• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.665-671
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• 2020

MPEG-I is actively working on standardization on the coding of immersive video which provides up to 6 degree of freedom (6DoF) in terms of viewpoint. 3DoF+ video, which provides motion parallax to omnidirectional view of 360 video, renders a view at any desired viewpoint using multiple view videos acquisitioned in a limited 3D space covered with upper body motion at a fixed position. The MPEG-I visual group is developing a test model called TMIV (Test Model for Immersive Video) in the process of development of the standard for 3DoF+ video coding. In the TMIV, the redundancy between a set of input view videos is removed, and several atlases are generated by packing patches including the remaining texture and depth regions into frames as compact as possible, and coded. This paper presents an atlas generation method that removes small-sized blocks in the atlas for more efficient 3DoF+ video coding. The proposed method shows a performance improvement of BD-rate bit savings of 0.7% and 1.4%, respectively, in natural and graphic sequences compared to TMIV.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.43-45
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• 2020

궁극의 3D 디스플레이 기술이라고 할 수 있는 홀로그램 기술로 실물을 보는 것과 같은 3차원 영상이 가능해 지고 있다. 그러나 디지털 홀로그램 영상의 데이터양은 HD나 UHD 영상의 수십에서 수천 배에 달해 원본 화질의 열화를 최소화 하면서 데이터양을 줄이기 위한 압축 부호화 기술이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 위상 홀로그램 동영상에 대해 최신 영상 압축 표준인 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)와 VVC(Versatile Video Coding)로 압축한 후 홀로그램 영역과 수치 복원 영역에서 압축 성능을 비교하며, 다양한 실험영상에 대한 HEVC 압축 결과에 대해 객관적 압축성능 분석 및 주관적 성능 분석을 진행한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.29-40
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• 2005

According as base of digital hologram has been magnified, discussion of compression technology is expected as a international standard which defines the compression technique of 3D image and video has been progressed in form of 3DAV which is a part of MPEG. As we can identify in case of 3DAV, the coding technique has high possibility to be formed into the hybrid type which is a merged, refined, or mixid with the various previous technique. Therefore, we wish to present the relationship between various image/video coding techniques and digital hologram In this paper, we propose an efficient coding method of digital hologram using standard compression tools for video and image. At first, we convert fringe patterns into video data using a principle of CGH(Computer Generated Hologram), and then encode it. In this research, we propose a compression algorithm is made up of various method such as pre-processing for transform, local segmentation with global information of object image, frequency transform for coding, scanning to make fringe to video stream, classification of coefficients, and hybrid video coding. Finally the proposed hybrid compression algorithm is all of these methods. The tool for still image coding is JPEG2000, and the toots for video coding include various international compression algorithm such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 and various lossless compression algorithm. The proposed algorithm illustrated that it have better properties for reconstruction than the previous researches on far greater compression rate above from four times to eight times as much. Therefore we expect that the proposed technique for digital hologram coding is to be a good preceding research.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.39-44
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• 2004

The three-dimensional (3D) wavelet transform with motion compensation is suitable for very high quality video coding due to both spatial and temporal decorrelations. However, it still suffers from image degradation such as ringing artifact and afterimage because of the loss of high frequency components by quantization. This paper proposes an iterative regularized enhancement of the motion-compensated 3D wavelet coded video. We also propose the adaptive implementation of the constraints for the regularization. It selectively suppresses the high frequency component along only the corresponding edge direction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.3165-3181
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• 2019

Spherical videos, which are also called 360-degree videos, have become increasingly popular due to the rapid development of virtual reality technology. However, the large amount of data in such videos is a huge challenge for existing transmission system. To use the existing encode framework, it should be converted into a 2D image plane by using a specific projection format, e.g. the equi-rectangular projection (ERP) format. The existing high-efficiency video coding standard (HEVC) can effectively compress video content, but its enormous computational complexity makes the time spent on compressing high-frame-rate and high-resolution 360-degree videos disproportionate to the benefits of compression. Focusing on the ERP format characteristics of 360-degree videos, this work develops a fast decision algorithm for predicting the coding unit depth interval and adaptive mode decision for intra prediction mode. The algorithm makes full use of the video characteristics of the ERP format by dealing with pole and equatorial areas separately. It sets different reference blocks and determination conditions according to the degree of stretching, which can reduce the coding time while ensuring the quality. Compared with the original reference software HM-16.16, the proposed algorithm can reduce time consumption by 39.3% in the all-intra configuration, and the BD-rate increases by only 0.84%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.786-791
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• 2012

