• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.538-549
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• 2021

In this paper, we introduce a technique for 360-degree panoramic video streaming with multiple virtual cameras in real-time. The proposed technique consists of generating 360-degree panoramic video data by ORB feature point detection, texture transformation, panoramic video data compression, and RTSP-based video streaming transmission. Especially, the generating process of 360-degree panoramic video data and texture transformation are accelerated by CUDA for complex processing such as camera calibration, stitching, blending, encoding. Our experiment evaluated the frames per second (fps) of the transmitted 360-degree panoramic video. Experimental results verified that our technique takes at least 30fps at 4K output resolution, which indicates that it can both generates and transmits 360-degree panoramic video data in real time.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Ultra high-quality and ultra high-resolution omnidirectional 360-degree video streaming is needed to provide immersive media through head-mounted display(HMD) in virtual reality environment, which requires high bandwidth and computational complexity. One of the approaches avoiding these problems is to apply viewport-dependent selective streaming using tile-based segmentation method. This paper presents a performance analysis of viewport-dependent tiled streaming on 16K ultra high-quality 360-degree videos and 4K 360-degree videos which are widely used. Experimental results showed 42.47% of bjotegaard delta rate(BD-rate) saving on 16K ultra high-quality 360-degree video tiled streaming compared to viewport-independent streaming while 4K 360-degree video showed 26.41% of BD-rate saving. Therefore, this paper verified that tiled streaming is more efficient on ultra-high quality video.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.1073-1080
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• 2020

360-degree video streaming technologies have been widely developed to provide immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. However, high computational power and bandwidth are required to transmit and render high-quality 360-degree video through a head-mounted display (HMD). One way to overcome this problem is by transmitting high-quality viewport areas. This paper therefore proposes a motion-constrained tile set (MCTS)-based tile extractor for versatile video coding (VVC). The proposed extractor extracts high-quality viewport tiles, which are simulcasted with low-quality whole video to respond to unexpected movements by the user. The experimental results demonstrate a savings of 24.81% in the bjøntegaard delta rate (BD-rate) saving for the luma peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) compared to the rate obtained using a VVC anchor without tiled streaming.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.1209-1220
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• 2019

The demand for virtual reality (VR) is rapidly increasing. Providing the immersive experience requires much operation and many data to transmit. For example, a 360-degree video (360 video) with at least 4K resolution is needed to offer an immersive experience to users. Moreover, the MPEG-I group defined three degrees of freedom plus (3DoF+), and it requires the transmission of multiview 360 videos simultaneoulsy. This could be a burden for the VR streaming system. Accordingly, in this work, a bitrate-saving method using projection conversion is introduced, along with experimental results for streaming 3DoF+ 360 video. The results show that projection conversion of 360 video with 360lib shows a Bjontegaard delta bitrate gain of as much as 11.4%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.848-859
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• 2022

This paper presents a novel 360-degree video streaming system for large-scale immersive displays and its ongoing implementation. Recent VR systems aim to provide a service for a single viewer on HMD. However, the proposed 360-degree video streaming system enables multiple viewers to explore immersive contents on a large-scale immersive display. The proposed 360-degree video streaming system is being developed in 3 research phases, with the final goal of providing 6DoF. Currently, the phase 1: implementation of the 3DoF 360-degree video streaming system prototype is finished. The implemented prototype employs subpicture-based viewport-dependent streaming technique, and it achieved bit-rate saving of about 80% and decoding speed up of 543% compared to the conventional viewport-independent streaming technique. Additionally, this paper demonstrated the implemented prototype on UCSB AlloSphere, the large-scale instrument for immersive media art exhibition.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.942-951
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• 2018

In these days, 360 degree videos, which is provided via VR, have high resolution and quality of 8K. These kinds of videos inevitably require streaming technology which guarantees QoS. Therefore, we suggest MPEG DASH HTTP protocol which stably provides streaming services of high quality videos in 8K, which are 360 degree tile-encoded, on low-spec devices such as OTT and IPTV Settop and Tile Segment Cache management structure for servers operating streaming services.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.948-955
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• 2019

