• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2010

The H.264/AVC is increasingly used in broadcast video applications such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV), digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) because of high compression performance. But the H.264/AVC coded video can be delivered to the widespread end-user equipment for MPEG-2 after transcoding between this video standards. This paper suggests a new transcoding algorithm for H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 transcoder that uses motion vector clustering in order to reduce the complexity without loss of video quality. The proposed method is exploiting the motion information gathered during h.264 decoding stage. To reduce the search space for the MPEG-2 motion estimation, the predictive motion vector is selected with a least distortion of the candidated motion vectors. These candidate motion vectors are considering the correlation of direction and distance of motion vectors of variable blocks in H.264/AVC. And then the best predictive motion vector is refined with full-search in ${\pm}2$ pixel search area. Compared with a cascaded decoder-encoder, the proposed transcoder achieves computational complexity savings up to 64% with a similar PSNR at the constant bitrate(CBR).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.18-29
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• 2019

A dynamic adaptive streaming server consumes high processor power because it handles a large amount of transcoding operations at a time. For this purpose, multi-processor architecture is mandatory for which effective transcoding task distribution strategies are essential. In this paper, we present the design and implementation details of the transcoding workload distribution schemes at a 2-tier (frontend node and backend node) transcoding server. For this, we implemented four schemes: 1) allocation of transcoding tasks to appropriate back-end nodes, 2) task scheduling in the back-end node and 3) the communication between front-end and back-end nodes. Experiments were conducted to compare the estimated and the actual power consumption in a real testbed to verify the efficacy of the system. It also proved that the system can reduce the load on each node to optimize the power and time used for transcoding.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1571-1579
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• 2004

Recently, FD(Frame Dropping)-CD(Coefficient Dropping) transcoding is considered mainly due to the low computational complexity and simple implementation. But, CD errors in the FD-CD transtoding scheme tend to be propagated and they have a significant effect on the qualities of decoded images. In this paper, we derive the error characteristics incurred by the CD operations and propose an effective estimation model that adaptively describes well the characteristics of propagation/accumulation errors in compressed domain. Furthermore, we apply the proposed model to distortion control achieving nearly constant distortion allocation among frames. Simulation results show that the proposed model is quite accurate in estimating the overall distortions and is effectively applied to distortion control over a range of sequences with varying scene types.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7C
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• pp.706-715
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a transcoding algorithm for converting an MPEG-2 video bitstream to an H.264 bitstream. The proposed transcoder consists of two parts. One is MPEG2 decoding part and the other is H.264 encoding part Because our algorithm is for transcoding in the spatial domain, MPEG2 decoding part carries out full decoding of MPEG2 bitstream. While, because macroblock type and coded block pattern in MPEG2 are significantly related to macroblock mode in H.264, macroblock mode is selected adaptively according to macroblock type and coded block pattern in H.264 decoding part. Furthermore, motion vector is also used as side-information for 16$\ctimes$16 macroblock mode. Simulation results show that the proposed transcoder yields high reduction of total transcoding time at comparable PSNR.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.49-64
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• 2005

방송과 통신이 융합하는 새로운 환경의 도래에 따라 사용자에게 불편함 없이 언제 어디서나 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 접근(universal) multimedia access)하게 할 수 있는 기술적 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기술들 중에서 가장 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있는 콘텐츠 적응(content adaptation)에 대해 논한다. 특히 현재의 MPEG-21 표준에서의 콘텐츠 적응에 대한 동향을 살펴보고, 콘텐츠 적응에 속하는 중요 기술들 중에 비디오 트랜스코딩(video transcoding)과 모 달 리 티 변 환 (modality conversion)에 대한 일반적인 사항과 우리의 연구 결과들을 전개하고자 한다. 비디오 트랜스코딩 관점에서는 최적의 트랜스코팅 연산 조합을 찾는 문제에 있어서 비트율-왜곡(rate-distortion) 모델(model)에 기초한 방법과 의미적 개념(semantic concept)이 판단에 미치는 영향에 대해 논한다. 모달리티 면환 관점에서는 최적의 모달리티 변환 경계를 찾기 위한 중첩 콘텐츠 값(overlapped content value, OCV) 모델을 논하고 실질적인 모델링 예제를 통해 OCV 모델의 효율성을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.958-959
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• 2011

