• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2040-2043
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• 2003

General-purpose MPEG-2 video transcoders must be able to achieve any conversion between 18 ATSC (Advanced television system committee) video formats for DTV (digital television), e.g., scan format, size format, and frame rate format conversion. Especially, scan format conversion is hard to implement because frame rate and size format conversion often happen together. This paper proposes a fast motion estimation(ME) algorithm for MPEG-2 video transcoding supporting scan format conversion. Firstly, we extract and compose a set of candidate motion vectors (MV's) from the input bit-stream to comply with the re-encoding format. Secondly, the best MV is chosen among several candidate MV's by using a weighted median selector. Simulation results show that the proposed ME algorithm reduces significantly transcoding complexity with a minor PSNR degradation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.9
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• pp.77-83
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• 1997

We present a fast adaptive block matching algorithm using variable search area and subsampling to estimate motion vector more exactly. In the presented method, the block is classified into one of three motion categories: zero motion vector block, medium-motion bolck or high-motion block according to mean absolute difference of the block. By the simulation, the computation amount of the presented methoe comparable to three step search algorithm and new three step search algorithm. In the fast image sequence, the PSNR of our algorithm increased more than TSS and NTSS, because our algorithm estimated motion vector more accurately.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.20-22
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• 2007

The H.264/AVC standard developed by the joint Video Team (JVT) provides better coding efficiency than previous standards. The new emerging H.264/AVC employs variable block size motion estimation using multiple reference frame with 1/4-pel MV(Motion Vector) accuracy. These techniques are a important feature to accomplish higher coding efficiency. However, these techniques are increased overall computational complexity. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes advanced fast mode decision suited for variable block size by classifying inter mode based on Rate Distortion Optimization(RDO) technique. Proposed algorithm is going to use to implement H/W structure for fast mode decision. The experimental results shows that the proposed algorithm provides significant reduction computational complexity without any noticeable coding loss and additional computation. Entire computational complexity is decreased about 30%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1141-1151
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 효과적으로 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 이용한 움직임 추정의 고속 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 2$\times$2화소 블록 평균으로 부표본화 영상에서 움직임 벡터를 얻어 원영상 비율로 확대하고, 주위 블록의 움직임으로부터 예측 움직임 벡터를 구하여, 이 중에서 정합오차가 작은 것을 초기 탐색 위치로 선택한다. 그리고 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 중심으로 회전 탐색을 시작하여, 연속 소거 알고리즘으로 탐색할 후보 블록을 선택하고, 부분 정합 왜곡 소거법을 사용하여 블록간 정합오차 계산량을 줄이면서, 고속으로 움직임 벡터를 추정한다. 알고리즘의 실제 적용에 있어서는 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 중심으로 회전 탐색 패턴의 탐색 범위를 조절하거나, 매크로 블록 당 복잡도를 제한하여 계산량을 줄일 수 있다. 실험 결과, 제안된 알고리즘은 전역탐색 블록정합 알고리즘에 대하여 0.2dB 이하의 미소한 평균 PSNR 저하만을 발생하면서, FBMA 복잡도의 3% 이하의 평균 복잡도를 소요하였다. 이것은 3단계 탐색법에 대하여 40% 이하의 계산량이다. 그리고 실험 영상들의 각 프레임에 대해서도 비슷한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.356-357
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 Full-HD 영상에서 사용되는 H264/AVC의 정수 단위 고속 움직임 예측 방법을 제안한다. 제안되는 알고리즘에서는 다중 해상도 고속 움직임 예측 기법에 기반을 두어 두 계층이 각기 탐색된다. 낮은 해상도의 계층에서는 움직임 벡터 예측자를 중심으로 좁은 탐색 영역을 2 단계로 탐색하여 최적의 점을 찾는다. 높은 해상도의 계층에서는 4 단계로 탐색을 하여 탐색점의 개수를 줄인다. 그리고 두 계층에서 각기 구해진 탐색점들의 비용을 비교하여 매크로블록의 최종 움직임 벡터를 구한다. 시뮬레이션 결과에서는 기존의 연구 결과보다 JM을 기준으로 BD-Rate는 1.55 % 높았고, BD-PSNR은 0.05 dB 낮아진데 비해 시간은 63% 만큼 감소하여 높은 속도를 낼 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.25-29
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• 2014

