• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2016

The emerging High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard attempts to improve coding efficiency by a factor of two over H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) at the expense of an increase in computational complexity. Mode decision with motion estimation (ME) is still one of the most time-consuming computations in HEVC, as it is with H.264/AVC. Thus, fast mode decisions are not only an important issue to be researched, but also an urgent one. Several schemes for fast mode decisions have been presented in reference software and in other studies. However, the conventional hierarchical mode decision can be useless when block-level parallelism is exploited. This paper proposes operation-level exploration that offers more chances for early termination. An early termination condition is checked between integer and fractional MEs and between the parts of one partition type. The fast decision points of the proposed algorithm do not overlap those in previous works. Thus, the proposed algorithms are easily used with other fast algorithms, and consequently, independent speed-up is possible.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.57-61
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• 2015

본 논문은 HEVC를 위한 고속의 화면 내 예측 알고리즘을 제안한다. HEVC 화면 내 예측은 DC, Planar와 35개의 각모드를 포함해 총 35개의 모드를 가지고 있다. 화면 내 예측의 연산량을 줄이고 고속의 모드 결정을 지원하기 위해 본 논문은 계층적 모드 결정 방법(HMD)를 제안한다. 제안하는 HMD는 주로 후보 모드를 줄이는데 중점을 두고 있다. 실험 결과는 제안하는 HMD가 39.17%의 인코딩 시간 감소에도 불구하고 아주 작은 BDBR 성능 열화만 있는 것을 보여준다. 제안하는 HMD는 기존의 알고리즘에 비해 아주 작은 0.01 ~ 0.42%의 BDBR 상승만을 가지고 인코딩 시간을 평균적으로 14,13% ~ 19.37% 감소시킨다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1093-1104
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• 2014

The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a new video coding standard that can provide much better compression efficiency than its predecessor H.264/AVC. However, it is computationally more intensive due to the use of flexible quadtree coding unit structure and more choices of prediction modes. In this paper, a fast intraframe coding scheme is proposed for HEVC. Firstly, a fast bottom-up pruning algorithm is designed to skip the mode decision process or reduce the candidate modes at larger block size coding unit. Then, a low complexity rough mode decision process is adopted to choose a small candidate set, followed by early DC and Planar mode decision and mode filtering to further reduce the number of candidate modes. The proposed method is evaluated by the HEVC reference software HM8.2. Averaging over 5 classes of HEVC test sequences, 41.39% encoding time saving is achieved with only 0.77% bitrate increase.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.685-692
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• 2012

B frame bi-directional predictions and the DIRECT mode coding of the H.264 video compression standard necessitate a complex mode decision process, resulting in a long computation time. To make H.264 feasible, this paper proposes an image backtrack-based fast (IBFD) algorithm and evaluates the performances of two promising fast algorithms (i.e., AFDM and IBFD). Evaluation results show that an image backtrack-based fast (IBFD) algorithm can determine DIRECT mode macroblocks with 13% higher accuracy, as compared with the AFDM. Furthermore, IBFD is shown to reduce the motion estimation time of B frames by up to 23% with a negligible quality degradation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.185-195
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• 2010

본 논문은 H.264/AVC의 빠른 부호화를 위해 인터 및 인트라 예측에서 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 첫째, 인터 예측모드 결정 방법은 시 공간적 상관성 정보와 픽셀 방향성을 이용하여 빠른 시점에 예측모드를 결정한다. 둘째, 인트라 예측모드 결정 방법은 매크로블록 내 외부의 픽셀값 변화량으로 Smoothness 정도를 판단하여 블록크기를 선택하고, 대표픽셀과 참조픽셀을 이용하여 예측모드를 결정한다. 마지막으로 가변적인 움직임 탐색영역 제한은 주변 블록의 모드 정보와 예측 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 가변적인 탐색영역을 설정하는 방법이다. 실험결과, 제안하는 방법이 기존 JM 14.1과 비교하여 부호화 시간 감소율은 최소 약 18~53% 정도를 보였다. RD 성능 면에서는 PSNR 값의 감소는 거의 없으면서 비트율이 평균 약 4% 정도 근소하게 증가하는 결과를 보였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.231-234
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• 2016