본 고에서는 최근 주목 받고 있는 비디오 스트리밍 보안 기술과 관련한 ITU-T 표준화 내용에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다. 특히, SVC (Scalable Video Coding) 기술을 위해 제안된 안전한 트랜스코딩 메커니즘 (Secure Transcodable Mechanism)을 위한 보안 정책 모델에 대하여 논의한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.103-114
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new trnascoding method for improving picture's visual quality when frames are skipped. the proposed method utilizes the relationships of motion vectors between successive frames, and 4 motion vectors a macroblock are considered in transcoding. Since the proposed method does not require any decoding process of encoded bit stream, the computational complexity for estimating motion vectors can be eliminated. Experimental results illustrated that as transcoded frames are getting far from I pictures and as the degree of motions in video sequences are getting higher, the picture quality by using our proposed method shows better performances than existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2004

다양한 형태의 유무선 네트워크 환경에서의 비디오 서비스를 위해 컨텐츠의 비트율을 각 환경에 맞게 조절하는 트랜스코딩 기술이 필수적인 요소로 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG 비트스트림의 효율적인 트랜스코딩을 위한 적응적 재양자화 기법을 제안한다. 압축된 비트스트림 상에서 비트율 변화를 위해서는 양자화 파라미터를 변화시켜야 하는데 이 과정에서 재양자화 에러가 발생하여 화질 및 비트율 조절에 큰 문제가 되고 있다 본 논문에서는 다양한 테스트 영상에 대해서 비트율 변화에 대한 왜곡 정도를 테스트한 결과 특정 양자화 파라미터 비율 구간에 대해서 왜곡 현상이 심해지는 현상에 따라 이를 효율적으로 모델링하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 제안한 모델에 근거하여 영상에 적응적인 재양자화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 적은 비트율을 가지면서 화질을 유지하고 간단한 조건 및 연산에 기반하여 실시간 구현이 가능하다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.4 s.100
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• pp.451-458
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• 2005

The transcoding is a solution which is able to adapt to heterogeneous clients of requesting a different playback rate of multimedia data. Thus, The transcoding needs decoding and encoding. In general, previous studies to reduce complexity have a problem, the degradation of visual quality On the contrary, previous studies to reduce the degradation of visual quality lead to heavy computation. Thus, many researchers have studied a solution between the complexity and the degradation of visual quality. But until now, most researches of this region have dealt with the transcoder itself, such researches about a server's assistance to improve the performance of transcoder is rarely studied. In case of servicing multimedia data to heterogeneous clients which have low capabilities, the assistance of server side is able to reduce frames with processing in the transcoder and improve the performance of the transcoder. Thus in this paper, we propose the frame-skipping transcoder system architecture that takes into consideration transcoder and server side to reduce the complexity of the transcoder.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.275-282
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• 2004

In this paper, a transcoding method that transforms MPEG-4 video bitstream coded in 30 Hz frame rate into H.264 video bitstream of 15 Hz frame rate is proposed. The block modes and motion vectors in MPEG-4 is utilized in H.264 for block mode conversion and motion vector (MV) interpolation methods. The proposed three types of MV interpolation method can be used without performing full motion estimation in H.264. The proposed transcoder reduces computation amount for full motion estimation in H.264 and provides good quality of H.264 video at low bitrates. In experimental results, the proposed methods achieves 3.2-4 times improvement in computational complexity compared to the cascaded pixel-domain transcoding, while the PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) is degraded with 0.2-0.9dB depending on video sizes.