Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible electrode material and a preparation method therefor. An aspect of the present invention provides a flexible electrode material comprising a graphene film and a free-standing metal oxide formed on the graphene film.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for processing a thermal image. The method includes: performing histogram stretching on thermal image data of the thermal image; and adjusting a histogram stretching scale for thermal image data of a next frame using histogram data of the thermal image data on which the histogram stretching is performed. As a result, it is possible to mitigate that an image becomes less recognizable as thermal image data is deteriorated or saturated.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for processing a thermal image. The method includes: performing histogram stretching on thermal image data of the thermal image; and adjusting a histogram stretching scale for thermal image data of a next frame using histogram data of the thermal image data on which the histogram stretching is performed. As a result, it is possible to mitigate that an image becomes less recognizable as thermal image data is deteriorated or saturated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding an image, and a method and apparatus for decoding an image. The method of encoding an image includes: classifying pixels forming an input image into a first pixel group in which bit depth of original pixel values is maintained, and a second pixel group in which bit depth of original pixel values is changed; generating a changed input image by changing the bit depth of pixel values of pixels in the second pixel group; and performing motion prediction and compensation on the changed input image.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio. In the method for encoding stereo audio, stereo audio is encoded based on at least one of the phase difference between first and second channel audios and information on an angle made by a vector on the intensity of mono-audio and a vector on the intensity of the first channel audio or a vector on the intensity of the second channel audio. Thus, the number of encoded parameters is minimized so that a compression ratio in the encoding of the stereo audio is improved.

Abstract: Encoding and decoding of residual signals are provided. In a method of encoding a residual signal of an audio signal, the residual signal is divided into a plurality of sections having different sizes, based on a change of the residual signal. Then, section division information representing information about the divided sections and section-by-section residual signal information representing characteristics of the sections of the residual signal are acquired. Thereafter, the residual signal is encoded based on the section division information and the section-by-section residual signal information.

Abstract: Provided are audio encoding and decoding apparatuses capable of recovering a high-quality audio signal at a low bit rate. The audio encoding method includes: detecting at least one sinusoidal wave from an input audio signal; calculating components of additional basis vectors based on residual audio signals and the additional basis vectors of the sinusoidal wave; determining transmission of components of the additional basis vectors; and at least one of (a) encoding frequencies and (b) phases and amplitudes of the sinusoidal waves when the transmission of the components of the additional basis vectors are determined, wherein the residual audio signals are obtained by excluding the detected sinusoidal waves from the input audio signal.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio. In the method for encoding stereo audio, stereo audio is encoded based on at least one of the phase difference between first and second channel audios and information on an angle made by a vector on the intensity of mono-audio and a vector on the intensity of the first channel audio or a vector on the intensity of the second channel audio. Thus, the number of encoded parameters is minimized so that a compression ratio in the encoding of the stereo audio is improved.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio. In the method for encoding stereo audio, stereo audio is encoded based on at least one of the phase difference between first and second channel audios and information on an angle made by a vector on the intensity of mono-audio and a vector on the intensity of the first channel audio or a vector on the intensity of the second channel audio. Thus, the number of encoded parameters is minimized so that a compression ratio in the encoding of the stereo audio is improved.

