• ETRI Journal
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.109-119
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• 2021

Self-recovery is a tamper-detection and image recovery methods based on data hiding. It generates two types of data and embeds them into the original image: authentication data for tamper detection and reference data for image recovery. In this paper, a region-based scalable self-recovery (RSS) method is proposed for salient-object images. As the images consist of two main regions, the region of interest (ROI) and the region of non-interest (RONI), the proposed method is aimed at achieving higher reconstruction quality for the ROI. Moreover, tamper tolerability is improved by using scalable recovery. In the RSS method, separate reference data are generated for the ROI and RONI. Initially, two compressed bitstreams at different rates are generated using the embedded zero-block coding source encoder. Subsequently, each bitstream is divided into several parts, which are protected through various redundancy rates, using the Reed-Solomon channel encoder. The proposed method is tested on 10 000 salient-object images from the MSRA database. The results show that the RSS method, compared to related methods, improves reconstruction quality and tamper tolerability by approximately 30% and 15%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.634-636
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• 2003

본 논문은 마스크 방식의 관심 영역(ROI, Region Of Interest) 부호 설계와 구현에 대하여 제시한다. 관심 영역에 대한 정지 영상 압축 알고리즘은 웨이블릿 변환과 사용자가 지정한 관심 영역을 결합하여 설계하였다. 즉, 사용자가 지정한 관심 영역을 이용하여 관심 영역 마스크를 생성한다. 양자화 과정에서 웨이블릿 계수들을 각 레벨과 서브밴드로 구분하고 생성된 관심 영역 마스크 정보를 이용하여 양자화 과정을 처리하여 부호화한다. 관심 영역에 대하여서는 높은 영상 품질과 그리고 전체 영상에 대하여서는 높은 압축을 동시에 실현시킬 수 있는 마스크 방식의 관심 영역 부호화 알고리즘을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.17-26
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• 2011

This paper presents an interactive progressive image transmission method, which enables a remote user to interactively select and transmit preferred regions from an index image. Our enhanced quadtree decomposition using PSNR-based rules and new implicit quadtree coding provide better rate-distortion performance than previous quadtree coders as well as leading bit plane methods. An adaptive traversal of child nodes is introduced for better visual display of restored images. Depth-first traversal combined with breadth-first traversal of the quadtree to accomplish interactive transmission as presented, results in a method that provides competitive performance at a low level of computational complexity. Moreover, our decoding requires only simple arithmetic which is enabling our method to be used for real-time mobile applications.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1347-1358
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• 2008

A blind video watermarking scheme for providing safety, authenticity, and copyright protection is proposed in this paper, which is robust to MPEG-4 SVC and multimedia transcoding. In proposed method, embedding and detecting of watermark is performed based on base layer with considering spatial SVC. To be robust from temporal SVC, our method embeds repeatedly a permutated character with ordering number per one frame. Also for robustness from multimedia transcoding and FGS, the method is embedded watermark in low middle frequency of each frame adaptively based on DCT in ROI. Through experimental results, invisibility of the watermark is confirmed and robustness of the watermark against the spatial SVC, temporal SVC, FGS and video transcoding between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 SVC is also verified.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.336-348
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• 2006

The recent advances in multimedia signal coding and transmission technologies allow lots of users to watch videos on small LCD displays. In this paper, we briefly describe an intelligent display technique to provide small-display-viewers with comfortable experiences, and study the minimum image size tolerated and utility of displaying region of interest (ROI) only when needed. The study, with 111 participants, examines minimum image size to ensure viewers pleasant viewing experiences, and evaluates the degree of satisfaction when they are viewed with region of interest (ROI) only. The experimental results show that the ROI display enhances the viewers' satisfaction when the image size becomes less than $320{\times}240$, and thus it is useful to provide the intelligent display, if necessary, which can extract and display ROI only.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.110-122
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• 2014

