• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.510-520
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• 2008

These days, the network convergence for utilizing heterogeneous network on mobile device is being very actively studied. However, understanding characteristics of physical network interfaces and video encoder is needed for using the network convergence technologies efficiently. Thus, this paper proposes an optimized method for streaming video data through different network paths depending on data characteristics and channel condition. Accordingly, unlike the traditional methods, this study divides scalable coded videos by layer importance, the importance of stream information, and the importance in consideration of video decoder's robustness and selectively sends the data via multiple channels. And the experimental results show over 1dB increment in PSNR. The result of this study will provide an optimized video transmission technique in the next generation network convergence environment in which mobile devices have multiple network interfaces.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.119-127
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• 2008

Transmission of video over Internet or wireless network requires coded stream capable of adapting to dynamic network conditions instantly. To meet this requirement, various scalable video coding schemes have been developed, among which the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC is the most recent one. In comparison with the scalable profiles of previous video coding standards, the SVC achieves significant improvement on coding efficiency performance. For adapting to dynamic network bandwidth, the SVC employs inter-layer switching between different temporal, spatial or/and fidelity layers, which is currently supported with instantaneous decoding refresh (IDR) access unit. However, for real-time adaptability, the SVC has to frequently employ the IDR picture, which dramatically decreases the coding efficiency. Therefore, an extension of SP picture from the AVC to the SVC for an efficient inter-layer switching is investigated and presented in this paper. Simulations regarding the adaptability to dynamic network bandwidth are implemented. Results of experiment show that the SP picture added SVC provides an average 1.2 dB PSNR enhancement over the current SVC while providing similar adaptive functionality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.565-566
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• 2011

본 논문은 H.264/AVC에서 사용하는 기존의 SVC 알고리즘에 추가적으로 인간의 시각적 중요도 정보를 활용하는 기법을 제안한다. 이 접근방식에서 기존의 SVC 알고리즘을 수정하기 위해 사람의 시각 체계가 균일하지 않게 표본화를 하는 정보가 이용된다. 우리는 각각의 화질계층에서 가장 중요한 지역의 크기를 조절함으로써 효율성과 공정성 모두 강조하는 새로운 자원 할당 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 효율성은 제안하는 SVC의 낮은 화질계층에서, 공정성은 중요한 지역의 크기를 크게 하는 높은 화질계층에서 강조된다. 실험결과는 제안하는 SVC 알고리즘이 압축된 비디오의 주관적인 시각적 화질을 개선하는 것을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.23-27
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• 2009

A scalable video coding (SVC) extension to the H.264/AVC standard has been developed by the Joint Video Team (JVT). SVC provides spatial, temporal and quality scalability with high coding efficiency and low complexity. SVC is now developing the extension of the first version including color format scalability. The paper proposes to remove some luminance related header and luminance coefficients when an enhancement layer adds only additional color information to its lower layer. Experimental results shows 0.6 dB PSNR gain on average in coding efficiency compared with an approach using the existing SVC standard.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.267-269
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 기존에 제시된 LB 기법을 이용할 경우 발생하는 증가한 복잡도를 감소 시키는 기법을 다룬다. LB(Large Block)는 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)의 대표적인 부호화 툴로 H.264/SVC(Scalable Video Coding)에 적용한 경우에도 상당한 부호화 효율의 개선을 보인다. 그러나, LB 를 적용하면 매크로블록 레벨에서 추가적인 부호화 과정이 요구되므로, 부호화기의 복잡도가 증가하는 문제점이 발생한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 LB 를 적용한 SVC 의 부호화기 복잡도를 감소시키는 기법을 제시하고 모의실험을 통해 제안된 부호화 기법의 RD 성능과 부호화기 복잡도를 확인한다. 실험결과 제안된 기법을 사용한 부호화 기법이 기존의 부호화 방법에 비해, RD 측면에서 평균 1.8%의 미미한 손실이 있으나, 복잡도 측면에서 평균 12%의 이득이 있음을 확인 하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.34-42
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a practical hybrid transport error control scheme to provide SVC video streaming service over error-prone IP networks. Many error control mechanisms for various video coding standards have been proposed in the literature. However, there is little research result which can be practically applicable to the multilayered coding structure of SVC(the scalable extension of H.264/AVC). We present a new hybrid transport error control scheme that efficiently combines layered Forward Error Correction(FEC) and Automatic Repeat Request(ARQ) for better packet-loss resilience. In the proposed hybrid error control, we adopt ACK-based ARQ instead of NACK-based ARQ to maximize throughput which is the amount of effective data packets delivered over a physical link per time unit. In order to prove the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid error control scheme, we adopt NIST-Net network emulator which is a general-purpose tool for emulating performance dynamics in IP networks. It is shown by simulations over the NIST-Net that the proposed hybrid error control scheme shows improved packet-loss resilience even with much less number of overhead packets compared to various conventional error control schemes.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.108-121
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• 2012

As Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is a video compression standard extended from H.264/AVC, it is a way to provide scalability in terms of temporal, spatial and quality. Although the compression efficiency of SVC is increased due to the scalability in many aspect, it is essential to reduce the complexity in order to efficiently use because the complexity is relatively increased. To reduce the complexity of SVC in the paper, we propose fast mode decision algorithm to reduce the complexity of encoding process using direction information of B-picture by efficiently performing inter-layer prediction. The proposed algorithm is a fast mode decision algorithm that makes different from detection mode number of forward and backward, bi-direction in the way using best mode of base-layer up-sampled after simply SKIP mode detection using the direction information of best mode of base-layer up-sampled. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm approach can achieve the maximum computational time saving about 53% with almost no loss of rate distortion (RD) performance in the enhancement layer.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.353-357
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• 2014

This paper, presents an efficient hardware architecture of high performance SVC(Scalable Video Coding). This platform uses dedicated hardware architecture to improve its performance. The architecture was prototyped in Verilog HDL and synthesized using the Synopsys Design Compiler with a 65nm standard cell library. At a clock frequency of 266MHz, This platform contains 2,500,000 logic gates and 750,000 memory gates. The performance of the platform is indicated by 30 frames/s of the SVC encoder Full HD($1920{\times}1080$), HD($1280{\times}720$), and D1($720{\times}480$) at 266MHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.239-242
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• 2006

In this letter, we propose a new functionality to scalable video coding (SVC), that is, the support of multiple region of interests (ROIs) for heterogeneous display resolution. The main objective of SVC is to provide temporal, spatial, and quality scalability of an encoded bitstream. The ROI is an area that is semantically important to a particular user, especially users with heterogeneous display resolutions. Less transmission bandwidth is needed compared to when the entire region is transmitted/decoded and then sub-sampled or cropped. To support multiple ROIs in SVC, we adopt flexible macroblock ordering (FMO), a tool defined in H.264, and based on it, we propose a way to encode and, independently, decode ROIs. The proposed method is implemented on the joint scalable video model (JSVM) and its functionality verified.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.60-70
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• 2006

Currently, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is being standardized. By using scalability of SVC, QoS managed video streaming service is enabled in heterogeneous networks even with only one original bitstream. But current SVC is insufficient to dynamic video conversion for the scalability, thereby the adaptation of bitrate to meet a fluctuating network condition is limited. In this paper, we propose dynamic full-scalability conversion method for QoS adaptive video streaming in H.264/AVC SVC. To accomplish full scalability dynamic conversion, we propose corresponding bitstream extraction, encoding and decoding schemes. On the encoder, we newly insert the IDR NAL to solve the problems of spatial scalability conversion. On the extractor, we analyze the SVC bitstream to get the information which enable dynamic extraction. By using this information, real time extraction is achieved. Finally, we develop the decoder so that it can manage changing bitrate to support real time full-scalability. The experimental results showed that dynamic full-scalability conversion was verified and it was necessary for time varying network condition.