• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.2C
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• pp.324-332
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• 2004

In image communications related to web browsing, image database, and telemedicine, image data processing on the region of interest (ROI) for providing the primary information is needed in the view of saying search time and bandwidth. In this paper, an enhanced algorithm for processing image data that involves multiple ROIs is presented in order to increase PSNR vs. compression ratio performance above the previous JPEG2000 Part1 Maxshift method. Since the wavelet transform enables us to a progressive transmission mechanism, Multiple-ROI coding is possible to compress, transmit, and reconstruct the image data with a better quality than those of non-ROI method while the required transmission bandwidth is kept relatively low.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1847-1850
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• 2003

In many image-coding applications such as web browsing, image databases, and telemedicine, it is needed that only a region of interest(ROI) is transmitted and then reconstructed first before the whole image is transmitted and reconstructed. The Maxshift method has been used as a standard one in this research about ROI coding in JPEG2000. However Maxshift method can process only one ROI, this paper suggests an improved Maxshift method which can process Multiple ROI haying the priority order. In this method, the ROI coefficient which has the high priority order can be moved to upward two bit plane in order to process multiple ROI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.769-771
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• 2004

요즘 Web-Browsing, 영상 데이터 베이스 그리고 원격 진료와 같은 여러 응용 분야에서는 압축할 이미지내의 사용자의 관심 영역을 다른 영역보다 더 우선적으로 처리할 필요가 있다. 즉, 영상을 전송하는데 있어서 관심영역(ROI ： Region Of Interest)을 먼저 전송하고, 영상 복원 시에도 영상의 전체 영역 중 ROI 영역이 우선적으로 복원하여야 하는 경우가 있다. Maxshift 방법은 JPEG2000 ROI Coding 에서 표준으로 사용하고 있다. 그러나 Maxshift 방법은 단지 하나의 ROI 영역만을 처리 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법을 이용하여 우선 순위를 가지는 Multiple ROI Coding 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 계수값들의 비트 플레인에 대한 스케일링 변수를 이용하여 우선 순위를 가지는 Multiple ROI 부호화가 가능함을 보이고, 저 비트율에서 Maxshift 방법보다 좀 더 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a video service system that reflects user interaction in the multimedia contents to increase user satisfaction in the restricted content consumption environment. The proposed system is based on the multiple ROI(Region of Interest) coding in H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding (SVC). The proposed system provides scalable video quality by adopting SVC. And by bidirectional communication between user and video server, it enables user to select meaningful ROI among multiple ROIs by user interaction. To verify the usefulness of the proposed system, we demonstrate it with a test-bed on which user interactive ROIs are implemented.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.1 s.30
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• pp.54-65
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new functionality to Scalable Video Coding (SVC), which is the support of multiple ROIs for heterogeneous display resolution. Scalable video coding is targeted at giving temporal, spatial, and quality scalability for the encoded bit stream. Region of interest (ROI) is an area that is semantically important to a particular user, especially users with heterogeneous display resolutions. The bitstream containing the ROIs could to be extracted without any transcoding operations, which may be one of way to satisfy QoS. To define multiple ROI in SVC, we adapted FMO, a tool defined in H.264, and based on it, we propose a way to encode and decode ROIs. The proposed method is implemented on the JSVM1.0 and the functionality is verified using it.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.853-856
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• 2004

Image data processing on the region of interest (ROI) for providing the primary information is needed the view of saving search time and bandwidth over image communications related to web browsing, image database, and telemedicine, etc. Hence, the issue on extracting the region of interest is drawing a plenty of attention for the communication environment with a relatively low bandwidth such as mobile internet. In this paper, we propose a improved standard Maxshift method. The proposed algorithm compress image that includes multiple ROI using Maxshift method in Part 1 of JPEG2000. Simulation results show that proposed method increases PSNR vs. compression ratio performance above the Maxshift method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.34-42
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• 2008

This paper proposes the mechanism which improves the qualify of video on a limited network bandwidth by applying the ROI technique to an H.264 Scalable Extension technique. The network environment assumed in this parer is the next generation network convergence environment in which the mobile device has one or more network interfaces. Therefore, we allocate the priority to video packets as the hierarchy structure of H.264 SVC-encoded video stream and ROI information, and transmit those packets over appropriate network channel for using those multiple network interfaces. This paper shows two experiments first one is extracting and allocating the video stream on an appropriate network channel, second one is unequal packet transmission by allocated priorities (e.g. ROI). Performance evaluations show that this approach delivers an improved decoded video quality when compared with conventional transmission schemes, especially on device which has multiple network interfaces.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.314-318
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• 2010

This paper proposes an image retrieval method based on the Multiple Region-of-Interest. In the proposed method, the image is segmented into blocks, among which the blocks overlapped with multiple ROIs are selected. The similarity of images is measured using the MPEG-7 dominant color descriptor(DCD) and considering the relative location of the overlapped blocks. The experimental results showed that the proposed method improves the retrieval performance than the previous methods using the global DCD or comparing the blocks at the same position. In addition, the method that considers the relative position of blocks overlapped with the multiple ROIs also showed a better performance than the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2006

본 논문은 사용자의 인터랙션(user interaction)을 고려하여, 사용자가 관심을 가지는 영역에 대해서 최적화된 비디오 콘텐츠를 제공받을 수 있는 비디오 서비스 시스템을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 사용자 인터랙티브티를 고려한 서비스 시스템은 SVC(Scalable Video Coding)의 다중 ROI를 사용한다. 또한 제안된 시스템에서는 다양한 방식의 비디오 품질과, 다중 ROI에 대한 선택 과정에서 콘텐츠 소비 주체와 시스템간의 쌍방향 제어 수단을 개발하고 콘텐츠의 관심 영역 지정 과정에서 사용자의 인터렉션 정보를 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템의 유효성을 테스트하기 위해 사용자의 인터랙션에 의해 변환하는 SVC 콘텐트를 만들었고, 사용자 단말에 인터렉션 기능으로 SVC 콘텐츠를 디코딩하는 시스템을 구현하여 유용성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 이미지에서 사용자가 관심을 갖는 영역(ROI)의 내용을 나타내는 특성값과 영역의 위치를 함께 고려하여 이미지를 검색하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 검색 대상 이미지를 일정 크기의 블록으로 구분한 후 사용자가 선택한 다중 ROI와 가장 근접하는 특성을 가진 블록을 선택한다. 블록의 특성값은 MPEG-7의 도미넌트 컬러 기술자를 사용한다. 사용자가 선택한 블록의 특성값과 함께 블록의 위치를 측정한 후, 검색 대상 이미지의 블록들의 특성값 및 위치와 비교하여 유사도를 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 실험결과 제안한 방법이 전역 이미지 검색이나 동일한 위치의 블록만 비교하는 경우보다 다중 ROI의 내용과 위치를 함께 고려하는 방법이 다른 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타냈다.