• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2009

제한된 채널을 통하여 영상을 전송하고자 할 때 한정된 비트량 에서 최적의 화질을 얻기 위한 비트 할당기법은 영상의 부호화 과정에서 중요한 역할을 하며 중요한 연구 과제이다. H.264/AVC 표준안의 비트율 제어 방식은 영상의 복잡도에 따라 최적의 비트를 할당하는 방식을 사용하지만 첫 번째 프레임인 인트라 프레임에 대한 QP 값을 정확히 예측하지 못하는 문제점을 보인다. 비트율 제어에 있어 인트라 프레임의 복잡도를 예측하여 인트라 프레임에 대하여 할당되는 비트량은 인트라 프레임 이후 영상들의 화질에 큰 영향을 미치게 되므로 인트라 프레임의 복잡도를 예측하여 적절한 QP를 결정 하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 H.264/AVC를 위하여 인트라 모드의 적응적 비트율 제어 기법에 대해 제안한다. 통계적 실험을 통한 인트라 프레임과 인터 프레임과의 선형적 특성을 이용하여 인트라 프레임과 인터 프레임 간의 관계식을 도출한다. 이 관계식을 통하여 인터 프레임 이후에 일어나는 인트라 프레임의 QP 값을 정확하게 예측하는 비트율 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.510-519
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• 2011

Intra mode decision is a useful coding tool in Distributed Video Coding (DVC) for improving DVC coding efficiency for video sequences having fast motion. A major limitation associated with the existing intra mode decision methods, however, is that its efficiency highly depends on user-specified thresholds or modeling parameters. This paper proposes an entropy-based method to address this problem. The probabilities of intra and Wyner?Ziv (WZ) modes are determined firstly by examining correlation of pixels in spatial and temporal directions. Based on these probabilities, entropy of the intra and the WZ modes are computed. A comparison based on the entropy values decides a coding mode between intra coding and WZ coding without relying on any user-specified thresholds or modeling parameters. Experimental results show its superior rate-distortion performance of improvements of PSNR up to 2 dB against a conventional Wyner?Ziv coding without intra mode decision. Furthermore, since the proposed method does not require any thresholds or modeling parameters from users, it is very attractive for real life applications.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.185-195
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an efficient inter and intra prediction algorithms for fast encoding of H.264/AVC. First, inter prediction mode decision method decides early using temporal/spatial correlation information and pixel direction information. Second, intra prediction mode decision method selects block size judging smoothness degree with inner/outer pixel value variation and decides prediction mode using representative pixel and reference pixel. Lastly, adaptive motion search region restriction sets search region using mode information of neighboring block and predicted motion vector. The experimental results show that proposed method can achieve about 18~53% reduction compared with the existing JM 14.1 in the encoding time. In RD performance, the proposed method does not cause significant PSNR value losses while increasing bitrates slightly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.12C
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• pp.1224-1231
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• 2006

This paper proposes a fast encoding algorithm of H.264/AVC multi-view video coding. The amount of data to be encoded for a multi-view video is much more than normal video's data, and the amount of information to be predicted is enormous because of the multi-view video coding uses inter-disparity prediction in addition to inter-motion prediction in conventional video coding. We noticed through an experiment that the efficiency of prediction is getting better in order of intra, inter-disparity, inter-motion, and inter-skip, and proposes a early termination algorithm by means of estimate the adaptive threshold within a GOP unit. In the experiments, the proposed algorithm shows improved processing speed about 32% compared to existing method, and increased amount of bits and distortions are relatively disregardable.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.12C
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• pp.1144-1152
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• 2005

Intra prediction coding is one of the many coding-efficiency oriented tools of H.264/AVC, but it requires high computational complexity. Many fast intra coding algorithms have been proposed to reduce the computational complexity of intra prediction. While most of them have been focused on the mode decision methods themselves, we propose a fast algorithm in which new intra modes are substituted for the conventional intra modes so that the number of intra modes can be reduced. The simulation results show that the proposed method could reduce the encoding time of the overall sequence by $49\%$ without any noticeable degradation of the coding efficiency.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1830-1838
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• 2012

