• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.343-346
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 최신 동영상 압축 표준 규격 H.264에서 화면 간 예측 부호화시 참조 화면 수가 제한되어 있을 때 부호화 효율을 최대화할 수 있는 적웅적 참조 화면 선택 기법을 제안하였다. 참조 화면 선택 시 시간적인 거리를 우선시 하는 현재 방식은 부호화 효율 측면에서 최적의 선택과는 거리가 있다. 따라서 참조 화면 선택에 있어서 실시간 온라인 상황을 가정하고 부가적인 계산을 최소화하는 것을 조건으로 했을 때 대표 화면과의 간접 비교를 통하여 현재 참조 화면들 간 상호 유사성이 가장 큰 화면을 제외하는 방법을 통해 문제를 해결하고자 하였다. 화면 간 예측 부호화 시 참조 화면 간 중복되는 요소를 최대한 줄이는 방향으로 참조 화면을 선택해 나감으로서 참조되는 샘플들을 다양화할 수 있다. 참조 화면 간 상호 유사성 판별은 대표 화면과 각 참조 화면 간 움직임 정보를 고려해 화면 간 부호화시 계산되는 8*8 블록의 R-D 비용함수 값을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 기존의 슬라이딩 윈도우 방식을 이용한 참조 화면 선택 방법에 비해 부가적인 계산이 거의 없이 부호화 효율의 개선이 있었으며 그 개선 정도는 기존의 방식에서 참조 화면을 $1{\sim}2$장 더 사용한 결과와 같았다. 이는 기존의 방법에 의해 참조 화면을 선택할 경우 나타나는 참조 화면 간 중복성을 줄였기 때문이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2003

JPEG200, a new international standard for still image compression based on wavelet and bit-plane coding techniques, is developed. In this paper, we design the DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform) and quantizer for JPEG2000 CODEC. DWT handles both lossy and lossless compression using the same transform-based framework: The Daubechies 9/7 and 5/3 transforms, and quantizer is implemented as SQ(Scalar Quantization). The architecture of the proposed DWT and SQ are synthesized and verified using Xilinx FPGA technology. It operates up to 30MHz, and executes algorithms of wavelet transform and quantization for VGA 10 frame per second.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.119-128
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• 2013

This paper proposes and implements an core transform architecture, which is one of the major processes in HEVC video compression standard. The proposed core transform architecture is implemented with only adders and shifters instead of area-consuming multipliers. Shifters in the proposed core transform architecture are implemented in wires and multiplexers, which significantly reduces chip area. Also, it can process from $4{\times}4$ to $16{\times}16$ blocks with common hardware by reusing processing elements. Designed core transform architecture in 0.13um technology can process a $16{\times}16$ block with 2-D transform in 130 cycles, and its gate count is 101,015 gates.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.6B
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• pp.1060-1067
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• 2000

MPEG-4 visual coding is an object-based system. The current video coding standards, H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 encode frame by frame. On the other hand, MPEG-4 separately encodes several objects, such as video objects and audio objects, in the same frame. Each transmitted object is decoded and composed in one frame. Shape coding is a process of coding visual objects in a frame. In this paper we present conformance test method for MPEG-4 shape decoders. This paper reviews the basic shape decoding standard, and proposes conformance test methods for BAB type decoder, and CAE decoder for intra and inter VOPs. Our test generates all possible cases of shape motion vector difference and context.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.175-182
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• 1994

The international standard for digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still image known as JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) standard is investigated for medical image archiving and communication. The JPEG standard has widely been accepted in the areas of electronic image communication, computer graphics, and multimedia applications, however, due to the lossy character of the JPEG compression its application to the field of medical imaging has been limited. In this paper, the JPEG standard is investigated for medical image compression with a series of head sections of magnetic resonance (MR) images (256 and 4096 graylevels, $256 {\times}256$size). Two types of Huffman codes are employed, i. e., one is optimized to the image statistics to be encoded and the other is a predetermined code, and their coding efficiencies are examined. From experiments, compression ratios of higher than 15 were obtained for the MR images without noticeable distortion. Error signal in the reconstructed images by the JPEG standard appears close to random noise. Compared to existing full-frame bit-allocation technique used for radiological image compression, the JPEG standard achieves higher compression with less Gibb's artifact. Feature of the progressive image build-up of the JPEG progressive coding may be useful in remote diognosis when data is transmitted through slow public communication channel.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.766-772
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• 2007

H.264/AVC is a new international standard for the compression of video images, in which a deblocking filter has been adopted to remove blocking artifacts. This paper proposes an efficient architecture of deblocking filter in H.264/AVC. By making good use of data dependence between neighboring $4{\times}4$ blocks, the memory size is reduced and the throughput of the deblocking filter processing is increased. Compared to the conventional deblocking filters, the proposed architecture enhances the performance of deblocking filter processing from 1.75 to 4.23 times. Hence the proposed architecture is able to perform real-time deblocking of high-resolution($2048{\times}1024$) video applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1064-1069
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• 2008

A system design and realization for video surveillance with interframe probability distribution analyzation is presented in this paper. The system design is based on a high performance DSP professor, video surveillance is implemented by analyzing interframe probability distribution using trivariate normal distribution(weight, mean, variance) for scanning objects in a restricted area and the video analysis algorithm is decided for forming a different image from the probability distribution of several frame compressed by the standardized JPEG. The system processing time of D1$(720{\times}480)$ image per frame is 85ms and enables to process the system at 12 frames per second. An object surveillance about the restricted area by rules is extracted to 100% unless object is moved faster.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.595-598
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• 2005

MPEG-4 Visual is, and international standard for the object-based video compression, designed for supporting a wide range of applications from multimedia communication to HDTV. To control the minimum decoding complexity required at the decoder, the MPEG-4 Visual standard defines the co-called video buffering mechanism, which includes three video buffer models. Among them, the VCV(Video Complexity Verifier) defines the control of the processing speed for decoding of a macroblock, there are two models: VCV and B-VCV distinguishing the boundary and non-boundary MB. This paper presents the evaluation results of decoding complexity by measuring decoding time of a MB for rectangular, arbitrarily shaped video objects and the various types of objects supporting the resolution of HDTV using the optimized MPEG-4 Reference Software. The experimental results shows that decoding complexity varies depending on the coding type and more effective usage of decoding resources may be possible.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.12-18
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel method which efficiently codes $4{\times}4$ intra prediction modes in H.264/ AVC video encoding. There are nine optional prediction modes for each $4{\times}4$luma block and 4 modes for each $16{\times}16$luma block. To code each $4{\times}4$ intra prediction mode, lots of bits are required. To efficiently compress the intra mode bits in H.264/AVC, the most probable mode(MPM) is estimated by using the intra modes of the adjacent blocks, since intra modes for neighboring $4{\times}4$luma blocks are correlated. In this paper, a novel method for estimating the MPM is proposed by using the statistical distribution of intra modes of adjacent intra blocks. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a coding gain of about 0.1dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.70-79
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• 2007

H.264/AVC has many repeated computation for motion estimation. Because of that, it takes much time to encode and it is very hard to implement into a real-time encoder. Many fast algorithms were proposed to reduce computation time but encoding quality couldn't be qualified. In this paper we proposed a new motion vector prediction method for efficient and fast full search H.264/AVC motion estimation. We proposed independent motion vector prediction and SAD share for motion estimation. Using our algorithm, motion estimation reduce calculation complexity 80% and less distortion of image (less PSNR drop) than previous full search scheme. We simulated our proposed method. Maximum Y PSNR drop is about 0.04 dB and average bit increasing is about 0.6%.