The next-generation video coding standard known as High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) was developed with the aim of doubling the bitrate reduction offered by H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) at the expense of an increase in computational complexity. Mode decision with motion estimation is still one of the most time-consuming computations in HEVC, as it is with H.264/AVC. Several schemes for a fast mode decision have been presented in reference software and in other studies. However, a possible speed-up in conventional schemes is sometimes insignificant for videos that have inhomogeneous spatial and temporal characteristics. This paper proposes a bypass algorithm to skip large-block-size predictions for videos where small block sizes are preferred over large ones. The proposed algorithm does not overlap with those in previous works, and thus, is easily used with other fast algorithms. Consequently, an independent speed-up is possible.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.255-258
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• 2006

In the H.264/AVC standard, intra prediction increases the coding efficiency of intra macroblocks and by applying rate-distortion optimization to each macroblock, it is possible to choose Inter or Intra encoding adaptively. This sort of encoding scheme, however, increases encoding complexity dramatically and causes troubles in practical applications of the real-time mobile environment. In order to decrease the complexity, variety of methods is proposed but most of those take only its current block into consideration for selecting candidate modes which naturally causes degradation in PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio). The proposed fast intra mode decision finds the candidate modes by analyzing transformed coefficients of neighboring blocks stored in the buffer at the encoder stage of input sequences. We verify this proposed scheme in complexity, PSNR and bit-rate.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.492-499
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• 2019

HEVC is the high efficiency video coding standard, which provides better coding efficiency contrasted with the other video coding standard. But at the same time the computational complexity increases drastically. Thirty-five kinds of intra-prediction modes are defined in HEVC, while 9 kinds of intra prediction modes are defined in H.264/AVC. This paper proposes a fast rough mode decision (RMD) algorithm which adopts the smoothness of the up-reference pixels and the left-reference pixels to decrease the computational complexity. The three step search method is implemented in RMD process. The experimental results compared with HM13.0 indicate that the proposed algorithm can save 39.7% of the encoding time, while Bjontegaard delta bitrate (BDBR) is increased slightly by 1.35% and Bjontegaard delta peak signal-to-noise ratio (BDPSNR) loss is negligible.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2015

The 3D-AVC standard aims at improving coding efficiency by applying new techniques for utilizing intra, inter and view predictions. 3D video scenes are rendered with existing texture video and additional depth map. The depth map comes at the expense of increased computational complexity of the encoding process. For real-time applications, reducing the complexity of 3D-AVC is very important. In this paper, we present a fast intra mode decision algorithm to reduce the complexity burden in the 3D video system. The proposed algorithm uses similarity between texture video and depth map. The best intra prediction mode of the depth map is similar to that of the corresponding texture video. The early decision algorithm can be made on the intra prediction of depth map coding by using the coded intra mode of texture video. Adaptive threshold for early termination is also proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm saves the encoding time on average 29.7% without any significant loss in terms of the bit rate or PSNR value.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권12C호
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• pp.1144-1152
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• 2005

인트라 예측 코딩은 H.264/AVC에 제시된 여러 가지 효율적인 코딩 도구 중 하나이지만 그 결정과정에서 많은 계산량을 요구하는 단점이 있다. 이러한 과도란 계산량을 줄이기 위하여 인트라 예측 모드 결정을 위한 많은 고속화 알고리즘이 제안되었다. 이전 대부분의 연구가 모드 결정 과정에 집중된 반면 본 논문에서는 비트율-왜곡 최적화를 통한 인트라모드의 결정시 연산 수행 대상의 인트라 예측 모드 중 여러 개의 인트라 예측 모드를 한두 개의 효율적인 인트라 예측 모드로 대체하여 고속화를 이루었다. 추 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘을 참조소프트웨어로 구현한 실험결과 눈에 띄는 화질의 저하 없이 전체 부호화에 약 $49\%$의 계산량을 줄이는 효과를 보였다.