• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1150-1160
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new 3D video coding method for heterogeneous display systems and network infrastructure over enhanced Access Grid (e-AG) using spatio-temporal scalability defined in MPEG-2. The proposed encoder produces several bit-streams for providing temporally and spatially scalable 3D video service. The generated bit-streams can be nelivered with proper spatio-temporal resolution according to network bandwidths and processing speeds, visualization capabilities of client systems. The functionality of proposed spatio-temporal scalability can be exploited for construction of highly scalable 3D video service in heterogeneous distributed environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.826-828
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 이질적인 수신단말들에 효율적인 스테레오 영상전송을 위한 시공간적 계위를 이용한 부호화 방법을 제시하였으며, 각각의 시간적, 공간적 계위의 오버헤드를 분석하였다. 제시된 부호화기는 유연성있는 스테레오 비디오 서비스를 위해서 하나의 영상에 각각 시간적, 공간적으로 확장 가능한 추가적인 비트열을 정의하였다. 실험을 통하여 공간적 계위 오버헤드는 시간적 계위 오버헤드에 비해 상대적으로 크지만, 스테레오 부호화기의 양안차 예측으로 인해 많이 감소됨을 보였다. 제안된 스테레오 비디오 부호화기는 다양한 디스플레이 장치 및 네트워크 환경을 가지는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 위한 효율적인 스테레오 비디오 전송 서비스에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.751-762
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to enhance the quality of multimedia service under the heterogeneous end-terminals and network environment by monitoring the data receiving status of the group members regularly when the sender multicasts real-time multimedia data to a group. Especially, it focuses to reduce the total number of status information responded to the sender from the receivers. Accordingly. it upgrades the sender's performance by suppressing the number of status information packets generated by the receivers. The key idea of this study starts from how we profile the activity of all the members in a group. We assume that the receiver status in the worst status, so called primary receiver, represents the status of the whole group. This means that the whole group is assumed as being degraded in performance if the primary receiver is degraded, and that the whole group is assumed as being upgraded if the primary one is upgraded. In this algorithm, the primary receiver announces its status information to the whole group prior to other receivers, ana every receiver listening to the primary and other receivers' status compares its own status with them. Accordingly, any receiver may give up the status notification in case its status is not worse than others, resulting in the reduction of unnecessary responses to the sender.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.225-235
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new stereoscopic video coding approach for heterogeneous consumer devices by exploiting the concept of spatio-temporal scalability. The proposed method uses MPEG-2 standard for coding the left or main sequence and an enhanced compatible coding scheme for predicting the P- and B-type of frames of the right or auxiliary sequence. The enhanced compatible coding scheme predicts matching block by interpolating both two forward and backward motion predicted macroblocks and disparity predicted macroblock. To provide flexible stereo video service, we define both a temporally scalable layer and a spatially scalable layer for each eye-view. The experimental results show the efficiency of proposed coding scheme by comparison with already known methods and the advantages of disparity estimation in terms of scalability overhead. According to the experimental results, we expect the proposed functionalities will play a key role in establishing highly flexible stereo video service for ubiquitous computing environment where devices and network connections are heterogeneous.