• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.200-201
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• 2010

블록 기반의 적응적 루프 필터(BALF : Block Adaptive Loop Filter)는 압축 성능에 있어서 상당히 높은 효율을 보이는 기술 중 하나이다. BALF는 복원된 영상을 원본 영상에 최대한 유사하게 만드는 Weiner 필터계수와 해당 필터가 적용될 영역에 대한 정보를 복원된 영상에 적용함으로써 화질을 높일 수 있다. 그러나 BALF는 단위블록 전체에 대해 하나의 필터를 생성하여 적용하는 방법으로, 블록 내부에서 구분되는 신호적 특성을 따로 분류하지 않는다. 그러므로 BALF는 높은 부호화 성능을 보이는 반면, 높은 복호화 복잡도를 요구한다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 필터가 적용될 블록을 내부와 경계 영역으로 나누어 경계 영역을 위한 필터를 구분하여 생성하는 루프필터를 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존의 BALF에 비해 부호화 성능이 저하되지만, 필터를 적용할 영역을 선택 가능하게 함으로써 복호화 복잡도를 조절할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안한 방법의 실험결과, 기존의 방법인 BALF에 대하여 블록의 경계 영역 필터를 사용할 경우, 약 3.77%의 부호화 성능 저하에 대하여 약 33.76%의 필터링 속도 향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.237-239
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) 복호화기의 SAO (Sample Adaptive Offset)를 효율적으로 병렬화하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. HEVC 는 주관적 화질 향상 및 압축 효율 향상을 위해 디블록킹 필터 (de-blocking filter)와 샘플 적응적 오프셋 (SAO)이라는 두 가지 인-루프 필터를 사용한다. 두 종류의 인-루프 필터의 사용은 HEVC 복호화기의 복잡도를 증가시키는 요인이며, 인-루프 필터에 데이터레벨 병렬화를 적용하여 고속으로 복호화를 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 SAO 의 병렬화를 위해 CTU (Coding Tree Unit)의 행 단위로 병렬화를 수행함으로써, 병렬화로 인한 추가적으로 발생하는 라인 버퍼 사용을 줄여 SAO 병렬화 효율을 향상시켰다. 실험결과 제안하는 SAO 병렬화 방법을 사용하여 균등분할 SAO 병렬화 방법에 비해 91%의 속도를 향상시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.109-112
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• 2005

ATSC 지상파 DTV 시스템에서 심볼 타이밍 동기 성능 개선을 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 일반적으로 심볼 타이밍 동기를 위해 사용되는 가드너 방법은 다중 경로 페이딩 환경에서 성능이 좋지만 지터에 의해 성능 열화가 발생한다. 지터량는 루프 필터 대역폭이 작을수록 작아지지만, 수렴속도는 느려지게 된다. 수렴속도는 빠르면서 수렴 후 지터량를 감소시키기 위해 일정시간마다 루프필터의 출력 값을 평균하고 이 평균값을 이용하여 옵셋량을 추정한 후 추정된 옵셋의 변화율에 따라 루프 필터의 대역폭을 줄여 지터의 크기를 줄이는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.46-54
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity loop filtering method depending on transform-block regions. Block adaptive loop filter (BALF) was developed to improve about 10% in compression performance for the next generation video coding. The BALF employs the Wiener filter that makes reconstructed frames close to the original ones and transmits filter-related information. However, the BALF requires high computational complexity, while it can achieve high compression performance because the block adaptive loop filter is applied to all the pixels in blocks. The proposed method is a new loop filter that classifies pixels in a block into inner and boundary regions based on the characteristics of the integer transform and derives optimum filters for each region. Then, it applies the selected filters for the inner and/or boundary regions. The decoder complexity can be adjusted by selecting region-dependent filter to be used in the decoder side. We found that the proposed algorithm can reduce 35.5% of computational complexity with 2.56% of compression loss, in case that only boundary filter is used.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an adaptive in-loop filter to improve the coding efficiency. Recently, there are post-filter hint SEI and block-based adaptive filter control (BAFC) methods based on the Wiener filter which can minimize the mean square error between the input image and the decoded image in video coding standards. However, since the post-filter hint SEI is applied only to the output image, it cannot reduce the prediction errors of the subsequent frames. Because BAFC is also conducted with a deblocking filter, independently, it has a problem of high computational complexity on the encoder and decoder sides. In this paper, we propose the low-complexity adaptive in-loop filter (LCALF) which has lower computational complexity by using H.264/AVC deblocking filter, adaptively, as well as shows better performance than the conventional method. In the experimental results, the computational complexity of the proposed method is reduced about 22% than the conventional method. Furthermore, the coding efficiency of the proposed method is about 1% better than the BAFC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2003

