• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.326-329
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new video compression algorithm using an adaptive transform that is adjusted depending on the frequency contents of the input signals. The adaptive transform is based on the warped discrete cosine transform (WDCT) which is shown to provide better performance than the DCT at high bit rates, when applied to JPEG compression scheme [1, 2, 3]. The WDCT is applied to the video compression in this paper, as a new feature in the H.264/AVC. The proposed method shows the coding gain over the H.264/AVC at high bit rates. The coding gain is shown over the 35dB PSNR quality, and the gain increases as the bit rate increases. (about 1.0dB at 45dB PSNR quality at maximum)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.171-175
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 COFDM(Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템에서 각 부채널이 갖는 신호대 잡음의 양을 수신단이 측정할 수 있는 특징을 이용하여 콘볼루셔널 디코더 메트릭 계산에 반영함으로서 콘볼루셔널 디코더의 성능이 향상될 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 먼저 OFDM 시스템에서 각 부채널이 갖는 신호대 잡음의 양은 부채널에서의 수신신호 전력에 비례함을 보인다. 또한, 콘볼루셔널 디코더의 메트릭 계산방법으로는 연판정 방법을 사용한다. 이때 부채널에서 수신된 신호의 신뢰도로 하여 신뢰도가 떨어지는 수신신호에 대하여는 메트릭 계산 과정에서 영향을 감쇄시키고 신뢰도가 높은 수신신호는 영향을 증대시키도록 한다. 제안된 방법을 경수로 20이고 직접파가 없는 다중경로채널에 적용하여 모의실험한 결과 coherent QPSK 매핑방법을 사용한 COFDM 시스템에서 10-4 BER을 기준으로 할 때 약 1.1dB의 SNR 성능향상을 얻었으며 16-QAM 매핑방법에서는 약 3.1dB 그리고 64-QAM 매핑방법을 사용한 경우 약 6.0dB의 성능향상을 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.150-152
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 기존의 연구를 극복하여 단일 영상이 아닌 단안 비디오로부터 5D 라이트필드 영상을 합성하는 딥러닝 프레임워크를 제안한다. 현재 일반적으로 사용 가능한 Lytro Illum 카메라 등은 초당 3프레임의 비디오만을 취득할 수 있기 때문에 학습용 데이터로 사용하기에 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 가상 환경 데이터를 구성하며 이를 위해 UnrealCV를 활용하여 사실적 그래픽 렌더링에 의한 데이터를 취득하고 이를 학습에 사용한다. 제안하는 딥러닝 프레임워크는 두 개의 입력 단안 비디오에서 $5{\times}5$의 각 SAI(sub-aperture image)를 갖는 라이트필드 비디오를 합성한다. 제안하는 네트워크는 luminance 영상으로 변환된 입력 영상으로부터 appearance flow를 추측하는 플로우 추측 네트워크(flow estimation network), appearance flow로부터 얻어진 두 개의 라이트필드 비디오 프레임 간의 optical flow를 추측하는 광학 플로우 추측 네트워크(optical flow estimation network)로 구성되어있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.680-691
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• 2021

Due to the recent developments of attaining 3D contents by using devices such as 3D scanners, the diversity of the contents being used in AR(Augmented Reality)/VR(Virutal Reality) fields is significantly increasing. There are several ways to represent 3D data, and using point clouds is one of them. A point cloud is a cluster of points, having the advantage of being able to attain actual 3D data with high precision. However, in order to express 3D contents, much more data is required compared to that of 2D images. The size of data needed to represent dynamic 3D point cloud objects that consists of multiple frames is especially big, and that is why an efficient compression technology for this kind of data must be developed. In this paper, a motion estimation and compensation method for dynamic point cloud objects using 3D DCT is proposed. This will lead to switching the 3D video frames into I frames and P frames, which ensures higher compression ratio. Then, we confirm the compression efficiency of the proposed technology by comparing it with the anchor technology, an Intra-frame based compression method, and 2D-DCT based V-PCC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.660-669
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• 2019

