• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2009

제한된 채널을 통하여 영상을 전송하고자 할 때 한정된 비트량 에서 최적의 화질을 얻기 위한 비트 할당기법은 영상의 부호화 과정에서 중요한 역할을 하며 중요한 연구 과제이다. H.264/AVC 표준안의 비트율 제어 방식은 영상의 복잡도에 따라 최적의 비트를 할당하는 방식을 사용하지만 첫 번째 프레임인 인트라 프레임에 대한 QP 값을 정확히 예측하지 못하는 문제점을 보인다. 비트율 제어에 있어 인트라 프레임의 복잡도를 예측하여 인트라 프레임에 대하여 할당되는 비트량은 인트라 프레임 이후 영상들의 화질에 큰 영향을 미치게 되므로 인트라 프레임의 복잡도를 예측하여 적절한 QP를 결정 하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 H.264/AVC를 위하여 인트라 모드의 적응적 비트율 제어 기법에 대해 제안한다. 통계적 실험을 통한 인트라 프레임과 인터 프레임과의 선형적 특성을 이용하여 인트라 프레임과 인터 프레임 간의 관계식을 도출한다. 이 관계식을 통하여 인터 프레임 이후에 일어나는 인트라 프레임의 QP 값을 정확하게 예측하는 비트율 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1325-1332
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• 2013

The first frame of a GOP, an I frame, is encoded in intra mode which generates a larger number of bits. In addition, the I frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus the intial QP for the I frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. In our previous work, we analyzed the number of bits for an I frame and showed that the ratio of the number of bits which maximizes the PSNR of a GOP maintains similar value regardless of GOP's. In this paper, we propose a R-Q model which can be used for the calculation of the initial QP given the amount of bits for an I frame. The proposed model is simple and adaptively modifies model parameters, so it can be applicable to the real-time application. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed model captures initial QP characteristics effectively and the proposed method for model parameters accurately estimates the real values.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.315-320
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• 2012

In H.264/AVC, the first frame of a group of pictures (GOP) is encoded in intra mode which generates a large number of bits. The number of bits for the I-frame affects the qualities of the following frames of a GOP since they are encoded using the bits remaining among the bits allocated to the GOP. In addition, the first frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus, the initial quantization parameter (QP) affects the following frames as well as the first frame. In this paper, an adaptive peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR)-based initial QP determination algorithm is presented. In the proposed algorithm, a novel linear model is established based on the observation of the relation between the initial QPs and PSNRs of frames. Using the linear model and PSNR results of the encoded GOPs, the proposed algorithm accurately estimates the optimal initial QP which maximizes the PSNR of the current GOP. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed algorithm predicts the optimal initial QP accurately and thus achieves better PSNR performance than that of the existing algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.341-348
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• 2016

HEVC is the next compression standard and is expected to be used widely replacing the conventional H.264/AVC standard. The compression ratio of the HEVC is twice times than H.264/AVC, whereas its computational complexity is increased by up to 40%. Many research efforts have been made to reduce the computational complexity and to speed up encoding. For intra coding, the rough mode decision (RMD) is commonly applied. The rate-distortion optimization (RDO) process to decide the best mode is too complex so that RMD chooses the candidate modes with a simple process and sends the candidates to RDO process. However, for large-size blocks, the RMD also requires considerable computations. In this paper, a down-sampling scheme is proposed for the RMD process. The reference pixel loading, predicted pixel generation are performed using the down-sampled pixel data. When the proposed scheme is applied to the RMD, the computational complexity is reduced by 70% with a marginal bitrate increase of 0.04%. In terms of area of hardware-based RMD, the gate count and the buffer size is reduced 33% and 66%, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.233-242
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• 2009

This paper intend to show the affect of the intra-prediction on the typical digital watermarking method and the fact that the watermarking method has very low effectiveness when it is performed for the intra-frames of H.264. The target watermarking method was the one for imperceptibility and robustness and was assumed to be performed during the intra-compression process by the H.264 technique. Also this method was assumed to insert watermark data and to extract it for certification if needed. The problem is that the resulting data from the re-engineering of the watermark insertion process to extract the watermark data is different from the one before. We experimentally showed that it stems from the intra-prediction itself. That is, we showed that the resulting image data from only compression without watermarking changes if it is re-compressed by the same conditions as the first compression and it is because the intra-prediction modes as well as the coefficient values change. Also, we applied one blind and one semi-blind watermarking methods to show that the typical attacks after watermarking makes this problem much more serious and lowers the effectiveness of the watermarking method dramatically. Therefore we concluded by considering the experimental data that a typical watermarking method which has been researched so far cannot guarantee the effectiveness of intra-frame watermarking and it is highly required to developed a new kind of methodologies.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1207-1214
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• 2014

