• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.12C
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• pp.1224-1231
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• 2006

This paper proposes a fast encoding algorithm of H.264/AVC multi-view video coding. The amount of data to be encoded for a multi-view video is much more than normal video's data, and the amount of information to be predicted is enormous because of the multi-view video coding uses inter-disparity prediction in addition to inter-motion prediction in conventional video coding. We noticed through an experiment that the efficiency of prediction is getting better in order of intra, inter-disparity, inter-motion, and inter-skip, and proposes a early termination algorithm by means of estimate the adaptive threshold within a GOP unit. In the experiments, the proposed algorithm shows improved processing speed about 32% compared to existing method, and increased amount of bits and distortions are relatively disregardable.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

H.264/AVC uses variable block sizes to achieve significant coding gain. It has 7 different coding modes having different motion compensation block sizes in Inter slice, and 2 different intra prediction modes in Intra slice. This fine-tuned new coding feature has achieved far more significant coding gain compared with previous video coding standards. However, extremely high computational complexity is required when rate-distortion optimization (RDO) algorithm is used. This computational complexity is a major problem in implementing real-time H.264/AVC encoder on computationally constrained devices. Therefore, there is a clear need for complexity reduction algorithm of H.264/AVC such as fast mode decision. In this paper, we propose a fast mode decision with early $P8\times8$ mode rejection based on block size activity using large block history map (LBHM). Simulation results show that without any meaningful degradation, the proposed method reduces whole encoding time on average by 53%. Also the hybrid usage of the proposed method and the early SKIP mode decision in H.264/AVC reference model reduces whole encoding time by 63% on average.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.280-283
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• 2009

To improve coding performance of scalable video coding which is an emerging video coding standard as an extension of H.264/AVC, SVC uses not only intra prediction and inter prediction but inter-layer prediction. This causes a problem that computational complexity is increased. In this paper, we propose an efficient intra prediction mode decision method in spatial enhancement layer to reduce the computational complexity. The proposed method selects Inra_BL mode using RD cost of Intra_BL in advance. After that, intra mode is decided by only comparing DC modes. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces 59% of the computation complexity of intra prediction coding, while the degradation in video quality is negligible.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.430-442
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• 2013

This paper presents a fast multi-reference frame integer motion estimator for H.264/AVC. The proposed system uses the previously proposed fast multi-reference frame algorithm. The previously proposed algorithm executes a full search area motion estimation in reference frames 0 and 1. After that, the search areas of motion estimation in reference frames 2, 3 and 4 are minimized by a linear relationship between the motion vector and the distances from the current frame to the reference frames. For hardware implementation, the modified algorithm optimizes the search area, reduces the overlapping search area and modifies a division equation. Because the search area is reduced, the amount of computation is reduced by 58.7%. In experimental results, the modified algorithm shows an increase of bit-rate in 0.36% when compared with the five reference frame standard. The pipeline structure and the memory controller are also adopted for real-time video encoding. The proposed system is implemented using 0.13 um CMOS technology, and the gate count is 1089K with 6.50 KB of internal SRAM. It can encode a Full HD video ($1920{\times}1080P@30Hz$) in real-time at a 135 MHz clock speed with 5 reference frames.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.956-962
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• 2005

To improve video quality and coding efficiency, H.264/AVC adopts different half pixel calculating method compared with the previous standards. So, the transcoder requires additional works to transcode the pre-coded video contents with the previous standards to H.264/AVC in DCT domain. In this paper, we propose the first half-pixel correction method for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding in DCT domain. In the proposed method, MPEG-2 block is added to the correction block obtained by difference calculation of half-pixel values between two standards using DCT reference frame. Experimental results show that the proposed achieves better quality than pixel based cascaded transcoding method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.946-948
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• 2005

