• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.23-34
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• 2022

과거에 제작된 SD/HD급 미디어에 대한 수요가 증가하고 영상처리 기술 분야에서의 인공지능 적용이 확산되면서 딥러닝 기반 저화질 미디어의 고품질 변환 기술 연구가 활발히 수행되고 있다. 본고에서는 SD/HD급으로 기제작된 저화질 미디어를 FHD(Full HD)나 4K-UHD(Ultra HD) 등 고품질 시청 환경에 적합하도록 화질을 개선하여 고품질 미디어로 변환하는데 필요한 주요 요소 기술 및 이를 적용한 고품질 변환 시스템의 개발 현황에 대하여 살펴본다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.1387-1394
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• 2015

Along with the development of network transmission technology, the IPTV market is growing in fast pace. Additionally the UHD resolution broadcasting system along with user experience (UX) that provides better service to user has attracted attention recently since there are not enough research has been done with differentiated the UX that can enhance the UX yet. Therefore we proposed a low complexity syntax level image stitching implementation technique that run with multi-view services, which makes possibility to view multiple channel or video contents on the screen at the same time. Simulation results have demonstrated the liability and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by showing that capability of generating more than 80 frames per second by stitching four Full-HD size videos into UHD frame.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2017

The compression of video for both full HD and UHD requires the inclusion of extra vertical lines to every video frame, named as the DTV essential hidden area (DEHA), for the effective functioning of the MPEG-2/4/H encoder, stream, and decoder. However, while the encoding/decoding process is dependent on the DEHA, the DEHA is conventionally viewed as a redundancy in terms of channel utilization or storage efficiency. This paper proposes a block mode DEHA method to more effectively utilize the DEHA. Partitioning video block images and then evenly filling the representative DEHA macroblocks with the average DC coefficient of the active video macroblock can minimize the amount of DEHA data entering the compressed video stream. Theoretically, this process results in smaller DEHA data entering the video stream. Experimental testing of the proposed block mode DEHA method revealed a slight improvement in the quality of the active video. Outside of this technological improvement to video quality, the attractiveness of the proposed DEHA method is also heightened by the ease that it can be implemented with existing video encoders.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2015

본 논문은 4K UHD 입력 영상에 대한 HEVC 고속 부호화를 위하여 대부분의 상용 CPU 및 AP 에서 사용되고 있는 SIMD (Single Instruction Mutiple Data) 명령어를 사용한 고속의 정수 화소 단위 움직임 추정 방법에 대한 연구이다. 특히, IT 기기에서의 고속 동영상 부호화를 위해 기존의 SIMD 명령어를 개량하여 동일한 CPU 실행시간에 다수의 움직임 추정을 수행할 수 있는 SIMD 명령어를 사용하여 보다 같은 실행시간에 보다 넓은 영역에 대한 움직임 벡터 탐색을 수행할 수 있도록 Search Box 기법을 새로이 개발하고 이를 토대로 기존 HEVC 에서 사용되고 있는 움직임 추정 방법에 대하여 연산시간을 줄이는 동시에 화질 열화를 최소화 시킬 수 있는 방법에 대하여 논한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.263-266
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• 2008

최근 MPEG에서 HD (High Definition) 해상도 이상의 초고해상도 비디오를 위한 HVC 표준화에 대해 논의가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 HVC 표준화를 위해 기본적으로 필요한 H.264를 HD 이상의 초고해상도 부호화 적용시 문제점을 분석하기 위해 SVT 4K UHD테스트 시퀀스와 이를 SVC Downsampling 필터를 이용하여 HD, QHD, QQHD로 변환한 시퀀스들을 이용하여 부호화 실험을 수행 하였고, 실험 결과 분석을 통해 개선 방안에 대해 논하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.388-397
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• 2015

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265 is a new video coding standard which is known as high compression ratio compared to the previous standard, Advanced Video Coding (AVC)/H.264. Due to achievement of high efficiency, HEVC sacrifices the time complexity. To apply HEVC to the market applications, one of the key requirements is the fast encoding. To achieve the fast encoding, exploiting thread-level parallelism is widely chosen mechanism since multi-threading is commonly supported based on the multi-core computer architecture. In this paper, we implement both the Tile-level parallelism and the Frame-level parallelism for HEVC encoding on multi-core platform. Based on the implementation, we present two approaches in combining the Tile-level parallelism with Frame-level parallelism. The first approach creates the fixed number of tile per frame while the second approach creates the number of tile per frame adaptively according to the number of frame in parallel and the number of available worker threads. Experimental results show that both improves the parallel scalability compared to the one that use only tile-level parallelism and the second approach achieves good trade-off between parallel scalability and coding efficiency for both Full-HD (1080 x 1920) and 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) sequences.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.36-45
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• 2014

