• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2013

최근 방송, 의료, 우주산업, 게임, UCC, 핸드폰 등 여러 사업 분야에 걸쳐 실제에 근접한 영상을 요구하고 있고 이것은 3D와 Ultra High Definition (UHD) 영상의 출현으로 현실화 되고 있다. UHD 급에 걸맞는 압축률을 위해 Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) 에서는 MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC/H.264를 뒤이을 차세대 코덱으로 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) 를 개발을 시작했다. HEVC는 기존 MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC/H.264코덱과 비교해 40%이상의 압축률을 나타내지만 복잡도 역시 상승했다. 특히 복호화기에서 복잡도는 중요한 요소이며, 역 코사인변환 (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform, IDCT) 은 전체 복호화시간의 8% ~ 16%를 차지하는 알고리즘이다. 본 논문에서는 IDCT 의 수행시간을 줄이기 위해 병렬프로그래밍 중의 하나인 SIMD명령어를 사용하여 효율적으로 병렬화 프로그래밍을 하는 기법들을 제안한다. 본 제안 기법은 IDCT 수행시간을 평균 59% 단축하는 결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2005

디지틸 멀티미디어 시대를 맞이하여 영상통신 기술이 급속히 발전함에 따라 보다 사실감과 몰입감을 줄 수 있는 3차원 입체 영상처리에 대한 관심이 커지고 있다. 최근 국내외 연구기관에서 다차원 멀티미디어 서비스 개발을 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며, MPEG 표준화 그룹에서도 H.264/AVC 압축 방법을 이용한 다시점 비디오 부호화(multi-view video coding, MVC) 방법들이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 격자 피라미드 GOP 구조 기반의 다시점 비디오 부호화 방법에 대해 기술하였다. 이 방법은 현재 MPEG 표준화 그룹에서 권고된 ‘Anchor’ 방법에서 고려치 못한 인접 시점간의 공간적인 상관도를 효과적으로 활용하기 위해 격자 GOP구조를 제안했고, 각 시점에 대한 효율적인 부호화를 위해 계층적 피라미드 GOP 구조를 이용하였다. 또한, 공간적인 예측의 경우에 시점간의 전체 변이 (global disparity)를 고려하여 가변적인 탐색 범위를 이용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 현재 MPEG에서 성능 평가의 기준이 되는 ‘Anchor’ 방법에 비해 동일 비트율에서 0.5${\sim}$0.8 dB 정도의 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.381-396
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• 2017

In this paper, the perceptual rate control algorithm is studied for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) encoder with bit allocation based on perceived visual quality. This paper proposes perceptual rate control algorithm which could consider perceived quality for HEVC encoding method. The proposed rate control algorithm employs adaptive bit allocation for frame and CTU level using the perceived visual importance of each CTU. For performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm, the proposed algorithm was implemented on HM 16.9 and tested for sequences in Class B under the CTC (Common Test Condition) RA (Random Access) case. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the bitrate of 3.12%, and improves BD-PSNR of 0.08dB and bitrate accuracy of 0.07% on average. And also, we achieved MOS improvement of 0.16 with the proposed method, compared with the conventional method based on DSCQS (Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale).

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.91-100
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• 2011

Free viewpoint TV can provide multi-angle view point images for viewer needs. In the real world, But all angle view point images can not be captured by camera. Only a few any angle view point images are captured by each camera. Group of the captured images is called multi-view image. Therefore free viewpoint TV wants to production of virtual sub angle view point images form captured any angle view point images. Interpolation methods are known of this problem general solution. To product interpolated view point image of correct angle need to depth image of multi-view image. Unfortunately, multi-view video including depth image is necessary to develop a new compression encoding technique for storage and transmission because of a huge amount of data. Layered depth image is an efficient representation method of multi-view video data. This method makes a data structure that is synthesis of multi-view color and depth image. This paper proposed enhanced compression method using layered depth image representation and H.264/AVC video coding technology. In experimental results, confirmed high compression performance and good quality reconstructed image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.140-143
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 사용자 시점에 대응하는 고화질 360 비디오 제공을 위해 다시점 360 비디오 중복성 제거기법을 적용하고 잔여 비디오를 하나의 영상으로 병합하여 압축 후 전송하는 시스템을 구현한다. 사용자 움직임 적응적 360 비디오 스트리밍을 지원하는 three degrees of freedom plus (3DoF+)를 위한 시스템은 다시점에서 촬영된 다수의 고화질 360 비디오 전송을 요구한다. 이에 대한 방안으로 다시점 비디오 간 중복성 제거를 위한 3D warping 을 기반으로 하는 뷰 간 중복성 제거 기술과 비디오 복원에 필요한 타일들만 추출 및 병합해주는 잔여 뷰 병합 기술에 대한 구현 내용을 설명한다. 제안된 시스템을 기반으로 다시점 360 비디오 전송을 수행하면, 기존 high-efficiency video coding (HEVC)을 사용하여 전송했을 때 대비 최대 20.14%의 BD-rate 감소가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 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.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 1997

In this paper, an interframe coding method for volumetric medical images is proposed. By treating interslice variations as the motion of bones or tissues, we use the motion compensation (MC) technique to predict the current frame from the previous frame. Instead of a block matching algorithm (BMA), which is the most common motion estimation (ME) algorithm in video coding, image warping with biolinear transformation has been suggested to predict complex interslice object variation in medical images. When an object disappears between slices, however, warping prediction has poor performance. In order to overcome this drawback, an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) technique is combined with carping prediction. Motion compensated residual images are then encoded by using an embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) coder with small modification for consistent quality of reconstructed images. The experimental results show that the interframe coding suing warping prediction provides better performance compared with interframe coding, and the OBMC scheme gives some additional improvement over the warping-only MC method.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.605-611
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• 2019

3D Vision system has many applications recently but popularization have many problems that need to be overcome. Volumetric display may process a amount of visual data and design the high efficient vision system for display. In case of stereo system for volumetric display, disparity vectors from the stereoscopic sequences and residual images with the reference images has been transmitted, and the reconstructed stereoscopic sequences have been displayed at the receiver. So central issue for the design of efficient volumetric vision system lies in selecting an appropriate stereo matching and robust vision system. In this paper, we propose high efficient vision system with the reduction of rectification error which can perform the 3D data extraction efficiently with low computational complexity. In experimental results with proposed vision system, the proposed method can perform the 3D data extraction efficiently with reducing rectification error and low computational complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.596-601
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a fast depth-image-based rendering method to generate a virtual view image in real-time using a graphic processor unit (GPU) for a 3D broadcasting system. Before the transmission, we encode the input 2D+depth video using the H.264 coding standard. At the receiver, we decode the received bitstream and generate a stereo video using a GPU which can compute in parallel. In this paper, we apply a simple and efficient hole filling method to reduce the decoder complexity and reduce hole filling errors. Besides, we design a vertical parallel structure for a forward mapping process to take advantage of the single instruction multiple thread structure of GPU. We also utilize high speed GPU memories to boost the computation speed. As a result, we can generate virtual view images 15 times faster than the case of CPU-based processing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.174-180
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• 2006

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC. It provides efficient coding efficiency compared with previous video standards. It reduced the bit rate by approximately $30%{\sim}70%$ while providing the same or better image quality. And, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC supports not only lossy coding but also lossless coding. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve lossless coding efficiency. Proposed method is based on Intra residual DPCM, it has same effect with the prediction from spatially nearest pixel. Also, proposed method does not broken decoder pipe-line. Experimental results, the method reduced the bit rate by approximately 12% in comparison with the H.264 Intra lossless coding. As a result, it is adopted into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Advanced 4:4:4 profile.