H.264/AVC는 SoC/IEC MPEG와 ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group에서 함께 발표한 비디오 코딩을 위한 가장 최근의 표준이다. 기존의 표준들 보다 적은 비트로 높은 압축률과 좋은 화질을 제공하고 있다. 그러나 1/4 화소 움직임 예측과 보상의 지원과 7가지의 가변블록에 대한 움직임예측과 블록모드별 RD(Rate-Distortion)를 수행하고 CAVLC등 H.264/AVC 표준에서 채택한 여러 가지 비디오 압축방식으로 인해 그 복잡도가 훨씬 증가하였다. 이 논문에서 H.264/AVC의 복호화기에서 복잡도의 약 $40\%$ 이상을 차지하는 움직임보상 모듈을 효율적으로 수행하고 최적화하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 예측된 모션벡터에 따라 창조하는 프레임에서 매크로블록을 만들어 내는 움직임 보상 과정을 수행하는 데 있어서 접근 지연시간이 큰 외부 메모리 창조를 선인출 메커니즘을 이용하여 미리 예측하여 수행함으로써 전체 수행시간을 줄이는 기법을 적용하였다. 이를 통하여 가변길이 복호화 모듈과 움직임 보상모듈을 수정하여 반복적으로 읽고, 쓰기를 수행해야 하는 횟수를 줄였다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법을 이용하여 복호화 과정을 수행했을 때 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)의 손실은 전혀 없으면서 복호화기의 전체 실행시간을 약 $5\%$ 향상시키고, 핵심 모듈인 움직임 보상과정에서 약 $20\%$ 정도 실행시간을 향상시키는 등 높은 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.206-211
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• 2010

This paper describes a skipping method for handling various illuminating effects in video sequences. The weighted prediction in H.264/AVC improves coding efficiency and image quality. However, it requires massive computation overheads for entire system, and thus, reducing the computation complexity becomes more important. Compared to the weighted prediction method in the H.264/AVC, the proposed method can decrease the bitrate down to 15%. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can reduce computation complexity down to 30%, compared to the localized weighted prediction which does not skip unnecessary calculation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.20-29
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• 2013

The compression of video data is intended for real-time transmission of band-limited channels. Compressed video bit-streams are very sensitive to transmission error. If we lose packets or receive them with errors during transmission, not only the current frame will be corrupted, but also the error will propagate to succeeding frames due to the spatio-temporal predictive coding structure of sequences. Error detection and concealment is a good approach to reduce the bad influence on the reconstructed visual quality. To increase concealment efficiency, we need to get some more accurate error detection algorithm. In this paper, We hide specific data into the motion vector difference of each macro-block, which is obtained from the procedure of inter prediction mode in H.264/AVC. Then, the location of errors can be detected easily by checking transmitted specific data in decoder. We verified that the proposed algorithm generates good performances in PSNR and subjective visual quality through the computer simulation by H.324M mobile simulation tool.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.205-216
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• 2010

In this paper, a method of MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) multiplexing for Ultra HDTV (UHDTV) and its design and implementation as a SW tool is described. In practice, UHD video may be divided into several HD videos and each video is encoded in parallel. Therefore, it is necessary to synchronize and multiplex multiple bitstreams encoding each HD video for transmitting and storing UHD video. In this paper, it is assumed that 4 HD videos partitioning a UHD spatially are encoded as H.264/AVC and two 5.0 channel audios are encoded by AC-3. Therefore, 4 H.264/AVC elementary streams (ESs) and 2 AC-3 ESs is mainly considered in the TS multiplexing of UHD. For the carriage of H.264/AVC and AC-3 over MPEG-2 TS, PES packetization and TS multiplexing are designed and implemented based on the extended specification of the MPEG-2 Systems and ATSC (Digital audio compressed standard), respectively. The implemented UHD TS multiplexing tool emulates real time HW operation in the time unit corresponding to the duration of one TS packet transmission in a given TS rate. In particular, in order to satisfy the timing model, the buffers defined in the TS System Target Decoder (T-STD) are monitored and their statuses are considered in the scheduling of TS multiplexing. For UHD multiplexing, two kinds of multiplexing structures, which are UHD re-multiplexing and UHD program multiplexing, are implemented and their strength and weakness are investigated. The developed UHD TS multiplexing tool is tested and verified in terms of the syntax and semantics conformance and functionalities by using a commercial analyzer and real-time presentation tools.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.11C
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• pp.655-661
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• 2011

The transmission issues for the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC (H.264 SVC) video has been widely studied. In this paper, we propose an objective video-quality assessment metric based on no-reference for H.264 SVC using scalability information. The proposed metric estimate the perceptual video-quality reflecting error conditions with the consideration of the motion vectors, error propagation patterns with the hierarchical prediction structure, quantization parameters, and number of frame which damaged by packet loss. The proposed metric reflects the human perceptual quality of video and we evaluate the performance of proposed metric by using correlation relationship between differential mean opinion score (DMOS) as a subjective quality and proposed one.