• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2004

Video-On-Demand servers use compression techniques to reduce the storage and bandwidth requirements. The compression techniques make the bit rates of compressed video data significantly variable from frame to frame. Consequently, Video-On-Demand servers with a constant bit rate retrieval can not maximize the utilization of resources. It is possible that when variable bit rate video data is stored, accurate description of the bit rate changes could be computed a priori. In this paper, I propose a buffer management scheme called MAX for Video-On-Demand server using variable bit rate continuous media. By caching and prefetching the data, MAX buffer management scheme reduces the variation of the compressed data and increases the number of clients simultaneously served and maximizes the utilization of system resources. Results of trace-driven simulations show the effectiveness of the scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12C
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2003

The transcoding is needed to modify the bit rate of the video bitstream in accordance with the bandwidth of a variety of channels in order to provide users with a realtime multimedia service and more stable and credible VOD(Video On Demand) service on various wire/wireless network. This paper suggests how to guarantee the video quality in the transcoding process, taking the activity and direction of the macroblock into consideration, thereby reducing the calculation. The threshold of the macroblock's activity and direction is applicable to the different videos, with the DCT coefficients from the intermediate data in the decoding process. Moreover, the suggested video transcoding algorism enables us to maintain the proper video quality and reduce the calculation through the video bit rate change experiment in H.263 environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.1B
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• pp.77-88
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• 2000

This paper presents an approach for rate control by adaptively selecting macroblock modes in video coding.The problem of rate control has been investigated by many authors where quantizer level is adjustedbased on the buffer fullness. The proposed approach is different fron the previous ones [4] id that it finds the optimal decision curve rather than finding a set of the modes. Proposed algorithm extends the coding decision options for rate control to motion/no-motion compensation as well as inter/intra decisions. Instead of having a fixed motion/no-notion compensation or inter/intra decision curve, one can utilize an adaptive decision curvebased on the characteristics of input frames so that the PSNR at a given bit rate is maximized. Therefore, the proposed approach provides better rate control than simple quantizer feedback approach interns of visual quality. The curve is obtained by utilizing simulated annealing optimization technique. Thealgorithm is implemented and simulations are compared with other approaches within H.261 video codec.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.328-329
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• 2012

분산 비디오 복호화 기술은 저 용량 저 전력 시스템을 위한 초경량 복호화기를 제공할 수 있어 최근 많은 이슈가 되고 있다. 그러나 분산 비디오 복호화 기술은 피드백 채널을 이용하여 반복적인 패리티 비트 제어 방법을 주로 사용하기 때문에 전체 복호화 시간이 매우 길다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 분산 비디오 복호화 시스템의 고속화가 반드시 필요하며 이를 위해 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 분산 비디오 복호화의 고속화를 위하여 보조정보와 LDPCA 프레임의 율-왜곡을 이용하여 패리티 비트 요구량을 예측하는 방법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 방법을 이용함으로써 분산 비디오 복호화에 소요되는 전제 복호 시간 대비 약 80% 시간 절감 효과를 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.2025-2031
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• 1998

In moving picture coding standard MPEG2, a bit rate control system plays a key role for the compressing ratio and picture quality. We proposed a bit rate control scheme which assigns more bits to I, P frames and uses the average MQUANT of previous mackoblocks. The proposed scheme showed about 0.9dB improvement of image quality when compared to bit rate control method of MPEG2 Test-Model5.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.203-205
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 HEVC 기반 비디오 부호화에 있어 CTU 단위의 시각 민감도에 따라 CTU 별로 QP 를 조절하여 주관적 화질을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 시각 민감도를 측정하는 방법으로서 화소 영역에서의 최소가지차(JND, just noticeable distortion)를 계산하여 이용하였고, 이를 HM 12.0 참조 소프트웨어에서 이용되는 $R-{\lambda}$ 모델 기반의 율 제어 모듈에 결합하여 시각 민감도에 따라 QP 를 제어할 수 있도록 하였다. 시각 민감도가 큰 영상의 영역에 대해서는 상대적으로 작은 QP 값을, 시각민감도가 작은 영역에 대해서는 큰 QP 값을 양자화 과정에 적용함으로써, 시각 민감도가 작은 영역에 대해서는 사용 비트양을 절약하고, 절약된 비트를 상대적으로 시각 민감도가 큰 영역을 위해 사용함으로써 비디오의 주관적 화질을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 뿐만 아니라 이를 하드웨어에 적용 가능하게 하기 위해 HM 12.0 기반 하드웨어 구현을 위한 소프트웨어 플랫폼에 구현하여 실험한 결과, $R-{\lambda}$ 모델 율 제어 알고리즘으로 율 제어 하여 부호화 한 경우 Y-PSPNR(peak signal to perceptual noise ratio)에 대한 BD-rate 는 평균 9.4%의 이득이 있었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.355-361
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new basic unit level rate control algorithm which generates the output bits corresponding to the target bits. The H.264 standard uses various coding modes and optimization methods to improve the compression performance, which makes it difficult to control the generated traffic accurately. In the proposed scheme, the allocated bits to a frame are distributed to all basic units properly to encode each basic unit according to the bit budget. After encoding the frame, the encoding parameters are adjusted according to the difference between the target and the resulting values. It is shown by experimental results that the new algorithm can generate output bit rates accurately corresponding to the target bit rates with the PSNR performance better than that of the existing rate control algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.4B
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• pp.202-209
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• 2005

In this paper, a dynamic TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC) is proposed to adjust the coding rates according to the channel characteristics of the wireless-to-wired network consisting of wireless first-hop channel. To avoid the throughput degradation of multimedia flows traveling through wireless lint the proposed rate control system employs a new wireless loss differentiation algorithm (LDA) using packet loss statistics. This method can produce the TCP-friendly rates while sharing the backbone bandwidth with TCP flows over the wireless-to-wired network. Experimental results show that the proposed rate control system can eliminate the effect of wireless losses in flow control of TFRC and substantially reduce the abrupt quality degradation of the video streaming caused by the unreliable wireless link status.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.63-72
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose the bit-rate control algorithm for the block based image compression like H.263, H.263+ or MPEG-4. The proposed algorithm is designed to identify the quantization parameter set through the Lagrangian optimization technique based on the well-known linear source model. We set the Lagrangian cost function with the rates and distortion calculated from the linear source model. We calculate the quantization parameter set using the Vitervi algorithm to solve the Lagrangian optimization problem considering the Dquant method of H.263 and MPEG-4. The proposed algorithm improves the video quality by up to 1.5 dB compared with the TMN8 scheme, and is more effective in the video sources with dynamic activities than the consistent quality approaches.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.355-366
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• 2002

This paper introduces the MPEG-4 video frame-based bitrate control methodology using two dimensional history pool and a sliding window. Proposed method preferentially clusters the encoded results according to the image characteristics and stores those results into the 2 dimensional history pool. Among the stored results in the pool, the sliding window collects the encoded results whose characteristics are very similar to the image frame to be encoded. Feedback regression is finally carried out bated on the collected results. Therefore proposed method can actively adapt to the rapid varying image characteristics by reducing the occurrences of the extrapolations when determining the quantization steps. Proposed method has better performances than the MPEG-4 frame-based bitrate control algorithm by evaluating with the actually encoded bits per frame, encoded PSNR's, and frame skips.