• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.41-48
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• 2013

Emerging three-dimensional television (3DTV) as a new IT product shows a possibility that television is not for just watching broadcasting, but an attractive tool for applying it to our real life. Three dimensional television is generally more effective and attractive than two-dimensional television (2DTV). But it still needs continuous technological improvement to solve its inherent limitations until many customers decide to purchase 3DTVs without hesitation. Innovative products like 3DTV encounter a quality problem leading purchase decision by customers. Quality is regarded as one of the most important factors affecting customers to adopt and use the product. Furthermore, measuring quality effectively is considerable for the 3DTV research. In this paper, we suggest the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) method for evaluating 3DTVs in a view of quality. We describe quality criteria affecting the 3DTV selection through a literature survey and develope an analytical method for measuring quality. We classify the quality of 3DTV into four types and suggest a concept of the quality ratio as a measurement criteria instead of the quality gap. Though a numerical example, we show how priorities of 3DTV with versatile manufacturers is computed.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.664-667
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• 2006

We propose an efficient audio transcoding algorithm that can convert audio streams from terrestrial digital television broadcasting service stations to those for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting hand-held receivers. The proposed algorithm avoids the complicated psychoacoustic analysis by calculating the scalefactors of the bit-sliced arithmetic coding encoder directly from the signal-to-noise ratio parameters of the AC-3 decoder. The bit-allocation process is also simplified by cascading the nested distortion control loop. Through subjective evaluation, it is shown that the proposed algorithm provides comparable audio quality to tandem coding but it requires much smaller complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.10-11
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 ATSC M/H를 이용하면서 기존 HD 및 모바일 서비스와 역 호환성을 유지하는 3DTV 서비스 시나리오를 고려하여 좌영상과 우영상의 부호화 방식 및 해상도가 서로 다른 상황에서 양안식 입체 영상의 화질을 평가한다. 동영상의 시공간적 특성에 따라 다소 차이가 있기는 하지만 객관적인 화질 측면에서 좌우 영상의 차이가 상당히 큼에도 불구하고 합성된 3D영상의 주관적 화질 및 깊이감은 일반적으로 만족스러운 결과를 나타낸다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.666-673
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• 2012

Non-real-time delivery of stereoscopic video has been considered as a service scenario for 3DTV to overcome the limited bandwidth in the terrestrial digital television system. A hybrid codec combining MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC has been suggested for the compression of stereoscopic video for 3DTV. In this paper, we propose a stereoscopic video coding scheme using adaptive pre-/post-filters (APPF) to improve the quality of 3D video while retaining compatibility with legacy video coding standards. The APPF are applied adaptively to blocks of various sizes determined by the macroblock coding mode and reference frame index. Experiment results show that the proposed method achieves up to 24.86% bit rate savings relative to a hybrid codec of MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC including the inter-view prediction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.474-475
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 ATSC3.0 기반 UHD 급 고정/이동방송 융합형 3DTV 서비스 시나리오에 대한 내용을 기술한다. ATSC3.0 은 북미지상파 표준화 방송방식의 차세대 지상파서비스 표준으로 2016 년 까지 기술표준 논의완료를 목표로 물리계층, 전송프로토콜계층 및 4K-UHD 서비스를 포함한 응용서비스계층으로 분류하여 표준화 논의 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 스코픽 콘텐츠의 좌/우영상을 각각 고정 TV 채널 및 모바일 TV 채널로 나누어 전송하고 이를 융합형 3DTV 방식을 지원하는 수신기에서 동시에 좌/우영상 신호를 수신하여 3D 영상을 합성하는 방법으로 지상파 DTV 한 채널(6MHz 대역)내에서의 4K-UHD 고정 TV 서비스, 모바일 HD 서비스 및 UHD 3D 서비스를 동시에 제공할 수 있는 고정/이동방송 융합형 3DTV 서비스 방법을 제시한다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안하는 융합형 3DTV 서비스는 추가적인 3D 부가정보를 전송하지 않고 4K-UHD, 모바일 HD 및 UHD 3D 서비스를 시청자에게 제공 가능하다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.92-100
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to broadcast digital television signals using single frequency networks (SFNs) within the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) transmission systems. In implementing the SFNs of an 8-vestigial side band (8-VSB) Digital Television (DTV) system, the ambiguity problem of the trellis coder is unavoidable in a conventional ATSC transmission system. We propose a memory initialization of the trellis coder to resolve this ambiguity problem. Since the proposed scheme to synchronize multiple transmitters minimizes the changes from the conventional ATSC system, the hardware complexity for these changes is very low. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme makes a less than 0.1 dB degradation at the threshold of visibility with a bit error rate of $3{\times}10^{-6}$ in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is possible to reduce the performance degradation by increasing the initialization period of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.148-157
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• 2014

Various techniques have been developed for efficient compression of stereoscopic 3D videos. Mixed-resolution based approach is one representative bit-rate saving method based on the characteristics of human visual system that the mixed-resolution stereoscopic videos are perceived close to the higher resolution. However, when the difference between the left and right image resolutions is bigger than a certain threshold level, it causes the perceived quality degradation of the 3D images. Subsequently, several researches tried to find the correlation between the difference in resolution and the level of the perceived quality degradation, but they conducted the experiments just considering the difference in resolution without considering the viewing distances, so thereby different results were retrieved from test to test. In this work, we calculated the optimal viewing distance based on the human visual system, and conducted the subjective tests with the calculated viewing distance. With the results, we demonstrate that the fixed and mobile hybrid 3DTV, which is based on mixed-resolution stereoscopic images, can provide the high quality 3D services.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.4 s.33
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• pp.483-494
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel program specific information structure(PSI) in MPEG-2 system for a three-dimensional broadcasting system while guaranteeing compatibility with the conventional digital broadcasting system. The proposed PSI structure including a descriptor of contents type, 2D or 3D, provides service providers with a function of combining 2D and 3D contents freely. However the descriptor is ignored in the conventional digital broadcasting set-top box. With the proposed PSI structure, we designed and implemented a three-dimensional broadcasting system. The proposed system has 2D or 3D display mode for providing user's preference in a three-dimensional broadcasting environment.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.237-251
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• 2012

Recently, the direct terrestrial broadcasting reception has been reduced rapidly and not been improved even in digital broadcast environment. The distribution plan of 700MHz frequency band(Ch.52~69) will make the problem worse because the spectrum might be allocated to mobile communication use. In this paper, we investigated the efficient frequency usage for DTV signal reception improvement and next generation broadcasting. The frequency amount required for reception improvement and for next generation broadcasting service is presented. We estimated the beneficial effect when the spectrum(108MHz Frequency Width) is used for SFN transmission technology, UHDTV and Full-HD 3DTV.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.29-37
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• 1999

우리나라는 금년 5월부터 KBS를 시작으로 방송 3사에서 지상파 디지털 TV 실험방송을 실시하고 있다. 이에 따라 정보통신부에서는 기존의 NTSC TV 방송의 효율적인 디지털 방송으로의 전환을 지원하기 위해 지상파 디지털 TV 실험방송 전담반을 구성하여 방송사와 국책 연구소 그리고 관련 업체 대부분이 참여한 가운데 DTV 송출, 송수신 정합, 필드테스트 등을 수행하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 실험방송 전담반에서 작성, 계획중인 우리나라의 지상파 DTV 필드테스트에 대하여 서술한다.