• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2016

This paper presents new prediction methods to improve compression performance of the so-called near-lossless RGB-domain image coder, which is designed to effectively decrease the memory bandwidth of a system-on-chip (SoC) for image processing. First, variable block size (VBS)-based intra prediction is employed to eliminate spatial redundancy for the green (G) component of an input image on a pixel-line basis. Second, inter-color prediction (ICP) using spectral correlation is performed to predict the R and B components from the previously reconstructed G-component image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves coding efficiency by up to 30% compared with an existing algorithm for natural images, and improves coding efficiency with low computational cost by about 50% for computer graphics (CG) images.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.42-48
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose adaptive near-lossless image coding algorithm according to bandwidth while maintaining image quality. The proposed method adjusts error range using amounts of encoded bits and target bits at a slice encoding interval. Experimental results show that our proposed method not only almost fits compression into bandwidth, but also has better image quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.227-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes an enhance prediction for conventional near-lossless coder to effectively lower external memory bandwidth in image processing SoC. First, we utilize an already reconstructed green component as a base of predictor of the other color component because high correlation between RGB color components usually exists. Next, we can improve prediction performance by applying variable block size prediction. Lastly, we use minimum internal memory and improve a temporal prediction performance by using a template dictionary that is sampled in previous frame. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm shows better performance than the previous works. Natural images have approximately 30% improvement in coding efficiency and CG images have 60% improvement on average.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07b
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• pp.1362-1364
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• 1996

In this paper a Dear lossless compression of medical images with vector quantizer is proposed. In order to apply the vector quantizer to medical images, the peak error in the reconstructed image is reduced down to 1. Simulation results show that the proposed coding scheme provides better performance with a PSNR improvement compared to the conventional JPEG standard.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.5547-5562
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• 2016

JPEG-LS is an international standard for lossless or near-lossless image-compression algorithms. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to improve the performance of the lossless JPEG-LS algorithm. With respect to JPEG-LS and its supplementary explanation, Golomb-Rice (GR) coding is mainly used for entropy coding, but it is not used for long codewords. The proposed method replaces a set of long codewords with a set of shorter location map information. This paper shows how efficiently the location map guarantees reversibility and enhances the compression rate in terms of performance. Experiments have also been conducted to verify the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1995 no.11
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• pp.113-116
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• 1995

Medical image compression using the wavelet transform has been tried. Due to the flexibility in representing nonstationary image signal in both time and frequency domains and its ability to adapt human visual characteristics, wavelet transform has unique advantage in images compression. In the proposed wavelet compression original image is decomposed into multi-scale bands. Different scale factors are employed in the quantization of wavelet decomposed images in different bands. For the lowest band, a predictor is designed and error signal is entropy coded. For high scale bands, runlength coding for toro run is used with Huffman coding. From simulation with magnetic resonance images($256\times256$ size, 256 graylevels) the proposed algorithm is superior to the JPEG by more than 2.5 dB in near lossless compression (CR = 8 - 10).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.36-37
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• 2011

깊이 영상은 가상 시점 영상을 합성할 때 사용되는 3차원 거리 정보로 깊이 영상 기반 렌더링에서 가상 시점을 합성할 때 사용한다. 따라서, 깊이 영상 부호화에서는 부호화 효율 못지않게 합성 영상의 화질이 중요하다. 깊이 영상의 화질은 합성된 가상 시점 영상의 화질에 큰 영향을 미친다. 따라서 고화질 깊이 영상이 필요한 경우, 부호화 손실이 적은 무손실 부호화를 사용한다. 하지만, 이와 같은 무손실 부호화 방법은 복호를 통해 원래의 깊이 영상을 그대로 복원할 수 있지만, 압축률이 낮다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 복호된 영상의 화질과 부호화 비트의 균형을 모두 고려하기 위해 근접 무손실 HEVC(high efficiency video coding)와 향상된 CABAC(context-based adaptive bnary arithmetic coding)을 이용한 새로운 깊이 영상 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 합성된 가상 시점 영상의 화질 손실 없이, 기존의 무손실 및 근접 무손실 방법보다 더 나은 부호화 성능을 제공함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2009

This Paper introduces representation and coding schemes of multiview texture and depth data for complex three-dimensional scenes. We represent input color and depth images using compressed texture and depth map pairs. The proposed X-codec encodes them further to increase compression ratio in a near-lossless way. Our system resolves two problems. First, rendering time and output visual quality depend on input image resolutions rather than scene complexity since a depth image-based rendering techniques is used. Second, the random access problem of conventional image-based rendering could be effectively solved using our image block-based compression schemes. From experimental results, the proposed approach is useful to graphics applications because it provides multiview rendering, selective decoding, and scene manipulation functionalities.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.81-90
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• 2010

This paper presents H.264 coding schemes for multi-view video using the concept of layered depth image(LDI) representation and efficient compression technique for LDI. After converting those data to the proposed representation, we encode color, depth, and auxiliary data representing the hierarchical structure, respectively, Two kinds of preprocessing approaches are proposed for multiple color and depth components. In order to compress auxiliary data, we have employed a near lossless coding method. Finally, we have reconstructed the original viewpoints successfully from the decoded approach that is useful for dealing with multiple color and depth data simultaneously.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2010

본 논문은 H.264/AVC를 이용한 근접 무손실 화면내 부호화에서 기존의 라인 기반 예측 방법에서 발생할 수 있는 오류 전파 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. H.264/AVC의 화면내 예측 부호화는 주변 블록의 복원 화소들을 현재 부호화하려는 블록의 예측값으로 사용하여 공간적 상관성을 제거하고 부호화 효율을 향상시킨다. 기존의 라인 기반 예측 방법에서는 일반적으로 화소 간 거리가 멀어질수록 화소 간 상관성이 떨어지므로 라인 단위로 예측을 수행하여 예측의 정확도를 높였다. 하지만, 이 경우 오류 전파 문제에 취약하다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 화면내 $16{\times}16$ 수직 및 수평 예측 모드에 대해 매크로블록을 라인 단위로 예측하면서 정해진 서브 블록마다 참조 화소를 업데이트하는 방법을 제안한다. 따라서, 라인 기반 예측 방법의 예측 정확도는 유지하면서 오류 전파 문제를 예방할 수 있다. 실험을 통해, 제안하는 방법이 High 프로파일에서 H.264/AVC 표준 소프트웨어 JM 12.2에 비해 평균 약 5.8%의 비트율을 감소시킬 수 있음을 보였다.