The full-field digital mammography (FFDM), which has been known as a digital breast imaging system, carries out more outstanding performance than the screen-film mammography in overall image quality, skin & nipple, description of pectoral muscle and expression of micro-calcification. Thus, in this thesis, I perform experiments for both the enhancement of image quality and accurate estimation of the result in question, when detecting the very tiny-sized lesions in mammography. The image of digital breast X-rays is the important diagnostic tool for detecting early breast cancer and micro calcification lesion. The experiment of how much compression rate has an effect on the result of diagnosis in the case of microcalcification lesion, with JPEG2000 40:1 compression and over 50% enlargement led to obscure or definitely unacceptable diagnostic results is performed. And in another study of assessment of PSNR degree. I recognized the importance of standardized management system in mammography, where not to mention the accurate reading of the image has the most crucial role in diagnosis

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 영상 압축에 있어서 사용되는 새로운 고속 움직임 추정 기법에 대해 소개한다. 전역 탐색 블록 정합 알고리즘(FSBMA)은 최상의 PSNR을 갖는 화질로 움직임 벡터를 추정할 수 있지만 높은 계산량으로 인하여 실시간 구현에 부적합하다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 그러므로 계산량을 낮추면서 유사한 화질을 유지할 수 있는 많은 고속 탐색 기법들이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 잘 알려진 고속 블록 정합 알고리즘을 수정 보완한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 움직임 추정에서의 고속 블록 정합 알고리즘에 있어 변형된 다이아몬드(Diamond) 탐색 기법을 이용하여 영상이 갖는 서로 다른 움직임 패턴에 대해 움직임의 방향성에 따라 적응적으로 탐색 방향과 패턴을 달리하면서 움직임을 예측하여 다이아몬드(Diamond)탐색 알고리즘과 유사한 화질을 유지하면서 보다 적은 계산량을 가지고 움직임 벡터를 추정학 수 있다. 또한 이를 PMVFAST(Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique)와 결합함으로서 보다 좋은 화질을 가질 수 있다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.537-543
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• 2015

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) have slow responses, so motion blurs are often perceived in fast moving scenes. To reduce this motion blur, we propose a novel method of robust motion compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) based on bidirectional motion estimation (BME) and weight-overlapped block motion compensation (WOBMC) with variable block sizes. In most MCFI methods, a static block size is used, so some block artefacts and motion blurs are observed. However, the proposed method adjusts motion block sizes and search ranges by comparing matching scores, so the precise motion vectors can be estimated in accordance with motions. In the MCFI, overlapping ranges for WOBMC are also determined by adjusted block sizes, so the accurate MCFI can be performed. In the experimental results, the proposed method strongly reduced motion blurs arisen from large motions, and yielded interpolated images with high visual performance and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.9-12
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• 2002

In this Paper, we propose an efficient de-interlacing algorithm using temporal and spatial domain information. In the proposed scheme, motion estimation is performed same parity fields, i.e., if current field is even field, reference fields are previous even field and forward even field. And then motion vector refinement is performed to improve the accuracy of motion vectors. In the interpolating step, we use median filter to reduce the interpolation error caused by incorrect motion vector. Simulations conducted for various video sequences have shown the efficiency of the proposed interpolator with significant improvement over previous methods in terms of both PSNR and perceived image quality.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.59-63
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• 2011

Conventional noise reduction filtering schemes realize limited improvements of the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) in the low-level noisy images. The flatness degree and the edge information are effectively used to estimate the noise volume. We propose a noise estimator for reducing noise in the AWGN (additive white gaussian noise) corrupted images using three intermediate image maps (FGM(flatness gray map), FIM(flatness index map), NEM(noise estimate map)). The proposed noise estimator is fed into the conventional noise reduction filters as a pre-processor. The performance of noise reduction is tested in the various AWGN corrupted images.