The intra prediction and the motion estimation of inter prediction occupy 70 ~ 80% of whole compression time in H.264/AVC. Compression efficiency has been higher, but complexity has increased and coding time has also increased much more. This paper proposes a block size decision method of the intra prediction and mode decision method which minimize the loss of video quality during the encoding and shorten the time spent. This paper, in addition, proposes an algorithm which determines the method of adaptive block mode for motion estimation of inter prediction. We investigated PSNR and the intra prediction and inter prediction of time-consuming calculations in order to measure video quality degradation and complexity through experiments. Consequently, when you use all three methods, these methods showed that average coding time is shortened as about 500 to 600ms in every frame in the case of all experimented videos, keeping video quality nearly similar, compared with existing methods of H.264.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.293-294
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• 2010

ITU-T와 ISO/IEC의 공동 작업으로 제정 된 H.264/AVC는 기존 비디오 표준들에 비해 동일한 화질에서 약 30%~70%의 비트 량을 절감할 수 있으며, 동일한 비트 량으로 PSNR이 2~3dB 가량 우수한 영상을 제공할 수 있다. H.264/AVC는 인트라 부호화 효율을 높이기 위해 공간 영역에서 주변 화소를 이용하여 $4{\times}4$ luma 예측의 9가지 모드와 $16{\times}16$ luma 예측의 4가지 모드에 대한 비트율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용하여 최적의 인트라 예측 모드를 선택한다. 본 논문에서는 프레임 내에서 공간 중복 성을 더 많이 줄이기 위해 9가지 모드의 $4{\times}4$ luma 예측에 7가지 모드를 추가하여 총16가지의 $4{\times}4$ luma 예측 모델을 제안한다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 제안하는 인트라 예측 모델이 기존 기술에 비해 높은 압축효율을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.120-123
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• 2001

MPEG 동영상 부호화 중 BMA를 이용한 움직임 탐색과정에서, 왜곡척도로 MAD를 사용하는데 이는 블록 내 모든 화소에 동일하게 적용되므로 구획화 현상 등을 일으켜 주관적인 화질을 떨어뜨리는 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 블록 내 화소를 경계 영역과 내부 영역으로 나누어 경계 영역에 대한 MAD를 먼저 구하고, 문턱치를 비교하여 인터블록과 인트라 블록으로 구분하고 인터로 분류된 블록에 대해서만 내부 영역의 MAD를 구하여 최종 보상블록을 결정함으로써 화질을 개선하고 계산량을 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.23-30
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• 2004

In MPEG-4 video, Motion Adaptive Intra Refresh (MAIR) encodes a motion area macroblock in intra mode, thereby preventing the error propagation. Motion area is selected by difference of between current macroblock and previous macroblock. An effective implementation of the AIR is to reduce the maximum refresh time and estimate the error prone macroblock. However in the case or the MAIR, unnecessary macroblock can be encoded in intra mode. in this paper, a bitrate AIR is proposed that reduces the maximum refresh time by estimating the error prone macroblock more efficiently.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 2016

The High Efficiency Video Coding (MPEG-H HEVC/ITU-T H.265) is the newest video coding standard which has the quadtree-structured coding unit (CU). The quadtree-structure splits a CU adaptively, and its optimum CU depth can be determined by rate-distortion optimization. Such HEVC encoding requires very high computational complexity for CU depth decision. Motivated that the blob detection, which is a well-known algorithm in computer vision, detects keypoints in pictures and decision of CU depth needs to consider high frequency energy distribution, in this paper, we propose to utilize these keypoints for fast CU depth decision. Experimental results show that 20% encoding time can be saved with only slightly increasing BDBR by 0.45% on all intra case.