• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.102-107
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• 2007

This paper proposes a H.264/AVC entropy decoder without embedded processor nor memory fabrication process. Many researches on H.264/AVC entropy decoders require ROM or RAM fabrication process, which is difficult to be implemented in general digital logic fabrication process. Furthermore, many researches require embedded processors for bitstream manipulation, which increases area and power consumption. This papers proposes hardwired H.264/AVC entropy decoder without embedded processor, which improves data processing speed and reduces power consumption. Furthermore, its CAVLC decoder optimizes lookup table and internal buffer without embedded memory, which reduces hardware size and can be implemented in general digital logic fabrication process without ROM or RAM fabrication process. Designed entropy decoder was embedded in H.264/AVC video decoder, and it was verified to operate correctly in the system. Synthesized in TSMC 90nm fabrication process, its maximum operation frequency is 125MHz. It supports QCIF, CIF, and QVGA image format. Under slight modification of nC register and other blocks, it also support VGA image format.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.71-76
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• 2008

H.264(or MPEG-4/AVC pt.10) is a high performance video coding standard, and is widely used. Variable length code (VLC) of the H.264 standard compresses data using the statistical distribution of values. A decoder parses the compressed bit stream and searches decoded values in lookup tables, and the decoding process is not easy to implement by hardware. We propose an architecture of variable length decoder(VLD) for the H.264 baseline profile(BP) L4. The CAVLD decodes syntax elements using the combination of arithmetic units and lookup tables for the optimized hardware architecture. A barral shifter and a first 1's detector parse NAL bit stream, and are shared by Exp-Golomb decoder and CAVLD. A FIFO memory between CAVLD and the reorder unit and a buffer at the output of the reorder unit eliminate the bottleneck of data stream. The proposed VLD is designed using Verilog-HDL and is implemented using an FPGA. The synthesis result using a 0.18um standard CMOS technology shows that the gate count is 22,604 and the decoder can process HD($1920{\times}1080$) video at 120MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.508-510
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• 2005

동영상 압축 표준인 H.264/AVC는 압축 효율을 높이기 위해 기존의 표준과는 다른 기법들을 사용함으로 압축률은 높였지만 보다 많은 계산량을 요구한다. 제한된 자원을 가진 임베디드 환경에서는 많은 계산량은 큰 문제점이 된다. DMB를 포함한 대부분의 경우는 이를 하드웨어적으로 구현을 하고 있지만 구현비용과 업데이트의 용의를 위해서 앞으로는 소프트웨어적으로도 구현이 가능해야 할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC가 임베디드 환경에서 소프트웨어로 구현을 할 경우 그에 대한 성능 명가를 수행하기 위해 실제 임베디드 장비에서 H.264/AVC 복호기와 임베디드 그래픽 라이브러리를 사용해서 재생기를 구현하였고 다양한 종류의 영상을 재생시키는 실험을 하였다. 이러한 실험을 통해 임베디드 상에서 H.264/AVC 재생기는 QCIF 화면을 초당 3프레임 정도를 재생시키는 능력을 보였다. 이는 사용자측면에서는 동영상이라고 느낄 수 없을 정도의 성능이었다. 그러므로 임베디드 환경에서 H.264로 압축된 영상을 사용할 경우에는 H.264의 프로파일이나 레벨 조정 및 프레임 넘김 기법이 필요 할 것으로 추정한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.434-437
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC 복호기의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 병렬 역양자화 구조와 역변환 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 역양자화 구조는 공통 연산기를 사용하여 계산 복잡도를 감소시키고, 4개의 공통연산기를 사용하여 역양자화 수행 사이클 수를 1 사이클로 감소시킨다. 제안하는 역변환 구조는 4개의 변환 연산기를 사용하여 역변환 연산을 수행하는데 2 사이클이 소요된다. 또한 제안하는 구조는 역양자화 연산과 수평 역변환 연산을 동시에 수행하는 병렬 구조를 채택하여 역양자화 및 역변환 수행 사이클 수를 2 사이클로 감소시킨다. 제안하는 구조를 Magnachip 0.18um CMOS 공정 라이브러리를 이용하여 합성한 결과 1.5MHz의 동작 주파수에서 게이트 수는 14,173이고, 표준 참조 소프트웨어 JM 9.4에서 추출한 데이터를 이용하여 성능을 측정한 결과 제안하는 구조의 수행 사이클 수가 기존 구조 대비 38.74% 향상되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2009

