• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.499-507
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• 2016

Medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) produce a large amount of digital medical images. Hence, compression of digital images becomes essential and is very much desired in medical applications to solve both storage and transmission problems. But at the same time, an efficient image compression scheme that reduces the size of medical images without sacrificing diagnostic information is required. This paper proposes a novel threshold-based medical image compression algorithm to reduce the size of the medical image without degradation in the diagnostic information. This algorithm discusses a novel type of thresholding to maximize Compression Ratio (CR) without sacrificing diagnostic information. The compression algorithm is designed to get image with high optimum compression efficiency and also with high fidelity, especially for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) greater than or equal to 36 dB. This value of PSNR is chosen because it has been suggested by previous researchers that medical images, if have PSNR from 30 dB to 50 dB, will retain diagnostic information. The compression algorithm utilizes one-level wavelet decomposition with threshold-based coefficient selection.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.38-45
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• 2007

We propose a preprocessing method for removing floating particles from underwater images based on an analysis of the image features. We compared baseline JPEG and wavelet codec methods to determine the method best suited for underwater images. The proposed preprocessing method enhanced the compression ratio and resolution, and provided an efficient means of compressing the images. The wavelet codec method yielded better compression ratios and image resolutions. The results suggest that the wavelet codec method linked with the proposed preprocess method provides an efficient codec processor and transmission system for underwater images that are used for searches and transmitted via ultrasonic communications.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11c
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• pp.594-596
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• 1999

It is extremely important to compress a very large multimedia data under the currently used communication networks because of the forthcoming high fast multimedia informations. Wavelets are very popular and useful mathematical tool in the field of signal processing recently. In this paper, signal compression methods using the wavelet packet transform are compared with the other compression method under same threshold condition. As the result, the compression of using the wavelet packet transform is much more effective than the other compressing methods.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.24-28
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• 2001

Wavelet transforms are used for implementing digital watermarking methods in the frequency domain. In this paper, we construct the digital watermarking using various wavelet transforms such as the Daubechies transform, Coiflets transform, Symlets transform and the biorthogonal transform, and we compare each digital watermarking method with the others. We investigate the preservation of the watermark after the data compression attack based on the discrete on the discrete cosine transform. We show that the biorthogonal wavelet, denoted by bior3.5, has the best performance among the wavelet types we selected in an experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.941-953
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• 2014

In this paper, a 2-circular matrix theory is developed, and a concept of spectral radius for biorthogonal wavelet is introduced. We propose a novel design method by minimizing the spectral radius and obtain a wavelet which has better performance than the famous 9-7 wavelet in terms of image compression coding.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.609-612
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose wavelet transform image compression method such that an image is decomposed into multiresolutions using biorthogonal wavelet transform with linear phase response property and decomposed subbands are classified by maximum classification gain. The classified data is quantized by allocating bits in accordance with classified class informations within subbands through arbitrary set bit allocation algorithm. And then, quantized data in each subband are entropy coded. The proposed coding method is that the quantized data perform shuffling before entropy coding in order to remove sign bit plane. And the context is assigned by maximum correlation direction for bit plane coding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.255-259
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 고해상도 위성 영상에 관한 압축을 연구하였다. 위성영상은 많은 픽셀 정보와 이루어져 있기 때문에 빠른 영상처리와 데이터 보관을 위해서 압축이 필수적이다. 특히 영상압축시 도로정보와 건물, 산림, 지형 등의 특징을 왜곡을 최소화하여 압축하여야 한다. 따라서는 본 연구에서는 함수공간에서 영상 압축이 가능한 웨이브렛을 기반하여 위성 영상의 압축기법을 제안하였으며, 일반적인 정지영상 압축 기법인 JPEG과의 압축성능을 분석하였다. 그 결과 웨이브렛 압축기법이 JPEG보다 1/10 이상의 압축 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.9
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• pp.80-87
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• 1996

This paper proposes an image compression algorithm that adopts projection scheme on wavelet transform domain of image signal. Wavelet decomposed image is encoded by the result of projection along one direction out of eight which approximates the coefficients most closely to the originally transformed coefficients. These projectrion data are vector quantized using separate codebooks depending on the decomposition level and orientation of decomposed of image. Experimental results reveals that proposed scheme shows excellent performance in PSNR manner and also shows good subjective quality.

• 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.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2003

In this paper. an image compression of embedded zerotree structure using multiwavelet filter banks is proposed. Multiwavelet is used DGHM(Donovan, Geronimo, Hardin, and Massopust) scaling functions and wavelet functions of a new method with two channel fillet banks. The important properties of the DGHM multiwavelet are orthogonality and approximation order. The DCHM muitiwavelet using the this paper preserves the approximation order=2 for better energy compaction and perfect reconstruction. Image compression using the preposed DGHM multiwavelet is better PSNR for compression ratio than single Daubechies wavelet(D4), Biorthogoanl wavelet, and GHM(Geronimo, Hardin, and Massopust) multi wavelet.