• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.27-38
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• 2006

The main purpose of rate control is to achieve the highest video quality when bandwidth or storage capacity is limited. For this purpose, we need a rate control algorithm which is adaptively controlled by the motion information of sequences, scene change, buffer capacity and time-varing bandwitdh channels. A rate-control method in the encoder requires the accurate estimation of target bit for each frame and the low end-to-end delay for transmitting video data by intelligent selection of encoding parameters. In this paper, we suggest three kinds of linear relation in the encoder to satisfy the characteristics of rate control. The first relation is that between the percentage of zero quantized transformed coefficients(p) and coded bits. Second relation is that between the PSNR of encoded frame and its Quantization parameter(QP). Finally, we can find out a linear approximation between QP and p. According to the experimental analysis, the proposed method results in an efficient rate control in terms of the bit estimation, the buffer capacity, and PSNR compared with the existing rate control in the H.264 JM 9.3.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.93-105
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• 2001

In the lossless step of Lattice Vector Quantization(LVQ), the lattice codewords produced at quantization step are enumerated into radius sequence and index sequence. The radius sequence is run-length coded and then entropy coded, and the index sequence is represented by fixed length binary bits. As bit rate increases, the index bit linearly increases and deteriorates the coding performances. To reduce the index bits across the wide range of bit rates, we developed a novel lattice enumeration algorithm adopting the set partitioning method. The proposed enumeration method shifts down large index values to smaller ones and so reduces the index bits. When the proposed lossless coding scheme is applied to a wavelet based image coding, the proposed scheme achieves more than 10% at bit rates higher than 0.3 bits/pixel over the conventional lossless coding method, and yields more improvement as bit rate becomes higher.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.575-584
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• 2002

This paper presents a novel DCT-based embedded zero-tree coding and optimal bit allocation algorithm for image sequence coding. In order to fully utilize the structure of the conventional standard coding algorithm and improve the coding efficiency, motion estimation and compensation(ME/MC)-DCT hybrid coding structure and a modified zero-tree coding algorithm are applied. After the rearrangement DCT coefficients into pyramidal structure according to their significance on the decoded image quality, the modified embedded zero-tree coding is performed on layered coefficients. Moreover, for a given overall bit rates, a new optimal bit control scheme is proposed to achieve the best decoded image quality in the consecutive frames. The rate control scheme can also provide the equal quality of decoded image with the control of bit rate and distortion for each frame. The various simulation results are provided to evaluate the coding performance of the proposed scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2C
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• pp.161-171
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an adaptive rate control in Unit-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 each unit of 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 Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.223-230
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• 2002

In this paper, we induced that the noise powers and bit error rate of direct detection receiver taking account of ISI (intersymbol interference) in the 2,000 km optical transmission system. And we evaluated the sensitivity in the vrious bit rate system. We verified that the proposed calculation method is applicable to the exact optical system. And we confirmed that the signal distortion due to both chromatic dispersion and nonlinear effects compensated by using of MSSI (Mid-Span Spectral Inversion) method, and yet the sensitivity of a higher bit rate system is reduced, because of the increase of ISI and then the decrease of the average receiving power, compared with a the lower bit rate system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.181-184
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• 2005

다양한 처리능력을 가진 단말기들은 복잡한 네트워크 환경의 호환성을 제공하기 위해서, 전송 네트워크 채널이 허용하는 범위내로 부호화된 비디오의 비트율을 적응적으로 맞춰 주어야 한다. 트랜스코더는 특정 비트율로 부호화 되어 있는 비디오를 원하는 비트율로 다시 변환하기 위해서 복호화한 후 다시 부호화의 과정을 거쳐야 하기 때문에 이에 따른 계산량의 증가와 더불어 전송시간에 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위한 한 가지 방법으로 제안된 것이 프레임 건너뜀 기법, 즉 시간적 해상도 변환 트랜스코딩이다. 비디오를 부호화하는 과정에서 계산량을 가장 많이 차지하는 움직임 추정과정의 계산량을 줄임으로써 트랜스코딩을 수행하는데 소모되는 시간과 노력을 크게 줄이고, 건너뛰지 않고 남아있는 프레임에 더 많은 비트를 할당하여 요구되는 화질을 유지할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 움직임 벡터의 방향성을 고려하여 제안한 기법인 E-FDVS (Efficient-Forward Dominant Vector Selection)는 움직임 벡터의 방향성을 고려하여 매크로블록과 움직임 벡터의 차이를 보상하여 움직임 벡터를 재추정한다. 실험에서는 MPEG-2 영상에 대해서 제안한 방법을 적용하여 기존의 방법들에 비해서 성능이 우수함을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.3B
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• pp.529-540
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• 2000

This is paper presents the semantic based rate-control method which is based on very low bit rate video coding standards H.263 plus, applied on very low bit rate applications. Previous rate control methods control the generated bit rates by setting the optimum quantization parameters per macro block unit on frame. But, in this paper, we added the pre-processing algorithm, semantic region recognition and assignment of priority algorithm, to obtain the subjective quality enhancement. This work aims to improve the subjective quality of skin color region or face by using unimportant background region's bit resources.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.201-208
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• 2012

In this paper, the hardware design of rate control for real-time video encoded is proposed. In the proposed method, a quadratic rate distortion model with high-computational complexity is not used when quantization parameter values are being decided. Instead, for low-computational complexity, average complexity weight values of frames are used to calculate QP. For high speed and low computational prediction, the MAD is predicted based on the coded basic unit, using spacial and temporal correlation in sequences. The rate control is designed with the hardware for fast QP decision. In the proposed method, a quadratic rate distortion model with high-computational complexity is not used when quantization parameter values are being decided. Instead, for low-computational complexity, average complexity weight values of frames are used to calculate QP. In addition, the rate control is designed with the hardware for fast QP decision. The execution cycle and gate count of the proposed architecture were reduced about 65% and 85% respectively compared with those of previous architecture. The proposed RC was implemented using Verilog HDL and synthesized with UMC $0.18{\mu}m$ standard cell library. The synthesis result shows that the gate count of the architecture is about 19.1k with 108MHz clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.130-133
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 웨이블렛 압축 기반인 SPIHT 알고리즘의 압축효율을 개선시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 특히 초기치에서 발생될 수 있는 비트소비를 줄임으로써, 낮은 비트율에서 더욱 빠른 점진적인 전송을 구현하였다. 트리구조에 따르는 최적화 된 임계값 설정과 웨이블렛 변환된 계수들의 계수값을 통해 비트율 향상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.3-5
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 enhanced aacPlus 부호화기의 스펙트럼 계수 무손실 부호화에 arithmetic coding을 적용하여 비트율을 감소시키는 방법을 연구하였다. USAC의 arithmetic coding을 enhanced aacPlus 구조에 맞게 변경하여 적용하였다. 기존 방법과 arithmetic coding 방법에 의한 부호화 비트 수를 비교하여 성능을 평가하였고, 모노 신호에서 최대 9.3%, 스테레오 신호에서 최대 6.6%의 비트 감소율을 확인하였다.