• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.175-180
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a new method for early depth test for a 3D rendering engine. We add a filter stage to the rasterizer in the 3D rendering engine, in an attempt to identify and avoid the occluded pixels. This filtering block determines if a pixel is hidden by a certain plane. If a pixel is hidden by the plane, it can be removed. The simulation results show that the filter reduces the number of pixels to the next stage up to 71.7%. As a result, 67% of memory bandwidth is saved with simple extra hardware.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.33-37
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• 2000

Milling fixture is one kind of machining device according to the industrial demands for multi manufacturing products on the growing at alarming rate. In the field of design and making for machine tool working, welding, assembling with fixture for mass production is a specific division. In order to prevent the production defects, occurring, the optimum design of product, fixture putting in the field is very significant manufacturing method. They require analysis of many kinds of important factors, theory and practice of machine tool operating process and its situations, fixture and its structure, machining condition for tool making tool materials, heat treatment of fixture components, know-how and so on. In this study we designed and constructed a milling fixture of mass production and performed tryout under the AUTO CAD, database, I-DEAS and WINDOW environment. Especially part 1 of this study is reveals with the analysis of part drawing, fixture planning, fixture design etc.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1410-1419
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• 1989

In this paper, we present a new synthetic high coding method which gives high image compression ratio. Given an image, only its low-pass component is transmitted by DCT coding` the high-pass component is not transmitted but synthesized using edge sharpening on the reconstructed low-pass image at the receiver. For the DCT coding which is used to encode the low-pass image, we used an improved version of Cox's variance estimator. Also, introduced are new image quality measures called GSNR and EPR which emphasize perceptual aspects of image quality. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed synthetic high coding is better in various quality measures than that of Cox's adaptive transform coding. Also, it yields acceptable image quality with neither apparent block effect nor visible granular noise even at high compression ratio of about 30:1.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1932-1935
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263 등에서 블록정합을 위해 사용되는 움직임 추정(Motion Estimation) 기법에서 적응적 탐색 범위를 기존의 알고리듬에 적용시킴으로써 계산량을 줄이고 화질도 개선하는 방법을 제안한다 제안된 알고리듬은 먼저 이웃한 움직임 벡터(Motion Vector)의 위치를 이용하여 예상된 움직임 벡터를 찾고 이 예상된 움직임 벡터의 X, Y 값의 크기를 작은 값, 중간 값, 큰 값, 세 가지로 분류해서 탐색범위를 적응적으로 변화시켜 움직임 벡터가 있을 확률이 큰 범위를 집중적으로 찾는다 그리고 각 분류에서 작은 값일 때는 전역 탐색을 적용하고 큰 값일 때는 기존의 알고리듬을 적용시키고 중간 값 일 때는 3단계탐색 기법을 적용시켜 더 적합한 움직임 벡터를 찾도록 하였다. 그리고 작은 값 일 때 구해진 움직임 벡터의 SAD(Sum of Absolute Difference) 값과 이웃한 움직임 벡터의 SAD값을 비교해 국소점에 빠졌다고 판단이 되면 다시 탐색 범위를 조정해서 움직임 벡터를 구함으로써 국소점에 빠지는 경우를 줄였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1859-1862
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• 2003

Security of digital images attracts much attention recently, and many image encryption methods have been proposed. This paper proposed an image encryption methodology to hide the image information. The target data of it is the result from quantization in the wavelet domain. This method encrypts only part of the image data rather than the whole data of the original image. For ciphering the quantization index we use a novel image encryption Algorithm called BRIE(Bit Recirculation Image Encryption). which was proposed by J. C. Yen and J. I. Guo in 1999. According to a chaotic binary sequence generated by BRIE, the block which is produced by quantization index is cyclically shifted in the right or left direction. Finally, simulation results are included to demonstrate its effectiveness.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.118-118
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 블록 분류와 적응적 필터링을 이용하여 블록 기반 부호화에서의 양자화 잡음을 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 블록 분류, 적응적인 블록 간 필터링, 및 블록 내 필터링의 단계로 이루어진다. 먼저, 각 블록을 8x8 DCT 계수 분포에 따라 7개의 클래스로 분류하고, 인접한 두 클래스 정보에 따라 적응적인 블록 간 필터링을 수행한다. 그리고 에지 블록으로 분류된 블록에 대하여 에지맵을 이용한 블록 내 필터링을 수행한다. 실험결과로부터 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비하여 객관적 화질 측면에서는 유사하지만, 주관적 화질 측면에서 보다 우수함을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.227-233
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• 2006

In order to reduce blocking artifacts and improve compression efficiency, H.264/AVC standard employs an adaptive in-loop deblocking filter. This paper proposes a new hardware architecture of the deblocking filter that employs a four-stage pipelined structure with an efficient data distribution. The proposed architecture allows a simultaneous supply of eight data samples to fully utilize the pipelined filter in both horizontal and vertical filterings. This paper also presents a new filtering order and data reuse scheme between consecutive macroblock filterings to reduce the communication for external memory access. The number of required cycles for filtering one macroblock (MB) is 357 cycles when the proposed filter uses dual port SRAMs. This execution speed is only 41.3% of that of the fastest previous work.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.243-249
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new watermarking algorithm to embed watermarks in thr process of sample adaptive offsets (SAO) for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) compressed videos. The proposed method embeds two-bit watermark into the SAO offsets for each coding tree unit (CTU). To minimize visual quality degradation caused by embedding watermark, watermark bits are embedded into SAO offset depending on the SAO types of block. Furthermore, the embedded watermark can be extracted by simply adding four offsets and checking their least significant bits (LSB) at the decoder side. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.3% BD-rate increase without much visual quality degradation. Two-bit watermark for each CTU is embedded for more bit watermarking. In addition, the proposed method requires negligible computational load for watermark insertion and extraction.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.170-176
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed watermarking algorithm based on wavelet transform. Discrete wavelet transform is involved to calculate additive energy strength. Considering imperceptibility, after computing contrast and texture sensitivity in gray-level image, we inserted watermark with variable weight due to the feature of coefficient block. Consequently, applying human visual system, the experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm satisfied the properties of robustness and imperceptibility that are the major conditions of watermarking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.604-606
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 인간의 시각 특성을 고려한 시각 적응적 DCT 영상 압축 방법이 제안되었다. 인간의 시각 체계의 특성 중 복잡한 영사이나 대비효과(contrast)가 큰 부분에서는 압축과정에서 발생한 왜곡이 쉽게 눈에 인지되지 않는 특성을 갖는 공간적 마스킹(spatial masking)을 이용하여 영상의 질을 어느정도 유지하면서 적응적 압축 방법에 의해 압축율을 보다 높이는 방법을 제시하였다. DCT 변환 블록에서 경계영역 정보를 많이 포함하는 부분을 추출한 후 이 영역은 다른 영역에 비해 복잡도가 더 높고 경계성분의 대비효과가 더 크기 때문에 이 영역의 분산을 취해 이 값에 따라 적응적으로 양자화한다. 실험결과, 제안된 영상 압축 알고리즘은 기존의 시각 적응적 압축 방법보다 좋은 성능을 보이며 특히 고주파 성분을 많이 가진 복잡한 영상에 대하여 높은 압축률을 보였다.