• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.33-41
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• 2010

최근 디스플레이 기술의 비약적인 발전과 함께 3D 영화의 흥행으로 인해 국내 뿐 아니라 전 세계적으로 3DTV에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 3DTV는 사람의 눈 사이의 간격 때문에 두 눈에 맺히는 상이 달라지는 양안시차의 원리를 이용하는 기술로, 두 눈에 맺힐 두 영상을 각각 획득하고, 이를 사람의 두 눈에 각각 보여지도록 하는 방식으로 3차원 입체 비디오를 실현하게 된다. 이를 위한 3D 비디오의 부호화 표준 기술로는 기존에 MPEG-2 stereo 및 MPEG-C part 2가 ISO/IEC MPEG을 통하여 제정된바 있으며, 최근에는 ITU-T의 VCEG과 ISO/IEC MPEG이 비디오 부호화 표준을 위하여 Joint Video Coding (JVT)를 구성하여, Multi-view Video Coding (MVC)를 제정하였다. 그리고 현재 진행되는 3D비디오 관련 표준화로는 MPEG에서 Free view-point TV (FTV)등의 응용을 위한 3DV라는 이름으로 차세대 비디오 표준을 준비하고 있다. 본 고에서는 기존에 MPEG을 통해 진행된 3DTV 관련 표준화 기술을 알아보고, 현재 진행되고 있는 3DTV 부호화 표준화 동향을 살펴본다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.232-235
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient depth-map coding method. The adaptive block-based depth-map coding method decides the number of bit planes to be encoded according to the quantization parameters to obtain the desired bit rates. So, the depth-map coding using the block-based decision of the bit-plane to be encoded proposes to free from the constraint of the quantization parameters. Simulation results show that the proposed method, in comparison with the adaptive block-based depth-map coding method, improves the average BD-rate savings by 3.5% and the average BD-PSNR gains by 0.25dB.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.601-615
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• 2009

This paper proposes an efficient depth-map coding method for generating virtual-view images in 3D-Video. Virtual-view images can be generated by the view-interpolation based on the depth-map of the image. A conventional video coding method such as H.264 has been used. However, a conventional video coding method does not consider the image characteristics of the depth-map. Therefore, this paper proposes an adaptive depth-map coding method that can select between the H.264/AVC coding scheme and the proposed gray-coded bit plane-based coding scheme in a unit of block. This improves the coding efficiency of the depth-map data. Simulation results show that the proposed method, in comparison with the H.264/AVC coding scheme, improves the average BD-rate savings by 7.43% and the average BD-PSNR gains by 0.5dB. It also improves the subjective picture quality of synthesized virtual-view images using decoded depth-maps.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.551-560
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• 2009

This paper proposes a method for efficient lossless depth map coding for MPEG 3D-Video coding. In general, the conventional video coding method such as H.264 has been used for depth map coding. However, the conventional video coding methods do not consider the image characteristics of the depth map. Therefore, as a lossless depth map coding method, this paper proposes a bit-plane based lossless depth mar coding method by using the MPEG-4 Part 2 shape coding scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves the compression ratios of 28.91:1. In intra-only coding, proposed method reduces the bitrate by 24.84% in comparison with the JPEG-LS scheme, by 39.35% in comparison with the JPEG-2000 scheme, by 30.30% in comparison with the H.264(CAVLC mode) scheme, and by 16.65% in comparison with the H.264(CABAC mode) scheme. In addition, in intra and inter coding the proposed method reduces the bitrate by 36.22% in comparison with the H.264(CAVLC mode) scheme, and by 23.71% in comparison with the 0.264(CABAC mode) scheme.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.274-292
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• 2011

This paper proposes an efficient coding method of the depth-map which is different from the natural images. The depth-map are so smooth in both inner parts of the objects and background, but it has sharp edges on the object-boundaries like a cliff. In addition, when a depth-map block is decomposed into bit planes, the characteristic of perfect matching or inverted matching between bit planes often occurs on the object-boundaries. Therefore, the proposed depth-map coding scheme is designed to have the bit-plane unit coding method using the adaptive XOR method for efficiently coding the depth-map images on the object-boundary areas, as well as the conventional DCT-based coding scheme (for example, H.264/AVC) for efficiently coding the inside area images of the objects or the background depth-map images. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves the average bit-rate savings as 11.8 % ~ 20.8% and the average PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) gains as 0.9 dB ~ 1.5 dB in comparison with the H.264/AVC coding scheme. And the proposed algorithm improves the average bit-rate savings as 7.7 % ~ 12.2 % and the average PSNR gains as 0.5 dB ~ 0.8 dB in comparison with the adaptive block-based depth-map coding scheme. It can be confirmed that the proposed method improves the subjective quality of synthesized image using the decoded depth-map in comparison with the H.264/AVC coding scheme. And the subjective quality of the proposed method was similar to the subjective quality of the adaptive block-based depth-map coding scheme.