• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.355-361
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new basic unit level rate control algorithm which generates the output bits corresponding to the target bits. The H.264 standard uses various coding modes and optimization methods to improve the compression performance, which makes it difficult to control the generated traffic accurately. In the proposed scheme, the allocated bits to a frame are distributed to all basic units properly to encode each basic unit according to the bit budget. After encoding the frame, the encoding parameters are adjusted according to the difference between the target and the resulting values. It is shown by experimental results that the new algorithm can generate output bit rates accurately corresponding to the target bit rates with the PSNR performance better than that of the existing rate control algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.225-227
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• 2009

International standard specification, H.264/SVC improved from H.264/AVC, is set up so as to promote free use of huge multimedia data in various channel environments.;H.264/AVC is a international standard speicification for video compression, adopted and commercialized as standard for DMB broadcasting by JVT of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. SVC standard uses 'intra/inter prediction' in AVC as well as 'inter-layer intra prediction', 'inter-layer motion prediction' and 'inter-layer residual prediction' to improve efficiency of encoding. Among prediction technologies, 'inter-layer intra prediction' is to use co-located block of up sampled sublevels as a prediction signal. At this time, application of interpolation is one of the most important factors to determine encoding efficiency. SVC's currently using poly-phase FIR filter of 4-tap and 2-tap respectively to luma components. This paper is written for the purpose of analyzing encoding performance according to the interpolation. For this purpose, we applied poly-phase FIR filter of '2-tap', '4-tap' and '6-tap' respectively to luma components and then measured bit-rate, PNSR and running time of interpolation filter. We're expecting that the analysis results of this paper will be utilized for effective application of interpolation filter. SVC standard uses 'intra/inter prediction' in AVC as well as 'inter-layer intra prediction', 'inter-layer motion prediction' and 'inter-layer residual prediction' to improve efficiency of encoding.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.219-226
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• 2007

An efficient block based two-layer JPEG encoding algorithm is proposed to compress high dynamic range (HDR) images in this work. The proposed algorithm separates an input HDR image into a tone-mapped low dynamic range (LDR) image and a ratio image, which represents the quotients of the original HDR pixels divided by the tone-mapped LDR pixels. Then, the tone-mapped LDR image is compressed using the standard JPEG scheme to preserve backward compatibility and the ratio image is encoded to minimize a cost function that models the perception of each block with different quantization parameters in the human visual system (HVS). Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm provides better performance than the conventional method, which encodes the ratio image without any prior information of blocks.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.44-53
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• 1999

This paper proposes an algorithm that postprocesses wavelet-compressed images by using regularized iterative image restoration. First, an appropriate modeling the image degradation system for wavelet-compression system is needed. Then, the method which uses one of nonlinear functions as constraint in regularized iterative restoration is proposed in order to remove coding artifacts efficiently, such as ringing artifact and blocking artifact, resulted from loss of high frequency coefficients. Lastly, experimental results show superiority of proposed algorithm as compared with existing algorithm.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.558-564
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• 2018

In distributed estimation where each node can collect only partial information on the parameter of interest without communication between nodes and quantize it before transmission to a fusion node which conducts estimation of the parameter, we consider a novel quantization technique employed at local nodes. It should be noted that the performance can be greatly improved if each node can transmit its measurement to one designated node (namely, head node) which can quantize its estimate using the total rate available in the system. For this case, the best strategy at the head node would be simply to partition the parameter space using the generalized Lloyd algorithm, producing the global codewords, one of which is closest to the estimate is transmitted to a fusion node. In this paper, we propose an iterative design algorithm that seeks to efficiently assign the codewords into each of quantization partitions at nodes so as to achieve the performance close to that of the system with the head node. We show through extensive experiments that the proposed algorithm offers a performance improvement in rate-distortion perspective as compared with previous novel techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2014

