• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.83-90
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• 2008

EThe digitalized image information has various resolution, and it has been developed for several technologies to resize image depending on user's requests and applications. Recently the algorithm using edge information for good image/video quality on up-sampling was introduced, and the pre-processing procedure is required for edge extraction. Than, the predicted direction in intra prediction used in H.264/AVC has the similarity up to 80% for the edge information, so I propose the image up-sampling method using edge information. In proposed method, the image quality is similar to result of adapting n'th kernel. and the method reduces the number of calculation by about 50%.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.949-950
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• 2008

The intra prediction technique is the one of the key factors to the success of H.264. There are nine optional prediction modes for each $4{\times}4$ luma block and 4 modes for each $16{\times}16$ luma block. To reduce the intra mode bits efficiently, 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 new 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 Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2285-2291
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• 2011

In this paper, H.264 high profile intra frame encoder, which integrates intra prediction, context-based adaptive variable length coding(CAVLC), and DDR2 memory control module, is proposed. The designed encoder can be operated in 440 cycle for one-macroblock. In order to verify the encoder function, we developed the reference C from JM 13.2 and verified the developed hardware using test vector generated by reference C. The designed encoder is verified in the FPGA (field programmable gate array) with operating frequency of 200 MHz for DMA (direct memory access), operating frequency of 50 MHz of Encoder module, and 25 MHz for VIM(video input module). The number of LUT is 43099, which is about 20 % of Virtex 5 XC5VLX330.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.165-173
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• 2004

H.264 is the newest international video coding standard that provides high coding efficiency. A macroblock in H.264 has 7 different motion-compensation block sizes in the Inter mode, and several different prediction directions in the Intra mode. In order to achieve as highest coding efficiency as possible, H.264 reference model employs complex mode decision technique based on rate-distortion (RD) optimization which requires high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose two techniques -'early SKIP mode decision' and 'selective intra mode decision' - which can further reduce the computational complexity. Simulation results show that without considerable performance degradation, the proposed methods reduce encoding time by 30% on average and save the number of computing rate-distortion cost by 72%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1172-1179
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• 2006

Recently, the H.264/AVC, which was standardized jointly by ISO/IEC and ITU-T, has been expanding its applications in various areas. This standard includes many advanced component techniques compared to the existing MPEG techniques. Intra prediction which is to predict the spatial data in an intra frame in one of them. But it has a serious defect that it needs large amount of calculation. To overcome this defect, this paper proposed a method to reduce about 60% of the amount of calculation with only O.02dB of image quality degradation. This method determines the calculation directly without much pre-calc cluation process by referring the left block(s) and upper blocks(s) that were processd already. Comparing to the exi sting methods, its image quality degradation is so small that it is expected to be used in many areas. Especially in the wireless appliances such as DMB phone which has restricted power source, we expect it would be used efficiently.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.591-597
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a improved rate distortion optimization (RDO) for H.264 intra coding. By using new mode decision criteria pass for $I4{\times}4$ in company with the original RDO, the proposed method can achieve the better coding efficiency comparing with the original RDO. Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can archive about $0.64{\sim}1.6578%$ bit rate decrease at the same PSNR and $0.049{\sim}0.101dB$ PSNR increase at the same bit rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2013

High Efficiency Video Coding 비디오 표준은 다양한 분할방식 및 35가지 예측모드를 허용하기 때문에 최적의 분할 및 예측모드를 결정하기 위한 연산량이 많다. 이를 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 CU분할의 결정에 있어 가설검정을 이용하여 early splitting 및 early pruning을 위한 임계값을 설정하고, early splitting의 경우 연산의 결과값이 임계값보다 클 경우, early pruning의 경우 연산의 결과값보다 임계값보다 작을 경우 CU의 분할을 조기에 결정하는 논문[1]의 방법을 차용하여 CU의 분할을 조기에 결정하며, 추가로 비트율 및 왜곡을 연산하는 예측모드의 개수를 줄임으로써 인코더의 성능을 향상시켰다. 또한 예측모드를 결정할 때 RDOQ를 수행하지 않음으로써 예측모드를 빠르게 결정하며, TU의 분할에 있어서도 CBF의 값 및 임계값을 이용한 early pruning 방법을 수행하여 인코더의 성능을 향상시켰다. 실험결과 5.9%의 luma BDRate의 증가가 있었으나, 63.7%의 인코딩 시간이 절감되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.805-807
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• 2005

H.264/AVC의 프레임내 예측기법은 현 매크로블록의 이웃픽셀들로부터 예측값을 추출함으로써 인트라 픽처의 압축률을 높이는데 크게 기여했다. 그러나 모든 매크로블록에 대해 총 17가지의 후보 모드를 검사해야 하기 때문에, 전체 부호화기의 복잡도를 상당히 상승시키는 요인이기도 하다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위해, 기존의 움직임 추정 전용 하드웨어로 주로 사용되는 1차원 시스톨릭 어레이 구조에 부가적인 하드웨어를 장착하여, 움직임 추정뿐만 아니라 프레임 내 예측까지 가능한 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 병렬적으로 끊김이 없는 수행을 위해 프레임내 예측 알고리즘을 약간 수정했으나, 이것은 화질이나 비트스트림 크기에 영향을 거의 미치지 않는다. 제안된 구조는 연산에 대한 명령어 개수로 비교할 때, ARM 기반 시스템에서 얻을 수 있는 성능의 10배에서 40배에 달하는 높은 성능을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.161-163
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• 2010

한국의 DMB 서비스는 이미 대중화되어 많은 이용자들이 편리하게 이용하고 있으나, 송출되는 DMB 컨텐츠의 해상도에 비해 현재 대부분의 디스플레이 장치들은 더 높은 해상도를 지원하고 있으며 따라서 다양한 방법의 영상 재표본화 기술을 채용하고 있다. 특히 휴대용 장비의 경우 연산량 문제로 저품질의 영상을 제공하게 되고 따라서 이용자들의 만족도가 떨어지게 되었다. 일반적으로 주관적인 영상의 품질은 영상 내 개체에 대한 인식률에 따라 결정되며 에지에서의 개체 간 구분이 명확할수록 증가한다. 본 연구에서는 H.264 동영상 부호화 방법에서 사용되는 인트라 예측 정보와 Total Coefficient 정보를 이용하여 에지 정보를 추출하고 이에 따라 선택적으로 보간법을 적용하여 최대한 연산량을 줄이면서 선명함을 유지할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.