• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1427-1438
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• 2007

Video watermarking technologies are classified into types of four kinds. The first type is to embed the watermark into a raw video signal and to code the watermarked video signal. Most of video watermarking technologies fall into the category of this type. The second type is to apply watermarking to the coding process, such as block DCT and quantization. The third is to directly embed the watermark into the compressed bitstream itself. Generally, it is referred as labelling rather than watermarking. Finally, the fourth is to embed the water mark into MPEG motion vector. This type has the difficulty in real-time process because of the high complexity and has the blocking effects because of DCT-based on coder. In this paper, we proposed the digital video watermarking that embed the watermark in SPIHT video code for I-frame using motion vector analysis. This method can remove the blocking effect occurred at the DCT-based on coder and obtain video data that has progressive transmission property. The proposed method is to select the region for the watermark embedding in I frame using motion vector estimated from the previous P or B frame. And then, it is to perform DWT and embed the watermark based on HVS into the wavelet coefficients in the same subband of DWT as the motion vector direction. Finally, the watermarked video bitstream is obtained by the SPIHT coder. The experimental results verified that the proposed method has the invisibility from the objective and subjective image quality and the robustness against the various SPIHT compression and MPEG re-code.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2395-2398
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• 2003

This paper focuses on lossless medical image compression methods for medical images that operate on two-dimensional(2D) reversible integer wavelet transform. We offer an application of the Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees(SPIHT) algorithm [1][3][9] to medical images, using a 2D wavelet decomposition and a 2D spatial dependence tree. The wavelet decomposition is accomplished with integer wavelet filters implemented with the lifting method, where careful scaling and truncations keep the integer precision small and the transform unitary. We have tested our encoder on medical images using different integer filters. Results show that our algorithm with certain filters performs as well and sometimes better in lossless coding than previous coding systems using 2D integer wavelet transforms on medical images.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.417-420
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• 2000

점진적 영상 전송과 저해상도에서도 높은 PSNR를 나타내는 방법으로 EZW(Enbeded Zerotree Wavelet)과 SPIHT(set partitioning in hierarchical tree)를 사용한 보다 향상된 영상 압축방법이 제안되어졌다. 특히 SPIHT는 적응 산술부호화(adaptive arithmetic coding)를 사용하지 않고도 EZW보다 뛰어난 압축률과 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 부대역(subband)간의 유사성(similarity)을 이용한 제로트리 부호화에서 계층을 나누는 일은 계수 사이의 연결관계를 깰 수 있기 때문에 간단한 일은 아니다. 본 논문에서는 SPIHT의 비트열을 여러개의 계층으로 나누고 각각의 해상도로 복원하는 새로운 정렬 방법을 제안하고, 계층간의 비트열을 균일하게 나눔으로써 보다 효율적으로 전송 할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 복호시에 낮은 해상도일수로 복원시간의 이득을 볼 수 있는 향상된 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.163-166
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• 2000

In this paper, we will present a lossy data compression method for coding multispectral images. The proposed method uses both spatial and spectra] correlation inherent in multispectral images. First, band 2 and band 6 are vector quantized. Secondly, band 4 is estimated with the quantized band 2 using the predictive coding. Errors of band 4 are encoded at a second stage based on the magnitude of the errors. Thirdly, remaining bands are calculated with the quantized band 2 and band 4. Errors of residual bands are wavelet transformed and then we apply the SPIHT coding on the transformed coefficients. We classify classes without extra information transmitting and then use linear predictor. And errors can be encoded by SPIHT coding at any target rate we are want. It is shown that this method has better performance than FPVQ. Average PSNR rises 0.645 dB at the same bit rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.14-20
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed the compression technique of the video data using SPIHT(set partitioning in hierarchical trees) based on wavelet and the multi-stream delivery method for best-effort service as fully utilizing the clients bandwidth over the current Internet. The experiment shows that the proposed method provides about 1.5dB better picture quality without block effects than DCT(discrete consine transform) based coding schemes at the same bit rates because of using the wavelet video coder. In addition, this technique implements the multi-stream transmission based on TCP(transmission control protocol). Thus, it is provided with the best-efforts service which is robust to the network jitter problem, and maximally utilizes the bandwidth of the client's.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.264-272
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• 2012

