• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.319-329
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• 2016

Internet Video Coding (IVC) is a royalty-free codec currently being developed in MPEG. Coding efficiency of IVC codec has been steadily enhanced and it was reported that the performance of Committee Draft (CD) version is comparable to H.264/AVC High Profile (HP) in terms of objective and subjective qualities. In this paper, we present some coding tools that have been proposed for enhancing the coding efficiency of IVC during the developing process in MPEG along with brief overview of IVC codec architecture and coding algorithms. The coding tools include both of normative tools and informative tools such as non-reference P frame coding, DC mode intra prediction, Lagrange multiplier selection, and extension of chroma intra prediction modes. Improvement obtained by each tool is presented in terms of algorithm and coding gain based on the experiments. As a result of the experiment, the coding tools give the average bit saving of 8.8%, 0.4%, 0.4%, and 0.0%, respectively, in the low-delay coding mode.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1009-1018
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• 2015

In video coding, 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 intial QP for the first frame encoding affects the first frame as well as the following frames. To determine the initial QP that maximizes the PSNR of a GOP, several algorithms which uses the ratio of the PSNR of the I frame and the PSNR of P frames of a GOP have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new traffic model that can be used to determine the optimal initial QP simply and exactly in algorithms that use the PSNR ratio. We first analyze the characteristics of the PSNR ratio of I and P frames and the PSNR of a GOP, and then propose a new traffic model which can represent the characteristics and determine the optimal intial QP. It is shown by experimental results that the initial QP determination method with the proposed model can predict an optimal initial QP whose difference from the optimal value is less than 2. The proposed scheme can also generate the PSNR performance better than that of the existing JVT algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.278-279
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• 2013

최근에 완료된 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 비디오 압축 표준은 H.264/AVC에 비해 2배 이상 향상된 압축 효율을 제공한다. 현재 진행 중인 HEVC 확장 (extension) 작업에서는 손실 및 무손실 부호화에서 4:2:2 및 4:4:4 색차 포맷과 최대 12비트 깊이를 지원하는 고급 프로파일을 개발하고 있다. 현재까지 개발된 HEVC의 CABAC(Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding)은 손실 부호화 환경에 적합하게 설계되었기 때문에 무손실 부호화 환경에서 최적의 부호화 성능을 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 4:4:4 색차 포맷 영상의 무손실 화면내 부호화 환경에서 잔여 신호의 통계적 특성을 고려한 향상된 CABAC 잔여 데이터 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과를 통해, 본 논문에서 제안하는 향상된 CABAC 방법이 무손실 화면내 부호화에서 기존의 CABAC 방법에 비해 평균 약 2.41% 의 비트 수를 감소시키는 것을 확인했다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1947-1954
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• 2012

The first frame 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 initial QP for the first frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. Traditionally, the initial QP is determined among four constant values only depending on the bpp. In the case of low bit rate video coding, the initial QP value is fixed to 40 regardless of the output bandwidth. Although this initialization scheme is simple, yet it is not accurate enough. An accurate initial QP prediction scheme should not only depends on bpp but also on the complexity of the video sequence and the output bandwidth. In the proposed scheme, we determine the initial QP according to the ratio of the first frame to the total bits allocated to a GOP. To estimate the QP of the allocated bits, Rate-QP model is used. It is shown by experimental results that the new algorithm can predict the optimal initial QP more accurately and generate the PSNR performance better than that of the existing JVT algorithm.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1377-1383
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• 2012

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 intial QP for the first frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. Traditionally, the initial QP is determined among four constant values only depending on the bpp. Although this initialization scheme is simple, yet it is not accurate enough. An accurate intial QP prediction scheme should not only depends on bpp but also on the complexity of the video sequence and the output bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a traffic model for finding the optimal initial QP which maximizes the PSNR of the GOP. We also propose a method to find model parameters for real-time video encoding. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed traffic model captures initial QP characteristics effectively and the proposed method for model parameters accurately estimates the real values.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.1329-1336
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• 2015

Due to the advances in hardware technologies for low-power CMOS cameras, there have been various researches on wireless video sensor network(WVSN) applications including agricultural monitoring and environmental tracking. In such a system, its core technologies include video compression and wireless transmission. Since data of video sensors are bigger than those of other sensors, it is particularly necessary to estimate precisely the traffic after video encoding. In this paper, we present an estimation method for the encoded video traffic in WVSN networks. To estimate traffic characteristics accurately, the proposed method first measures complexities of frames and then applies them to the bit rate estimation adaptively. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed method improves the estimation of bit rate characteristics by more than 12% as compared to the existing method.