• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.31-39
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• 2010

In some image processing system or the users who want to see a specific region of image simply, if a part of the image has higher quality than other regions, it would be a nice service. Specifically in mobile environments, preferential service was needed, as the screen size is small. So, JPEG2000 supplies this function. But this doesn't support the process to extract specific regions or service and does the functions to add some techniques. It is called by ROI(Region-of-Interest). In this paper, we use images including human faces, which are processed most preferentially and compressed with high quality. Before an image is served to the users, it is compressed and saved. Here, the face parts are compressed with higher quality than the background which are relatively with lower quality. This technique can offer better service with preferential transferring of the faces, too. Besides, whole regions of the image are compressed with same quality and after searching the faces, they can be preferentially transferred. In this paper, we use a face extraction approach based on neural network and the preferential processing with EBCOT of JPEG2000. For experimentation, we use images having several human faces and evaluate objectively and subjectively, and proved that this approach is a nice one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.137-144
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• 2005

In this paper, the extraction method of the edge histogram directly using wavelet coefficients in the wavelet domain for JPEG2000 images is proposed. MPEG-7 Edge Histogram Descriptor(EHD) extracts edge histogram in the spacial domain. This algorithm has much multiplication and addition for the edge extraction because it needs the decoding processing. However because the proposed algorithm extracts the edge histogram in the wavelet domain, it doesn't need the decoding processing and it decreases multiplication and addition. The Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT) is a standard transform in JPEG2000. The proposed algorithm uses Le Gall 5/3 filter in JPEG2000 and odd coefficients in LH2 and HL2 sub-band. The edge direction can be decided to use rate of HL2 and LH2 odd coefficients. According to experiments, there is no difference of the efficiency between EHD and the proposed algorithm And the proposed algorithm is much better than EHD for multiplication and addition in the edge extraction of images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2014

멀티미디어 기술의 보급 확산 및 급속한 발전으로 새로운 영상 압축 기술인 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 고화질 영상 압축 표준을 탄생시켰으며, 사용자 또한 대형 화면에 대한 선호도가 높아지고 있다. 그 결과 기존의 HD급 영상보다 4배 이상, 16배까지 선명한 초고화질 UHD(Ultra High Definition) 영상 서비스가 차세대 방송기술로 새롭게 주목받고 있다. 또한 JPEG 2000 압축도 기존 처리된 $4096{\times}4096$ 픽셀 이미지를 넘어 초고화질 해상도 이미지(8K : $7680{\times}4320$ 혹은 $8192{\times}4320$ 픽셀)를 처리 지원을 하고 있다. 따라서 초고화질 이미지의 획득 및 저장을 위해서는 고속의 처리 기술이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문은 초고화질 해상도 이미지의 고속 처리를 위한 병렬처리 기술에 대해 단계적 연구를 실행하며, 이를 위하여 1차적으로. JPEG 2000의 처리 과정을 살펴보고 전처리 단계인 색공간 변환 알고리즘 적용을 위하여 사용자 정의의 쓰레드 기반 고속처리를 수행하였다. 실험 결과 기존의 처리보다 사용자 정의 기반 쓰레드 고속처리가 초고화질 해상도 이미지(UHD 8K : $7680{\times}4320$)를 기준으로 최대 15배의 성능 향상의 결과를 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.96-107
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• 2006

In this paper, a low bitrate video coding method based on new panoramic modeling is proposed for panning cameras. An input video frame from a panning camera is decomposed into a background image, rectangular moving object regions, and a residual image. In coding the background, we employ a panoramic model that can account for several image formation processes, such as perspective projection, lens distortion, vignetting and illumination effects. Moving objects aredetected, and their minimum bounding rectangular regions are coded with a JPEG-2000 coder. We have evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with several indoor and outdoor sequences and found that the PSNR is improved by $1.3{\sim}4.4dB$ compared to that of JPEG-2000.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.432-434
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• 2000

