• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.799-808
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• 2016

The IEEE 802.15.7r1 Task Group (TG7r1), known as the revision of the IEEE 802.15.7 Visible Light Communication standard targeting the commercial usage of visible light communication systems which mainly use either image sensors or cameras, is of interest in this paper. The vast challenge in Image Sensor Communications (ISC), as it has been addressed in the Technical Consideration Document (TCD) of the TG7r1, is the Image Sensor Compatibility to support the variety of different commercial cameras available on the market. The on-going ISC standard must adhere to compatible image sensors regulations. This paper brings an inside review of the TG7r1 and an inside look of related works on Image Sensor Communications. The paper analyzes the compatibility features by introducing a revised model of receiver to explain how those features are necessary. One of the most challenging but interesting features is the capability in being compatible to camera frame rates. The variation of camera frame rate is modeled from verified experimental results. Noticeably, three singular approaches to support frame rates compatibility, including temporal approach, spatial approach, and frequency-domain approach, are proposed on the paper along with concise definitions. Those schemes have been presented as valuable proposals on the call-for-proposal meeting series of the TG7r1 recently.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.454-460
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• 2016

광학 카메라 통신(OCC, Optical Camera Communication)은 기존의 광다이오드 기반 가시광통신(VLC)과는 다르게 카메라를 수신부로 사용하여 데이터를 수신한다. 특히, 카메라의 CMOS 이미지 센서의 셔터 동작방식인 롤링셔터의 원리를 이용하면 픽셀별로 다른 신호를 수신할 수 있으므로 데이터 속도를 개선할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 카메라의 CMOS 이미지 센서를 사용하여 LED로부터 송신되는 고속 데이터의 이미지를 실시간으로 획득하고 이를 처리할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 실험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.258-271
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• 2020

A correlation exists between luminance samples and chrominance samples of a color image. It is beneficial to exploit such interchannel redundancy for color image compression. We propose an algorithm that predicts chrominance components Cb and Cr from the luminance component Y. The prediction model is trained by supervised learning with Laplacian-regularized least squares to minimize the total prediction error. Kernel principal component analysis mapping, which reduces computational complexity, is implemented on the same point set at both the encoder and decoder to ensure that predictions are identical at both the ends without signaling extra location information. In addition, chrominance subsampling and entropy coding for model parameters are adopted to further reduce the bit rate. Finally, luminance information and model parameters are stored for image reconstruction. Experimental results show the performance superiority of the proposed algorithm over its predecessor and JPEG, and even over JPEG-XR. The compensation version with the chrominance difference of the proposed algorithm performs close to and even better than JPEG2000 in some cases.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2016

This paper introduces a novel modulation scheme for vehicular communication in taking advantage of existing LED lights available on a car. Our proposed 2-Phase Shift Keying (2-PSK) is a spatial modulation approach in which a pair of LED light sources in a car (either rear LEDs or front LEDs) is used as a transmitter. A typical camera (i.e. low frame rate at no greater than 30fps) that either a global shutter camera or a rolling shutter camera can be used as a receiver. The modulation scheme is a part of our Image Sensor Communication proposal submitted to IEEE 802.15.7r1 (TG7r1) recently. Also, a neural network approach is applied to improve the performance of LEDs detection and decoding under the noisy situation. Later, some analysis and experiment results are presented to indicate the performance of our system

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.220-224
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• 2012

We report an experimental demonstration of $4{\times}4$ multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless visible light communications (VLC) using a charge-coupled device image sensor receiver instead of a photodiode receiver. An image sensor is a kind of digital camera, which is used in most mobile devices such as smart phones or laptop computers and a promising commercial candidate for a VLC receiver. The transmission distance of the experimental result is over 10 m, enough for most indoor communication applications. We expect that the MIMO VLC technique based on image sensor receivers can be widely used with the development of high-speed image sensors.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.215-221
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• 2016

