• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1086-1092
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose the rate control scheme reducing frame skipping at low bit-rate. As the method considering lossy parts in the compressing process at the existing scheme, the proposed scheme is improved by subtracting the converted bits from the target bit-rate of the current frame. The converted bits are the value resulted from multiplying the ratio of the current frame MAD to the previous frame MAD by the compressed bits changed from the remaining values after compressing the previous frame.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.86-89
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC 비디오의 고속 부호화를 구현 하기 위하여 인터 프레임 상에서 움직임 벡터의 상관관계를 이용한 빠른 인트라 모드 스킵 알고리즘을 보인다. 제안한 인트라 모드 스킵은 이웃 블록 사이의 움직임 벡터간의 상관관계와 이전 프레임의 매크로블록(Macroblock)의 모드를 이용하여 인트라 예측을 생략함으로써 계산량을 줄이는 방법이다. 새로운 물체가 나타나거나 복잡한 움직임을 보이는 매크로블록들이 인트라 모드로 결정될 확률이 높기 때문에, 주변블록의 분산을 이용하여 임계값을 계산하고, 현재 매크로블록의 분산값과 비교하여 조건에 맞는 매크로블록에 대해 인트라 예측을 생략한다. 또한 시간적 상관관계가 높은 이전 프레임의 같은 위치의 매크로블록의 모드가 인트라 모드로 선택 되었을 경우, 인트라 예측을 실행한다. 제안한 방법으로 실험하였을 때, 기존의 논문과 비교하여 부호화 시간이 평균 26.02% 정도 감소하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.257-267
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• 2014

Distributed compressive video sensing (DCVS) is a low cost sampling paradigm for video coding based on the compressive sensing and the distributed video coding. In this paper, we propose using a skip-mode coding in DCVS under the assumption that in case of high temporal correlation, temporal interpolation can guarantee sufficiently good quality of nonkey frame, therefore no need to transmit measurement data in such a nonkey frame. Furthermore, we extend it to use a hierarchical structure for better temporal interpolation. Simulation results show that the proposed skip-mode coding can save the average subrate of whole video sequence while the PSNR is reduced only slightly. In addition, by using the proposed scheme, the computational complexity is also highly decreased at decoder on average by 43.75% for video sequences that have strong temporal correlation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.245-254
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• 2006

In this work, a new rate control algorithm for transmission of H.264/AVC video bit stream through CBR(constant bit rate) channel is proposed. The proposed algorithm predicts target bit rate and MAD(mean of absolute difference) for current frame considering image complexity variance between neighboring backward and current images. In details, respective linear regression analysis for MAD and encoded bit rate against image complexity variance produce correlation parameters. Additionally, it uses frame skip technique to maintain bit stream within a manageable range and protect buffer from overflow or underflow. Implementation and experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can provide accurate bit allocation, and can effectively visual degradation after scene changes. Also our proposed algorithm encodes the video sequences with less frame skipping compared to the existing rate control for H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.523-531
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• 2009

In this study, we propose a joint source/channel rate control algorithm for video encoder targeting packet erasure channel. Based on the buffer constraints of video communication systems, encoding rate constraint is presented. After defining source distortion models for coded and skipped video frames and a channel distortion model for packet errors and their propagation, an average distortion model of received video is proposed for a given encoding window. Finally, we define an optimization problem to minimize the average distortion for given channel rates and packet loss rates by controlling spatio-temporal parameters of source video and FEC block sizes. Then, we propose a window-based algorithm to solve the problem in real-time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.26-39
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• 2007

In recent years, rate control is an important technique in real time video communication applications using H.264/AVC. Many existing rate control algorithms employ the quadratic rate-distortion model, which is determine the target bits for each P frame. In this paper, a new rate control algorithm for transmission of H.264/AVC video bit stream through CBR(Constant Bit Rate) channel is proposed. The proposed algorithm predicts an adaptive QP(Quantization Parameter) for improving video distortion, due to high motion and abruptly scene change, which target bit rate and MAD(Mean of Absolute Difference) for current frame considering image complexity variance between previous and current frames. Additionally, it uses frame skip technique to maintain bit stream within a manageable range and protect buffer from overflow or underflow. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives a quality improvement of about 0.5dB when compared to previous rate control algorithm. Also our proposed algorithm encodes the video sequences with less frame skipping compared to the existing rate control for H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.1 s.30
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• pp.116-129
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• 2006