본 논문은 IJG(Independent JPEG Group) JPEG 부호기의 처리 과정중 color table 과 context 버퍼를 이용한 color conversion과 downsampling 방법에 대해 소개한다. IJG JPEG은 전처리 과정에서 context buffer 사용함으로써 각 컴포넌트(RGB)에 대한 color conversion과 downsampling을 효과적으로 수행한다. 또한 각 컴포넌트(RGB)에 대한 부동 소수점 연산의 처리 결과를 미리 계산하여 color table에 저장함으로써 color converter에서 이를 참조, 색차 변환 계산에 적용하도록 하여 처리 속도를 향상 시키고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 IJG JPEG의 부호화 과정에서 사용되는 context 버퍼의 구조와 필요성 그리고 color table의 구조와 효과에 대하여 소개한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.53-62
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• 2000

Digital watermarking has been considered as an important technique to protect the copyright of digital content. It is essential that a watermark embedded in a still or moving image resists against various attacks ranging from compression, filtering to cropping. In particular, as JPEG is a dominant still image compression standard for Internet applications, digital watermarking methods that are robust against the JPEG compression are especially required. Most digital watermarking methods proposed so far work by modulating pixels/coefficients without considering the quality level of JPEG, which renders watermarks readily removable. In this paper, we proposed a new digital watermarking method as follows. For providing the robustness against JPEG, the quality level of JPEG is used as parameter on watermarking so as to compute the loss of image caused by JPEG compression and we compute the difference of an original image resulted from JPEG compression. Also in proposed method, we compute the visual components that are derived from the information of edge within image and consideration of brightness discrimination which is one of human visual system's properties. Thus, we proposed new watermarking scheme that after constructing a watermark by considering the loss of image resulted from JPEG compression and visual components derived from the human visual system, the watermark is embedded into the image.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.1075-1080
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• 2008

Most modem computers or game consoles are well equipped with powerful graphics processing units(GPUs) to accelerate graphics operations. However, since the graphics engines in these GPUs are specially designed for graphics operations, we could not take advantage of their computing power for more general nongraphic operations. In this paper, we studied the GPUs graphics engine in order to accelerate the image processing capability. Specifically, we implemented a JPEC2000 decoding/encoding framework that involves both OpenMP and GPU. Initial experimental results show that significant speed-up can be achieved by utilizing the GPU power.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.109-116
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• 2005

Recently, images/videos have been preferred as the communication media because of their information-implication and easy recognizability. But the amount of their data is so large that it has been the major research area to compress their data. This paper is related to optimization in th image data format, which can make a great effect in performance of data compression and is based on the wavelet transform and JPEG2000. This paper established a criterion to decide the data format to be used in wavelet transform, which is on the bases of the data errors in frequency transform and quantization. This criterion has been used to extract the optimal data format experimentally. The result were(1, 9) of 10-bit fixed-point format for filter coefficients and (9, 7) of 16-bit fixed-point data dormat for wavelet coefficients and their optimality was confirmed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.4 s.316
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• pp.70-77
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• 2007

Two kinds of QMF(Quadrature Mirror Filter) pairs are used in JPEG2000 standard, which don't have QMF distortions. However, the QMF pairs have the main disadvantages such that there are gentle roll-off rate, ripples in the passband and unequal band decomposition. In this paper, Maxflat(maximally flat) QMF pairs with a half-band gain are proposed for overcoming these problems. Maxflat QMF pairs are realized due to generalized closed-form formulas, and the filters have maximally flat response in the passband/stopband as well as sharp roll-off rate in the transition band. Comparing proposed filters and JPEG2000's filters in frequency domain, it is found that proposed filters have better performance JPEG2000's filters. Moreover, Maxflat QMF pairs show stopband-attenuation exceeding 200 dB almost everywhere.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.7-14
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• 2005

Recently, images/videos have been preferred as the communication media because of their information-implication and easy recognizability. But the amount of their data is so large that it has been the major research area to compress their data. This paper is related to optimization in the image data format which can make a great effect in performance of data compression and is based on the wavelet transform and JPEG2000. This paper established a criterion to decide the data format to he used in wavelet transform which is on the bases of the data errors in frequency transform and quantization. This criterion has been used to extract the optimal data format experimentally. The result were (1, 9) of 10-bit fixed-point format for filter coefficients and (9, 7) of 16-bit fixed-point data format for wavelet coefficients and their optimality was confirmed.