Data failure in wireless communications considerably affects the reconstruction quality of transmitted data. Traditionally, fascinating trials have been conducted to overcome the data failure intensifying reliable reconstruction of a media. But, none of these efforts neither effective, computationally inexpensive nor simply configurable to reduce the problems of transmitting media or images. In practice, it is necessary to maintain the quality of transmitted image without sacrificing any data, content, or information. So, to deal with dynamic events such as sensor node participation and departure, during transmission, an efficient scheme is important. For this reason, a new robust scheme has been presented in this paper to minimize the limitation of traditional wireless networking. This scheme uses Software-Defined Image Sensor Network (SD-ISN) to ensure scalability and dependability of the sensor network of handling data losses. Finally, a comparison of our proposed SD-ISN with conventional wireless networking has been presented in simulation to test the robustness and effectiveness of our proposed SD-ISN approach.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2016

Localization is one of the key issues of demandable applications, especially smart services. Beside the traditional GPS based localization technique, the localization issue by visible light communications is promising market because of possibility of combining visible light communications with positioning technique for a high accurate, especially indoor localization service. This paper provides the overview and new image sensor scheme for localization issue based on visible light communication. The survey is introduced from core techniques to enhancement issues of localization. We hope these will be the essential references for the impact selection method in implementation and standardization issues.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권9호
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• pp.797-801
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• 2013

Visible light communication (VLC) is a rapidly growing area of research and applications, due to the potential and predicted high efficiency of bandwidth. One of the key challenges in VLC technology is the choice of devices which are going to be deployed VLC features. Smartphone rationally uses the most widely deployed visible light sensor i.e. image sensor in camera, which could be used to receive the intensity modulated data. Image sensor based VLC system would be the most deployable scenario but initially the capacity was not much attractive compared with photodetector based VLC system. Here, the spatial multiplexing is proposed in MIMO based VLC system to increase the system capacity by utilizing the property of spatial separation of optical light sources in smartphone's camera module. The active pixels of imaging plane act as the multiple receivers which could be able to use on MIMO spatial multiplexing to enhance the system performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권11호
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• pp.1104-1113
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• 2014

미래전은 Sensor-to-Shooter 개념에 기반한 네트워크 중심전(NCW : Network Centric Warfare) 양상을 지닌다. 이러한 NCW의 핵심적인 요소들 중 하나로 무선 비디오 센서 네트워킹 기술이 군 감시정찰용으로 활발히 적용되고 있다. 감시정찰 센서 네트워크에서는 침입탐지 및 추적정보의 신뢰성 향상을 위하여 이미지 센서가 결합된 복합 센서가 사용되고 있으나 대용량의 네트워크 자원 및 에너지 소비를 요구하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 자원 예약을 통한 이미지 데이터 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 네트워크 자원가용성을 고려하여 이미지 데이터 해상도 및 압축률 조정을 시도하는 동시에 다중 인터페이스의 적절한 선택을 통하여 안정적인 이미지 데이터 전송을 가능토록 한다. NS-3 시뮬레이션 기반의 성능분석을 통해서 제안기법의 전송 안정성 및 에너지 효율성의 증가를 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12C호
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• pp.1216-1223
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• 2006

많은 이미징 장치들이 특정 컬러의 광학 신호만을 통과시키는 컬러 필터 어레이를 포함한 단일 이미지 센서를 사용한다. 이러한 이미지 센서로부터 얻어진 이미지들은 각 픽셀에 하나의 컬러 값만을 갖기 때문에, 완전한 영상으로 복원해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 단일 이미지 센서를 탑재한 이미징 장치를 위한 새로운 컬러 보간법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 이미지의 에지 영역에서 우수한 보간 결과를 얻기 위해 에지 선별 기능을 개선하였고, 점진적 영역에서의 보간을 위해 채널간의 새로운 관계를 제시하였다. 보간 성능 비교를 위해 제안한 방법과 기존의 방법들을 비교하였다. 비교 실험을 통해 제안한 방법의 우수한 보간 성능을 입증하였다.