• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.309-318
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• 2004

This paper proposes the H.264-based selective fine granular scalable (FGS) coding scheme that selectively uses the temporal prediction data in the enhancement layer. The base layer of the proposed scheme is basically coded by the H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC) visual coding scheme that is the state-of-art in codig efficiency. The enhancement layer is basically coded by the same bitplane-based algorithm of the MPEG-4 (Part 2) fine granular scalable coding scheme. In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm that uses the temproal prediction mechanism inside the enhancement layer and the effective selection mechanism to decide whether the temporally-predicted data would be sent to the decoder or not. Whenever applying the temporal prediction inside the enhancement layer, the temporal redundancies may be effectively reduced, however the drift problem would be severly occurred especially at the low bitrate transmission, due to the mismatch bewteen the encoder's and decoder's reference frame images. Proposed algorithm selectively uses the temporal-prediction data inside the enhancement layer only in case those data could siginificantly reduce the temporal redundancies, to minimize the drift error and thus to improve the overall coding efficiency. Simulation results, based on several test image sequences, show that the proposed scheme has 1∼3 dB higher coding efficiency than the H.264-based FGS coding scheme, even 3∼5 dB higher coding efficiency than the MPEG-4 FGS international standard.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.318-327
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• 2002

This paper Introduces a new scanning method for network-adaptive scalable streaming video coding methodologies such as the MPEG-4 Fine Granular Scalable (FGS) Coding. Proposed scanning method can guarantee the subjectively improved picture quality of the region of the interest in the decoded video by managing the image information of that interested region to be encoded and transmitted most-preferentially, and also to be decoded most-preferentially. Proposed scanning method can lead the FGS coding method to achieve improved picture quality, in about 1dB ~ 3dB better, especially on the region of interest.