With major sports events such as FIFA World Cup and The Olympic Games coming up, UHDTV technology has been given a major push by broadcasters, test and measurement (T&M), and consumer electronics (TV and set-top box) manufacturers. The increase in picture resolution ($3840{\times}2160$) for 4K and ($7680{\times}4320$) for 8K compared to current HDTV ($1920{\times}1080$), as well as the need to deliver these services in higher frame rates (50/60 up to 100/120fps) translate to a big challenge in UHDTV content delivery to households over terrestrial transmission due to higher data rates. DVB-T2 has been favored by many countries across the world as it is proven to give the best spectral efficiency for terrestrial broadcasting. On the other hand MPEG-4 appears to be the bottleneck for UHDTV since a much higher data rate is needed to deliver such services. Therefore HEVC becomes mandatory for UHDTV delivery over DVB-T2. In this paper, we will give an overview about a complete end-to-end solution for UHDTV delivery over DVB-T2 based on a realistic SFN scenario in Seoul metropolitan area.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.430-435
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• 2015

IP-based, next generation digital broadcast systems transmit DASH segment files. Designed by the DASH system, DASH segment files provide variable quality of contents, while the size of DASH segment files varies even if the file has the same quality. Delays and inefficient use of resources are major challenges in the transmission of variable size DASH segment files in broadcasting systems. Traditional broadcasting transmission systems are designed according to characteristics of physical layer of broadcast, and thus, delay and inefficient resources use is difficult to find. Yet, transmission content quantities continue to rise in the next-generation broadcasting systems (e.g. FHD, UHD (4k, 8k)) with variability of the segments file size as well. Resources for next-generation broadcast are more abundant than traditional broadcast with recent development, but continue to be limited and fixed. Resource delay and inefficiency are important but has not been extensively studied. We propose a transmission structure solution to analyze the delay and efficiency of the resource as each DASH segment file is transmitted, and have further performed simulation studies.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.506-514
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• 2016

In this study, HEVC over DVB-T2 systems with a bandwidth of 6 MHz is considered, particularly for the terrestrial 4K-UHDTV broadcasting service in the Republic of Korea. The threshold of visibility carrier-to-noise power ratio (ToV C/N) and the receiver minimum required input level (sensitivity) for satisfying the subjective picture failure (SPF) condition are measured in the laboratory. It is observed, for transmitting 26.37 Mbps data stream correctly, that ToV C/N is 18.8 dB on average, and the receiver sensitivity is varied from minimum -84.2 dBm to maximum -80.0 dBm. Based on the results, the receiver noise floor is calculated by -100 dBm on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.107-109
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 4K UHD 입력 영상을 실시간으로 부호화하기 위해 적용되는 GOP 단위 또는 IDR 주기 단위의 병렬 부호화 구조를 지원하도록 R-${\lambda}$ 모델 기반의 율 제어 방법을 개선하는 비트 분배(bit allocation) 방법을 제안한다. GOP 단위 또는 IDR 주기 단위의 병렬 부호화기 내에서 율 제어기를 작동시키는 경우, 계층적 B 구조에서 같은 계층에 있는 프레임 간에는 상호간에 얼마만큼의 비트를 소모 하였는지에 대한 정보를 공유 할 수 없기 때문에 기존의 비트 분배 방식으로는 비트 예산(bit budget) 관리가 불가능하다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는, 기존의 R-${\lambda}$ 모델 기반 율 제어 방법을 개선하여 부호화 순서에 의한 시간 순서 방향의 비트 예산 갱신 기반 비트 분배하던 방식으로부터, GOP 마다 비트를 할당한 후 계층적 B 구조에서의 계층이 깊어지는 방향으로 비트 예산을 갱신하여 비트를 분배하는 방식으로 율 배분 방식을 개선하였다. 실험 결과를 통해 R-${\lambda}$ 모델 기반 율 제어의 기존 비트 분배 방식보다 제안 방법에 의한 목표 비트 율 달성 오차가 감소함을 확인하였다.