• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.12-14
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 AZB (All-Zero Block) 검출을 이용한 조기 부호화 단위(Coding Unit, CU) 결정 방법을 제안한다. HEVC 영상 코덱의 하드웨어 구현에서 이산여현변환(DCT)는 많은 부호화 자원을 필요로 하는 과정으로 DCT 수행 이전에 블록 내의 모든 양자화 계수가 0 이 되는 영블록(All-zero Block)을 미리 검출하여 DCT 및 양자화 과정을 생략하고 CU 의 부호화 과정을 조기에 종료함으로써 부호화 복잡도를 크게 감소시키는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 SAD (Sum of Absolute Difference) 또는 SATD (Sum of Absolute Transform Difference)에 기반하는 AZB 검출 방법은 HEVC 에서 새롭게 추가된 큰 크기의 $16{\times}16$와 $32{\times}32$ DCT 에서 AZB 을 효율적으로 검출할 수 없는 한계가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 DCT 변환 커널이 하다마드 변환 커널과 또 다른 정규 직교 변환 커널로 분할하여 표현할 수 있는 성질을 이용하여, 부화소 움직임벡터 추정 과정을 통해 생성된 하드마드 변환 계수에 DCT 를 생성하는 변환 커널을 곱하여 DCT 변환 커널을 생성한 후 양자화 계수를 이용하여 CU 단위의 AZB 을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 AZB 검출과 움직임 벡터의 크기를 이용하여 현재 CU 의 부호화 과정을 조기에 종료하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 AZB 검출과 CU 조기 종료 부호화 방법을 사용하면 평균적으로 34.7%의 부호화 시간을 감소시켜 부호화 복잡도를 크게 줄일 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.7
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• pp.116-123
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• 1999

of a block if the method uses the quantization parameter depending on the bitrate control, and consequently it influence the image quality of video. In this paper, we propose a new method using the following three steps : calculating an averaging (Average of Sum, AS) value in each pixel's block of images, earning an average value of differences between each pixels and As (Differential Averaging Block Pixels, DABP), and finally achieving an improved coefficient values by the DABP and DCT coefficients. Simulation results show that the quality of moving picture could be improved by the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an efficient compression method of the integral images. The integral imaging is a well-known technique to represent and record three-dimensional images. The proposed method is based on three dimensional discrete cosine transform (3D-DCT). The 3D-DCT techniques for the integral images have been reported as an efficient coding method for the integral images which reduces the redundancies between adjacent elemental images. The proposed method is a compression method efficient to integral images using adaptive block mode(ABM), based on the 3D-DCT technique. In the ABM, 3D-DCT blocks adaptive to the characteristics of integral images are constructed, which produces variable block size 3D-DCT blocks, and then 3D-DCTs for the 3D blocks are performed. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives significant improvement in coding efficiency. Especially, at the high bit-rates, the proposed method is more excellent since the overhead incurred by the proposed method take less part of the total bits.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.29-36
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• 2003

In this paper, an efficient VLSI architecture for DCTQ module, which consists of 2D-DCT, quantization, AC/DC prediction block, scan conversion, inverse quantization and 2D-IDCT, is presented. The architecture of the module is designed to handle a macroblock data within 1064 cycles and suitable for MPEG-4 video codec handling 30 frame CIF image for both encoder and decoder simultaneously. Only single 1-D DCT/IDCT cores are used for the design instead of 2-D DCT/IDCT, respectively. 1-bit serial distributed arithmetic architecture is adopted for 1-D DCT/IDCT to reduce the hardware area in this architecture. To reduce the power consumption of DCTQ modu1e, we propose the method not to operate the DCTQ modu1e exploiting the SAE(sum of absolute error) value from motion estimation and cbp(coded block pattern). To reduce the AC/DC prediction memory size, the memory architecture and memory access method for AC/DC prediction block is proposed. As the result, the maximum utilization of hardware can be achieved, and power consumption can be minimized. The proposed design is operated on 27MHz clock. The experimental results show that the accuracy of DCT and IDCT meet the IEEE specification.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1173-1176
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• 2005

Depending on the characteristics of each 3D-DCT block, images can be classified into three types: images with motion and textures, images with high textures and little motion, images with little textures and little motion. In this paper, we propose an adaptive watermarking method using these characteristics of each 3D-DCT block. and the human visual system. The proposed method classifies patterns of 3D-DCT blocks based on the motion and texture information, and classifies the image type according to the ratio of these patterns. The watermark is inserted proportional to the 3D-DCT coefficients by using pattern adaptive JND, which. makes the proposed watermarking robust by inserting watermarks in as many blocks as possible. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance in terms of invisibility and robustness than the previous method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.605-608
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• 1999

A conventional image coder, such as JPEG, requires not only DCT and quantization but also additional pre-filtering under noisy environment. Since the pre-filtering removes camera noise and improves coding efficiency dramatically, its efficient implementation has been an important issue. Based on well-known noise removal techniques in image processing fields, this paper introduces an efficient scheme by adapting a noise removal procedure to block-based image coders. By using two-dimensional DCT factorization, the proposed image coder has only a modified DCT and a VLC, and performs pre-filtering and quantization simultaneously in the modified DCT operation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.657-660
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• 2001

In this paper, a robust watermarking technique is presented by using a block-based statistics in DCT domain. First, the proposed technique calculates JND threshold value using the global statistics in DCT domain. Then watermark insertion is carried out by inserting one watermark into coefficients which are above the threshold value J within a 2${\times}$2 block. Finally, watermark is estimated by averaging the extracted watermarks from the coefficients which are above the threshold in a window. In experiments it is shown that the proposed techniques can enhance perceptual invisibility and robustness against additive noise and JPEG compression attacks by using the characteristics of JND.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.1042-1046
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 질감 정보를 나타낼 수 있는 Block-based 에지 히스토그램과 색상 정보를 표현할 수 있는 DCT 를 이용한 칼라 영상 검색 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 최소의 특징량으로 최대의 검색효율을 얻기 위해 YCbCr 칼라 모델상에서 Y 영상으로부터는 전체적인 영상에 대한 히스토그램과 에지 히스토그램을 특징량으로 추출하고 Cb, Cr 영상으로부터는 DCT 계수를 특징량으로 추출하여 칼라 영상을 검색한다. 이는 칼라와 질감을 동시에 고려하면서 특징량의 크기가 적어 웹, 대용량 검색 시스템 및 동영상 검색에 적합하다. 성능 평가는 MPEG-7 의 칼라 특징자들의 성능평가를 위해 사용된 S1 및 S3 그룹 영상을 대상으로 실험하였으며 제안한 복합 특징량은 칼라 영상 검색에서 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 실험으로 확인 하였다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.45-50
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• 2009

Recently, block-based transforms, like discrete cosine transform (DCT), have been widely used in image and video coding standards, but block-based transforms have a weak point with blocking effect. However, the integer lapped orthogonal transform (ILOT) is a tool for block-based coding with bases functions that overlap near blocks, so it has a strong point against blocking effect. Although it has slightly higher arithmetic complexity than the DCT, the coding gain is significantly higher with much less blocking artifacts. This paper introduces the integer lapped orthogonal transforms and discrete cosine transform. And we compare the performance of DCT with ILOT which is proposed a new efficient method for image coding applications.