• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.93-101
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• 2007

In heterogeneous networks SVC (Scalabile Video Coding) will be used for IPTV service. This paper analyses how to determine the optimal inter-layer reference scheme according to final level to be displayed in hybrid scalable coding which consists of spatial, quality and temporal layer. It determines where to stop layering quality layer stacks in lower spatial layer according to the relationship between noise induced by loss of high frequency component eliminated by filter in order to get rid of aliasing when spatial layering is processed and noise induced by quantization when quality layering is processed. This paper shows the choice of the level of layering between spatial and quality to get better coding efficiency and then presents what is needed for determining it.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.497-508
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• 2015

Current communication networks consist of channels with various throughputs, protocols, and packet loss rates. Moreover, there are also diverse user multimedia consumption devices having different capabilities and screen sizes. Thus, a practical necessity of scalability on video coding have been gradually increasing. Recently, The Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding(SHVC) standard is developed by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding(JCT-VC) organized in cooperation with MPEG of ISO/IEC and VCEG of ITU-T. This paper introduces coding tools of SHVC including adopted and unadopted tools discussed in the process of the SHVC standardization. Furthermore, the individual tool and combined tool set are evaluated in terms of coding efficiency relative to a single layer coding structure. This analysis would be useful for developing a fast SHVC encoder as well as researching on a new scalable coding tool.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.36-39
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 차세대 스마트 TV 환경에서의 적응형 멀티스크린 서비스 시스템 구조를 제안하고, 이를 실제 스마트 TV 에 적용 가능하도록 프로토타입 시스템으로 구현한 결과를 보여준다. 제안 시스템은 적응형 콘텐츠 부호화 기술과 하이브리드 네트워크 전송 기술, 멀티스크린 서비스 발견 및 제어 기술을 포함하고 있다. 스마트 TV 를 중심으로 다양한 종류의 멀티스크린 장치가 연결되는 서비스 소비환경에 적응적인 콘텐츠를 제공하기 위해서 H.264/SVC 기반의 다계층 비디오 부호화/복호화 기법을 적용하였다. 또한, 다계층 부호화된 콘텐츠를 방송망과 인터넷 등 이종 멀티네트워크를 이용해 동시에 전송함으로써, 전송 대역의 가용성을 확장하는 하이브리드 네트워크 기반의 미디어 전송 기술과 UPnP 기반의 사용자 중심 멀티스크린 서비스 발견 및 이동기술을 제안한다. 기존의 멀티스크린 서비스가 단말의 소비환경에 비 적응적이고, 홈 네트워크 환경 및 플랫폼 폐쇄적인 환경에서 제공되는 단방향 멀티스크린 서비스인 반면, 본 논문에서 제안하는 적응형 멀티스크린 서비스 시스템은 네트워크 및 단말의 소비환경에 적응적이고 효과적인 웹 기반의 양방향 멀티스크린 서비스를 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.501-515
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• 2008

Recently, as users' requests for high quality mobile multimedia services are rapidly increasing and additional bandwidth can be provided by adopting the hierarchical modulation transmission technology, the research on the Advanced Terrestrial DMB (AT-DMB) service using the SVC (Scalable Video Coding) scheme is being actively studied. But, in order to realize a compatible video service and to accelerate the successful standardization and commercialization, it is necessary to simplify the compatible encoder structure. In this parer, we propose a fast mode decision method by constraining the redundant coding modes in the spatial scalable encoder that keeps the current T-DMB video in base layer. The proposed method is based on the statistical characteristics of each coding mode at both base and enhancement layers, inter-layer predictions, which are derived by investigating macroblock-layer coding modes of the spatial scalable encoder's functional structure. Through computer simulations, it is shown that a simplified encoder model that reduces the heavy computational burden can be found, while keeping the objective visual quality very high.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.225-235
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new stereoscopic video coding approach for heterogeneous consumer devices by exploiting the concept of spatio-temporal scalability. The proposed method uses MPEG-2 standard for coding the left or main sequence and an enhanced compatible coding scheme for predicting the P- and B-type of frames of the right or auxiliary sequence. The enhanced compatible coding scheme predicts matching block by interpolating both two forward and backward motion predicted macroblocks and disparity predicted macroblock. To provide flexible stereo video service, we define both a temporally scalable layer and a spatially scalable layer for each eye-view. The experimental results show the efficiency of proposed coding scheme by comparison with already known methods and the advantages of disparity estimation in terms of scalability overhead. According to the experimental results, we expect the proposed functionalities will play a key role in establishing highly flexible stereo video service for ubiquitous computing environment where devices and network connections are heterogeneous.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.405-408
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• 2017

