• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.59-65
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• 2008

This paper proposed a H.264 deblocking filter for the portable low-power multimedia. In H.264 deblocking filter, total 8 input pixels in filtering operations needs own filtering operation process respectively, and each filtering process has common structures for each filtering operation. By sharing common filter coefficients and registers, we have designed and implemented an smaller gated module, and moreover filtering operations are skipped on some or whole pixels what if we use some specific condition to operate filtering modules that need lots of operations. In the core of filtering modules, we achieve 33.31% and 10.85% gate count reduction compared with those of filtering modules of the conventional deblocking filter papers. The proposed low-power deblocking filter is implemented by using samsung 0.35um standard cell library technology, the maximum operationh frequency is 108MHz, and the maximum throughput is 33.03 frames/s with CCIR601 image format.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.513-526
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a de-blocking filter for improvement of coding efficiency and computational complexity reduction on a high definition video coding. Recently, the H.264/AVC standard-based research for high definition video coding method is under way because the amount of used of high definition videos is on the increase. The H.264/AVC de-blocking filter is designed for low bitrate video coding and it improves not only the subjective quality but also coding efficiency by minimizing the blocking artifact. However, the H.264/AVC de-blocking filter that strong filtering is performed is not suitable in a high definition video coding which occurs relatively low blocking artifact. Also, the conventional de-blocking filter has high computational complexity in decoder side. The computational complexity of the proposed method is reduced about maximum 8.8% than conventional method. Furthermore, the coding efficiency of the proposed method is about maximum 7.3% better than H.264/AVC de-blocking filter.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a real time post-processing visual enhancement technique to reduce the blocking artifacts in block based DCT decoded image for mobile devices that have allocation of the restricted resource. In order to reduce the blocking artifacts effectively even while preserving the image edge to the utmost, the proposed algorithm uses the deblocking filtering or the directional filtering according to the edge detection of the each pixel. After it is discriminated that the pixel to apply the deblocking filtering belongs again to the monotonous area, the weighted average filter with the adaptive mask is applied for the pixel to remove the blocking artifacts. On the other hand, a new directional filter is utilized to get rid of staircase noise and preserve the original edge component. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produces better results than those of the conventional algorithms in both subjective and objective qualities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.117-118
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) SAO (Sample Adaptive Offset)의 병렬화 성능을 비교한다. HEVC 의 참조 소프트웨어인 HM-10.0 에서는 SAO 수행 과정의 연산량 및 메모리 접근을 최소화하고 카테고리 계산 과정에서 SAO 수행 전의 픽셀값을 사용하기 위해서 라인 버퍼를 사용한다. 그러나 이러한 라인버퍼의 사용은 SAO 에 대해 데이터-레벨의 병렬화를 적용하기 어렵게 만드는 주요 요인이다. 본 논문에서는 HEVC 디블록킹 필터가 적용된 픽쳐를 추가 메모리에 복사하는 구현 방식과 HM-10.0 의 SAO 구현 방식 각각에 대해 데이터-레벨 병렬화를 적용하고 각각의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 실험 결과, HEVC 디블록킹 필터가 적용된 픽쳐를 추가 메모리에 복사하는 구현 방식은 데이터-레벨 병렬화의 구현은 쉽지만, 디블록킹 필터링 된 픽쳐를 추가 메모리에 복사하는 부분 때문에 HM-10.0 기반의 병렬화보다 복호화 성능이 저하될 수 있음을 확인하였다. 이에 반해 CTU 의 행 단위로 병렬 수행될 영역을 분할하는 방식은 구현의 용이성과 병렬화 성능을 동시에 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.30-35
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• 2007

H.264/AVC provides better quality than other algorithms by using a deblocking filter to remove blocking distortion on block boundary of the decoded picture. However, this filtering process includes lots of memory accesses, which cause delay of overall decoding time. In this paper, we propose a data-reuse algorithm to speed up the process for the deblocking filter. To reuse the data, a new filtering order is suggested. By using this order, we reduce the memory access and accelerate the deblocking filter. The modeling of proposed algorithm is compiled under ARM ADS1.2 and simulated with Armulator. The results of the experiment compared with H.264/AVC standard are achieved on average 58.45% and 57.93% performance improvements at execution cycles and memory access cycles, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.142-148
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• 2008

