• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.265-274
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a novel interframe coding algorithm especially appropriate for 3-D medical images. The proposed algorithm is based on a video coding algorithm using motion estimation/ compensation and transform coding. In the algorithm, warping is adopted lor motion compensation (MC). Then, by using adaptive mode selection, a motion compensated residual image and original image are mixed up in the wavelet transform domain for improvement in coding performance. The mixed image is then compressed by the zerotree coding method. We prove that the adaptive mode selection technique in the wavelet transform domain is very useful lor 3-D medical image coding. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides good performance regardless of inter-slice distance and is prospective for 3-D medical image compression.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.145-154
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• 2006

In the decoding process associated with interframe wavelet coding, the inverse wavelet transform requires high computational complexity. However, as video technology starts to pervade all aspects of our lives, decoders are becoming required in various devices such as PDAs, notebooks, PCs, and set-top boxes. Therefore, a decoder's complexity needs to be adapted to the processor's computational power, and consequently a low-complexity codec is also required for scalable video coding. In this paper, we propose a method of controlling and lowering the complexity of the spatial wavelet transform while sustaining the same coding efficiency as that currently afforded. In addition, the proposed method may alleviate the ringing effect for slowly changing image sequences.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07b
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• pp.1454-1456
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• 1987

Space domain image coding with VQ [9, 10, 11] has been very effective at low rates. To achieve quality at lower rates, it is necessary to exploit spaial redundancy over a larger region of pixels than is possible with general VQ. This paper presents a interframe coding algorithm which is capable of obtaining better performance and lower bi t rate than those of the general interframe coding. The performance is evaluated on the basis of SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), memory requirements and bit rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1987.04a
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• pp.31-34
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• 1987

A new efficientcoding system which can transmit video conferenceof viedeophone signals at a 64kbps is proposed. In addition to the interframe and CRC (Conditional Repleni shment Coding) system, BTVQ (Binary Tree searched Vector Quantizer)and RLC (Run Length Coding) methods are incorporated. Couble buffer memory is used for simple comtrol of channel symbol transmission and memory underflow And also buffer memory onerfolw is easily controlled by the thresholds of a MAD (Moving Area Betector)

• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.280-289
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• 2002

In this work, we present a novel approach to the bit allocation problem that aims to minimize overall distortion subject to a bit rate constraint. The optimal solution can be found by the Lagrangian method with dynamic programming. However, the optimal bit allocation for block-based interframe coding is practically unattainable because of the interframe dependency of macroblocks caused by motion compensation. To reduce the computational burden while maintaining a result close to the optimum, i.e., near optimum, we propose an alternative method. First, we present a partitioned form of the bit allocation problem: a "frame-level problem" and "one-frame macroblock-level problems." We show that the solution to this new form is also the solution to the conventional bit allocation problem. Further, we propose a bit allocation algorithm using a "two-phase optimization technique" with an interframe dependency model and a rate-distortion model.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 1997

In this paper, an interframe coding method for volumetric medical images is proposed. By treating interslice variations as the motion of bones or tissues, we use the motion compensation (MC) technique to predict the current frame from the previous frame. Instead of a block matching algorithm (BMA), which is the most common motion estimation (ME) algorithm in video coding, image warping with biolinear transformation has been suggested to predict complex interslice object variation in medical images. When an object disappears between slices, however, warping prediction has poor performance. In order to overcome this drawback, an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) technique is combined with carping prediction. Motion compensated residual images are then encoded by using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) coder with small modification for consistent quality of reconstructed images. The experimental results show that the interframe coding suing warping prediction provides better performance compared with interframe coding, and the OBMC scheme gives some additional improvement over the warping-only MC method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.07a
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• pp.168-171
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• 1988

This paper describes CODEC based on hybrid interframe and BTVQ including CRC(Conditional Replenishment Coding) system and RLC(Run Length Coding) method. Based upon the algorithm described in this paper, a practical CODEC has been designed for video conference and video phone use at 54Kbps using an ADSP-2100 as a CPU.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1513-1521
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• 1988

BMA, which is generally adopted in low bit-rate motion-compensated coding, performs properly under an assumption of rigid-body motion of moving objects. Since, however, the assumption can not be held in practical coding , the prediction errors with low correlation are generated. For effective transform codings of the interframe prediction errors, we propose a new transform coding technique which decomposes the prediction errors into two sources and then transforms them with DCT and WHT consecutively. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to those of the two conventional algorithms in terms of bit rate and subjective image quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1707-1714
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• 1997

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for fractal coding of image sequence, based on the CPM (Circular Prediction Mapping) and the NCIM (Non Contractive Interframe Mapping). In the CPM and the NCIM, each range block is approximated by a domain block in the adjacent frame, which is of the same size as the range block. Also, in this paepr, we propose a coding scheme of color components and an algorithm for controlling the bit rate, resepectively, for practical implementation of the fractal coder. The computer simulation results on real image sequences demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides very promising performance at low bit-rate, below 256 Kbps.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.07a
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• pp.236-239
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• 1988

Prediction errors generated by motion compensated coding are coded with transform coding techniques as DCT. The performance of transform coding techniques are lowered mainly due to the source characteristics with a great deal of zero populations and plus-minus sign changes, i.e., low correlation. In this paper a transform coding scheme which adopts a decomposition of prediciton errors into two sources is proposed and compared its performance with conventional scheme.