• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2009

H.264/AVC의 인트라 예측에서 미리 현재 블록 내의 정보 및 이전 블록의 예측 모드 정보 등을 이용하여 현재 블록의 예측 부호화 블록 크기가 결정되었을 경우, 예측된 블록 크기에 적합한 예측 모드 결정이 요구된다. 이에 사전에 결정된 예측 블록 크기 정보와 주변 블록과의 화소 변화량을 계산하여 예측 모드를 결정하는 기법을 제안하고 성능을 평가한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.360-372
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• 2007

We propose a fast inter-layer mode decision method by utilizing coding information of base layer upward its enhancement layer inscalable video coding (SVC), also called MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Video Coding Amendment 3 or H.264 Scalable Extension (SE) which is being standardized. In this paper, when the motion vectors from the base layer have zero motion (0, 0) in inter-layer motion prediction or the Integer Transform coefficients of the residual between current MB and the motion compensated MB by the predicted motion vectors from the base layer are all zero, the block mode of the corresponding block to be encoded at the enhancement layer is determined to be the $16{\times}16$ mode. In addition, if the predicted mode of the MB to be encoded at the enhancement layer is not equal to the $16{\times}16$ mode, then the rate-distortion optimization is only performed on the reduced candidated modes which are same or smaller partitioned modes. Our proposed method exhibits the complexity reduction in encoding time up to 72%. Nevertheless, it shows negligible PSNR degradation and bit rate increase up to 0.25dB and 1.73%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.180-181
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• 2013

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) appears due to the demand on high compression video coding beyond H.264/AVC in ultra-high definition (UHD) videos. As for intra prediction, HEVC has 35 prediction modes while H.264/AVC has 9 intra modes. To exploit the spatial correlation, we adopt an edge detection method, establish the edge map, and adaptively select the candidate modes using the acquired edge information in a block. The number of the candidate modes is determined through trade-off between computational complexity and coding efficiency. Besides, the range of coding unit sizes is determined using the uniqueness of the edge directions for the given image block. As a result, we reduced the encoding time by 56.8% at the cost of 2.5% BD-BR increase on average compared to Full modes at the HEVC reference software (HM 6.0 [1]).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.380-390
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• 2010

The most recent standard video codec, H.264/AVC achieves significant coding efficiency by using a rate-distortion optimization(RDO). The RDO is a measurement for selecting the best mode which minimizes the Lagrangian cost among several modes. As a result, the computational complexity is increased drastically in encoder. In this paper, a method for fast intra prediction mode decision is proposed to reduce the RDO complexity. To speed up Intra$4{\times}4$ and Chroma Intra encoding, the proposed method decides the case that MPM (Most Probable Mode) is the best prediction mode. In this case, the RDO process is skipped, and only MPM is used for encoding the block in Intra$4{\times}4$. And the proposed method is also applied to the chroma Intra prediction mode in a similar way to the Intra$4{\times}4$. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an average encoding time saving of about 63% with negligible loss of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2006

H.264 provide good coding efficiency compared with existing video coding standards as H.263, MPEG-4, etc. However, H.264 require the increase of encoder complexity. In this paper, fast mode decision algorithm by skipping variable block size motion estimation and spatial-predictive coding, which occupies most encoder complexity, is proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can save encoding time to 55% compared with the H.264 standard.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.471-479
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• 2012

Intra prediction is one of the significant techniques in H.264/AVC reference software; however, it has heavy computational complexity. In order to solve this problem, many fast algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a fast intra mode decision algorithm which predicts the edge direction of the current block using sub-sampled pixels to reduce high computational complexity of the H.264/AVC encoder. The proposed algorithm shows that it not only improves the coding performance but also reduces the computational complexity of the H.264/AVC encoder compared to previous algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves the encoding time reduction of 75.93% on an average with slight peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) drop and bit-rate increment.

• 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.12 no.6
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• pp.611-623
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• 2007

The H.264|AVC standard incorporates an intra prediction tool into inter frame coding. However, this leads to excessive amount of increase in encoding time, thus resulting in the difficulty in real-time implementation of software encoders. In this paper, we first propose an early decision on intra prediction coding and a fast intra prediction method using the characteristics of block contents and the context of neighboring block modes for the intra prediction in the inter frame coding of H.264/AVC. Basically, the proposed methods determine a skip condition on whether the $4{\times}4$ intra prediction is to be used in the inter frame coding by considering the content characteristics of each block to be encoded and the context of its neighboring blocks. The performance of our proposed methods is compared with the Joint Model reference software version 11.0 of H.264|AVC. The experimental results show that our proposed methods allow for 41.63% reduction in the total encoding time with negligible amounts of PSNR drops and bitrate increases, compared to the original Joint Model reference software version 11.0.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.227-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes an enhance prediction for conventional near-lossless coder to effectively lower external memory bandwidth in image processing SoC. First, we utilize an already reconstructed green component as a base of predictor of the other color component because high correlation between RGB color components usually exists. Next, we can improve prediction performance by applying variable block size prediction. Lastly, we use minimum internal memory and improve a temporal prediction performance by using a template dictionary that is sampled in previous frame. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm shows better performance than the previous works. Natural images have approximately 30% improvement in coding efficiency and CG images have 60% improvement on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.574-577
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• 2011

H.264/AVC는 휘도 신호 $4{\times}4$ 블록을 위하여 9개의 화면 내 예측모드를 사용한다. 예측 모드는 8개의 방향성을 가진 모드와 하나의 비방향성 DC 모드가 있다. 휘도 신호 $16{\times}16$ 블록에서는 4가지의 예측 모드가 있으며 색차 신호 $8{\times}8$ 에서도 4개의 예측모드를 사용한다. 이러한 예측 모드들 중 최적의 예측 모드를 선택하기 위하여, 부호화기는 선택 가능한 모든 예측 모드의 율-왜곡 비용을 계산한 후, 최적의 율-왜곡 비용을 가진 예측 모드를 사용하여 부호화를 수행한다. 따라서 H.264/AVC의 화면 내 예측 과정은 많은 계산 복잡도를 가진다. 특히 하이 프로파일에서는 휘도 신호 $8{\times}8$ 블록이 화면 내 예측을 위해서 고려되므로 더욱 많은 계산 복잡도를 요구한다. 이에 본 논문은 H.264/AVC 하이 프로파일의 화면 내 예측의 부호화 계산 복잡도를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 현재 매크로 블록의 분산을 계산한 후, 이를 이용하여 율-왜곡 최적화에 후보로 사용되어지는 블록 모드를 결정하고, 각 블록 모드에서 제공하는 예측 모드들을 효율적으로 선택하는 방법을 연구 개발하였다. 제안된 방법은 기존 H.264/AVC 참조 소프트웨어인 JM13.1 부호화 시간 대비 약 83%의 연산시간이 감소하는 결과를 보였다.