멀티미디어 기술의 보급 확산 및 급속한 발전으로 새로운 영상 압축 기술인 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 고화질 영상 압축 표준을 탄생시켰으며, 사용자 또한 대형 화면에 대한 선호도가 높아지고 있다. 그 결과 기존의 HD급 영상보다 4배 이상, 16배까지 선명한 초고화질 UHD(Ultra High Definition) 영상 서비스가 차세대 방송기술로 새롭게 주목받고 있다. 또한 JPEG 2000 압축도 기존 처리된 $4096{\times}4096$ 픽셀 이미지를 넘어 초고화질 해상도 이미지(8K : $7680{\times}4320$ 혹은 $8192{\times}4320$ 픽셀)를 처리 지원을 하고 있다. 따라서 초고화질 이미지의 획득 및 저장을 위해서는 고속의 처리 기술이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문은 초고화질 해상도 이미지의 고속 처리를 위한 병렬처리 기술에 대해 단계적 연구를 실행하며, 이를 위하여 1차적으로. JPEG 2000의 처리 과정을 살펴보고 전처리 단계인 색공간 변환 알고리즘 적용을 위하여 사용자 정의의 쓰레드 기반 고속처리를 수행하였다. 실험 결과 기존의 처리보다 사용자 정의 기반 쓰레드 고속처리가 초고화질 해상도 이미지(UHD 8K : $7680{\times}4320$)를 기준으로 최대 15배의 성능 향상의 결과를 보여주었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 1997

This paper propose a new triangular mesh approximation method using wavelet coefficients for large terrain data. Using spatio-freguency localization characteristics of wavelet coefficients, we determine the complexity of terrain data and approximate the data according to the complexity. This proposed algorithm is simple and requires low computational cost due to its top-down approach. Because of the similarity between the mesh approximation and data compression procedures based on wavelet transform, we combine the mesh approximation scheme with the Embedded Zerotree Wavelet (EZW) coding scheme for the effective management of large terrain data. Computer simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is very prospective for the 3-D visualization of terrain data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.132-140
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• 2011

Ultra-High Definition Television (U-HDTV) is a promising candidate for the next generation television. Since the U-HDTV video signal requires a huge amount of data, parallel implementation of the U-HDTV compression system is highly demanding. In the conventional parallel video codec, a video is divided into sub-sequences and the sub-sequences are independently encoded. In this paper, for efficient parallel processing, we propose a pipelined encoding structure which exploits cross-correlation among the sub-sequences. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique improves the coding efficiency and provides the sub-sequences of the balanced visual quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.109-114
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• 2003

Wireless communication systems are inevitable for efficient underwater activities. Because of the poor propagation characteristics of light and electromagnetic waves, acoustic waves are generally used for the underwater wireless communication. Although there are many kinds of information type, visual images take an essential role especially for search and identification activities. For this reason, we developed an acoustic-based underwater image transmission system under a dual use technology project supported by MOCIE (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy). For the application to complicated and time-varying underwater environments all-digital transmitter and receiver systems are investigated. Array acoustic transducers are used at the receiver, which have the center frequency of 32kHz and the bandwidth of 4kHz. To improve transmission speed and quality, various algorithms and systems are used. The system design techniques will be discussed in detail including image compression/ decompression system, adaptive beam- forming, fast RLS adaptive equalizer, ${\partial}/4$ QPSK (Quadrilateral Phase Shift Keying) modulator/demodulator, and convolution coding/ Viterbi. Decoding.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.315-320
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• 2012

In H.264/AVC, the first frame of a group of pictures (GOP) is encoded in intra mode which generates a large number of bits. The number of bits for the I-frame affects the qualities of the following frames of a GOP since they are encoded using the bits remaining among the bits allocated to the GOP. In addition, the first frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus, the initial quantization parameter (QP) affects the following frames as well as the first frame. In this paper, an adaptive peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR)-based initial QP determination algorithm is presented. In the proposed algorithm, a novel linear model is established based on the observation of the relation between the initial QPs and PSNRs of frames. Using the linear model and PSNR results of the encoded GOPs, the proposed algorithm accurately estimates the optimal initial QP which maximizes the PSNR of the current GOP. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed algorithm predicts the optimal initial QP accurately and thus achieves better PSNR performance than that of the existing algorithm.