Abstract: Provided are parametric audio encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods thereof. In the parametric audio encoding method, an audio signal is segmented into a plurality of segments. At least one sine wave is extracted from each of the segments, and the extracted sine waves are connected. It is determined whether an extracted sine wave is a birth sine wave. If the extracted sine wave is a birth sine wave, a bit stream is generated by encoding the phase of the birth sine wave on the basis of the frequency of the birth sine wave, wherein the number of bits allocated to encode the phase of the birth sine wave is adjusted according to the frequency of the birth sine wave.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal by adaptively interpolating a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient. In the method and apparatus of encoding or decoding an audio signal, LPC coefficient interpolation is selectively performed depending on whether a transient section is present in a current frame, thereby preventing noise from occurring when interpolating LPC coefficients in the transient section.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a media signal. The method of decoding a media signal includes extracting first table index information from a header. The first table index information indicates M (M<N) tables substantially referred to by frames from among N tables which can be referred to for performing an operation performed by the frames, wherein N and M are natural numbers. Second table index information is then extracted from each frame. The second table index information indicates tables referred to by each frame from among M tables. The tables, which are referred to by the frames, are then identified by using the first and second table index information and the frames are decoded by referring to identified tables.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding the frequency of a continuation sinusoidal signal and a method and apparatus for decoding the same. In the encoding method, a continuation sinusoidal signal successive to a sinusoidal signal in a previous section is extracted from a current section; a frequency of the continuation sinusoidal signal at the boundary between the current and previous sections is changed to a first frequency, based on representative frequencies of the continuation sinusoidal signal and at least one sinusoidal signal that belongs to a section adjacent to the current section and is successive to the continuation sinusoidal signal; and the first frequency is encoded.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding an image, and a method and apparatus for decoding an image. The method of encoding an image includes: classifying pixels forming an input image into a first pixel group in which bit depth of original pixel values is maintained, and a second pixel group in which bit depth of original pixel values is changed; generating a changed input image by changing the bit depth of pixel values of pixels in the second pixel group; and performing motion prediction and compensation on the changed input image.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for coding and decoding an amplitude of partials, in which a step phenomenon can be prevented in the result of coding the amplitude of continuation partial partials in a parametric codec, thereby improving reproduced sound quality. The method of coding the amplitude of partials includes obtaining an inversely quantized amplitude of partials of a previous frame, determining a quantization level based on a function for the inversely quantized amplitude of the partials of the previous frame, and quantizing an amplitude of partials of a current frame based on the determined quantization level.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for sinusoidal audio coding, which employs a tracking method for further effective coding of sinusoids extracted in the process of a sinusoidal analysis of parametric coding. The sinusoidal audio coding method includes: extracting sinusoids of a current frame by performing a sinusoidal analysis on an input audio signal; with respect to each of the extracted sinusoids, setting a mode selected from a birth mode in which a sinusoid is newly generated irrespective of sinusoids of a previous frame, a continuation mode in which the sinusoid is only one sinusoid continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame, and a branch mode in which the sinusoid is one of a plurality of sinusoids continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame; and coding the extracted sinusoids according to the selected mode. Accordingly, a plurality of sinusoids that can be continued from one previous track component are set to the continuation mode or the branch mode.

Abstract: An audio encoding method and apparatus, and an audio decoding method and apparatus, for processing a death sinusoid and a general continuation sinusoid. Using the unique characteristic of a death sinusoid, in that the death sinusoid has a tendency such that an amplitude component of the death sinusoid is less than that of a previous sinusoid, a method of adding an encoding syntax by distinguishing a general continuation sinusoid from a death sinusoid is provided. That is, when difference coding of the amplitude component of a death sinusoid is performed, the number of bits used when a negative number is coded is less than the number of bits used when a positive number is coded, in a Huffman table. By using this method, a bit rate in an entire coding decreases.

Abstract: Provided are an encoding method and apparatus for efficiently encoding a sinusoidal signal whose magnitude is less than a masking value according to a psychoacoustic model, a decoding method and apparatus for decoding an encoded sinusoidal signal, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the encoding method/the decoding method. By using a particular code indicating that the magnitude of a first sinusoidal signal is less than a masking value according to a psychoacoustic model to encode the first sinusoidal signal, difference coding for a third sinusoidal signal of a next frame, which is connected to the first sinusoidal signal, is performed using a sinusoidal signal or sinusoidal signals selected according to a method to use the particular code, and a decoding apparatus obtains a sum with a transmitted difference using the selected sinusoidal signal(s).

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal. The method includes performing sinusoidal analysis on an audio signal in order to extract a sinusoidal signal of a current frame, determining continuation sinusoidal signal information indicating a number of continuation sinusoidal signals of next frames, which continue from the sinusoidal signal of the current frame, by performing sinusoidal tracking on the extracted sinusoidal signal of the current frame, and encoding the determined continuation sinusoidal signal information by using different Huffman tables according to index information of the current frame, thereby allowing efficient encoding with a low bitrate.

Abstract: Provided is an audio encoding and decoding apparatus and method for improving a compression ratio while maintaining sound quality when sinusoidal waves of an audio signal are connected and encoded. The audio encoding method includes connecting sinusoidal waves of an input audio signal, converting a frequency of each of the connected sinusoidal waves to a psychoacoustic frequency, performing a first encoding operation for encoding the psychoacoustic frequency, performing a second encoding operation for encoding an amplitude of each of the connected sinusoidal waves, and outputting an encoded audio signal comprising the encoding result of the first encoding operation and the encoding result of the second encoding operation.