• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2009

멀티미디어 동영상의 부호화 알고리즘은 기본적으로 손실 부호화(lossy coding)이기 때문에 압축된 동영상에는 불가피하게 화질의 열화가 포함된다. 압축의 정도가 심하지 않거나 압축을 하더라도 영상이 단순하고 움직임이 적은 경우에는 이러한 열화의 영향이 인간의 눈에는 보이지 않지만, 압축률이 너무 높거나 원본 영상에 포함된 움직임이 복잡하거나 공간적으로 세밀한 영역이 많은 경우에는 손실이 심하여 시각적으로 거슬리는 다양한 잡음이 발생한다. 화면 떨림(flickering)은 시간 영역에서의 대표적인 부호화 잡음으로서 프레임율(frame rate)이 너무 낮은 경우에 움직임이 자연스럽지 않고 불연속적으로 튀거나 부호화 비트율(bit rate)을 제어하기 위해서 양자화 파라미터를 변동하는 과정에서 연속되는 프레임들의 화질에 차이를 보이면서 나타나는 현상이다. 본 논문에서는 DMB 환경에서 사용되는 주기적으로 I 프레임이 삽입되는 GOP(Group of Picture) 구조에서 화면 떨림 현상의 원인을 파악하고 멀티미디어 동영상의 시공간적 특성에 따라 특징적으로 나타나는 화면 떨림 현상을 분석한다. 실험 영상으로서 시공간적으로 다양한 특성을 보이며 H.264/AVC방식으로 부호화된 10개의 동영상을 선택하였으며, 양자화 파라미터를 낮은 화질의 영상에서부터 높은 화질의 영상까지 변화시키면서 화면 떨림 현상의 존재 여부 및 정도를 살펴보았다. 실험의 결과로 화면 떨림 현상은 영상의 화질이 너무 좋거나 너무 나쁘지 않은 중간 영역에서 중요하게 고려해야 할 부호화 잡음이며, 프레임 내의 세밀함의 정도, 움직임의 정도, 객체의 크기, 카메라의 움직임 등에 영향을 받음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.363-378
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• 2006

The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting(DMB) system is developed to offer high quality audio-visual multimedia contents to the mobile environment. The system adopts MPEG-4 standard for the main video, audio and other media format. It also adopts the MPEG-4 scene description for interactive multimedia contents. The animated and interactive contents can be actualized by BIFS(Binary Format for Scene), the binary format for scene description that refers to the spatio-temporal specifications and behaviors of the individual objects. As more interactive contents are, the scene description is also needed more high bitrate. However, the bandwidth for allocating meta data such as scene description is restrictive in mobile environment. On one hand, the DMB terminal starts demultiplexing content and decodes individual media by its own decoder. After decoding each media, rendering module presents each media stream according to the scene description. Thus the BIFS stream corresponding to the scene description should be decoded and parsed in advance of presenting media data. With these reason, the transmission delay of BIFS stream causes the delay of whole audio-visual scene presentation although the audio or video streams are encoded in very low bitrate. This paper presents the effective optimization technique for adapting BIFS stream into expected MPEG-2 TS bitrate without any bandwidth waste and avoiding the transmission delay of the initial scene description for interactive DMB contents.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.222-229
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• 2007

According to the advancement of multimedia compression technologies, high quality multi-media services are easily found in common life. Along with this situation, 5.1-channel audio service also has expanded the application area to home theater system and car theater system and consumer can easily take a chance to experience the feeling of 5.1-channel audio. On the other hand, terrestrial DMB service has been launched in Korea from Dec. 2005 as a handhold multi-media broadcasting service. However, multi-channel audio was not considered due to the insufficiency of bandwidth and the handhold usage. Lately, MPEG is standardizing high efficiency multi-channel audio compression technology for handheld broadcasting service, and several trial for application is introduced in Europe. In this paper, we would like to explain multi-channel audio compression technology, describe the implementation of the verification system for the multi-channel audio service over T-DMB and investigate the possibility of further realization of the service.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.123-138
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• 2008

Recently, DMB service markets experience a rapid change with terrestrial DMB test-broadcasting for the nation-wide coverage and paid interactive data broadcasting being offered utilizing TPEG and BIFS technologies. This warrants a reexamination of a consumers' adoption intentions for DMB service. This paper uses a survey data set to analyze DMB adoption intentions and the choice between terrestrial DMB and satellite DMB services according to preferred contents and other media usage characteristics. Empirical results show that consumer who prefer TV, music, and movie contents are more likely to adopt DMB service, whereas consumers with high intentions for HSDPA subscription are less likely to adopt DMB service. This implies that continuing development of killer application and the analysis of substitutes or complements of other media are crucial for the increase of DMB adoption intentions. It is found that the more consumers prefer sports, movies and entertainment/game and put higher values in the quality of the contents, the more likely they adopt satellite DMB service. Meanwhile, the more consumers prefer TV, drama and news contents, and are sensitive to the subscription fees, they are more likely to adopt terrestrial DMB service. Therefore, it seem that consumers' DMB adoption between terrestrial and satellite services is crucially related with types and characteristics of contents offered.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.250-258
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• 2003