As multimedia technologies develop, three-dimensional (3D) technologies are attracting increasing attention from researchers. In particular, video quality assessment (VQA) has become a critical issue in stereoscopic image/video processing applications. Furthermore, a human visual system (HVS) could play an important role in the measurement of stereoscopic video quality, yet existing VQA methods have done little to develop a HVS for stereoscopic video. We seek to amend this by proposing a 3D visual attention (3DVA) model which simulates the HVS for stereoscopic video by combining multiple perceptual stimuli such as depth, motion, color, intensity, and orientation contrast. We utilize this 3DVA model for pooling on significant regions of very poor video quality, and we propose no-reference (NR) stereoscopic VQA (SVQA) method. We validated the proposed SVQA method using subjective test scores from our results and those reported by others. Our approach yields high correlation with the measured mean opinion score (MOS) as well as consistent performance in asymmetric coding conditions. Additionally, the 3DVA model is used to extract information for the region-of-interest (ROI). Subjective evaluations of the extracted ROI indicate that the 3DVA-based ROI extraction outperforms the other compared extraction methods using spatial or/and temporal terms.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.9-18
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• 2016

This paper proposes a multi-view Wyner-Ziv Video coding scheme based on spatio-temporal adaptive estimation. The proposed algorithm is designed to search for a better estimated block with joint bi-directional motion estimation by introducing weights between temporal and spatial directions, and by classifying effectively the region of interest blocks, which is based on the edge detection and the synthesis, and by selecting the reference estimation block from the effective motion vector analysis. The proposed algorithm exploits the information of a single frame viewpoint and adjacent frame viewpoints, simultaneously and then generates adaptively side information in a variety of closure, and reflection regions to have a better performance. Through several simulations with multi-view video sequences, it is shown that the proposed algorithm performs visual quality improvement as well as bit-rate reduction, compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.458-461
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• 2000

Variable length codes are often used in entropy coding, but are very vulnerable in noisy environments. Reversible variable length codes, however, muse possible to decode instantaneously in both forward and backward directions, so that more usable data can be retrieved when bit errors occur via transmission. Furthermore, partial decodability is desirable to introduce in the reversible variable length code because ROI (Region Of Interest) decoding function is sometimes required in recent image information systems such as the medical imaging, the digital museum and so on. In this paper, we propose a partially decodable and reversible variable length code by modifying Golomb-Rice code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.281-283
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• 2000

본 논문은 EBCOT 알고리즘의 소개와 개선 방법을 제안한다. EBCOT 알고리즘은 웨이블릿 변환과 블록기반 bit-plane 부호화 방법을 활용한 알고리즘이다. EBCOT에서 사용하는 bit-plane 부호화 방법을 블록기반 fractional bit-plane 방법이라고 한다. 이 방법은 bit-plane 전체를 한번에 부호화하는 것이 아니라 블록으로 나누어 부호화를 수행하고 또한 하나의 bit-plane에 대하여서도 4번의 pass를 거치면서 bit의 context에 따라서 부호화를 수행한다. EBCOT는 웨이블릿 변환에 의하여 resolution 스케일러빌리티를 지원하고 fractional bit-plane 부호화에 의하여 SNR 스케일러빌리티를 지원하며 블록기반 부호화에 의하여 ROI에 대한 random 접근 기능을 지원한다. 그리고 EBCOT는 부호화가 완료된 다음에 bit reduction 과정을 수행한다. 이러한 특징들은 이전의 EZW나 SPIHT 방법에 비하여 장점들이라고 할 수 있다. 그러나 bit-plane 부호화를 수행하는 과정에서 효율을 개선할 수 있으며 본 논문은 이에 대한 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.619-622
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• 2007

PDA provides an opportunity for users to study anytime and anywhere because it is portable and convenient thanks to its relatively small size. However, users may face difficulties to fully recognize the characters provided through lecture videos, due to its low resolution and small scaled screen. This thesis proposes a system of remote lecture in which the size of videos can be adjusted and transmitted on the basis of contents necessary for study, using detection of region-of-interest(ROI) image, and a method of image scaling in a bid to solve such a problem of PDAs. The experiment on 802.11b wireless network shows that the proposed system is able to provide more optimized lecture videos than in existing method.