• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4A
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• pp.421-430
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a practical implementation of network-adaptive HD(high definition) MPEG-2 video streaming with a cross-layered channel monitoring(CLM) over the IEEE 802.11a WLAN(wireless local area network). For wireless channel monitoring, AP(access point) periodically measures the MAC(medium access control) layer transmission information and sends the monitoring information to a streaming server. This makes that the streaming server reacts more quickly as well as efficiently to the fluctuated wireless channel than that of the end-to-end monitoring(E2EM) scheme for the video adaptation. The streaming sewer dynamically performs the priority-based frame dropping to adjust the video sending rate according to the measured wireless channel condition. For this purpose, our streaming system nicely provides frame-based prioritized packetization by using a real-time stream parsing module. Various evaluation results over an IEEE 802.11a WLAM testbed are provided to verify the intended QoS adaptation capability The experimental results show that the proposed system can effectively mitigate the quality degradation of video streaming caused by the fluctuations of time-varying wireless channel condition.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.143-154
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• 2004

The researchers, who seek geological and environmental information, depend on the remote sensing and aerial photographic datum from various commercial satellites and aircraft. However, the adverse weather conditions and the expensive equipment can restrict that the researcher can collect their data anywhere and any time. To allow for better flexibility, we have developed a compact, a multi-spectral automatic Aerial photographic system(PKNU 2). This system's Multi-spectral camera can catch the visible(RGB) and infrared(NIR) bands($3032{\times}2008$ pixels) image. Visible and infrared bands images were obtained from each camera respectively and produced Color-infrared composite images to be analyzed in the purpose of the environment monitor but that was not very good data. Moreover, it has a demerit that the stereoscopic overlap area is not satisfied with 60% due to the 12s storage time of each data, while it was possible that PKNU 2 system photographed photos of great capacity. Therefore, we have been developing the advanced PKNU 2(PKNU 3) that consists of color-infrared spectral camera can photograph the visible and near infrared bands data using one sensor at once, thermal infrared camera, two of 40 G computers to store images, and MPEG board to compress and transfer data to the computer at the real time and can attach and detach itself to a helicopter. Verification and calibration of each sensor(REDLAKE MS 4000, Raytheon IRPro) were conducted before we took the aerial photographs for obtaining more valuable data. Corrections for the spectral characteristics and radial lens distortions of sensor were carried out.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.111-115
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• 2006

스케일러블 비디오 코딩(SVC, Scalable Video Coding)은 MPEG(Moving Picture Expert Group)과 VCEG (Video Coding Expert Group)의 JVT(Joint VIdeo Team)에 의해 현재 표준화 되고 있는 새로운 압축 표준 기술이며 시간, 공간 및 화질의 스케일러빌리티를 지원하기 위해 계층 구조를 가지고 있다. 특히 시간적 스케일러빌리티를 위해 계층적 B-픽처 구조를 채택하고 있다. 스케일러블 비디오 코딩의 기본 계층은 H.264|AVC와 호환적이므로, 모션 예측과 모드 결정과정에서 $16{\times}16,\;16{\times}8,\;8{\times}16,\;8{\times}8,\;8{\times}4,\;4{\times}8$ 그리고 $4{\times}4$와 같은 7개의 서로 다른 크기를 갖는 블록을 사용한다. 스케일러블 비디오 코딩에서 사용되고있는 계층적 B-픽처 구조는 키 픽처인 I와 P 픽처를 제외하고는 한 GOP (Group of Picture)내에서 모두 B-픽처를 사용하므로 H.264|AVC와 비교했을 때 연산량 증가와 함께 부호화 지연도 급격히 증가한다. B-픽처는 양방향 모션 벡터인 LIST0와 LIST1을 사용하고 양방향 모두에서 다중 참조 픽처를 사용하기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 통계적 가선 검증을 이용하여 스케일러블 비디오 부호화에 적용 가능한 고속 프레임간 모드 결정 알고리듬 대해 소개한다. 제안된 방법은 $16{\times}16$ 매크로 블록과 $8{\times}8$ 서브 매크로 블록에 통계적 가설 감증 기법을 적용하여 실행되며, 현재 블록과 복원된 참조 블록간의 픽셀 값을 비교하여 RD(Rate Distortion) 최적화 기반 모드 결정을 빨리 완료함으로써 고속 프레임간 모드 결정을 가능하게 한다. 제안된 방법은 프레임 간 모드 결정을 고속화함으로써 스케일러블 비디오 부호화기의 연산량과 복잡도를 최대 57%감소시킨다. 그러나 연산량 감소에 따른 비트율의 증가나 화질의 열화는 최대 1.74% 비트율 증가 및 0.08dB PSNR 감소로 무시할 정도로 작다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.956-965
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• 2008

H.264/AVC is the newest video coding standard of ITU-T VCEG and the ISO/IEC MPEG, offering a significant performance improvement over previous video coding standards. However, the computational complexity of H.264/AVC is drastically increased because of new technologies such as intra prediction, variable block size, quarter-pels motion estimation/compensation, etc. In this paper, we propose a fast intra prediction scheme which has two step processing. The first step is a fast block size decision which can be calculated only in one block without considering all cases of $4{\times}4$ block and $16{\times}16$ block. The complexity of the intra prediction can be reduced by using boundary difference values of macroblock. After selecting the block size, we can make mode decision using the neighbouring reference pixels and representative pixels of the block in the second step. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm saved on the average 41.5% encoding time without any significant PSNR losses.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12C
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• pp.1182-1191
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new hardware architecture for integer transform, quantizer, inverse quantizer, and inverse integer transform of a new video coding standard H.264/JVT. We describe the algorithm and derive hardware architecture emphasizing the importance of area for low cost and low power consumption. The proposed architecture has been verified by PCI-interfaced emulation board using APEX-II Alters FPGA and also by ASIC synthesis using Samsung 0.18 um CMOS cell library. The ASIC synthesis result shows that the proposed hardware can operate at 100 MHz, processing more than 1,300 QCIF video frames per second. The hardware is going to be used as a core module when implementing a complete H.264 video encoder/decoder ASIC for real-time multimedia application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.946-948
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• 2005

