• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제31권5C호
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• pp.490-496
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• 2006

H.264 is the most recent video coding standard, containing improved error resilience tools than previous video compression schemes. This paper shows an analysis of the dependency of error concealment (EC) performance on the expected number of correctly received neighboring macroblock(MB)s for a lost MB, applying error concealment schemes to the raster scan mode that is used in the previous video coding standard and the flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) which is one of error-resilience tools in H.264. We also present simulation results and performance evaluation with various packet loss rates. Simulation results show that the FMO mode provides better EC performances of $1{\sim}9dB$ PSNR improvements compared to the raster scan mode because of larger expected number of correctly received neighboring MBs. The PSNR improvement by FMO mode becomes higher as the intra-frame period is larger and the packet loss rate is higher.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제32권10C호
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• pp.950-958
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• 2007

This paper presents an efficient packet loss resilient scheme for real-time video transmission over the Internet. By analyzing the temporal and spatial dependencies in inter- and intra-frames, we assign forward error correction codes (FEC) across video packets for minimizing the effect of error concealment and error propagation from packet loss. To achieve optimal allocation of FEC codes, we formulate the effect of packet loss on video quality degradation as packet distortion model. Then we propose an unequal FEC assignment scheme with low complexity based on packet correction rate, which uses the packet distortion model and includes channel status information. Simulation results show that the proposed FEC assignment scheme gives substantial improvement for the received video quality in packet lossy networks. Furthermore the proposed scheme achieves relatively smaller degradation of video quality with higher packet loss rates.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제30권11C호
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• pp.1068-1075
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• 2005

In this paper we propose a video coding method and associated packetization and decoding methods for error resilient transmission over the Internet. The proposed method re-organizes the input image into several mutually similar subimages. For this case, if the one of the subimage is lost in the network, the lost one is recovered by the proposed error concealment method which uses the correctly received other subimages. The performance of the proposed method is confirmed by the empirical results. The proposed method is not limited to the Internet communications but is applicable to the other packet-based networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제34권1C호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2009

When H.264 encoded video streams are transmitted over wireless network, packet loss is unavoidable. Responding on this environment, we propose methods to recover missed motion vector in the decoder: At first, A candidate vector set for missing macroblock is estimated from high correlation coefficient of neighboring motion vectors and missing block vectors the algorithm clusters candidate vectors through distances amongst motion vectors of neighboring blocks. Then the optimal candidate vector is determined by the median value of the clustered motion vector set. In next stage, from the candidate vector set, the final candidate vector of missing block is determined it has minimum distortion value considering directions of neighboring pixels' boundary. Test results showed that the proposed algorithm decreases the candidate motion vectors $23{\sim}61%$ and reduces $3{\sim}4sec$ on average processing(decoding) time comparing the existing H.264 codec. The PSNR, in terms of visual quality is similar to existing methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.227-238
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• 2000

This paper, at first, provides analysis on loss pattern of Internet based on real experiments of the current Internet. Then, we propose an effective adaptive QoS management technique, in which measured loss pattern as well as PLR (Packet Loss Ratio) are used to select titrate of temporal scalability. level of FEC and retransmission This selection is also incorporated to the MPEG-4 error resilience tools and error concealment techniques. In order to minimize effect of packet loss, multimedia stream is segmented in the unit of group of Pictures (GOP) and interleaving and FEC are applied to the segment. Proposed algorithms are applied to build a VOD system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.641-651
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표논문집(상)
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• pp.449-454
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• 2002

네트워크 혼잡으로 인한 패킷 손실은 인터넷 망에서는 필수 불가결이고, 압축된 비디오 비트 스트림을 인터넷 망에 전송할 경우 공-시간적 도메인상에 에러 전파을 야기하므로 화질에 심각한 화질열화를 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 수신측에서 손상된 영상 일부분을 복구하기 위하여 새로운 에러 은닉 알고리즘인 EBMA(Edge detecting for Boundary Matching Algorithm)를 제안한다. 기존 BMA는 부호화된 인접한 블록의 움직임벡터들이 상당히 높은 유사도 혹은 상관도 (correlation)를 갖고 있다는 점과 손실블록과 인접블록 경계에 존재하는 화소간의 유사도를 이용하기 때문에 비교적 신뢰할 수 있지만, 손실블록과 정확히 복원된 인접블록 화소간의 방향성을 고려하지 않는 단점이 있다. 따라서 제안한 알고리즘은 에지영역을 검출하고, 검출된 에지영역에서 방향성을 조사하므로 기존 BMA 방법 보다 성능이 향상되었다. 실험결과는 제안한 알고리즘이 기존 BMA 방법보다 계산 및 화질측면에서 우월하였을 뿐만 아니라, PSNR 값과 주관적인 화질상에서도 좋은 결과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2002

As the MPEG streaming traffics are transmitted over the Internet, MPEG packet losses cause error propagation in both spatial and temporal domains which in turn leads to severe degradation in image quality. This image degradation is become worse by the bursty packet loss at the network. In this paper, we propose a new error spreading method to reduce the effects of bursty packet losses over the Internet. The proposed error spreading method spreads out the not utilize packet losses widely, and can be used for videocasting and video-broadcasting that do not utilize the ARQ method. The proposed method can not only reduce the consecutive losses of image blocks, but also improve the performance of error concealment. Experimental results show that the deterioration of MPEG video quality can be reduced by spreading out the MPEG packet losses.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.512-517
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• 2018

Improving voice quality is a major concern in telecommunications. In this paper, we propose a robust speech quality enhancement against background noise and packet loss at VoIP (Voice-over-IP) receiver. The proposed method combines network jitter estimation based on hybrid Markov chain, adaptive playout scheduling using the estimated jitter, and speech enhancement based on restoration of amplitude and phase to enhance the quality of the speech signal arriving at the VoIP receiver over IP network. The experimental results show that the proposed method removes the background noise added to the speech signal before encoding at the sender side and provides the enhanced speech quality in an unstable network environment.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.247-256
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a packet loss concealment (PLC) algorithm using pitch harmonic motion prediction and adaptive signal amplitude prediction and. The spectral motion prediction method divides the spectral motion of the previous usable frame into predetermined sub-bands to predict and restore the motion of the lost signal. In the proposed algorithm, the speech signal is classified into voiced and unvoiced sounds. In the case of voiced sounds, it is further divided into pitch harmonics using the pitch frequency to predict and restore the pitch harmonic motion of the lost frame, and for the unvoiced sound, the lost frame is restored using the spectral motion prediction method. When the continuous loss of speech frames occurs, a method of adjusting the gain using the least mean square (LMS) predictor is proposed. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated through the objective evaluation method, PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) and was showed MOS 0.1 improvement over the conventional method.