• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.250-265
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• 2007

In this paper, a fast intermode decision scheme is introduced by efficiently performing the mode decision using statistical hypothesis testing for hierarchical B-picture coding of SVC, in which much computational power is expensed for combined variable block sizes and hierarchical B-pictures. The hypothesis testing in the proposed method is performed on $16{\times}16\;and\;8{\times}8$ blocks to have early termination for RD computation of all possible modes. The early termination in intermode decision is performed by comparing the pixel values of current blocks and corresponding motion-compensated blocks. The proposed scheme exhibits effective early termination behavior in intermode decision and leads to a significant reduction up to 69% in computational complexity with slight increment in bit amounts. The degradation of visual quality turns out to be negligible in terms of PSNR values.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.325-337
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• 2020

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is a new video coding standard that is being developed by the Joint Video Experts Team of ISO/IEC/ITU-T and it has adopted various technologies including screen content coding tools. Screen contents have a feature that blocks are likely to have diagonal edges like character regions. If triangular partitioning coding is allowed for screen contents having such the feature, coding efficiency would increase. This paper proposes a intra prediction method using triangular partitioning prediction for screen content coding. Similar to the Triangular Prediction Mode of VVC that supports the triangular partitioning prediction, the proposed method derives two prediction blocks using Horizontal and Vertical modes and then it blends the predicted blocks applying masks with triangle shape to generate a final prediction block. The experimental results of the proposed method showed an average of 1.86%, 1.49%, and 1.55% coding efficiency in YUV, respectively, for VVC screen content test sequences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.204-206
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 template matching을 이용한 PMMVD(Pattern Matched Motion Vector Derivation)기술에 대해 움직임 추정 방식에 따라 복잡도를 분석한다. PMMVD 기술은 HEVC의 화면 간 예측 기술과는 다르게 움직임과 관련된 정보를 부호화하지 않으며, 복호화기에서 움직임 벡터를 추정하는 방식이다. 따라서 종래의 기술 대비 높은 효율이 발생하지만 복호화기의 복잡도는 급격히 증가하게 된다. 이러한 이유로 다양한 움직임 추정 방식에 따라 성능을 분석하여 최적의 조합을 찾는 것은 매우 중요한 이슈임을 알 수 있다. 이를 위하여 현재 JVET(Joint Video Exploration Team)에서 FVC(Future Video Coding)를 위해 발표한 참조 소프트웨이인 JEM 2.0(Joint Exploration Test Model 2)을 이용하여 실험을 수행하고 향후 연구 방향을 논의한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.718-721
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• 2018

This paper presents an inter-prediction technique using deep learning, where a virtual reference frame of the current frame is synthesized by using the reconstructed frames to improve coding efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides 1.9% BD-rate reduction on average as compared to HEVC reference software in the Random Access condition.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.59-65
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• 2011

Korea DMB Service is popularized, and is used by many users. But latest display devices compared to the DMB content resolution support higher resolution and a variety of video resampling technologies has been used. Generally, subjective video quality is determined by object recognition rate in video, and increased as the edge space between objects are more clear. An edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and indicates the boundary between overlapping objects. the predicted direction in intra prediction used in H.264/AVC has the similarity up to 80% for the edge information. In the study, we propose an effective up-sampling mothed using the edge information that is extracted for the relationship between the intra prediction data and the DCT coefficient data of H.264 video encoding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06b
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• pp.35-40
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• 1999

