• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1040-1057
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• 2014

In this paper, a new bit rate estimation scheme is proposed to determine the bit rate for each subclass in an MPEG-2 TS to H.264/AVC transcoder after dividing an input MPEG-2 TS sequence into several subclasses. Video format transcoding in conventional IPTV and Smart TV services is a time-consuming process since the input sequence should be fully transcoded several times with different bit-rates to decide the bit-rate suitable for a service. The proposed scheme can automatically decide the bit-rate for the transcoded video sequence in those services which can be stored on a video streaming server as small as possible without losing any subject quality loss. In the proposed scheme, an input sequence to the transcoder is sub-classified by hierarchical clustering using a parameter value extracted from each frame. The candidate frames of each subclass are used to estimate the bit rate using a statistical analysis and a mathematical model. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme reduces the bit rate by, on an average approximately 52% in low-complexity video and 6% in high-complexity video with negligible degradation in subjective quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8C
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• pp.729-737
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• 2007

The H.264/AVC video coding standard provides higher coding efficiency compared to the conventional MPEG-2 standard. Since a lot of videos have been encoded using MPEG-2, the format conversion from MPEG-2 to H.264 is essential. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the conversion of DCT coefficients to H.264/AVC transform coefficients. This conversion is essential, since $8{\times}8$ DCT and $4{\times}4$ integer transform are used in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively. The mathematical analysis and computer simulation show that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced compared to the conventional algorithm, while the loss caused by the conversion is negligible.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12C
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• pp.1046-1054
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• 2008

Since the high quality digital TV systems are broadly deployed in the market, the digital video contents will be edited and distributed in MPEG-2 MP@HL fonnat. Due to its impressive coding efficiency, the H.264/AVC codec has rapidly replaced the MPEG-4 SP codec for mobile digital video terminal with low quality. For the bro ad distribution of digitial video contents produced in MPEG-2 format, the MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding is highly necessary nowadays. In this paper, we propose a fast intra MB prediction mode decision method to reduce the computational complexity in the transcoding, which is the main bottleneck in the transcoders. The proposed method is based on the several relationships such as DCT coefficients and edge orientation, correlation between prediction directions in the $Intra16{\times}16$ and $Intra4{\times}4$ modes, correlation between edge-orientations of luminance an d chrominance components. The simulation results show that the proposed method can reduce the computational complexity upto 70% and 40%, compared with the cascaded transcoder and the well-known fast intraframe transc oder, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.6 s.44
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• pp.227-235
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• 2006

MPEG-21's digital item adaptation technology becomes a new way for universal multimedia access. It needs transcoder to change media resource's format and so on according to delivery context Then, the use of heavy transcoder with various transcoding functions integrated into one altogether is so complicated and difficult in supporting universal multimedia access. Unit transcoder Is useful is to resolve this question, in which a transcoder has only one transcoding function. This requires considering how to compose a set of unit transcoders. Thus, given a set for end-to-end different service quality pairs according to the character of application as defined by user, this study suggests how to compose complete unit transcoders that can always create one and more transcoding path(s) for each pair in the set. This method has a question of creating too many transcoding paths for each pair or end-to-end different service quality. Thus, this study also suggests the algorithm that generates minimum unit transcoder sets to support multimedia adaptation with minimum unit transcoder. The algorithm suggested was implemented into multimedia stream engine, and this paper describes the results of experiment for this algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.138-148
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• 2001

Digital Video (DV) coding standards for digital video cassette recorder are based mainly on DCT and variable length coding. DV has low hardware complexity but high compressed bit rate of about 26 Mb/s. Thus, it is necessary to encode video with low complex video coding at the studios and then transcode compressed video into MPEG-2 for video-on-demand system. Because these coding methods exploit DCT, transcoding in the DCT domain can reduce computational complexity by excluding duplicated procedures. In transcoding DV into MPEC-2 intra coding, multiplying matrix by transformed data is used for 4:1:1-to-4:2:2 chroma format conversion and the conversion from 2-4-8 to 8-8 DCT mode, and therefore enables parallel processing. Variance of sub block for MPEG-2 rate control is computed completely in the DCT domain. These are verified through experiments. We estimate motion hierarchically using DCT coefficients for transcoding into MPEG-2 inter coding. First, we estimate motion of a macro block (MB) only with 4 DC values of 4 sub blocks and then estimate motion with 16-point MB using IDCT of 2$\times$2 low frequencies in each sub block, and finish estimation at a sub pixel as the fifth step. ME with overlapped search range shows better PSNR performance than ME without overlapping.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.739-741
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• 2000