The first frame of a GOP is encoded in intra mode which generates a larger number of bits. In addition, the first frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus the encoding results of the intra frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. Traditionally, the quantization parameter for an intra frame is determined only depending on the bpp not considering the characteristics of the intra frame. For accurate intra frame encoding, we should consider not only bpp but also the complexity of the video sequence and the output bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a real-time quantization model which is used to calculate the quantization parameter for an intra frame encoding based on the investigation on the characteristics of a GOP. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed quantization model captures the characteristics of an intra frame effectively and the proposed method for model parameters accurately estimates the real values.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In this paper, the novel architecture of Intra-prediction & DCTQ hardware, which can process for the Full HD image($1980{\times}1088$@30fps) in realtime, is proposed. The cycle optimization method for the overall cycle of prediction, transform, scaling, descaling, and reconstruction is proposed. To reduce the cycle in the $4{\times}4$ prediction, the quantization process is performed during the prediction cycle and pre-selection of 2 modes among the 9 modes is performed to reduce the hardware area. To reduce the hardware of $16{\times}16$ and $8{\times}8$ prediction, the sharing logic between 2 prediction is utilized. The proposed architecture can process the 30frame/sec of full HD image in 108 MHz clock and operate 425 cycle for one macroblock.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4C
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• pp.391-399
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• 2006

We propose a novel low complexity video encoder, at the expense of a complex decoder, where video frames are intra-coded periodically and frames in between successive intra-coded frames are coded efficiently using a proposed irregular binning technique. We investigate a method of forming an irregular binning which is capable of quantizing any value effectively with only small number of bins, by exploiting the correlation between successive frames. This correlation is additionally exploited at the decoder, where the quality of reconstructed frames is enhanced gradually by applying POCS(projection on the convex sets). After an image frame is reconstructed with the irregular binning information at the proposed decoder, we can further improve the resulting quality by modifying the reconstructed image with motion-compensated image components from the neighboring frames which are considered to contain image details. In the proposed decoder, several iterations of these modification and re-projection steps can be invoked. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed coding scheme is comparable to that of H.264/AVC coding in m mode. Since the proposed video coding does not require motion estimation at the encoder, it can be considered as an alternative for some versions of H.264/AVC in applications requiring a simple encoder.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.108-122
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• 2011

In this paper, a transcoding method with low computational complexity and high coding efficiency is proposed to transcode distributed video coding (DVC) bitstreams to H.264/AVC ones. For the proposed high-performance transcoding with low complexity, not only Wyner-Ziv frames but also key frames can be transcoded with motion vectors estimated in generation of side information. As a motion vector is estimated from a key frame to a prior key frame for side information generation, the motion vector can be used to encode the intra key frame as a predicted frame. Motion estimation is performed with two predicted motion vectors. One is the motion vector from side information generation and the other is median of motion vectors of neighboring blocks. The proposed method selects the best motion vector between two motion vectors based on rate-distortion optimization. Coding efficiency can be improved with a small size of search range, because a motion vector estimated in side information generation is used as an initial motion vector for transcoding. In the experimental results, complexity of transcoder is reduced about 12% and bitrate performance increases about 28.7%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.90-102
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• 2011

Recently, the grade of users using wireless communication services which transmits and re-transmits to the signal via the broadcasting satellite have a variety. However the ships not preparing of H.264 standard devices should not received the realtime data because the broadcasting stations have transmitted the compressed video data through the satellite communication. Therefore this paper proposes H.264 to MPEG-2 transcoding for the ships using MPEG-2 devices. Proposed method improves a speed and object quality in H.264 to MPEG-2 transcoding by analysis features of macroblock modes in H.264. In the Intra mode of P-frame, it proposes new method by computing coincidence proportion after comparing of Intra mode methods of H.264 and MPEG-2. In the Inter mode, it proposes a PMV(predictive motion vector) considering movement of motion vectors in H.264 decoder. we reuses a PMV directly as like the final MV in MPEG-2 encoder and refinements the MV after coincidence ratio comparing of variable motion vectors of H.264 and these of MPEG-2. The experimental results from proposed method show a considerable reduction in processing time, as much as 70% and 67% respectively, with a small objective quality reduction in PSNR.