도 신호에 Neyman-pearson Test를 이용하여 descramble error를 효과적으로 보정하는 기법을 제안한다. 아날로그 회로의 오차와 noise 의 영향으로 scramble 된 라인의 오프셋 값을 정확히 보상하지 못할 경우에 발생하는 descramble error를 scrambler/ descrambler 의 기기별 차이에 관계없이, 또한 scrambler 와 descrambler로부터 어떠한 정보 없이 descramble 시에 발생한 error 의 offset 값과 scramble 된 라인을 검출하여 보상하는 방법을 논하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2014

This paper proposes an illuminant compensation method using a camera noise analysis without segmentation in the dichromatic reflectance model. In general, pixels within highlight regions include large amounts of information on the image illuminant. Thus, the analysis of highlight regions provides a relatively easy means of determining the characteristics of an image illuminant. Currently, conventional methods require regional segmentation and the accuracy of this segmentation then affects the illuminant estimation. Therefore, the proposed method estimates the illuminant without segmentation based on a conformity assessment of highlight regions. Furthermore, error factors, such as noise and sensor non-uniformity, can be reduced by the conformity assessment.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.25-32
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an image generator for OLED panel test that can compensate for color coordinates and luminance by using panel defect inspection and optical measurement while displaying images on OLED panel. The proposed image generator consists of two processes: the image generation process and the process of compensating color coordinates and luminance using optical measurement. In the image generating process, the panel is set to receive the panel information to drive the panel, and the image is output by adjusting the output setting of the image generator according to the panel information. The output form of the image is configured by digital RGB method. The pattern generation algorithm inside the image generator outputs color and gray image data by transmitting color data to a 24-bit data line based on a synchronization signal according to the resolution of the panel. The process of compensating color coordinates and luminance using optical measurement outputs an image to an OLED panel in an image generator, and compensates for a portion where color coordinates and luminance data measured by an optical module differ from reference data. To evaluate the accuracy of the image generator for the OLED panel test proposed in this paper, Xilinx's Spartan 6 series XC6SLX25-FG484 FPGA was used and the design tool was ISE 14.5. The output of the image generation process was confirmed that the target setting value and the simulation result value for the digital RGB output using the oscilloscope matched. Compensating the color coordinates and luminance using optical measurements showed accuracy within the error rate suggested by the panel manufacturer.