• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.496-498
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• 2004

트랜스코딩은 이미 압축된 비디오를 이질적인 클라이언트에게 적응적으로 전달하기 위한 해결책이다. 일반적으로, 계산량을 줄이기 위해서 제안된 트랜스코딩 기법들은 비디오 화질의 열화를 발생시키고 그와 반대의 경우는 많은 계산량을 초래한다. 이와 같은 계산량과 화질 사이의 문제를 해결하기 위해서 여러가지 측면이 연구되어 왔다. 하지만. 대부분의 연구가 트랜스코더 내부에 한정되어 있었고, 서버 측과의 상호작용을 통한 성능 향상에 대한 연구는 적었다. 멀티미디어 데이터를 전력과 성능이 낮은 단말기 또는 낮은 대역폭의 네트워크에 속한 이질적인 클라이언트에 서비스할 때 트랜스코더 자체의 해결 방안에 서버 측에의 특정 잡업을 추가할 경우 트랜스코더에서 실제 처리해야 하는 프레임의 개수를 줄일 수 있는 서비스 효율의 향상을 기대할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 효율적인 트랜스코더와 서대 측 기반의 알고리즘을 함께 고려하여 계산 처리 과정을 줄일 수 있는 트랜스코더 시스템 구조를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04d
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• pp.611-613
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• 2003

비디오 트랜스코딩을 수행할 때 트랜스코더에서 움직임 벡터를 새로 추출하는 과정은 많은 계산 처리량이 요구된다. 그러므로 실시간으로 비디오스트림을 트랜스코딩하기에는 문제점이 발생한다. 비디오 트랜스코더는 계산복잡도를 감소시키기 위해서 트랜스코더의 인코더부분에서 추출된 움직임 벡터를 트랜스코더의 디로더 부분으로 바로 전송하는 기법을 이용하고 있다. 이러한 기법은 비디오 화질저하를 발생시키므로, 해결책으로 기존의 움직임 벡터를 트랜스코더에서 탐색영역을 작게 하여 정재하는 기법에 관한 연구가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 프레임을 감소시키기 위한 트랜스코딩을 수행할 때 움직임벡터를 구성하는 방법에 대해서 기존의 연구들과 비교하여 개선된 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 매크로블록이 차지하고 있는 각각의 블록에 대해서 가중치를 적용한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.6 s.44
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• pp.227-235
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• 2006

MPEG-21's digital item adaptation technology becomes a new way for universal multimedia access. It needs transcoder to change media resource's format and so on according to delivery context Then, the use of heavy transcoder with various transcoding functions integrated into one altogether is so complicated and difficult in supporting universal multimedia access. Unit transcoder Is useful is to resolve this question, in which a transcoder has only one transcoding function. This requires considering how to compose a set of unit transcoders. Thus, given a set for end-to-end different service quality pairs according to the character of application as defined by user, this study suggests how to compose complete unit transcoders that can always create one and more transcoding path(s) for each pair in the set. This method has a question of creating too many transcoding paths for each pair or end-to-end different service quality. Thus, this study also suggests the algorithm that generates minimum unit transcoder sets to support multimedia adaptation with minimum unit transcoder. The algorithm suggested was implemented into multimedia stream engine, and this paper describes the results of experiment for this algorithm.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.4 s.100
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• pp.451-458
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• 2005

The transcoding is a solution which is able to adapt to heterogeneous clients of requesting a different playback rate of multimedia data. Thus, The transcoding needs decoding and encoding. In general, previous studies to reduce complexity have a problem, the degradation of visual quality On the contrary, previous studies to reduce the degradation of visual quality lead to heavy computation. Thus, many researchers have studied a solution between the complexity and the degradation of visual quality. But until now, most researches of this region have dealt with the transcoder itself, such researches about a server's assistance to improve the performance of transcoder is rarely studied. In case of servicing multimedia data to heterogeneous clients which have low capabilities, the assistance of server side is able to reduce frames with processing in the transcoder and improve the performance of the transcoder. Thus in this paper, we propose the frame-skipping transcoder system architecture that takes into consideration transcoder and server side to reduce the complexity of the transcoder.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.507-511
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose to enhance the performance of software transcoder by using GPGPU for scaling filters. Video transcoding is a technique that translates a video file to another video file that has a different coding algorithm and/or a different frame size. Its demand increases as more multimedia devices with different specification coexist in our daily life. Since transcoding is computationally intensive, a software transcoder that runs on a CPU takes long processing time. In this paper, we achieve significant speed-up by parallelizing the scaling filter using a GPGPU that can provide significantly large computation power. Through extensive experiments with various video scripts of different size and with various scaling filter options, it is verified that the enhanced transcoder could achieve 36% performance improvement in the default option, and up to 101% in a certain option.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.573-576
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• 2002

