• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.221-229
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• 2004

We present new digital watermarking scheme that embeds a watermark according to the characteristics of the image or video. The scheme is compatible with established image compression standard. We define a weighting function using a parent-child structure of the DCT coefficients in a block to embed a maximum watermark. The spatio-frequency localization of the DCT coefficients can be achieved with this structure. In the detection stage, we present an optimum a posteriori threshold with a given false detection error probability based on the statistical analysis. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and robust against various signal processing techniques. Especially, they are robust against widely used coding standards, such as JPEG and MPEG.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.389-395
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• 2000

Digital Watermarking is a research area which aims at hiding secret information in digital multimedia content such as images, audio, and video. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method with visually recognizable symbols into the digital images using wavelet transform, spread spectrum method and multilevel threshold value in considering the wavelet coefficients. The information of watermark can be extracted by subtracting wavelet coefficients with the original image and the watermarked image. The results of this experiment show that the proposed algorithm was superior to other similar watermarking algorithms. We showed Watermarking algorithm in JPEG lossy compression, resizing, LSB(Least Significant Bit) masking, and filtering.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8A
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• pp.625-632
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• 2009

This paper presents the mobile IPTV system for the transmission of FGS-encoded video stream over WiMAX network. The proposed system is implemented to provide more subscribers with an improved mobile IPTV service considering the scarce resource constraint. The proposed system pursues an efficient tradeoff between the number of subscribers that receive the enhancement layer stream and their IPTV service quality. In the proposed system, some parts of the enhancement layer are transmitted with the modulation scheme and the coding rate adaptive to wireless link states of subscribers. Finally, experimental results are provided to show the performance of proposed mobile IPTV system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.12
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• pp.962-966
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• 2013

The internet will should require the QoS(quality of service) guarantees that the real-time traffic like as audio and video data will be operated well in the future. We had designed Q-MOTP which transfer multimedia object data and proved excellent performance. This paper describes an adaptive QoS management architecture and mechanism based on the information of system resources. Resource manager reports the system resource information periodically or when resources are in the overload state, or on demand by the QoS manager. By using this information, the QoS manager can predict QoS degradation and perform CAC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.915-929
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for pixel-based disparity estimation with reliability in the multi-view image. The proposed method estimates an initial disparity map using edge information of an image, and the initial disparity map is used for reducing the search range to estimate the disparity efficiently. Furthermore, disparity-mismatch on object boundaries and textureless-regions get reduced by adaptive block size. We generated intermediate-view images to evaluate the estimated disparity. Test results show that the proposed algorithm obtained $0.1{\sim}1.2dB$ enhanced PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio) compared to conventional block-based and pixel-based disparity estimation methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1571-1579
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• 2004

Recently, FD(Frame Dropping)-CD(Coefficient Dropping) transcoding is considered mainly due to the low computational complexity and simple implementation. But, CD errors in the FD-CD transtoding scheme tend to be propagated and they have a significant effect on the qualities of decoded images. In this paper, we derive the error characteristics incurred by the CD operations and propose an effective estimation model that adaptively describes well the characteristics of propagation/accumulation errors in compressed domain. Furthermore, we apply the proposed model to distortion control achieving nearly constant distortion allocation among frames. Simulation results show that the proposed model is quite accurate in estimating the overall distortions and is effectively applied to distortion control over a range of sequences with varying scene types.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.247-257
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a scene adaptive method to obtain two LDR images with proper shutter speeds which capture the irradiance of scene effectively. The proposed method adaptively selects two shutter speeds across the video frame even when the illumination varies continuously. For the performance evaluation, we compute the PNSR to the ground truth which is obtained by the state-of-the-art HDR imaging method. It shows that the proposed method is able to select approximately optimal shutter speeds while avoiding the exhaustive search of every possible pair of shutter speeds.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.1B
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• pp.9-18
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• 2006

Advances in wireless network are enabling the development of ubiquitous multimedia services. These multimedia services need efficient platforms to comply with the requirements of mobile computing. We introduce an adaptive service platform based on mobile agent and grid systems while specifying the challenges of ubiquitous multimedia services and focusing on frequent disconnections and scarce resources. We applied our platform to framework RtoA (Ready-to-Attend) which supports mobile users to access compute-intensive multimedia service, specifically, mobile education and video conferencing. RtoA includes hand-off, speaker and listener service which enable people to attend a conference or a class with satisfying quality of multimedia service. ns-2 based simulation verifies that our scheme is an efficient way to reduce energy consumption of mobile devices and to improve the response time of mobile applications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.827-830
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• 2005

본 논문은 DRM(Digital Rights Management)의 핵심요소기술인 디지털 비디오 워터마킹 기술에서 암호화 기법을 함께 적용하여 저작권 판별 및 콘텐츠 보호의 두 가지 역할을 수행하는 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 저작권 정보를 공개키 기반의 RSA 암호화 방법으로 암호문을 만든 후 이진화 과정을 수행하여 워터마크 키 정보를 생성하였고, 워터마킹 기법으로는 통계적 모델의 계산 속도가 빠른 NVF(Noise Visibility Function) 방식의 Adaptive Stationary GG(Generalized Gaussian) model[1]의 기법을 사용하였다. 암호문은 사용자 컨트롤러에서 제어가 가능하도록 하여 권한이 부여된 사용자만이 재생이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문의 구성은 2장에서 암호화 과정을 설명하고, 3장에서는 기존의 기법과는 다른 통계적 접근의 워터마킹 기법을 적용한 과정을 설명하며, 4장에서는 제안한 방법이 실제 환경에서의 실험 결과를 보여준다. 마지막으로 5장에서는 결론과 개선점을 바탕으로 향후 연구방향을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 미래사회 인터넷에서의 올바른 디지털 콘텐츠 사용 문화 정책에 큰 역할을 할 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.940-949
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• 1998

The paper proposes an effective mechanism hiring the adaptive buffer control schemes on the mobile seceiver's side that can resolve the problems of delay spikes caused by the handover process onthe cell boundaries when they transmit real-time moving images through the high speed wireless channels. to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed schemes, we have modeled the characteristics of the random errors on the wireless channels, the burst errors and that of the transmission delay by the handover. We also compared the rate of the delay-adaptation of the receive buffers caused by the delay and delay spikes. the comparison was done by testing the suggested schemes against the existing schemes by applying tehm to the packet delay model. We also could identify the noticable reduction of the casesof buffer delay and overflow compared with the conventional schemes, by applying the suggested algorithm to the video image compressed by H.263.