The progress of data transmission technology through the Internet has spread a variety of realistic contents. One of such contents is multi-view video that is acquired from multiple camera sensors. In general, the multi-view video processing requires encoders and decoders as many as the number of cameras, and thus the processing complexity results in difficulties of practical implementation. To solve for this problem, this paper considers a simple multi-view system utilizing a single encoder and a single decoder. In the encoder side, input multi-view YUV sequences are combined on GOP units by a video mixer. Then, the mixed sequence is compressed by a single H.264/AVC encoder. The decoding is composed of a single decoder and a scheduler controling the decoding process. The goal of the scheduler is to assign approximately identical number of decoded frames to each view sequence by estimating the decoder utilization of a Gap and subsequently applying frame skip algorithms. Furthermore, in the frame skip, efficient frame selection algorithms are studied for H.264/AVC baseline and main profiles based upon a cost function that is related to perceived video quality. Our proposed method has been performed on various multi-view test sequences adopted by MPEG 3DAV. Experimental results show that approximately identical decoder utilization is achieved for each view sequence so that each view sequence is fairly displayed. As well, the performance of the proposed method is examined in terms of bit-rate and PSNR using a rate-distortion curve.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.164-166
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• 2012

최근 스마트 기기의 보급과 무선 인터넷망의 보급으로 언제 어디에서나 비디오를 시청할 수 있다. 하지만 무선 인터넷 망의 품질이 안좋을 경우 영상의 QoS(Quality of Service)를 낮춰 프레임을 스킵하여 전송하게 된다. 이 때 FRUC(Frame Rate Up Conversion)기술을 적용한다면 원본의 프레임 레이트를 확보할 수 있어 QoS를 높일 것으로 기대한다. FRUC에서 MV(Motion Vector)추정시에 연산량이 매우 높아서 스마트 기기에 적용하는 것이 어렵지만 H.264코덱으로 인코딩된 동영상은 자체적으로 MV정보를 갖고 있기 때문에 이 MV를 FRUC에 적용할 수 있다면 FRUC의 연산량을 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 이를 위해서 H.264에 적용된 ME(Motion Estimation)와 FRUC에 적용된 ME의 차이를 고려하여 H.264코덱의 MV가 유용한지 분석하는 것이 선행돼야 한다. 본 논문에서는 H.264 MV와 FRUC의 MV의 차이를 분석하고 유용성을 판단하는 실험을 통해 H.264로 인코딩 된 비디오의 MV중 상당수가 FRUC에 적합함을 확인했다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.355-366
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• 2002

This paper introduces the MPEG-4 video frame-based bitrate control methodology using two dimensional history pool and a sliding window. Proposed method preferentially clusters the encoded results according to the image characteristics and stores those results into the 2 dimensional history pool. Among the stored results in the pool, the sliding window collects the encoded results whose characteristics are very similar to the image frame to be encoded. Feedback regression is finally carried out bated on the collected results. Therefore proposed method can actively adapt to the rapid varying image characteristics by reducing the occurrences of the extrapolations when determining the quantization steps. Proposed method has better performances than the MPEG-4 frame-based bitrate control algorithm by evaluating with the actually encoded bits per frame, encoded PSNR's, and frame skips.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.191-194
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• 2012

The split flag and the skip flag in CU syntax have high correlation on spatial domain as well as temporal domain. This paper suggests a method for enhancing coding efficiency by using not only spatial correlation but also temporal correlation when coding CU information. In the CABAC case, temporal collocated CU information is used for selecting context model of the split flag and the skip flag. In the CAVLC case, current CU information is estimated from temporal collocated CU information then encoded. As a result, a coding efficiency was increased by 0.1%~0.6% in CABAC, 0.1%~0.4% in CAVLC compared with HM 3.0. This method shows better performance on lowdelay condition which uses reference frame close to current frame.