• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a watermarking method for still images using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Watermarking is a copyright protection technique for digital contents by hiding secret information into the contents. The proposed method embeds the watermark information into DCT coefficients. To obtain a watermarked image that is not only high quality but also has robustness for compression, we considered a method to change the degree of embedding by utilizing the activity of each DCT block. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can obtain huh quality watermarked images and we can extract most of the embedded data even if they are compressed by JPEG scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.466-469
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• 2000

In this paper, a watermarking technique for digital images is proposed. In our method, an image is 1-1eve1 wavelet transformed, and then the watermark of a binary stamp is embedded into the baseband. The watermark is embedded by inverting the polarities of the selected coefficient pairs. In the inverting process, we can increase perceptual image quality by finding means and differences of the selected neighboring coefficient pairs, and then adding values, which are inversely proportional to the differences, to the means. The experimental results show that the proposed method has good quality and is robust to JPEG lossy compression and various image processing operations.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.57-61
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• 2010

The wavelet transform was adopted as the transform for JPEG2000. However, wavelet has weakness about smoothness along the contours and limited directional information. So we use to other transform, called contourlet transform in compression. Objective quality assessment methods currently used Peak signal to noise Ratio(PSNR). But that is not very well matched to perceived visual quality. So new image quality assessment is required. In this paper, we propose a new method for image compression based on the contourlet transform, which has been recently introduced. In addition we evaluated compression image quality using PSNR and SSIM. Finally contourlet transform has a good result about images with smooth contours and SSIM is good method for image evaluation compared to PSNR.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.902-905
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• 2000

Because of the rapid growth of Internet and multimedia applications, how to protect IPR (intellectual property rights) has become a critical issue. Is one of the ways to overcome the problem of the protection of IPR. Digital watermarking call be applied to multimedia data, such as digital images, digital video, and digital audio. In this paper, we propose a digital watermarking technique for digital images to authenticate an owner or an image by embedding visually recognizable patterns, such as logos, signatures, or stamps into images In BDCT (block discrete cosine transform) frequency domain. The proposed method sorts the components of an original image twice. At the same time, the method, also, rearranges the components of a watermark twice in order to be more robust, and finally embeds the watermark into the image. From the experimental results, the conjunction of three similarity measurements shows that our proposed method is robust to image cropping, image filtering, and JPEG (the Joint Photographic Experts Group) both subjectively and objectively.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.36-41
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• 2015

This paper is proposed a wavelet-based MCDT(Mask Coefficient Differential and Threshold) method of image registration of Multi-images contaminated with visible image and infrared image. The method for ensure reliability of the image registration is to the increase statistical corelation as getting the common feature points between two images. The method of threshold the wavelet coefficients using derivatives of the wavelet coefficients of the detail subbands was proposed to effectively registration images with distortion. And it can define that the edge map. Particularly, in order to increase statistical corelation the method of the normalized mutual information. as similarity measure common feature between two images was selected. The proposed method is totally verified by comparing with the several other multi-image and the proposed image registration.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.3B
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• pp.557-564
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• 2000

This paper presents a watermarking algorithm for embedding visually recognizable pattern (Mark, Logo, Symbol, stamping or signature) into the image. first, the color image(RGB model)is transformed in YCbCr model and then the Y component is transformed into 3-level wavelet transform. Next, the values are assembled with pattern watermark. PN(pseudo noise) code at spread spectrum communication method and mutilevel watermark weights. This values are inserted into discrete wavelet domain. In our scheme, new calculating method is designed to calculate wavelet transform with integer value in considering the quantization error. and we used the color conversion with fixed-point arithmetic to be easy to make the hardware hereafter. Also, we made the new solution using mutilevel threshold to robust to common signal distortions and malicious attack, and to enhance quality of image in considering the human visual system. the experimental results showed that the proposed watermarking algorithm was superior to other similar water marking algorithm. We showed what it was robust to common signal processing and geometric transform such as brightness. contrast, filtering. scaling. JPEG lossy compression and geometric deformation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.260-262
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• 2000

MPEG-4에서는 다양한 객체를 취급하기 위하여 시스템 부분(Part1)이 차지하는 비중이 MPEG-1이나 MPEG-2에서 보다 훨씬 높아졌다. 이러한 MPEG-4의 시스템 부분을 구현한 참조 모델을 IM1이라고 한다. IM1에는 다양한 오디오/비디오(A/V) 객체를 수용하기 위하여 디코더 프레임워크를 마련하고, 어떤 A/V 객체든 이 프레임워크에 맞추어 디코더를 구현하면 IM1 프리젠터에서 플레이가 가능토록 하고 있다. 현재 IM1 버전 3.8에서는 H.263 비디오, G.723 오디오, JPEG 이미지, AAC 오디오를 지원하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 MPEG-4 비디오 디코더를 IM1 디코더 프레임워크를 맞추어 설계, 수정한 내용을 기술하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.11
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• pp.2292-2298
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• 2009

In this paper, the lossy image compression algorithm using the quad tree and the bandlets is proposed. The proposed algorithm transforms input images by the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and represents the geometrical structures of high frequency bands using the bandlets with a 8 block- size. In addition, the proposed algorithm searches the position information of the significant coefficients by using the quad tree algorithm and computes the magnitude and the sign information of the significant coefficients by using the Embedded Image Coding using Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients (EZW) algorithm. The compression result by using the quad tree algorithm improves the PSNR performance of high frequency images up to 1 dB, compared to that of JPEG-2000 algorithm and that of S+P algorithm. The PSNR performance by using DWT and bandlets improves up to 7.5dB, compared to that by using only DWT.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.9B
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• pp.1596-1603
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• 2000

In this paper an image coding scheme using the correlation of neighboring VQ indices in wavelet domain is proposed. The codewords in each sub-codebook are reordered in ascending order according to their energy in order to inmcrease the dependency of the indices. And the relative dresses of the reordered indices are transmitted to a receiver instead of to absolute addresses. LBG algorithm is used for obtaining a multiresolution codebool and PNN using k-d tress used for generating its initial values. Our experimental results show that the proposed coding scheme outperforms JPEG and an ordinary wavelet-VQ method at low-bit rates in terms of PSNR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.769-771
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• 2004

요즘 Web-Browsing, 영상 데이터 베이스 그리고 원격 진료와 같은 여러 응용 분야에서는 압축할 이미지내의 사용자의 관심 영역을 다른 영역보다 더 우선적으로 처리할 필요가 있다. 즉, 영상을 전송하는데 있어서 관심영역(ROI ： Region Of Interest)을 먼저 전송하고, 영상 복원 시에도 영상의 전체 영역 중 ROI 영역이 우선적으로 복원하여야 하는 경우가 있다. Maxshift 방법은 JPEG2000 ROI Coding 에서 표준으로 사용하고 있다. 그러나 Maxshift 방법은 단지 하나의 ROI 영역만을 처리 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법을 이용하여 우선 순위를 가지는 Multiple ROI Coding 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 계수값들의 비트 플레인에 대한 스케일링 변수를 이용하여 우선 순위를 가지는 Multiple ROI 부호화가 가능함을 보이고, 저 비트율에서 Maxshift 방법보다 좀 더 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.