• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.151-161
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• 2009

Audio Video Standard (AVS) is the audio and video compression standard that was developed for domestic video applications in China. AVS employs low complexity tools to minimize degradation of RD performance of the state-the-art video codec, H.264/AVC. The AVS video codec consists of $8{\times}8$ block prediction and the same size transform to improve compression efficiency for VGA and higher resolution sequences. Currently, the AVS has been adopted more and more for IPTV services and mobile applications in China. So, many consumer electronics companies and multimedia-related laboratories have been developing applications and chips for the AVS. In this paper, we implemented the AVS video decoder and optimize it on TI's Davinci EVM DSP board. For improving the decoding speed and clocks, we removed unnecessary memory operations and we also used high-speed VLD algorithm, linear assembly, intrinsic functions and so forth. Test results show that decoding speed of the optimized decoder is $5{\sim}7$ times faster than that of the reference software (RM 5.2J).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.190-200
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• 2014

The video-based system of the broadcasters and the video-related institutions have shifted from analogical to digital in worldwide. This migration process can generate a defect, digital dropout, in the quality of the contents. Moreover, there are limited researches focused on these kind of defects and those related have limitations. For that reason, we are proposing a new method for feature extraction emphasizing in the peculiar block pattern of digital dropout based on discrete cosine transform (DCT). For classification of error block, we utilize support vector machine (SVM) which can manage feature vectors efficiently. Further, the proposed method overcome the limitation of the previous one using continuity of frame by frame. It is using only the information of a single frame and works better even in the presence of fast moving objects, without the necessity of specific model or parameter estimation. Therefore, this approach is capable of detecting digital dropout only with minimal complexity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.12C
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• pp.1669-1676
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• 2004

In H.264, 7 modes {16${\times}$16, 16${\times}$8, 8${\times}$16, 8${\times}$8, 8${\times}$4, 4${\times}$8, 4${\times}$4) are used to enhance the coding efficiency. The motion vector estimation with 7 modes may require huge computing time. In this paper, to speed up the motion vector estimation procedure while the high image quality remains, we propose a motion vector refinement scheme using the temporary motion vector generated with little computation. The proposed estimation process consists of three phases: Mode decision for a 16${\times}$16 macroblock, Composing a temporary motion vector, Refinement of the temporary motion vector. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by computer simulation. In the results, the encoding time consumed by the proposed scheme has been reduced significantly while the encoded video quality remains unchanged.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.706-712
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• 2014

This paper describes a determining method of weighting factors for two-point interpolation filters. The interpolation filters is implemented by applying modifying functions to the linear interpolation. Here, there is a problem of determining weights when modifying functions being engaged. The previous method determined the weights by imposing c1-continuity on the interpolation kernels. However, this approach is unable to use the property of individual modifying functions. In this paper, on the basis of spectral analyses of the modifying functions and image signals, we provide a determination method by experimental results. Thus, many experiments are carried out to do so. The results indicate that different weights are required for different modifying functions and also the proposed method outperforms than the previous method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5B
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• pp.318-325
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• 2008

HomePlug AV(HPAV) is the standard for distribution of Audio/video content as well as data within the home by using the power line. It uses a hybrid access mechanism that combines TDMA with CSMA/CA for MAC technology. The CSMA/CA protocol in HPAV has two main control blobs that can be used for access control: contention window(CW) size and deferral counter(DC). In this paper, we extensively investigate the impacts of CW and DC on performance through simulations, and propose an adaptive mechanism that adjusts the CW size to enhance the throughput in HPAV MAC. We find that the CW size is more influential on performance than the DC. Therefore, to make controlling the network easier, our proposal uses a default value of DC and adjusts the CW size. Our scheme simply increases or decreases the CW size if the network is too busy or too idle, respectively, We compare the performance of our proposal with those of the standard and other competitive schemes in terms of throughput and fairness. Our simulation and analysis results show that our adaptive CW mechanism performs very well under various scenarios.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2004

Full search algorithm(FA) provides the best performance but this is usually impractical because of the large number of computations required for large search region. Fast search and conventional Boolean matching algorithms reduce computational complexity and data processing time but this algorithms have disadvantages that is difficult of implementation of hardware because of high control overhead and that is less performance than FA. This paper presents new Boolean matching algorithm, called BCBM(Bit Converted Boolean Matching). Proposed algorithm has performance closed to the FA by Boolean only block matching that may be very efficiently implemented in hardware for real time video communication. Simulation results show that the PSNR of the proposed algorithm is about 0.08㏈ loss than FA but is about 0.96∼2.02㏈ gain than fast search algorithm and conventional Boolean matching algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.772-780
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• 1994

Vector quantization with two-channel conjugate codebook has been researched as an efficient coding technique that can reduce the computational complexity and codebook storage. This paper proposes FSVQ using two-channel conjugate codebook in order to reduce the number of state codebooks. Input vector in the two-channel conjugate FSVQ is coded with state codebook of a seperated state according to each codebook. In addition, LOT is adopted to obtain to obtain a high coding gain and to reduce blocking effect which appears in the block coding. As a result, although FSVQ can achieve higher data compression ratio than general vector quantization, it has a disadvantage of having a very large number of state codebooks. However FSVQ with two-channel conjugate codebooks can employ a significantly reduced number of state codebooks, even though it has a small loss in the PSNR compared with the conventional FSVQ using one codebook. Moreover FSVQ in the LOT domain can reduce blocking effect and high coding gain compared with FSVQ in the spatial domain.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.2653-2663
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• 1997

The successive and parallel interference cancellation schemes are two well-known types of multi-stage interference cancellation schemes using the conventional correlator receivers as a basic building block, which has been known to significantly improve the performance of DS/CDMA system in the multiple access communication. Performance comparison between these two schemes is made strictly based on the analytical and it has been shown that the successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme is more resistant to fading than the parallel interference cancellation (PIC) scheme. We further investigate the performance of the successive IC scheme subject to the delay constraint, which may be imposed typically on most of service applications with a real-time transmission requirement, including speech and video applications. Our analysis demonstrates that the performance may be significantly improved by the groupwise successive interference cancellation (GSIC) scheme, which can be properly optimized to meet the given delay constraint.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.600-607
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• 2008

Reliable wireless transmission of data generated by the flight critical subsystems or mission equipments of the unmanned aerial system is critical for mission success. As the UAS system becomes more sophisticated, its dependency on a reliable high rate radio communication system also increases. This requirement is applied not only during the operation phase but also in the early development test phase. This paper introduces a practical cost-effective communication system for a UAS. The downlink module combines analog NTSC video signal with onboard data, and send them using 2.4 GHz carrier wave. The uplink system has less a severe requirement on the bandwidth, and thus uses 430 MHz signal. This paper also presents a sample packet structure which can be adopted for many UAS of similar class.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.376-382
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• 2009

The recent growth of cable broadcast technology such as Tru2Way enables the cable service operator to provide more enhanced experiences to cable TV audience. As a result, various applications have been produced and user can easily access cable network to receive multimedia content as well as interactive application in cable environment. In order for current cable technology to be accepted as a web extended technology, a process of web based applications having a web document and multimedia resources, proper web service definition and middleware architecture for existing cable environment should be established. In this paper, we define a web application for cable environment and propose a middIeware architecture which can process web application based on Tru2Way technology