• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.773-776
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-view images coding algorithm which finds the optimal texture from the restricted number of multi-view images. The X-Y plane of the normalized object space is divided into triangular patches. The depth value of the node is determined by applying the block based disparity compensation method and then the texture of the each patch is extracted by applying the affine transformation patch is extracted by applying the affine transformation based disparity compensation method to the multi-view images. We restricted the number of images contributed to determining the texture comapred to traditional methods which use all the multi-view images in the texture extraction. Experimental results show that the SNR of images encoded by the proposed algorithm is better than that of imaes encoded by the traditional method by the amount about 0.2dB for the test sets of multi-view images called dragon, kid, city and santa. The recovered images from the encoded data by the proposed method show the better visual images than the recovered images from the encoded data by the traditional methods.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.91-100
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• 2011

Free viewpoint TV can provide multi-angle view point images for viewer needs. In the real world, But all angle view point images can not be captured by camera. Only a few any angle view point images are captured by each camera. Group of the captured images is called multi-view image. Therefore free viewpoint TV wants to production of virtual sub angle view point images form captured any angle view point images. Interpolation methods are known of this problem general solution. To product interpolated view point image of correct angle need to depth image of multi-view image. Unfortunately, multi-view video including depth image is necessary to develop a new compression encoding technique for storage and transmission because of a huge amount of data. Layered depth image is an efficient representation method of multi-view video data. This method makes a data structure that is synthesis of multi-view color and depth image. This paper proposed enhanced compression method using layered depth image representation and H.264/AVC video coding technology. In experimental results, confirmed high compression performance and good quality reconstructed image.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.281-282
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a method for digital matting using a multi-view camera system. In order to generate multi-view synthetic aperture images, we first move all images obtained from the multi-view camera according to their disparities. After we obtain corresponding trimaps by taking a variance of the synthetic aperture images, we convert the trimaps into multi-view alpha mattes. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can create the composite images successfully by combining foreground objects with multi-view background images.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.333-341
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• 2007

Multi-view video has recently gained much attraction from academic and commercial fields because it can deliver the immersive viewing of natural scenes. This paper presents multi-view video processing being composed of intermediate view reconstruction (IVR), graphics composition, and multi-view video viewer. First we generate virtual views between multi-view cameras using depth and texture images of the input videos. Then we mix graphic objects to the generated view images. The multi-view video viewer is developed to examine the reconstructed images and composite images. As well, it can provide users with some special effects of multi-view video. We present experimental results that validate our proposed method and show that graphic objects could become the inalienable part of the multi-view video.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권7호
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• pp.53-61
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-view images coding algorithm to find the optimal depth and texture from the set of multi-view images. The proposed algorithm consists of two consecutive steps, i) the depth estraction step, and ii) the texture extraction step, comparedwith the traditional algorithem which finds the depth and texture concurrently. The X-Y plane of the normalized object space is divided into traingular paatches and the Z value of the node is determined in the first step and then the texture of the each patch is extracted in the second step. In the depth extraction step, the depth of the node is determined by applying the block based disparity compensation method to the windowed area centered at the node. In the second step, the texture of the traingular patches is extracted from the multi-view images by applying the affine transformation based disparity compensation method to the traingular pateches with the depth extracted from the first step. Experimental results show that the SNR(Singnal-to- Noise Ratio) of images enconded by our algorithm is better than that of images encoded by the traditional algorithm by the amount about 4dB for for the test sets of multi-view images called dragon, kid, city and santa.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.104-111
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 multi-view 영상 디코딩 알고리듬을 구현하는 디코더의 구조를 제안하였다. 현재까지 multi-view 영상 처리를 위한 하드웨어 구조에 관한 연구는 이루어지지 않았다. 제안한 multi-view) 영상디코더는 3 단계 파이프라인 방식으로 동작하며, 매 클럭마다 디코드된 영상의 화소 값을 추출한다. Multi-view 영상 디코더는 3 부분으로 구성된다. 노드의 값을 반복적으로 전송하는 Node Selector, 4개의 노드 값으로부터 각 화소의 값을 추출하는 Depth Extractor와 주어진 시점과 화소의 깊이 값으로부터 영상평면에 투영되는 위치를 생성하는 Affine Transformer로 구성되어 있다. 제안된 구조는 MAX+PLUS II 설계 툴로 설계되었고 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, 동작 주파수는 30㎒이다. 제안된 구조를 갖는 디코더로 영상을 실시간으로 복원할 수 있다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.34-40
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 텍스쳐 추출시 제한된 수의 참여 영상을 이용한 multi-view 영상으로부터 가장 좋은 텍스쳐를 추출하는 효과적인 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 기존의 알고리듬이 정규화된 물체 공간에서 X-Y 평면을 삼각패치로 나누고 아휜 변환에 기반한 변이 보상 모델을 이용하여 삼각패치의 텍스쳐를 추출하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법과 달리 텍스쳐 추출시 참여 영상의 수를 제한하여 multi-view 영상으로부터 가장 좋은 텍스쳐를 추출하였다. Dragon, santa, city 그리고 kid의 multi-view 영상세트에 대해 실험한 결과 제안된 알고리듬으로 텍스쳐를 추출한후 이로부터 복원된 영상의 신호 대 잡음비(SNR)는 기존의 알고리듬으로 처리된 후 복원된 영상의 신호 대 잡음비보다 평균 0.2dB 정도 개선된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 제안된 방법으로 부호화된 데이터로부터 복원된 영상은 기존의 방법으로 부호화된 데이터로부터 복원된 영상보다 영상의 화질이 개선됨을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.435-436
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• 2006

When working with multi-view images, imbalances between multi-view images occur a serious problem in multi-view video coding because they decrease the performance of disparity estimation. To overcome this problem, we propose inter-view balanced disparity estimation for multi-view video coding. In general, the imbalance problem can be solved by a preprocessing step that transforms reference images linearly. However, there are some problems in pre-processing such as the transformation of the original images. In order to obtain a balancing effect among the views, we perform block-based disparity estimation, which includes several balancing parameters.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.1-6
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• 2009

Due to the different camera properties of the multi-view camera system, the color properties of captured images can be inconsistent. This inconsistency makes post-processing such as depth estimation, view synthesis and compression difficult. In this paper, the method to correct the different color properties of multi-view images is proposed. We utilize a gray gradient bar on a display device to extract the color sensitivity property of the camera and calculate a look-up table based on the sensitivity property. The colors in the target image are converted by mapping technique referring to the look-up table. Proposed algorithm shows the good subjective results and reduces the mean absolute error among the color values of multi-view images by 72% on average in experimental results.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.197-200
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a multi-view stereoscopic image synthesis algorithm for 3DTV system using depth information with an RGB texture from a depth camera. The proposed algorithm synthesizes multi-view images which a virtual convergence camera model could generate. Experimental results showed that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than those of conventional methods.