Though a deblocking filter of H.264/AVC provides enhanced image quality by removing blocking artifact on block boundary, the complex filtering operation on this process is a dominant factor of the whole decoding time. In this paper, we designed an ASIP to accelerate deblocking filter operation with the proposed instruction set. We designed a processor based on a MIPS structure with LISA, simulated a deblocking later model, and compared the execution time on the proposed instruction set. In addition, we generated HDL model of the processor through CoWare's Processor Designer and synthesized with TSMC 0.25um CMOS cell library by Synopsys Design Compiler. As the result of the synthesis, the area and delay time increased 7.5% and 3.2%, respectively. However, due to the proposed instruction set, total execution performance is improved by 18.18% on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.47-50
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 인터넷 스트리밍 및 모바일 응용 등에서 요구되는 저 비트율 비디오를 위한 효과적인 후처리 기법을 제안한다. 블록기반 압축영상의 특성상 낮은 비트율에서는 블록킹 현상과 같은 화질열화가 불가피하다. 이러한 블록기반 압축영상의 블록킹 현상에 대하여 본 논문에서 제안한 디블록킹 기법은 블록 경계 주변의 특성에 따라 필터링 모드를 달리 적용하여 효율적으로 블록킹 현상을 제거함으로서 주관적, 객관적 화질을 향상시킨다. 제안한 알고리즘에서는 모드 선택의 정확성을 높이기 위하여 저역통과필터를 이용한 간단한 전처리 과정을 거치도록 하고, 또한 영상의 실제 에지와 블록킹 현상을 구분하기 위하여 3가지 모드를 도입하며, 이를 통해 필터링에 의한 실제 에지 부분의 화질열화를 방지하도록 한다. 마지막으로 corner outlier와 같은 특수한 artifact의 제거를 위해 별도의 모드를 추가한다. 실험에서는 MPEG-4로 복호된 영상에 대하여 제안한 필터를 적용하고, 최근 표준화가 완료된 H.264의 루프필터 및 최근 발표된 저 비트율 비디오에 대한 후처리 기법과의 비교실험을 통하여 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.742-755
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a parallel deblocking algorithm to resolve workload imbalance when the deblocking filter of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) decoder is parallelized. In HEVC, the deblocking filter which is one of the in-loop filters conducts two-step filtering on vertical edges first and horizontal edges later. The deblocking filtering can be conducted with high-speed through data-level parallelism because there is no dependency between adjacent edges for deblocking filtering processes. However, workloads would be imbalanced among regions even though the same amount of data for each region is allocated, which causes performance loss of decoder parallelization. In this paper, we solve the problem for workload imbalance by predicting the complexity of deblocking filtering with coding unit (CU) depth information at a coding tree block (CTB) and by allocating the same amount of workload to each core. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves average time saving (ATS) by 64.3%, compared to single core-based deblocking filtering and also achieves ATS by 6.7% on average and 13.5% on maximum, compared to the conventional uniform data-level parallelism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.930-933
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• 2011

This paper addresses an adaptive postprocessing method applied in the spatial domain for block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT) coded images. The proposed algorithm is designed by a serial concatenation of a 1D simple smoothing filter and a 2D directional filter. The 1D smoothing filter is applied according to the block type, which is determined by an adaptive threshold. It depends on local statistical properties, and updates block types appropriately by a simple rule, which affects the performance of deblocking processes. In addition, the 2D directional filter is introduced to suppress the ringing effects at the sharp edges and the block discontinuities while preserving true edges and textural information. Comprehensive experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms many deblocking methods in the literature, in terms of PSNR and subjective visual quality evaluated by GBIM.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2010

H.264/AVC는 부호화 효율을 높이기 위해 다양한 모드를 사용한다. 이런 다양한 모드들은 모두 부호화를 해봐서 발생하는 비용이 계산한다. 발생하는 비용은 영상의 화질과 비트로 구성되어 있으며, 영상의 화질이 좋고 발생비트가 가장 적은 모드가 선택 되어 복호기에 전송된다. 하지만 영상의 화질을 계산할 때 디-블록킹 필터의 효과를 무시해서 계산하기 때문에 정확한 모드를 선택하지 못하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 모드 결정시 디-블록킹 필터를 적용하여 정확한 영상의 화질을 계산하여 모드를 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 그 결과 평균 1.021%의 BD-Rate를 감소시켰다.