이 논문은 디지털 TV의 압축 비트열을 전송할 때, 채널 오류로 인해 디지털 TV 디코더에서 화면을 재생할 때 발생할 수 있는 화질의 저하를 최소화시키는 방법을 기술한다. 텔레비전과 같은 단방향 방송 시스템에서 전송 도중에 오류가 발생하여 수신측에서 전송 오류를 제대로 정정하기 곤란할 때, 재생된 화면이 심각하게 훼손될 수 있다. 이때 오류로 인한 화면의 손상을 주변의 공간적 또는 시간적 상관 정보를 이용하여 화면을 복원하는 동작을 오류 은폐라고 한다. 최근 디지털 TV나 고선명 TV의 기본 부호화 방식으로 많이 사용하고 있는 MPEG 비디오 표준 방식은 공간적인 중복 정보를 압축하기 위해 DCT 변환을 수행하며, 시간적인 중복 정보를 압축하기 위해 움직임 예측과 움직임 보상 방법을 이용한다. 또한 MPEG 비디오 압축 방식은 일종의 차분 부호화 방법을 사용하기 때문에 현재 화면에서 오류가 발생하면 현재 화면뿐만 아니라, 시간적으로 나중에 부호화된 화면에도 오류가 전파된다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG 비트열의 채널 오류의 영향을 분석하여 화면간에 존재하는 시간적인 중복성을 이용하여 움직임 벡터를 추정하여 손상된 부분을 은폐시키는 방법을 제안한다. 기본적으로 손상된 매크로블록의 위와 아래로 인접한 화소값들을 움직임 벡터의 추정에 사용한다. 제안된 방법들 중에서 주변 움직임 벡터들의 가중치를 이용한 평균값 방법과 초기 움직임 벡터를 이용한 확장 영역 움직임 추정 방법이 우수한 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.891-898
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• 2014

The DVC (Distributed Video Coding) provides a theoretical basis for the implementation of light video encoder. Conventionally, lots of studies have been focused on the codec scheme of Stanford University that has a feedback channel to control the bit rate finely. However, the codec scheme can not evaluate the qualities of the frames reconstructed by the received parity bits at the decoder side. This paper presents an efficient method of estimating distortion by correcting the virtual channel noises in side information and then facilitating the measurements of the visual qualities. Through several simulations, it is shown that the proposed method is very efficient in estimating the visual qualities of the reconstructed WZ frames.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.340-347
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• 2015

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) achieves high coding efficiency by employing a quadtree-based coding unit (CU) block partitioning structure and various prediction units (PUs), and the determination of the best CU partition structure and the best PU mode based on rate-distortion (R-D) cost. However, the computation complexity of encoding also dramatically increases. In this paper, to reduce such encoding computational complexity, we propose three fast PU mode decision methods based on encoding information of upper depth as follows. In the first method, the search of PU mode of the current CU is early terminated based on the sub-CBF (Coded Block Flag) of upper depth. In the second method, the search of intra prediction modes of PU in the current CU is skipped based on the sub-Intra R-D cost of upper depth. In the last method, the search of intra prediction modes of PU in the lower depth's CUs is skipped based on the sub-CBF of the current depth's CU. Experimental results show that the three proposed methods reduce the computational complexity of HM 14.0 to 31.4%, 2.5%, and 23.4% with BD-rate increase of 1.2%, 0.11%, and 0.9%, respectively. The three methods can be applied in a combined way to be applied to both of inter prediction and intra prediction, which results in the complexity reduction of 34.2% with 1.9% BD-rate increase.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.16-21
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• 2014

HEVC is the latest joint video coding standard with ITU-T SG16 WP and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11. Its coding efficiency is about two times compared to H.264 high profile. Intra prediction has 35 directional modes including dc and planer. However an accurate mode decision on lots of modes with SSE is too costly to implement it with hardware. The key idea of this paper is a DCT shared architecture to reduce the complexity of HEVC intra encoder. It is to use same DCT block to quantize as well as to calculate SSE in RDO. The proposed intra encoder uses two step mode decision to lighten complexity with simplified RDO blocks and shares the transform resources. Its BD-rate increase is negligible at 20% on hardware aspect and the operating clock frequency is 300MHz@60fps on FHD ($1920{\times}1080$) image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.397-400
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• 2017

Recently, a lot of images containing various global movements have been generated by the activation of the photographic equipment such as the drone and the action cam. In this case, when the motion such as rotation, scaling is generated, it is difficult to expect a high coding efficiency in the conventional inter-picture prediction method using the 2D motion vector. In this paper, we propose a video coding method that reflects global motion through homography reference pictures. As a proposed method, there are 1) a method of generating a new reference picture by grasping a global motion relation between a current picture and a reference picture by homography, and 2) a method of utilizing a homography reference picture for inter-picture prediction. The experiment was applied to the HEVC reference software HM 14.0, and the experimental result showed an increase in encoding efficiency of 6.6% based on RA. Especially, the results using the videos with rotational motion have a maximum coding efficiency of 32.6%, which is expected to show high efficiency in video, which is often represented by complex global motion such as drones.