• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.448-461
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• 2011

H.264/AVC significantly outperforms the previous video coding standards with many new coding tools. Among these tools, several intra-block coding tools can particularly improve coding efficiency. For intra prediction, H.264/AVC supports most probable mode in the entropy coding process to reduce syntax elements indicating intra prediction modes and most probable mode selection ratio is very high. Also, in general, natural images and videos have many homogeneous regions whose high correlation with neighbouring blocks. In this paper, we propose intra prediction mode SKIP mode using decoder-side prediction to improve the coding efficiency. The proposed method is determined the optimal prediction mode using only neighbouring block's information and coded on the basis of the conventional prediction/transform coding. And the prediction modes are not send to decoder at all. Skipped intra prediction mode is determined by decoder. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves coding gains of 1.40% for common intermediate format(CIF), 3.24% for 720p sequences against the H.264/AVC JM 17.0 reference software.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.271-279
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• 2009

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) have developed a new standard that promises to outperform the earlier MPEG-4 and H.263 standards. The new standard is called H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) and is published jointly as MPEG-4 Part 10 and ITU-T Recommendation H.264. In particular, the H.264/AVC intra prediction coding provides nine directional prediction modes for every $4{\times}4$ block in order to reduce spatial redundancies. In this paper, an ABS (Adaptive Bit Skip) mode is proposed. In order to achieve coding efficiency, the proposed method can remove the mode bits to represent the prediction mode by using the similarity of adjacent pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the PSNR gain of about 0.2 dB in R-D curve and reduces the bit rates about 3.6% compared with H.264/AVC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.591-597
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a improved rate distortion optimization (RDO) for H.264 intra coding. By using new mode decision criteria pass for $I4{\times}4$ in company with the original RDO, the proposed method can achieve the better coding efficiency comparing with the original RDO. Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can archive about $0.64{\sim}1.6578%$ bit rate decrease at the same PSNR and $0.049{\sim}0.101dB$ PSNR increase at the same bit rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.73-83
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose macroblock(MB)-based adaptive interpolation filter method for improving coding efficiency in H.264/AVC. In the proposed method, nine separable two-dimensional(2D) interpolation filters are applied for precisely compensating motions in various directions. The optimal cost function which considers the bit rate and distortion for coding the MB is defined. The filter is adaptively selected per MB for minimizing the defined cost function. In the experimental results, the proposed method shows more excellent in coding efficiency than the conventional methods for the various standard $QCIF(176{\times}144)/CIF(352{\times}288)$ video test sequences. It leads to about 6.25%(1 reference frame) and 3.46%(5 reference frames) bit rate reduction on average compared to the H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.137-151
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• 2008

H.264/AVC is showed high coding efficiency more than previous video coding standard by using new coding tools. Specially, Variable block-based motion estimation and Rate-Distortion Optimization are very important coding tools in H.264/AVC. These coding tools have high coding efficiency, however the encoder complexity greatly increase due to these coding tools. In this paper, we propose early SKIP mode decision and selective inter/intra mode decision to reduce the computational complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed method could reduce encoding time of the overall sequences by 30% on average than JM 10.2 without noticeable degradation of coding efficiency. Besides, the proposed method runs over twice as fast as the previous proposed Fast Coding Mode Selection method (FCMS)[5].

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2010

최근 HDTV, 블루레이 등 고해상도, 고품질 디지털 멀티미디어 응용 기술의 보급으로 인하여, 고해상도, 고품질 비디오 부호화 기술에 대한 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 현재 고해상도 비디오 부호화에 사용되는 H.264/AVC 표준의 인트라 부호화 기술은 인터 부호화 기술의 복잡도가 크게 증가하는 고해상도 영상에서 인터 부호화 기술에 비해 낮은 복잡도를 가진 부호화기 및 복호화기의 구현이 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 인트라 부호화 기술은 인터 부호화 기술에 비하여 압축 효율이 매우 낮다는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 고해상도 영상을 위한 새로운 $16{\times}16$ 블록의 인트라 예측 기술을 제안한다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 새로운 $16{\times}16$ 인트라 예측 기술을 사용할 경우, HD급 고해상도 영상에 대해 평균 2.8%의 부호화 효율을 증가시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12C
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• pp.1039-1045
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC video coding standard shows extremely higher coding efficiency, but it causes high computational complexity. Especially, the intra mode decision using the rate-distortion method requires many computations. Thus, the efficient intra mode decision methods have been proposed by decreasing the encoding complexity. In this paper, we propose an efficient intra mode decision algorithm using $4{\times}4$ integer transform coefficients in the conversion of MPEG-2 to H.264 standard. It is shown that the proposed algorithm reduces encoding time and complexity compared to the conventional algorithm, while showing similar PSNR performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

This paper develops a fast method performing intra prediction which only restores block boundary pixels without decoding all blocks in an I slice of H.264/AVC. To accomplish this, we develop a fast integer inverse DCT scheme that quickly decodes residual block boundary which can be consisted of references pixels. we add the restored block boundary pixels and appropriate calculated prediction pixels for each intra prediction mode and consist of needed reference pixels. The experiments showed that the proposed method produces the reliable performance with reducing the computational complexity, compared to conventional method when applied to H.264/AVC integer DCT.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.4 s.316
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• pp.8-16
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• 2007

For the improvement of coding efficiency, the H.264/AVC video coding standard employs new coding tools compared with existing coding standards. However, due to these new coding tools, the complexity of K264/AVC standard encoder is greatly increased. Specifically, the inter/intra mode decision method using RDO(rate-distortion optimization) technique is one of the most complex parts in H.264/AVC. In this paper, we focus on the complexity reduction in macroblock mode decision. In the proposed method, we reduce the complexity of the $4{\times}4$ mode decision process using $4{\times}4$ simple square filters, and using spatial block correlation method. Additionally, exploiting the best mode of sub_macroblock in $Inter8{\times}8$ mode, we proposed an algorithm to eliminate some intra modes in current macroblock mode decision process. In addition, we employed a method to raise the probability to select SKIP, $Intra16{\times}16$, and $Intra16{\times}16$ modes which usually show low complexity and low bitrate compared with other modes. From the simulation results, the proposed algorithm reduce the encoding time by maximum 83% of total, and reduce the bitrate of the overall sequences by $8{\sim}10%$ on the average compared with existing coding methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 무손실 위성 영상 압축의 효율을 높이기 위해 H.264/AVC의 무손실 화면내 부호화에 기반한 새로운 문맥기반 적응적 가변 길이 부호화 (CAVLC) 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 H.264/AVC의 CAVLC는 손실 압축에 적합하게 설계되었기 때문에, 변환과 양자화 과정을 수행하지 않는 무손실 압축에서 최적의 압축 성능을 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 손실 압축과 무손실 압축 환경에서 잔여 영상 신호의 통계적 차이가 있음을 확인하고, 무손실 위성 영상 압축 환경에서 잔여 신호의 통계적 특성을 고려하여 향상된 CAVLC 기반의 무손실 위성 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 위성 영상을 압축한 결과 기존의 대표적인 무손실 영상 압축 방법인 JPEG-LS와 CALIC 보다 약 12% 정도 비트 수를 감소시켰다.