As interests in 360-degree VR (Virtual Reality) video services enormously grow, compression and streaming technologies for VR video data have been rapidly developed. Quality Emphasized Region (QER) based streaming scheme has been developed as a kind of viewport-adaptive 360-degree video streaming technology for maintaining immersive experience and reducing bandwidth waste. For selecting a QER corresponding to the user's gaze coordinate, QER-based streaming scheme requires the calculation of Quality Emphasis Center (QEC) distance and signaling message delivery for requesting QER switching. QEC distance calculations require high computational complexity because of repeated calculations as many times as the number of QERs. Furthermore, the signaling message interval results in a trade-off relationship between efficient bandwidth usage and flexible QER switching. In this paper, we propose an improved QER selection algorithm based on MMT protocol to solve this problem. The proposed algorithm could achieve computational complexity reduction by using preprocessed QER_ID_MAP. Also, flexible QER switching could be achieved, as well as efficient bandwidth utilization by an adaptive adjustment of the signaling interval.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1053-1063
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• 2019

Recently, tile-based streaming that transmits one 360 video in several tiles, is actively being studied in order to transmit these 360 video more efficiently. In this paper, for the transmission of high-definition 360 video corresponding to user's viewport in tile-based streaming scenarios, a system of assigning the quality of tiles at each tile by applying the saliency map generated by existing network models is proposed. As a result of usage of Motion-Constrained Tile Set (MCTS) technique to encode each tile independently, the user's viewport was rendered and tested based on Salient360! dataset, streaming 360 video based on the proposed system results in gain to 23% of the user's viewport compared to using the existing high-efficiency video coding (HEVC).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.176-177
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• 2019

360 도 VR (Virtual Reality) 영상을 기존의 비디오처럼 재생하고 전송하기 위해서는 아직까지도 논의 되어야할 많은 문제들이 존재한다. 특히 보는 장면에 비하여 전방위의 영상을 보내야하는 VR 영상은 매우 큰 용량을 가질 수 밖에 없다. 그럼에도 불구하고 사용자의 불편함을 덜기 위해서는 HMD (Head-Mounted Displays) 의 빠른 반응 속도가 필요하다. 따라서 QER (Quality Emphasized Region)기반의 전송 기법은 영역별로 차별화된 화질의 영상을 전송하여 실감미디어의 몰입감을 유지하고 대역폭의 낭비를 줄이는 뷰포트 적응적 360 도 비디오 스트리밍 시스템 (Viewport-Adaptive 360-Degree Video Streaming System)의 일종으로 제안되었다. 그러나, 사용자의 시점 정보를 계산하기 위해서는 매 프레임마다 차원 변환을 위한 복잡하고 많은 계산이 필요하고, 이러한 중복된 계산은 시스템의 성능을 저하시키는 요인이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 차원 변환에 따른 자원낭비를 줄이기 위하여 QER 선택을 위한 개선 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.92-95
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• 2018

가상 현실을 위한 360 영상 비디오 전송기술이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 그러나 현재 가상현실 기기의 컴퓨팅 연산능력과 대역폭은 고화질 360 영상을 재생하기에 한계가 있다. 이 한계를 극복하기 위해 본 논문은 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)와 Scalability Extension of HEVC (SHVC)를 활용하여 타일 기반의 360 도 영상 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 HEVC 와 SHVC 인코더는 타일을 독립적으로 전송 할 수 있는 비트 스트림을 생성한다. 제안하는 추출기는 사용자 시점에 해당하는 타일의 비트 스트림을 추출한다. 제안하는 기법에 의해 추출된 SHVC 비트스트림의 기본계층은 전체화면을 나타내며, 강화계층은 사용자 시점에 해당하는 타일로 구성된다. 제안하는 HEVC 인코더를 사용할 때에는 저화질과 고화질을 따로 인코딩하여 고화질만 사용자 시점에 해당하는 타일을 추출한다. 전체화면을 고화질로 보내는 대신에 전체화면을 저화질로, 사용자화면을 고화질로 보내기 때문에 제안하는 기법은 디코더의 컴퓨팅 연산과 네트워크 bitrate 를 대폭 줄일 수 있다. 본 제안 기법의 실험 결과는 전체화면 전송 대비 47%이상의 bitrate 를 줄인다.