Recently, the transition from conventional analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting has been proceeding as a result of the advance in digital multimedia broadcasting technique. In radio broadcasting, Eureka-147 DAB(Digital Audio Broadcasting) was decided as the standard system of digital radio broadcasting in Korea. In addition to CD quality audio, a variety of data services and excellent performance in mobile reception can be served by DAB, and DAB was evolved into DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) in Korea for the purpose of emphasizing moving picture multimedia service by DAB. In case of digital broadcasting, it is absolutely essential to measure the BER(Bit Error Rate) in the received signal in order to evaluate the coverage obtained by a transmitter and the quality of the received signal. In this paper, we propose efficient subchannel data structure and BER measurement algorithm. and then verify it by laboratory experiments. With a proposed method, the synchronization for BER measurement is easily obtained and especially the exact results can be obtained by classifying the lost bits which are included in the reception-failed CIFs(Common Interleaved Frame) into errors. This makes the proposed BER measurement system especially appropriate to DMB in which the frequent changes in channel status caused by mobile reception environment exist.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.110-117
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• 2007

The recent developments of audio/video technology in the ubiquitous media have resulted in a variety of formal feature such as screen sizes for media and the new viewing environment can alter television viewers' experience of mediated communication. So the concern about formal feature of media itself is increasing in the recent media effects studies. From this point of view, this study is conducted to test the effect of the different monitor size of DMB Phone(2'1"), PMP(4'3") and PC monitor(19') on the viewers' memory and emotion of content by experimental research. The results showed that the effect by monitor size on the view's memory and emotion is significant. And watching moving image on a bigger monitor resulted in better memory of visual message elements contained in the content and more favorable emotion of the content.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.723-726
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• 2006

2006년 본 방송을 시작한 지상파 DMB 방송은 기존의 방송과 달리 하나의 물리 채널에 다양한 비디오와 오디오 서비스가 복합적이고 비 순차적인 형태로 제공되기 때문에 기존의 TV, Radio와 같은 기기 중심의 단순한 user interface 의 사용으로는 시청취에 제약이 발생한다. 따라서 비디오와 오디오, 오디오와 데이터, 비디오와 데이터와 같이 멀티 미디어 방송을 이동 중 시청취할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 user interface에 대한 개발이 필요하다. DMB 방송의 Information architecture 설계를 위한 기본적인 방송 관련 정보를 정의하였고, DMB 방송의 특징이라 할 수 있는 video service에 대한 고찰을 통해 DMB 방송 관련 기본 정보를 고찰하였다. 또한 방송 시청과 관련된 태스크 중심의 시나리오 개발을 통해 기능을 도출하고, 사용자들의 DMB 방송의 예상 시청 행태에 대한 조사 결과를 참조하여 필수적인 기능 중심으로 사용하기 쉽고, 기존 방송과 동일한 다양한 사용자를 고려하여 직관적인 인터페이스와 인터랙션을 제공하도록 설계하였다. 세부 UI 설계 단계에서는 기기 특성에 의한 제약 사항을 확인하고 방송구조의 시각화 대안 탐구 및 신호 해석에 의한 지연에 대한 민감도를 조사하고 방송 시청을 위한 화면 설계 및 네비게이션 방법을 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2007

T-DMB (Terrestrial-DMB) service is now available in the metropolitan area, but due to the bandwidth limitation, it is allowed to provide up to CIF resolution. As users' requests for high-quality mobile multimedia services are rapidly increasing and additional bandwidth can be provided by adopting the hierarchical modulation transmission technology, the research on the Advanced Terrestrial-DMB(AT-DMB) service using the SVC(Scalable Video Coding) scheme is being actively studied. In this paper, through computer simulations, first, while keeping the current T-DMB service unchanged, the visual qualities of AT-DMB services are investigated by varying the additional bandwidth. Then, by considering the cases that the overall bandwidth can be allowed to dynamically allocate to the T-DMB/AT-DMB video services, the performance characteristics between two layers are compared over the different kinds of video sequences.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.726-738
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• 2016

This study analyzed the properties of VHF band and suggested an efficient VHF band application plan for digital radio and UHDTV broadcasting through the experiment by the house T-DMB device in practical user environment. In order to find an efficient frequency band for digital radio broadcasting, this study examined first, to check the times of drop-out receive occurring in the audible area using a DMB/FM CAR Radio for T-DMB that has the characteristics of DAB. Second, this article explored the phenomenon of feedback loops in the same channel using a T-DMB house gap filler transmitting the signal by the same OFDM modulation scheme with UHDTV for configuring suitable SFN transmission network of the UHDTV broadcasting. Based on these experiments, this study suggested a suitable VHF band for digital radio and an efficient utilization of the VHF frequency band for the SFN network configuration of UHDTV.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.501-515
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• 2008

Recently, as users' requests for high quality mobile multimedia services are rapidly increasing and additional bandwidth can be provided by adopting the hierarchical modulation transmission technology, the research on the Advanced Terrestrial DMB (AT-DMB) service using the SVC (Scalable Video Coding) scheme is being actively studied. But, in order to realize a compatible video service and to accelerate the successful standardization and commercialization, it is necessary to simplify the compatible encoder structure. In this parer, we propose a fast mode decision method by constraining the redundant coding modes in the spatial scalable encoder that keeps the current T-DMB video in base layer. The proposed method is based on the statistical characteristics of each coding mode at both base and enhancement layers, inter-layer predictions, which are derived by investigating macroblock-layer coding modes of the spatial scalable encoder's functional structure. Through computer simulations, it is shown that a simplified encoder model that reduces the heavy computational burden can be found, while keeping the objective visual quality very high.