H.264/AVC는 SoC/IEC MPEG와 ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group에서 함께 발표한 비디오 코딩을 위한 가장 최근의 표준이다. 기존의 표준들 보다 적은 비트로 높은 압축률과 좋은 화질을 제공하고 있다. 그러나 1/4 화소 움직임 예측과 보상의 지원과 7가지의 가변블록에 대한 움직임예측과 블록모드별 RD(Rate-Distortion)를 수행하고 CAVLC등 H.264/AVC 표준에서 채택한 여러 가지 비디오 압축방식으로 인해 그 복잡도가 훨씬 증가하였다. 이 논문에서 H.264/AVC의 복호화기에서 복잡도의 약 $40\%$ 이상을 차지하는 움직임보상 모듈을 효율적으로 수행하고 최적화하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 예측된 모션벡터에 따라 창조하는 프레임에서 매크로블록을 만들어 내는 움직임 보상 과정을 수행하는 데 있어서 접근 지연시간이 큰 외부 메모리 창조를 선인출 메커니즘을 이용하여 미리 예측하여 수행함으로써 전체 수행시간을 줄이는 기법을 적용하였다. 이를 통하여 가변길이 복호화 모듈과 움직임 보상모듈을 수정하여 반복적으로 읽고, 쓰기를 수행해야 하는 횟수를 줄였다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법을 이용하여 복호화 과정을 수행했을 때 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)의 손실은 전혀 없으면서 복호화기의 전체 실행시간을 약 $5\%$ 향상시키고, 핵심 모듈인 움직임 보상과정에서 약 $20\%$ 정도 실행시간을 향상시키는 등 높은 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.25-33
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• 2006

1. Objectives Recently there have been studied the trials to take out the characteristics of Sasangin's face. 3 dimensional modeling is essential to find out sasangin's face. So the studies of standard face model and face type are necessary. 2. Methods I have reviewed the researches of standard facial modeling and facial type in the inside and outside of the country. 3. Results and Conclusions The Facial Definition Parameters are a very complex set of parameters defined by MPEG-4. It has defineds set of 84 feature points and 68 Facial Animation Parameters. Face type has been researched to divide into male and female, or the westerns and the orientals, or sasangin(Taeyangin, Taeumin, Soyangin, Soeumin).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.155-158
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• 2000

In this paper, the quantization noise in block-based video coding is analyzed, and a post-processing method based on the analysis is presented for reducing the quantization noise by using a wavelet transform(WT). In the proposed method, the quantization noise is considered as the sum of a blocking noise expressed as a deterministic profile and the random remainder noise. Each noise is removed in a viewpoint of image restoration using a 1-D WT, which yields a regularized differentiation. The blocking noise first is reduced by weakening the strength of each blocking noise component that appears as an impulse in the first scale wavelet domain. The impulse strength estimation is performed using median filter, quantization parameter(QP), and local activity. The remainder noise, which is considered as a white noise at non-edge pixels, then is reduced by soft-thresholding. The experimental results show that the proposed method yields better performance in terms if subjective quality as well as PSNR performance over VM post-filter in MPEG-4 for all test sequences of various compression ratios. We also present a fast post-processing in spatial domain equivalent to that in wavelet domain for real-time application.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1093-1096
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• 2006

인터넷 이용의 증가와 정보통신의 비약적 발전으로 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스에 대한 사용자의 욕구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 시장의 수요증가에 따라 다양한 멀티미디어 게임과 다양한 영상 컨텐츠에 대한 개발이 진행되고 있다. 특히 영상 스트리밍 시스템은 영상을 실시간으로 사용자에게 제공할 수 있는 시스템으로 사용자의 편의성과 네트워크 성능의 향상등으로 인해 각광을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존 영상 스트리밍 시스템에 3D영상을 제공할 수 있는 MPEG-4기반의 입체영상 스트리밍 시스템을 구현하였다. 이 시스템은 3D 입체영상 서비스를 제공하기 위해 서버 측에는 좌우측에서 본2개의 영상을 합쳐서 전송하도록 하였으며 클라이언트측에서는 각 좌우측의 영상을 구별하여 3D 영상모니터에 표시함으로써 3D입체영상을 구현하였다. 본 논문에서는 애플사의 오픈소스인 다윈 스트리밍 서버와 자바의 JMF(Java Media Framework)를 이용해 RTP/RTSP 기반으로 3D 입체 영상을 실시간 재생되도록 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.71-75
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• 2003

The distribution model of multimedia content is proposed, This solves the problems which are occurred by various multimedia content and the complex distribution structure. The online distribution processes in wireless environments contain many different, companent from the of offline and wire networks. The multimedia content can be very easily propagated illegally. Under these environments the seneme to protect the copyrights of multimedia content and rights of distribution entities is needed. In this paper a distribution framework of content in wireless environment based on MPFG-21 framework if proposed. This model can be adapted to DRM(digital rights management) and utilized to protect the rights of distribution entities.