H.264/AVC is a video coding standard of ITU-T and ISO/IEC, and widely spreads its application due to its high compression ratio more than twice that of MPEG-2 and high image quality. In this paper, we explained Intra Prediction in H.264/AVC, which is able to achieve higher compressing efficiency from correlation removal of adjacent samples in spatial domain, and proposed efficient Intra Predictor architecture design for H.264/AVC decoder. The proposed system reduced computation cycle using processing element and precomputation processing element and also reduced the number of access to external memory using efficient register. We designed the proposed system with Verilog-HDL and verified with suitable test vector. The proposed Intra Predictor achieved about 60% cycle reduction comparing with existing Intra Predictors.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.2503-2510
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• 2012

This paper proposes a parallel operation intra predictor for H.264/AVC decoder. In previous intra predictor design, common operation units were designed for 17 prediction modes in order to compute more effectively. However, it was designed by analyzing the equation applied to one pixel. So, there are four operation units for computing 16 pixels in a $4{\times}4$ block and they need four cycles. In this paper, the proposed intra predictor contains T3(Three Type Transform) operation unit for parallel operation. It divides 17 modes into 3 types to calculate 16 pixels of a $4{\times}4$ block in only one cycle and needs 16 cycles minimum in 16x16 block. As the result of the experiment, in terms of processing cycle, the performance of proposed intra predictor is 58.95% higher than the previous one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.37-42
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• 2008

In H.264/AVC decoder, intra predictor, motion compensator, and deblocking filter need to read reference images in external frame memory in decoding process. They read external frame memory very frequently, which lowers system operation speed and increases power consumption. This paper proposes a intra predictor integrated with motion compensator without external frame memory. It achieves power reduction and memory bandwidth minimization by exploiting data reuse of common and repetitive pixels. The proposed infra predictor achieves more than $45%\;{\sim}\;75%$ cycle time reduction compared with conventional intra predictors.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 PC 기반 지상파 DMB(Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, T-DMB) 수신기를 위한 SW 최적화에 대해 설명한다. 이 수신기는 PC 외부에 지상파 DMB 신호를 안테나로 수신하여 복조하고 채널 복호하는 프론트 엔드(front-end) 수신 모듈을 이용, USB를 통하여 RS(Reed-Solomon) 부호화된 MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) 데이터를 읽어 들여 RS 복호, TS 역다중화, 비디오 복호, 오디오 복호 등의 SW 처리 과정을 거쳐 디스플레이 상에 수신 내용을 표시하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 저사양 PC에서도 T-DMB를 수신할 수 있도록 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC(Advanced Video Coding) 복호 과정을 최적화한 결과에 대해 설명한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.24-30
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• 2010

In this paper, we described intra prediction which is the one of techniques to be used for higher compression performance in H.264/AVC and proposed the design of intra predictor for efficient intra prediction mode processing. The proposed system is consist of processing elements, precomputation processing elements, an intra prediction controller, an internal memory and a register controller. The proposed system needs the reduced the computation cycles by using processing elements and precomputation processing element and also needs the reduced the number of access time to external memory by using internal memory and registers architecture. We designed the proposed system with Verilog-HDL and verified with suitable test vectors which are encoded YUV files. The proposed architecture belongs to the baseline profile of H.264/AVC decoder and is suitable for portable devices such as cellular phone with the size of $176{\times}144$. As a result of experiment, the performance of the proposed intra predictor is about 60% higher than that of the previous one.