This paper presents a depth boundary sharpening method for improved view synthesis in 3D video. In depth coding, distortion occurs around object boundaries, degrading the quality of synthesized images. In order to encounter this problem, the proposed method estimates an edge map for each frame to filter only the boundary regions. In particular, a window-based filter is employed to choose the most reliable pixel as the replacement considering three factors: frequency, similarity and closeness. The proposed method was implemented as post-processing of the deblocking filter in JMVC 8.3.Compared to the conventional methods, the proposed method generated 0.49 dB PSNR increase and 16.58% bitrate decrease on average. The improved portions were subjectively confirmed as well.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.80-92
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• 2008

Many predominant video coding tools in terms of coding efficiency were adopted in the latest video coding standard, H.264/AVC. Regardless of development of these predominant video coding tools such as the variable block-size motion estimation/compensation, intra prediction based on various directions, and so on, the discrete cosine transform has been continuously used starting from the early video coding standards. Generally, the correlation coefficient of the residual signal is usually less than 0.5 when this residual signal is actually encoded. In this interval of correlation coefficient, the discrete cosine transform does not show the optimal coding gain, and the discrete sine transform which is a sub-optimal transform when the correlation coefficient is in the interval from -0.5 to 0.5 can be used in conjunction with the discrete cosine transform in the video coding. In this paper, an alternative transform that alternatively uses the discrete sine transform and integer cosine transform in H.264/AVC by using rate-distortion optimization is proposed. The proposed method achieves a BD-PSNR gain of up to 0.71 dB compared to H.264/AVC JM 10.2 at relatively high bitrates.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.245-249
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose two rate control algorithms for multi-view extension of HEVC with two rate control algorithms adopted in HEVC and analyze the multi-view rate control performance. The proposed multi-view rate controls are designed on HEVC-based multi-view video coding (MV-HEVC) platform with consideration of high-level syntax, inter-view prediction, etc. not only for the base view but also for the extended views using the rate control algorithms based on URQ (Unified Rate-Quantization) and R-lambda model adopted in HEVC. The proposed multi-view rate controls also contain view-wise target bit allocation for providing the compatibility to the base view. By allocating the target bitrates for each view, the proposed multi-view rate control based on URQ model achieved about 1.83% of average bitrate accuracy and 1.73dB of average PSNR degradation. In addition, about 2.97% of average bitrate accuracy and 0.31dB of average PSNR degradation are achieved with the proposed multi-view rate control based on R-lambda model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.464-465
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• 2015

본 논문은 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 기반의 3차원 비디오 부호기에서 깊이 비디오 부호화의 효율 증대를 위한 디블록킹 필터(deblocking filter)를 제안한다. 디블록킹 필터는 블록 왜곡(blocking artifact)을 보정하기 위한 필터인데 원래 색상 영상의 특성에 맞게 설계되어서 비슷한 목적을 지닌 SAO(Sample Adaptive Offset)와 더불어 기존 방법의 깊이 비디오 부호화에서는 사용되지 않는다. 제안 방법은 디블록킹 필터의 사전 실험 통계에 기반하여 기여도가 낮은 normal 필터를 제외시킨다. 또한, 깊이 비디오의 특성을 고려하여 임펄스 응답(impulse response)를 변형하였다. 이 변형된 디블록킹 필터를 깊이 비디오 부호화에만 적용하고 색상 비디오 부호화에는 기존 디블록킹 필터를 사용하였다. 3D-HTM(HEVC Test Model) 13.0 참조 소프트웨어에 구현하여 실험한 결과, 기존 방법에 비해 깊이 비디오 부호화 성능이 5.2% 향상되었다. 색상-깊이 비디오 간 참조가 있기 때문에 변형된 깊이 비디오 부호화가 색상 비디오 부호화 효율에 영향을 끼칠 수도 있지만 실험 결과 색상 비디오 부호화 성능은 유지되었다. 따라서 제안 방법은 성공적으로 깊이 비디오 부호화의 효율을 증대시켰다.