본 고의 멀티미디어 캐시 시스템은 이동 단말기의 보급 &발달로 예상되는 트랜스코더 부하의 증가와 응답 시간을 개선 하기 위한 것으로 기존의 웹 문서의 캐시 시스템과 비교 분석 하고, 빈번한 이동 단말기의 요구에 의해서 발생하는 많은 트랜스코더 작업을 최소화 할 수 있는 XML 기반의 캐시시스템을 연구 하고자 한다. 즉, 기존의 웹 캐시 시스템의 장점과 XML의 재 사용 성, 확장 성, 플랫폼 독립성, 다양한 종류의 응용 프로그램과의 접목 성 등의 장점을 살리고, 캐시 시스템 Manager에 의해 최소환의 트랜스코더 동작이 일어나도록 한다. 따라서 트랜스코더 된 작업을 캐시 시스템에 보관 관리하는 최적의 캐시 시스템 관리 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.139-148
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• 2005

The desired level for multimedia services in the mobile web environment, the next generation web environment, is expected to be of PC level quality. And great efforts have been made in the development of hadware technology, communication technology, various kinds of services and standardization to support these services, In the mobile web environment, multimedia contents adaptation services should be available through supporting various kinds of devices, network abilities and users' preferences. It means that due to the variety of both desired devices' hardware specifications, called destinations, and desired QoSes, the QoSes in the destinations are not fixed or defined. If a new user wants to stream multimedia contents in a server through a new kind of terminal device, it should be considered whether the existing transcoders are able to adapt the multimedia contents. However, the existing libraries for multimedia adaptation have heavy transcoder figures which include all adaptive functions in one library, The challenge of universal access is too complex to be solved with these all in one solutions. Therefore, in this paper we propose an application independent multimedia adaptation framework which meets the QoS of new and varied mobile devices. This framework is composed of a group of unit transcoders having only one transcoding function respectively, Instead of heavy transcoders. Also, It includes the transcoder manager supporting the dynamic connections of the unit transcoders in order to satisfy end to end QoS.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.313-322
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• 2005

In order to access digital items in a server via ubiquitous devices, the digital items should be adapted according to the system environment, device characteristics and user preferences. In ubiquitous environment, those device-dependent adaptation requirements are not statically determined and not predictable. Therefore an application specific adaptation mechanism can not be applied to a general digital item adaptation engine. In this paper, we propose an application independent digital item adaptation architecture which has a set of minimal transcoders, transcoding path generator for a required adaptation requirement, and adaptation scheduler. And a CFG based method of finding a sequence of multiple unit transcoders called a transcoding path Is described in detail followed by experimental results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.652-663
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• 2002

Recently, many advanced video application services over the mobile wireless networks have required a transcoder which can efficiently reduce the size of compressed video bitstreams. The transcoder can be worked in either the spatial domain or the DCT domain. In this paper, we propose a new fast hybrid-type transcoder which can efficiently reduce the frame size with keeping the visual quality. The proposed scheme consists of two major processes: a transform domain process and a spatial domain process. We also propose a scheme for coding mode selection and motion vector refinement. Experimental results show that our approach can reduce the computational complexity more than any other conventional spatial-domain transcoder with keeping the visual quality.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.231-240
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• 2014

Video transcoding techniques provide an efficient mechanism to make a video content adaptive to the capabilities of a variety of clients. However, it is hard to provide an appropriate quality-of-service(QoS) to the clients owing to heavy workload on transcoding operations. In light of this fact, this paper presents the dual transcoding method in order to guarantee QoS in streaming services by maximizing resource usage in a transcoding server equipped with both CPU and GPU computing units. The CPU and GPU computing units have different architectural features. The proposed method speculates workload of incoming transcoding requests and then schedules the requests either to the CPU or GPU accordingly. From performance evaluation, the proposed dual transcoding method achieved a speedup of 1.84 compared with traditional transcoding approach.