• 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.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.804-816
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an adaptive rate control in frame-level for real-time H.264/AVC. For given QP, bits according to video characteristics, and current frame is close correlation between the adjacent frames. Using the statistical characteristic, we obtain change of occurrence bit about QP to apply the bit amount by QP from the video characteristic and applied in the estimated bit amount of the current frame. In addition, we use weight with QP and occurrence bit amount that is statistical information of encoded previous frames. Simulation results show that the proposed rate control scheme achieves time saving of more than 99% over JM 12.1 rate control algorithm. Nevertheless, PSNR and bit rate were almost same as the performances of JM.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.565-574
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• 2002

We propose an algorithm for the robust transmission of video in error prone environment based on multiple description (MD) scheme and simple rate-distortion operators. The redundancy rate-distortion (RRD) criteria is used to split a one-layer compressed video stream into two correlated descriptions. The proposed algorithm can find more candidate points on the RRD curve than the conventional RRD based methods. A new distortion measure is also defined in this paper, which considers more realistic error environments. Since the proposed MD video coder is based on the standard H.263 coder, each description can be decoded independently by the standard H.263 decoder. Also, several descriptions can be decoded into a single stream by additional merge stage and the H.263 decoder. Simulation results show that the proposed MD video coder yields better performance than the conventional MD splitting algorithm at all bitrates both in single and two description cases.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2315-2320
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• 2006

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.738-749
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• 2011

In this paper, we study QoS(Quality of Service) control protocols and the effect using MAC/PHY parameters of client device in mobile network. We proposes the way of controling the bit-rate by estimating the channel condition of the client with measured MAC/PHY parameters which is sent from the client. With the proposed method, more accurate available bit-rate can be estimated compared to conventional protocol, RTCP(Real-time Transport Control Protocol). The accurate bit-rate estimation can decrease wasted bit-rate and transport delay. In the result of the advantages, the transported video quality can be enhanced. In this paper, we show the effects of enhancement using client's the field data measured in WiMAX.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.447-450
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• 2012

본 논문은 최근 수요와 관심이 급증하고 있는 초고선명 4K-UHD 영상의 방송TV 서비스 도입시에 영상의 시청환경 및 신호규격 선정의 가이드라인을 제공하는 것을 목표로 HEVC 코덱(HM5.0 참조 소프트웨어)으로 부/복호화 한 4K-UHD 영상에 대한 주관적 화질평가를 결과를 제시한다. ITU-R BT.500의 권고에 따라 DSIS 방법으로 실험 하였으며, 원본 영상 대비 목표 비트율(18, 23, 36 Mbps), 컬러 포맷(YUV444, YUV420), 시청거리(0.75H, 1.5H) 변화에 따른 주관적 화질 평기를 수행하였다. 실험결과 시청거리가 가깝고 비트율이 18Mbps로 낮게 책정한 조건에서도 평균 의사 점수(MOS)는 4.65로서 피 실험자들은 화질 차이를 거의 느끼지 못하는 것으로 나다났다. 또한 동일한 비트율 조건에서 컬러 포맷을 YUV444와 YUV420에 대한 비교 실험에서 각각 MOS 값은 4.71과 4.81로 측정 되었으며, 평가자들은 채도(Chrominance)의 해상도 보다 전체적인 PSNR이 높을수록 높은 MOS 값을 주었다. 이는 동일 비트율 대비 YUV444보다 YUV420의 컬러 포맷이 더 높은 주관적 화질을 가짐을 의미한다. 본 실험을 통해 HEVC 코덱을 사용하여 현재의 방송 대역폭 조건에 UHD 영상도 충분히 고품질로 전송 가능하며, 영상의 컬러 포맷은 YUV420가 YUV444 방식보다 동일 비트율 대비 더 높은 화질을 가질 것이라고 예상 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.11
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• pp.625-636
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a new embedded image compression scheme which uses rate-distortion optimized block coding of wavelet coefficients. Unlike to previous works in which set-partition or block-partition is performed according to the magnitude of wavelet coefficients, the proposed scheme achieves rate-distortion optimization by sorting wavelet coefficients or blocks according to their expected rate-distortion slope. At the same time, it performs the optimized block-partition coding using the expected rate-distortion slope of blocks. The proposed scheme also uses various relationship of wavelet coefficients for the entropy coding. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed image compression scheme provides better overall performance than the existing embedded coding schemes such as SPIHT and EBCOT, in which the PSNR gains of the proposed scheme are about 0.11~1.16dB and -0.18~0.52dB, respectively.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.9-15
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a smart HLS(HTTP Live Stream) platform with dynamic single buffering for the best transmission of adaptive video bit-rates. This smart HLS can optimizes the channel transition zapping-time with the monitoring of bandwidth between HLS server and OTT(Over The Top) client. This platform is designed through the control of video stream due to proper multi-bitrates and bandwidths. This proposed OTT can decode the live and VOD(Video On Demand) videos with the buffering of optimumal bitrate. And, the HLS can be cooperated with a smart OTT, and segmented for the m3u8 files of H.265 MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) videos. As a resullt, this single buffer based smart OTT can transmit optimal videos with the maximum data buffering according to the adaptive bit-rate depending on the network bandwidth efficiency and the decoded VOD video, too.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

Video contents in the mobile environment are processed with the low bit-rate relative to normal video contents due to the consideration of network traffic; hence, it is necessary to protect the copyright of the low bit-rate video contents. The algorithm for watermarking appropriate for the mobile environment should be developed because the performance of the mobile devices is much lower than that of personal computers. This paper suggested the invisible spread spectrum watermarking method to the low bit-rate video contents, considering the low performance of the mobile device in the M-Commerce environment; it also enables to track down illegal users of the video contents to protect the copyright. The robustness of the contents with watermark is expressed with the correlation of extraction algorithm from watermark removed or distorted contents. The results of our experiment showed that we could extract the innate frequencies of M-Sequence when we extracted M-Sequence after compressing the contents with watermark easily. Therefore, illegal users of the contents can be tracked down because watermark can be extracted from the low bit-rate video contents.