In the field of medical diagnostics, interested parties have resorted increasingly to medical imaging. It is well established that the accuracy and completeness of diagnosis are initially connected with the image quality, but the quality of the image is itself dependent on a number of factors including primarily the processing that an image must undergo to enhance its quality. This paper introduces an algorithm for medical image compression based on the quincunx wavelets coupled with SPIHT coding algorithm, of which we applied the lattice structure to improve the wavelet transform shortcomings. In order to enhance the compression by our algorithm, we have compared the results obtained with those of other methods containing wavelet transforms. For this reason, we evaluated two parameters known for their calculation speed. The first parameter is the PSNR; the second is MSSIM (structural similarity) to measure the quality of compressed image. The results are very satisfactory regarding compression ratio, and the computation time and quality of the compressed image compared to those of traditional methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.198-206
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• 2022

This paper proposes a method to solve problems that may occur when SPIHT(set partition in hierarchical trees) is used in a dedicated codec for compressing complex holograms with ultra-high resolution. The development of codecs for complex holograms can be largely divided into a method of creating dedicated compression methods and a method of using anchor codecs such as HEVC and JPEG2000 and adding post-processing techniques. In the case of creating a dedicated compression method, a separate conversion tool is required to analyze the spatial characteristics of complex holograms. Zero-tree-based algorithms in subband units such as EZW and SPIHT have a problem that when coding for high-resolution images, intact subband information is not properly transmitted during bitstream control. This paper proposes a method of dividing wavelet subbands to solve such a problem. By compressing each divided subbands, information throughout the subbands is kept uniform. The proposed method showed better restoration results than PSNR compared to the existing method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2001

제로트리 부호화 알고리즘 중 효율적이며 잘 알려진 SPIHT는 높은 메모리 요구로 인해 하드웨어 구현에 큰 어려움을 가지고 있다. 이 논문에서는 저 메모리 사용과 빠른 제로트리 부호화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 메모리를 줄이고 빠른 코딩을 위한 방법으로 다음 3가지를 사용한다. 첫 번째, 리프팅을 이용한 웨이블릿 변환은 기존의 필터뱅크 방식의 변환보다 저 메모리와 계산량의 감소를 가진다. 두 번째, 웨이블릿 변환된 계수들은 블럭으로 나누어져 각각 코딩된다. 여기서 블록은 제로트리 구조가 유지되는 STB(spatial tree-based block)이다. 세 번째, Wheeler 와 Pearlman이 제안한 NLS (no list SPIHT)를 이용한 부호화이다. NLS는 효율성에서 SPIHT와 거의 같으며 작고 고정된 메모리와 빠른 부호화 속도를 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.851-854
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• 1998

Recently efficient image coding algorithms using zerotree have been proposed. In these methods, the locations of nonzero wavelet coefficients are encoded with a tree structure, called zerotree, which can exploit the self-similarity of the wavelet pyramid decomposition across different scales. These are very effective, especially in low bit rate image coding. In this paper, two zerotree image coding algorithms, EZW and SPIHT, are briefly introduced, and a new zerotree searching scheme is proposed to emphasize the significance of a wavelet coefficient by its orientations as well as its scale.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1098-1101
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• 2004

The ordinary stereo image of an object consists of data of left and right views. Therefore, the left and right image pairs have to be transmitted simultaneously in order to display 3-dimentional video at the remote site. However, due to the twice data in comparing with a monoscopic image of the same object, it needs to be compressed for fast transmission and resource saving. Hence, it needs an effective coding algorithm for compressing stereo image. It was found previously that compressing left and right frames independently will achieve the compression ratio lower than compressing by utilizing the spatial redundancy between both frames. Therefore, in this paper, we study the stereo image compression technique based on the multiresolution wavelet transform using varied disparity-block size for estimation and compensation. The size of disparity-block in the stereo pair subbands are scaling on a coarse-to-fine wavelet coefficients strategy. Finally, the reference left image and residual right image after disparity estimation and compensation are coded by using SPIHT coding. The considered method demonstrates good performance in both PSNR measures and visual quality for stereo image.