• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.197-199
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• 2014

현재 MPEG에서 표준화 중인 IVC(Internet Video Coding)에서는 기존의 비디오 부호화 표준과 같이 Lagrange 계수 기반의 율-왜곡 최적화(RDO: Rate-Distortion Optimization)를 사용하여 최적의 부호화 모드를 결정하고 있다. RDO를 위하여 픽쳐 타입과 부호화 구조에 따라 미리 결정된 Lagrange 계수가 선택적으로 사용되고 있다. 한편 IVC에서는 저지연 모드 부호화 구조에서 비참조 P 프레임 부호화 기법을 선택적으로 사용하여 상당한 부호화 성능을 얻고 있다. 하지만 Lagrange 계수 선택에서 기존의 P 프레임과는 다른 비참조 P 프레임의 RD 특성이 반영되고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 비참조 P 프레임의 RD 특성을 고려하여 기존의 기법을 확장한 새로운 Lagrange 계수 선택 기법을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안기법은 IVC 시험모델 ITM 10.0에서 기존 기법 대비 0.4%의 비트율 감소를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.425-434
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• 2006

We propose a fast macroblock mode prediction and decision algorithm based on contextual information for Pslices in the H.264/AVC video standard, in which the mode prediction part is composed of intra and inter modes. There are nine $4{\times}4$ and four $16{\times}16$ modes in the intra mode prediction, and seven block types exist for the best coding gain based on rate-distortion optimization. This scheme gives rise to exhaustive computations (search) in the coding procedure. To overcome this problem, a fast inter mode prediction scheme is applied that uses contextual mode information for P-slices. We verify the performance of the proposed scheme through a comparative analysis of experimental results. The suggested mode search procedure increased more than 57% in speed compared to a full mode search and more than 20% compared to the other methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.433-436
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• 2003

In this paper, the efficient motion estimation and compensation method for 3 dimensional wavelet transform is proposed. Recently, since the compression performance and scalable functionality are provided by wavelet transform, many researches have been carried out for applying to the video compression. For the temporal filtering, motion estimation and compensation techniques are used, but the unconnected pixels, which are produced by motion compensation result into the degradation of coding performance and quality of the picture. For the efficient motion compensated temporal filtering by reducing the number of these unconnected pixels, we propose the variable block size motion estimation and compensation method. Also we propose a method that determines the block size using rate-distortion optimization technique according to the local characteristics of the frame. The simulation results show the improved performances than the MPEG-4 scalable coding methods and the 3 dimensional wavelet coding methods using fixed block size motion estimation and compensation.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.626-629
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• 2010

In this letter, we present an enhanced block-based adaptive loop filter (E-BALF) with multiple filter symmetric structures. The E-BALF adapts various filter symmetric structures in a rate-distortion optimization sense, reflecting the statistical properties of each image in a video sequence. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a reduction in the Bj${\phi}$ntegaard delta (BD)-bitrate by an average of 9.60% compared with Joint Model 11.0 of H.264/AVC. Compared to the state-of-the-art BALF, a reduction of up to 1.13% in BD-bitrate is achieved.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.205-211
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• 2014

This paper addresses the framework of object-oriented image coding, describing a new algorithm, based on monodimensional Legendre polynomials, for texture approximation. Through the use of 1D orthogonal basis functions, the computational complexity which usually makes prohibitive most of 2D region-oriented approaches is significantly reduced, while only a slight increment of distortion is introduced. In the aim of preserving the bidimensional intersample correlation of the texture information as much as possible, suitable pseudo-bidimensional basis functions have been used, yielding significant improvements with respect to the straightforward 1D approach. The algorithm has been experimented for coding still images as well as motion compensated sequences, showing interesting possibilities of application for very low bitrate video coding.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.32-42
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new haze removal method for moving image sequence. Since the conventional dark channel prior haze removal method adjusts each color component separately in RGB color space, there can be severe color distortion in the haze removed output image. In order to resolve this problem, this paper proposes a new haze removal scheme that adjusts luminance and saturation components in HLS color space while retaining hue component. Also the conventional dark channel prior haze removal method is developed to obtain best haze removal performance for a single image. Therefore, if it is applied to a moving image sequence, the estimated parameter values change rapidly and the haze removed output image sequence shows unnatural glitter defects. To overcome this problem, a new parameter estimation method using Kalman filter is proposed for moving image sequence. Experimental results demonstrate that the haze removal performance of the proposed method is better than that of the conventional dark channel prior method.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.22-26
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• 2022

This paper proposes a new method for the recognition of road surface marks and numbers. The proposed method designates a region of interest on the road surface without first detecting a lane. The road surface markings are extracted by location and size using a connection component analysis. Distortion due to the perspective effect is minimized by normalizing the size of the road markings. The road surface marking of the connected component is recognized by matching it with the stored road marking templates. The proposed method is implemented using C language in Raspberry Pi 4 system with a camera module for a real-time image processing. The system was fixedly installed in a moving vehicle, and it recorded a video like a vehicle black box. Each frame of the recorded video was extracted, and then the proposed method was tested. The results show that the proposed method is successful for the recognition of road surface marks and numbers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.361-362
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 VVC(Versatile Video Coding) 부호화 시간 감소를 위해 ISP(Intra Sub-Partition) 모드의 복잡도를 감소시키는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 ISP 모드 적용을 위한 RDO(Rate-Distortion Optimization) 탐색을 수행할 때 현재 블록의 모양에 따라 특정 ISP 모드 방향을 사전에 제한하여 RDO 과정을 생략함으로써 부호화 시간을 단축한다. 실험 결과, 기존 VVC 방법 대비 BDBR(Bjøntegaard Delta Bit Rate) 측면에서 AI(All Intra) 구성하에 Y 채널에서 0.01%, Cb, Cr 채널에서 각각 -0.04%, -0.08% 변화로 2%의 부호화 시간 감소의 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.128-138
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new bit assignment scheme for Wyner-Ziv video coding. Distributed video coding (DVC) is a new video coding paradigm which enables greatly low complexity encoding because it does not have any motion prediction module at encoder. Therefore, it is very well suited for many applications such as video communication, video surveillance, extremely low power consumption video coding, and other portable applications. Theoretically, the Wyner-Ziv video coding is proved to achieve the same rate-distortion (RD) performance comparable to that of the joint video coding. However, its RD performance has much gap compared to MC-DCT-based video coding such as H.264/AVC. Moreover, Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv (TDWZ) video coding which is a kind of DVC with transform module has difficulty of exact bit assignment because the entire image is treated as a same message. In this paper, we propose a feasible bit assignment algorithm using adaptive quantization matrix selection for the TDWZ video coding. The proposed method can calculate suitable bit amount for each region using the local characteristics of image. Simulation results show that the proposed method can enhance coding performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.119-120
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• 2010