많은 목적을 가진 영상 압축 표준으로 인해 원래의 목적으로 이미 부호화된 영상을 다른 목적에 맞는 영상으로 변환해야 될 경우가 발생하는데, 목적 비트율과 목적 크기, 목적 부호화 형식으로 재부호화시키는 과정을 변환 부호화라고 한다. 본 논문에서는 이미 부호화된 영상의 움직임 벡터 정보를 이용하여 변환 부호화 과정에서 새로운 움직임 벡터의 추정시간을 단축시킬 수 있고, 화질의 열화 및 계산량을 최소화 할 수 있는 새로운 방법들을 제안하고 영상의 비트율과 크기를 변환시키는 경우와 화상의 종류를 변환시키는 경우에 대해서 각각 실험을 통해 제안한 방법과 기존의 방법들을 비교, 검증하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.895-898
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• 2001

네트웍을 통하여 멀티미디어 정보를 전송하는 데는 많은 비용과 시간이 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 압축이란 개념이 등장하였고 여러가지 압축 포맷이 소개되고 있다. 하지만 각 압축포맷들은 서로 호환이 되지 않기 때문에 송신측과 수신측의 보유하고 있는 압축방식이 다른 경우에는 정보를 공유하는 것이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문은 송신측이 수신측의 QoS(Quality of Service) 정보에 맞게 압축 포맷을 변환하여 비트스트림을 전송함으로써 수신측이 보유하여야 하는 압측포맷에 대한 비용을 최소화 하고자 하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 본 논문은 이런 압축포맷 변환을 위하여 압축된 MPEG2 파일을 H.263 의 압축된 파일로 변환하고자 하며 그 첫번째 단계로 I 프레임만을 사용하여 프레임 방식으로 압축된 MPEG2 파일을 H.263 으로 변환하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9C
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• pp.697-703
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC video coding standard provides higher coding efnciency compared to the conventional MPEG-2 standard. Since a lot of videos have been encoded using MPEG-2, the format conversion from MPEG-2 to H.264 is essential. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the conversion of DCT coefficients to H.264/AVC transform coefficients. This conversion is essential, since $8{\times}8$ DCT and $4{\times}4$ integer transform are used in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively. The mathematical analysis and computer simulation show that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced compared to the conventional algorithm, while the loss caused by the conversion is negligible.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.735-738
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• 2001

디지털 캠코더에서 이용하는 영상 압축 방식인 DV 부호화방식은 DCT와 가변장 부호화 방식을 이용한다. DV 방식은 하드웨어 복잡도가 낮은 반면 압축된 비트 율이 약 26Mbps로 높은 편이다. 따라서 스튜디오에서 낮은 복잡도로 영상을 부호화 한 후 VOD 시스템에서 이용하기 위하여 MPEG-2로 변환부호화 할 필요가 있다. 이때의 두 압축방식이 DCT를 이용하므로, DCT영역에서 변환부호화 하면 중간과정을 줄일 수 있어서 계산상의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 DV방식에서 MPEG-2의 인트라로 변환부호화시, DV방식의 4:1:1 색차포맷을 MPEG-2의 4:2:2 색차 포맷으로 변환할 때 변환영역에 있는 데이터에 미리 계산된 행렬을 곱하여 병렬처리가 가능하게 설계하였다. 또한 MPEG-2 율제어는 중요한 서브 블록의 분산을 완전히 DCT영역에서 계산하여 하드웨어 복잡도를 줄였다. 색차포맷변환부 하드웨어 구현을 위하여 VHDL로 코딩한 후 FPGA-EXPRESS(synopsys), ALTERA MAX-PLUS II를 사용하여 모의실험을 하였다. 각 모듈별로 기능을 검증한 후, FPGA EXPRESS(synopsys)를 사용하여 합성 및 검증을 하였다.