• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.289-290
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• 2006

With increasing the volume of digital multimedia market, the security and multimedia content protection issues are arising. Interest in H.264/AVC is emerging and special features in H.264/AVC element stream must be considered. We developed a new algorithm which scrambles and descrambles H.264/AVC element stream in compressed domain using manipulating CABAC initialization table and DCT coefficients. Extensive experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm is effective and promising.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.28-35
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• 2009

H.264/AVC, a recently developed video compression standard, is used for various applications because of its high coding efficiency. Variable block mode plays important role in the high coding efficiency of H.264/AVC but involves significant computations to select the optimal mode. In this paper, a fast mode decision method for H.264/AVC P slices is presented. To reduce computations for mode decision, the proposed mode decision method skips the mode decision processes for small partition modes using distortions of SKIP mode and intra16x16 mode. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce encoding time up to 66.41% while maintaining compression efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.87-100
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new selective temporal error concealment algerian best suited for H.264/AVC. The proposed algorithm performs selective temporal error concealment depending on whether the lost block is at background or foreground. It the corrupted macroblock is decided as at background, then the simple temporal replacement is performed. Also we propose replacing a lost block at foreground with the selective average of respectively estimated blocks from the multiple reference frames. This paper supposes error-corrupted H.264/AVC video bitstreams over CDMA2000 (or UMTS) air interface. It is shown that under Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) coding of H.264/AVC, the proposed algorithm provides PSNR gain up to 1.18dB compared to built-in algorithm in the K264/AVC test model. In addition, the proposed error concealment method has average PSNR improvement of 0.33dB compared with that under N-slice coding mode. The proposed algorithm also provides better subjective video quality than other conventional error concealment algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.325-327
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• 2006

H.264/AVC는 ITU-T H.264와 ISO/IEC 14496-10(MPEG-4 Part 10)으로 승인된 새로운 국제 비디오 압축 표준이다. H.264/AVC는 압축부호화 효율(이하 압축률)이 높으며 MPEG-2나 MPEG-4등에 비해 압축률이 2배 이상 향상되었으나 복잡도 또한 훨씬 증가하였다. 월등한 압축성능 때문에 방송 분야(DTV 등), 저장용 시스템 분야(PVR 등)에 많은 응용 분야들에 적용하기 위한 움직임이 있다. 그러나, 디코더로 구현하면 복잡도 증가하는 문제가 발생한다. HD급을 지원하기 위한 메모리 대역폭의 경우 MPEG-2 HD에 비해 H.264/AVC만의 복잡한 움직임 보상으로 인해 2배 이상이 요구된다. H.264/AVC 디코더는 두 개의 참조픽처를 이용하여 움직임 보상하는 B-픽처와 쌍예측 픽처가있다. 여기서, 참조픽처를 각각 하나씩만 사용하여 디코딩 하면 기존의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 하나의 참조픽처 선택으로 H.264/AVC 소프트웨어 디코더에서 움직임 보상을 한다. 이로 인하여 복잡도와 메모리 대역폭이 감소하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.582-590
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• 2010

he rate-distortion optimization (RDO) method in the H.264/AVC encoder is a technology that improves the coding efficiency, but increases the computational complexity. In this paper, a fast Intra mode decision algorithm using DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients distribution is proposed to reduce the H.264 encoder complexity. The proposed method reduces the encoder complexity on average 68.40%, while the coding efficiency is slightly decreased compared with the H.264/AVC encoder.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.71-75
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• 2013

Recently proliferating heterogeneous multimedia service environments should be able to deal with many different transmission speeds, image sizes, or qualities of video. However, not many existing video compression standards satisfy those necessities. To satisfy the functional requirements, the standardization of the H.264/AVC Scalable Extension (SE) technique has been recently completed. It is an extension of the H.264/AVC which can encode several image sizes and qualities at the same time as a single bitstream. To perform optimum mode decision, motion estimation is performed for all MB modes, and the RD costs are compared to identify an MB mode with the smallest RD cost. This increases computational complexity of H.264/AVC SE encoding. In this paper, we propose an early skip mode detection scheme to reduce candidate modes and suggest an algorithm of fast mode decision utilizing reference modes according to the mode history.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.50-57
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• 2010

In this paper, we address H.264/AVC video transmission using multiple antennaed phycical layer. When multiple antennas are used, the signals from the other antennas are interferences from the perspective of a target antenna, resulting in lowered video quality. In an effort to improve the video quality, in this paper, we propose a novel detection ordering scheme. We conduct computer simulations to show the efficacy of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.174-180
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• 2006

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC. It provides efficient coding efficiency compared with previous video standards. It reduced the bit rate by approximately $30%{\sim}70%$ while providing the same or better image quality. And, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC supports not only lossy coding but also lossless coding. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve lossless coding efficiency. Proposed method is based on Intra residual DPCM, it has same effect with the prediction from spatially nearest pixel. Also, proposed method does not broken decoder pipe-line. Experimental results, the method reduced the bit rate by approximately 12% in comparison with the H.264 Intra lossless coding. As a result, it is adopted into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Advanced 4:4:4 profile.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.285-289
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 현재 비디오 코덱 표준인 H.264/AVC 에서 사용하고 있는 정수형 변환을 두 번 사용하는 다차원 변환 즉, MDT(Multi-Dimensional Transform) 을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 H.264/AVC 7가지 인터 모드중에서 $16{\times}16$, $8{\times}16$, $16{\times}8$블록 모드에 적용된다. H.264/AVC에서 사용하는 정수형 변환을 $4{\times}4$블록 단위로 적용하고 인접하는 4개의 $4{\times}4$블록으로부터 같은 주파수 위치의 계수값을 모아서 16개의 $4{\times}1$벡터 변환을 추가로 수행하는 방법이다. MDT를 수행함으로써 H.264/AVC 표준에서 사용되는 변환이 가지는 예측오차를 유지하면서 공간적 중복도를 추가로 줄일 수 있다. MDT 된 계수들을 정수형으로 양자화하고 양자화된 계수값을 효율적으로 주사하는 방법을 제안하여 압축효율을 높였다. 제안된 알고리듬의 제안하는 MDT 기반 방법은 H.264/AVC High profile 표준보다 평균 3.00%의 비트 절감을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.163-174
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC provides gains in compression efficiency of up to 50% over a wide range of bit rates and video resolutions compared to previous standards. However, to achieve such high coding efficiency, the complexity of H.264/AVC encoder is also increased drastically than previous ones, mainly because of mode decision. In this paper, we propose a three-step mode decision algorithm for fast encoding in H.264/AVC. In the first step, we select skip mode or inter mode by considering the temporal correlation and spatial correlation. In the second step, if the result of the first step is INTER mode, we select one group between two groups for final mode. In the third step, we select final mode by exploiting the pixel values of error macroblock or the modes of adjacent macroblocks. Simulations show that the proposed method reduces the encoding time by 42% on average without any significant PSNR losses.