• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.67-70
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 HEVC(high efficiency video coding)의 후처리 필터 중 하나인 적응적 샘플 오프셋(sample adaptive offset, SAO) 기술을 고속화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 SAO 는 원 영상과 복원된 영상간의 오차를 최소화하기 위해 각 블록마다 오프셋 값을 계산하므로 연산 복잡도가 매우 높다. 따라서 제안한 방법에서는 다양한 입력 영상에 대한 오프셋 사용빈도를 알아보고, 그 통계를 기반으로 불필요한 오프셋 연산을 생략한다.

• 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.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.503-518
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a complexity-based parallelization method of the sample adaptive offset (SAO) algorithm which is one of HEVC in-loop filters. The SAO algorithm can be regarded as region-based process and the regions are obtained and represented with a quad-tree scheme. A offset to minimize a reconstruction error is sent for each partitioned region. The SAO of the HEVC can be parallelized in data-level. However, because the sizes and complexities of the SAO regions are not regular, workload imbalance occurs with multi-core platform. In this paper, we propose a LCU-based SAO algorithm and a complexity prediction algorithm for each LCU. With the proposed complexity-based LCU processing, we found that the proposed algorithm is faster than the sequential implementation by a factor of 2.38 times. In addition, the proposed algorithm is faster than regular parallel implementation SAO by 21%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.391-396
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• 2013

In this paper, for HEVC decoding, an SAO hardware design with less processing time and reduced area is proposed. The proposed SAO hardware architecture introduces the design processing $8{\times}8$ CU to reduce the hardware area and uses internal registers to support $64{\times}64$ CU processing. Instead of previous top-down block partitioning, it uses bottom-up block partitioning to minimize the amount of calculation and processing time. As a result of synthesizing the proposed architecture with TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ library, the gate area is 30.7k and the maximum frequency is 250MHz. The proposed SAO hardware architecture can process the decode of a macroblock in 64 cycles.

• 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.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.57-63
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• 2003

For the dectection of small cavity in the hard rock, we investigated the feasibility of crosswell travel-time tomography and Kirchhoff migration technique. In travel-time tomography, first arrival anomaly caused by small cavity was investigated by numerical modeling based on the knowledge of actual field information. First arrival delay was very small (<0.125 msec) and detectable receiver offset range was limited to 4m with respect to $1\%$ normalized first arrival anomaly. As a consequence, it was turned out that carefully designed survey array with both sufficient narrow spatial spacing and temporal (<0.03125 msec) sampling were required for small cavity detection. Also, crosswell Kirchhoff migration technique was investigated with both numerical and real data. Stack section obtained by numerical data shows the good cavity image. In crosswell seismic data, various unwanted seismic events such as direct wave and various mode converted waves were alto recorded. To remove these noises und to enhance the diffraction signal, combination of median and bandpass filtering was applied and prestack and stacked migration images were created. From this, we viewed the crosswell migration technique as one of the adoptable method for small cavity detection.