• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.180-181
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• 2018

JPEG is a most widely used standard image compression technology. This research introduces the JPEG image compression algorithm and describes each step in the compression and decompression. Image compression is the application of data compression on digital images. The DCT (discrete cosine transform) is a technique for converting a time domain to a frequency domain. First, the image is divided into 8 by 8 pixel blocks. Second, working from top to bottom left to right, the DCT is applied to each block. Third, each block is compressed through quantization. Fourth, the array of compressed blocks that make up the image is stored in a greatly reduced amount of space. Finally if desired, the image is reconstructed through decompression, a process using IDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform).

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.847-850
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• 2001

영상과 같은 다양하고 복잡한 데이터 검색은 기존의 키워드를 이용한 검색이 아닌 내용 기반 검색 방법이 요구된다. 본문은 JPEG/MPEG 과 같은 영상 압축 기법에서 사용되는 DCT 변환 부호화를 이용하여 각 블록의 평균인 DC 성분을 얻어 이 정보를 이용하여 영상을 검색하는 방법을 제시한다. 기존의 방법은 단순히 DCT 전체 성분을 이용하는 방법으로, 영상 전체의 DCT 정보를 처리하여야 하므로 시간과 메모리의 낭비가 있을 수 있다. 본문에서는 이러한 처리시간과 메모리의 낭비를 막기 위해 DC 성분만을 이용하여 영상 검색을 하며, 영상이 실제로 있는 부분에서는 블록의 크기를 가변적으로 변경하여 검색의 오류를 줄일 수 있다. 또한 검색을 전체 영상에 대한 빠른 1 차 검색과 동일 패턴을 가진 영상의 2 차 세부 검색으로 나누어 실행함으로써 보다 빠른 검색을 할 수 있다. 한편, 겹쳐진 영상에 대해서도 검색이 가능하다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

A combined DWT and DCT based watermarking technique of low frequency watermarking with weighted correction is proposed. The DWT has excellent spatial localization, frequency spread and multi-resolution characteristics, which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system (HVS). The DCT based watermarking techniques offer compression while DWT based watermarking techniques offer scalability. These desirable properties are used in this combined watermarking technique. In the proposed method watermark bits are embedded in the low frequency band of each DCT block of selected DWT sub-band. The weighted correction is also used to improve the imperceptibility. The extracting procedure reverses the embedding operations without the reference of the original image. Compared with the similar approach by DCT based approach and DWT based approach, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm apparently preserves superiori mage quality and robustness under various attacks such as JPEG compression, cropping, sharping, contrast adjustments and so on.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.2067-2070
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• 2002

In this paper, a VLSI architecture for transform and quantization module, which consists of 2D-DCT, quantization, AC/DC prediction block, scan conversion, inverse quantization and 2D-IDCT, is presented. The architecture of the module is designed to handle a macroblock data within 1064 cycles and suitable for MPEG-4 video codec handling CIF image formats. Only single 1-D DCT/IDCT cores are used for the design instead of 2-D DCT/IDCT, respectively. 1-bit serial distributed arithmetic architecture is adopted for 1-D DCT/IDCT to reduce the hardware area in this architecture. As the result, the maximum utilization of hardware can be achieved, and power consumption can be minimized. The proposed design is operated on 27MHz clock. The experimental results show that the accuracy of DCT and IDCT meet the IEEE specification.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.41-48
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• 2019

Digital image watermarking techniques have been studied in various fields in order to protect the copyright of multimedia contents mostly composed by images. JPEG compression is a representative copyright attack for image watermarking. The CRT-based watermarking methods in DCT domain have been studied, because these are robust for JPEG compression attack. In this paper, we propose a new method with improved performance compared with the existing CRT based methods in DCT domain. The proposed method selects the DCT block according to the denseness at the watermark insertion phase, and iteratively adjust the CRT Conditional coefficients at the watermark extraction. This paper shows that it is more robust for the JPEG compression attacks through experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.314-317
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• 2020

JPEG 위원회는 JPEG XL 이라 불리우는 차세대 이미지 코딩의 표준화를 진행하였다. JPEG XL 은 기존 JPEG 에서 사용하는 8×8 크기의 블록뿐만 아니라, 최소 2×2 부터 최대 32×32 크기의 블록을 유동적으로 사용함으로써 부호화 성능의 개선을 가능하게 한다. 부호화기 구조 내의 DCT 블록 분할은 부호화 성능을 결정하는 주요한 요소 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 SML(Sum Modified Laplacian)을 기반으로 하는 DCT 블록 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 이미지에서 상대적으로 변동이 적거나 균일한 영역을 선택하기 위해 SML 을 활용하였으며, 이 영역에서는 큰 DCT 블록으로 부호화하여 기존 부호화기의 성능을 개선하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.672-682
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• 2017

Video compression exploits statistical, spatial, and temporal redundancy, as well as transform and quantization. In particular, the transform in a frequency domain plays a major role in energy compaction of spatial domain data into frequency domain data. The high efficient video coding standard uses the type-II discrete cosine transform (DCT-II) and type-VII discrete sine transform (DST-VII) to improve the coding efficiency of residual data. However, the DST-VII is applied only to the Intra $4{\times}4$ residual block because it yields relatively small gains in the larger block than in the $4{\times}4$ block. In this study, after rearranging the data of the residual block, we apply the DST-VII to the inter-residual block to achieve coding gain. The rearrangement of the residual block data is similar to the arrangement of the basis vector with a the lowest frequency component of the DST-VII. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the luma-chroma (Cb+Cr) BD rates by approximately 0.23% to 0.22%, 0.44% to 0.58%, and 0.46% to 0.65% for the random access, low delay B, and low delay P configurations, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.258-268
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• 2001

The compression method is necessarily used to send the high quality moving picture that contains a number of data in image processing. In the field of moving picture compression method, the motion estimation algorithm is used to reduce the temporal redundancy. Block matching algorithm to be usually used is distinguished partial search algorithm with full search algorithm. Full search algorithm be used in this paper is the method to compare the reference block with entire block in the search window. It is very efficient and has simple data flow and control circuit. But the bigger the search window, the larger hardware size, because large computational operation is needed. In this paper, we design the full search block matching motion estimator. Using the DCT DC values, we decide luminance. And we apply 3 bit compare-selector using bit plane to I(Intra coded) picture, not using 8 bit luminance signals. Also it is suggested that use the same selective bit for the P(Predicted coded) and B(Bidirectional coded) picture. We compare based full search method with PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) for C language modeling. Its condition is the reference block 8$\times$8, the search window 24$\times$24 and 352$\times$288 gray scale standard video images. The result has small difference that we cannot see. And we design the suggested motion estimator that hardware size is proved to reduce 38.3％ for structure I and 30.7％ for structure II. The memory is proved to reduce 31.3％ for structure I and II.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.55-62
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• 2005

This paper proposes a method to recognize a face using DCT/LDA where LDA is applied to DCT coefficients of an input face image. In the proposed method, SSS problem of LDA due to less number of training data than the size of feature space can be avoided by expressing an input image in low dimensional space using DCT coefficients. In terms of the recognition rate, both the proposed method and the PCA/LDA method have shown almost equal performance while the training time of the proposed method is much shorter than the other. This is because DCT has the fixed number of basis vectors while the property of energy compaction rate is similar to that of PCA. Although depending on the number of coefficients employed for the recognition, the experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method in terms of recognition rate is very comparable to PCA/LDA method and other DCT/LDA methods, and it can be trained 13,000 times faster than PCA/LDA method.