• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.34 no.7C
• /
• pp.681-686
• /
• 2009

In H.264/Ave, an intra prediction added to the P-frame coding slightly improves both of image quality and bit rate, but greatly increases an amount of computation. In order to reduce the increase in computation, this paper proposes an image contents based intra prediction coding using characteristics that the best intra block mode depends on the image content of a macro block. The proposed algorithm estimates the image content with image complexity and the best inter block mode, and then selects or excludes a intra block mode on the basis of it. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces average O.OldB in image quality, and increases average 0.38% in the bit rate, but reduces average 37.02% in computation time compared with the conventional algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
• /
• 2006.06a
• /
• pp.393-394
• /
• 2006

This paper lists various error resilience tools and analyzes performance in IP Datacast over DVB-H systems and schemes are proposed. Experiments shows that, in DVB-H environment, encoding with macroblock line intra update can achieve the best error correction ability, because this tool can make full use of spatial correlation for intra prediction and reduce the requirement of bit rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.44 no.3
• /
• pp.23-32
• /
• 2007

The H.264/AVC video coding standard uses rate distortion optimization (RDO) method to improve the compression performance in the intra prediction. The complexity and computational load are increased more than previous standard by using this method, even though this standard selects the best coding mode for the current macroblock. This paper proposes a fast intra mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC encoder based on dominant edge direction (DED). To apply the idea, this algorithm uses the approximation of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient. By detecting the DED, 3 modes instead of 9 modes are chosen for RDO calculation to decide the best mode in the $4{\times}4$ luma block. As for the $16{\times}16$ luma and $8{\times}8$ chroma block, instead of 4 modes, only 2 modes are searched. Experimental results show that the computation time of the proposed algorithm is decreased to about 72% of the full search method with negligible quality loss.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.9 no.9
• /
• pp.1-8
• /
• 2009

H.264/AVC video coding standard uses the rate distortion optimization method which determines the best coding mode for macroblock(MB) to improve coding efficiency. Whereas RDO selects the best coding mode, it causes the heavy computational burden comparing with previous standards. To reduce the complexity, in this paper, a fast intra prediction mode decision algorithm using directional gradients is proposed. The proposed algorithm is composed of 2-path structure. In the first path, $16{\times}16$ intra prediction mode is determined using directional gradients. In the second path, 3 modes instead of 9 modes are chosen for RDO to decide the best mode for $4{\times}4$ block. Finally, the two modes determined in the two-path decision process are compared to decide the final block mode. Experimental results show that the computation time of the proposed method is decreased to about 77% of the exhaustive mode decision method with negligible quality loss.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
• /
• v.45 no.11
• /
• pp.71-76
• /
• 2008

H.264(or MPEG-4/AVC pt.10) is a high performance video coding standard, and is widely used. Variable length code (VLC) of the H.264 standard compresses data using the statistical distribution of values. A decoder parses the compressed bit stream and searches decoded values in lookup tables, and the decoding process is not easy to implement by hardware. We propose an architecture of variable length decoder(VLD) for the H.264 baseline profile(BP) L4. The CAVLD decodes syntax elements using the combination of arithmetic units and lookup tables for the optimized hardware architecture. A barral shifter and a first 1's detector parse NAL bit stream, and are shared by Exp-Golomb decoder and CAVLD. A FIFO memory between CAVLD and the reorder unit and a buffer at the output of the reorder unit eliminate the bottleneck of data stream. The proposed VLD is designed using Verilog-HDL and is implemented using an FPGA. The synthesis result using a 0.18um standard CMOS technology shows that the gate count is 22,604 and the decoder can process HD($1920{\times}1080$) video at 120MHz.

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

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.15 no.3
• /
• pp.380-390
• /
• 2010

The most recent standard video codec, H.264/AVC achieves significant coding efficiency by using a rate-distortion optimization(RDO). The RDO is a measurement for selecting the best mode which minimizes the Lagrangian cost among several modes. As a result, the computational complexity is increased drastically in encoder. In this paper, a method for fast intra prediction mode decision is proposed to reduce the RDO complexity. To speed up Intra$4{\times}4$ and Chroma Intra encoding, the proposed method decides the case that MPM (Most Probable Mode) is the best prediction mode. In this case, the RDO process is skipped, and only MPM is used for encoding the block in Intra$4{\times}4$. And the proposed method is also applied to the chroma Intra prediction mode in a similar way to the Intra$4{\times}4$. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an average encoding time saving of about 63% with negligible loss of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2010.11a
• /
• pp.100-103
• /
• 2010

In this paper we propose a method of detecting moving object in H.264/AVC bitstream by representing the $4{\times}4$ block partition units as nodes of graph. By constructing hierarchical graph by taking into account the relation between nodes and the spatial-temporal relations between graphs in frames, we are able to track small objects, distinguish two occluded objects, and identify objects that move and stop alternatively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2010.11a
• /
• pp.104-105
• /
• 2010

H.264/AVC는 기존의 동영상 압축 표준안보다 훨씬 뛰어난 압축 효율을 보이나 상대적으로 높은 계산 복잡도를 보인다. 또한 최근 모바일 어플리케이션 및 DTV 등에서의 실시간 구현의 수요가 급증함에 따라 하드웨어 구현보다 상대적으로 flexible한 구조인 DSP 환경에서의 최적화 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 다중 참조 픽처 고속 움직임 보상 알고리즘에 대하여 DSP 환경에 맞게 구현 및 최적화를 통하여 실시간 구현 및 최적화 경향파악을 하고 있다. 수행된 DSP 최적화를 통하여 움직임 추정 평균 계산량을 픽셀 당 약 56.17%로 크게 감소시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2010.11a
• /
• pp.106-107
• /
• 2010

본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC의 부호화 효율을 향상 시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 확장된 매크로 블록에서 향상된 인트라 예측 및 인터 예측 블록 혼합 코딩 방법을 사용한다. 그리고 인터 블록부터 먼저 부호화 및 복호화하여 인트라 예측 시 참조 픽셀로 사용하는 것을 제안한다. 기존의 인트라 예측 방법에서는 현재 블록의 우측 픽셀들과 하단에 위치한 픽셀들을 이용하지 못하기 때문에 예측 정확도가 높지 않았다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현재 부호화하려는 블록의 상단과 좌측뿐만 아니라 우측 또는 하단의 복호화가 완료된 픽셀을 이용하여, 예측을 수행하는 확장된 인트라 예측 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 제안하는 방법이 기존 기술에 비해 효율적인 것을 보인다.