Based on the fact that high similarities exist between viewpoints of multi-view images, MV-HEVC achieves high encoding efficiency by performing conventional temporal direction prediction in a single viewpoint as well as inter-view prediction between viewpoints. In this paper, we propose to integrate SHVC and MVC (Multi-view Video Coding) to implement scalable multi-view video encoder using HEVC as a base layer. According to experimental results, it is verified that the BD-PSNR improvement reaches up to 1.5dB while reducing the BD-Bitrate by around 50~60%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.12-14
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• 1999

H.263+[1]는 1996년에 비디오압축 표준안으로 확정된 H.263의 확장으로 현재 널리 퍼져 있는 저 전송률의 가정용 전화선을 위한 비디오 압축에 관한 표준안으로 1988년에 확정되었다. H.263+의 기본 알고리즘은 H.263과 같으나 사용상의 편의를 위한 여러 선택모드와 이종의 네트워크환경에서 발생하는 대역폭의 변화나 에러를 위한 scalability(계층부호화)와 같은 새로운 기능이 추가되었다. 새로운 표준안에 따른 실시간 비디오 전송을 처리하기 위해서 필연적으로 하드웨어 코덱의 개발 필요성이 대두되고 있으며 실시간 비디오 코덱은 영상회의 전화기나 멀티미디어 전송시스템의 핵심기술로써 적용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 ITU-T H.263+의 기본모드와 새로이 추가된 선택모드 일부를 지원하는 코덱을 하드웨어 기술 언어인 VHDL(VHSIC Hardware Description Language)을 사용하여 기술하고 각 모듈과 최상의 모듈을 시뮬레이션하여 동작을 검증했다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1150-1160
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new 3D video coding method for heterogeneous display systems and network infrastructure over enhanced Access Grid (e-AG) using spatio-temporal scalability defined in MPEG-2. The proposed encoder produces several bit-streams for providing temporally and spatially scalable 3D video service. The generated bit-streams can be nelivered with proper spatio-temporal resolution according to network bandwidths and processing speeds, visualization capabilities of client systems. The functionality of proposed spatio-temporal scalability can be exploited for construction of highly scalable 3D video service in heterogeneous distributed environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2008

지상파 방송(DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)은 음성, 영상, 데이터와 같은 다양한 멀티미디어 신호를 디지털 방식으로 변조하여 이동 중에 방송을 청취할 수 있는 차세대 디지털방송 서비스이다. 그러나 지상파 DMB 전송 고도화망에서는 계층 변조(Hierarchical Modulation)전송 기법을 통하여 추가의 전송대역폭을 확보할 수 있다. 또한 스케일러블 비디오 코딩(Scalable Video Coding)부호화 방식을 이용하여 고전송효율/고품질의 이동 멀티미디어 방송서비스를 제공할 수 있는 고품질 AT(Advanced Terrestrial)-DMB 시스템이 가능하다. 이러한 고품질 AT-DMB의 개발에 있어서 여러 방식들이 제시됨에 따라 시뮬레이터를 통한 다중화 시스템의 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 고품질 AT-DMB가 가능한 스케일러블 비디오 방식을 JSVM8.8을 사용하여 구현하였으며, 다중화 시스템의 실험을 하였다. 또한 시뮬레이터를 통하여 복호된 계층 간의 화질 차이와 엔지니어를 위해 비트스트림의 분석화면 및 PSNR을 제공 하였다.