블록화 현상은 블록 기반의 부호화와 이에 따른 거친 양자화 계수를 적용할 때 나타날 뿐 아니라 블록화가 나타난 블록을 움직임 보상으로 가져와 적용할 때 이후 영상에 전파되게 된다. 이를 방지하기 위해 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC 표준은 부호화 및 복호화 과정에 동시에 포함된 형태의 루프 필터를 적용하였다. 필터는 블록 경계에서 경계 양쪽의 블록 예측 모드에 기반 한 필터의 세기를 결정하고 양자화 계수를 이용한 한계 값과 화소 값윽 비교하여 블록 경계에 적응적으로 적용한다. 이 때 필터의 특성을 결정하는 편차 값을 부호기에서 전송하게 되는데 이 값은 부호기 구현에 따라 달라질 수 있다. 본 논문은 부호화하는 각 영상의 특성을 정의하고 편차 값을 정함으로써 영상에 적응적인 디블로킹 필터 알고리즘을 구현 및 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.335-342
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• 2016

This paper proposes efficient hardware structure of in-loop filter for a high-performance HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) encoder. HEVC uses in-loop filter consisting of deblocking filter and SAO (Sample Adaptive Offset) to improve the picture quality in a reconstructed image due to a quantization error. However, in-loop filter causes an increase in complexity due to the additional encoder and decoder operations. A proposed in-loop filter is implemented as a three-stage pipeline to perform the deblocking filtering and SAO operation with a reduced number of cycles. The proposed deblocking filter is also implemented as a six-stage pipeline to improve efficiency and performs a new filtering order for efficient memory architecture. The proposed SAO processes six pixels parallelly at a time to reduce execution cycles. The proposed in-loop filter encoder architecture is designed by Verilog HDL, and implemented by 131K logic gates in TSMC $0.13{\mu}m$ process. At 164MHz, the proposed in-loop filter encoder can support 4K Ultra HD video encoding at 60fps in real time.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.617-630
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• 2010

At 37th VCEG meeting in Jan. 2009, Toshiba proposed Quadtree-based Adaptive Loop Filter (QALF). The basic concept of QALF is to apply Wiener filter to decoded image after the conventional deblocking filter and to represent the filter on/off flag data for each basic filtering unit in a more efficient way of quadtree structure. QALF could enhance the compression performance of around more than 9%, but the structure of one filter for a decoded frame leaves room for further improvement in the sense that optimal filter for one region of a frame could quite different from the optimal filter for other parts of a picture. This paper proposes multiple adaptive loop filters for better utilization of local characteristics of decoded frame to optimize the region-based Wiener filters. Additional filters, proposed in this paper, cover separate spatial area of each decoded frame according to the performance of previously designed filter(s) to provide the flexibility of rate-distortion based selection of the number of filters.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.10 s.340
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

This Paper Proposes the algorithm for improving the Performance or symbol timing synchronization in hoc terrestrial DTV system. The Gardner algerian is used for symbol timing synchronization has good performance in multipath fading environment but degradation of performance is caused by jitter. Though the amount of jitter becomes more little as narrow bandwidth of loop Inter, convergence speed becomes slower. This paper propose the algorithm that averages out values of loop filter every certain time and gradually reduces the bandwidth of loop filter after estimating offset using this average for the high speed of convergence and reducing the met of jitter. The proposed algorithm has better performance with high speed of convergence and the amount of jitter than conventional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.583-590
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a spatially adaptive post-processing algorithm for H.264 video coding standard to remove blocking artifacts. The loop filter of H.264 increases computational complexity of the encoder. Furthermore it doesn't clearly remove the blocking artifacts, resulting in over-blurring. For overcoming them, we combine the projection method with the Constraint Least Squares(CLS) method to restore the high quality image. To reflect the Human Visual System, we adopt the weight norm CLS method. Particularly pixel location-based local variance and laplacian operator are newly defined for the CLS method. In addition, the fact that correlation among adjoining pixels is high is utilized to constrain the solution space when the projection method is applied. Quantization Index(QP) of H.264 is also used to control the degree of smoothness. The simulation results show that the proposed post-processing filter works better than the loop filter of H.264 and converges more quickly than the CLS method.