Recently, with the development of three-dimensional scanning devices and multi-dimensional array cameras, research is continuously conducted on techniques for handling three-dimensional data in application fields such as AR (Augmented Reality) / VR (Virtual Reality) and autonomous traveling. In particular, in the AR / VR field, content that expresses 3D video as point data has appeared, but this requires a larger amount of data than conventional 2D images. Therefore, in order to serve 3D point cloud content to users, various technological developments such as highly efficient encoding / decoding and storage, transfer, etc. are required. In this paper, V-PCC bit stream created using V-PCC encoder proposed in MPEG-I (MPEG-Immersive) V-PCC (Video based Point Cloud Compression) group, It is defined by the MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard, and provides to be composed of segments. Also, in order to provide the user with the information of the 3D coordinate system, the depth information parameter of the signaling message is additionally defined. Then, we design a verification platform to verify the technology proposed in this paper, and confirm it in terms of the algorithm of the proposed technology.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.231-237
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• 2016

This paper presents a multiband low phase noise CMOS VCO with wide frequency tunability using switched bondwire inductor bank. The combination of bondwire inductor and CMOS switch transistor enhances frequency tunability and improves phase noise characteristics. The proposed multiband VCO operates from 2.3GHz to 6.3GHz with phase noise of -136dBc/Hz and -122dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency, respectively. Switched bondwire inductor bank shows high quality factor(Q) at each frequency band, which allows better tradeoff between phase noise and power consumption. The proposed VCO is designed in TSMC 0.18um CMOS process and consumes 7.2 mW power resulting in figure of merit(FOM) of -189.3dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from 6GHz carrier frequency.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.43-46
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• 2018

This paper has designed a wideband bandpass filter (WBSF : Wide Band Stop Filter) using a stepped impedance resonator (SIR : Stepped Impedance Resonator) with improved performance and improved hairpin coupling structure. The SIR WBSF is small in size and has the advantage of having excellent bandstop characteristics. The designed BSF has a structure in which a quadrangular shaped hairpin of a / 4 length is arranged symmetrically on the upper and lower sides of the input and output transmission lines. The input and output terminals were terminated at 50 ohms for system applications. The center frequency of the SIR WBSF is 6.3 GHz, which is the second harmonic of 3.15 GHz. The designed filter has a 3dB bandwidth of 2.9 GHz and a transmission coefficient ($S_{21}$) of 33.2 dB. The reflection coefficient ($S_{11}$) at the center frequency is 0.106 dB. The application field is used for fixed microwave relay stations, fixed satellite and earth stations, and fixed satellite communications. The overall size is $20mm{\times}10mm$.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.817-826
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• 2012

This paper presents a robust viewpoint estimation algorithm for Moving Parallax Barrier mobile 3D display in sudden illumination changes. We analyze the previous viewpoint estimation algorithm that consists of the Viola-Jones face detector and the feature tracking by the Optical-Flow. The sudden changes in illumination decreases the performance of the Optical-flow feature tracker. In order to solve the problem, we define a novel performance measure for the Optical-Flow tracker. The overall performance can be increased by the selective adoption of the Viola-Jones detector and the Optical-flow tracker depending on the performance measure. Various experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.796-803
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a depth scaling method for multiview images that could provide an 3D depth that a user prefers. Unlike previous works that change a camera configuration, the proposed method utilizes depth data in order to carry out the scaling of a depth range requested by users. From multivew images and their corresponding depth data, depth data is transformed into a disparity and the disparity is adjusted in order to control the perceived depth. In particular, our method can deal with multiview images captured by multiple cameras, and can be expanded from stereoscopic to multiview images. Based upon a DSCQS subjective evaluation test, our experimental results tested on an automultiscopic 3D display show that the perceived depth is appropriately scaled according to user's preferred depth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2014

일반적으로 격행주사(interlace) 된 Side by Side (SbS) 영상의 경우 화면 재생 시, 전송 받은 영상을 먼저 디인터레이싱(de-interlacing) 한 후에 좌우 영상을 분리하여 수평 해상도를 보간 하는데, 이때 한번 가공된 디인터레이싱 값을 참조하여 보간 값을 결정하게 되는 관계로 수평 해상도의 정확성이 크게 떨어지게 된다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 격행주사 방식의 SbS 3D 영상의 수평 해상도 보간 방법을 제안한다. 수평 해상도 보간 시에 격행주사 방식으로 전송 받은 라인과 디인터레이싱 기법을 이용해 보간한 라인의 특성에 따라 각 라인에서 활용할 수 있는 전송 받은 값을 가지고 각각 다른 보간 방법을 적용함으로써 정확도를 향상하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법의 실험 결과는 기존의 보간 기법들보다 주관적, 객관적 화질에서 더욱 우수한 성능을 보여준다.