• 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.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1207-1214
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• 2014

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 encoding results of the intra frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. Traditionally, the quantization parameter for an intra frame is determined only depending on the bpp not considering the characteristics of the intra frame. For accurate intra frame encoding, we should consider not only bpp but also the complexity of the video sequence and the output bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a real-time quantization model which is used to calculate the quantization parameter for an intra frame encoding based on the investigation on the characteristics of a GOP. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed quantization model captures the characteristics of an intra frame effectively and the proposed method for model parameters accurately estimates the real values.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7C
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• pp.654-662
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• 2009

Video streams for mobile video streaming can be encoded to fit the available network bandwidth by controlling three factors: temporal resolution, spatial resolution, and picture quality. The controlling of picture quality by modifying the quantization parameter (QP) is most widely used. In this paper, we demonstrate that reducing the spatial resolution adaptively can be more efficient in terms of picture quality and energy consumption in low bit-rate environment, and present a model to find the optimal spatial resolution for the available bandwidth. Adaptive spatial resolution control scheme is especially effective when the bandwidth between the video server and the mobile device varies considerably with time, and when the mobile device is sensitive to energy consumption. Our scheme can improve the picture quality by approximately O.5dB and reduce energy consumption by more than 50% compared to the conventional video coding in low bit-rate environment.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.372-378
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• 2010

This paper propose the fast motion estimation algorithm with adaptive search range adjustment using motion activities of temporal and spatial neighbor blocks. The existing fast motion estimation algorithms with adaptive search range adjustment use the maximum motion vector of all blocks in the reference frame. So these algorithms may not control a optimum search range for slow moving block in current frame. The proposed algorithm use the maximum motion vector of neighbor blocks in the reference frame to control a optimum search range for slow moving block. So the proposed algorithm can reduce computation time for motion estimation. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the number of search points about 15% more than Simple Dynamic Search Range(SDSR) algorithm while maintaining almost the same bit-rate and motion estimation error.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.765-770
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed an effective hardware structure using DCT-based inra-prediction mode selection to reduce computational complexity caused by intra mode decision. In this hardware structure, the input block is transformed at first and then analyzed to determine its texture directional tendency. the complexity has solved by performing intra prediction in only predicted edge direction. $4{\times}4$ DCT is calculated in one cycle using Multitransform_PE and Inta_pred_PE calculates one prediction mode in two cycles. Experimental results show that the proposed Intra prediction encoding needs only 517 cycles for one macroblock encoding. This architecture improves the performance by about 17% than previous designs. For hardware implementation, the proposed intra prediction encoder is implemented using Verilog HDL and synthesized with Megnachip $0.18{\mu}m$ standard cell library. The synthesis results show that the proposed architecture can run at 125MHz.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1589-1596
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the method that reduce computational complexity for intermode decision using CBP(coded block pattern) and coded information of colocated-MB(macro block). Proposed method classifies MB into best-CBP and normal-CBP according to the characteristics of CBP. On best-CBP, it eliminates the computation for $8{\times}8$ mode on intermode decision process because the probability for SKIP mode and M-Type mode is 96.3% statistically. On normal-CBP, it selectively eliminates the amount of computation for bit-rate distortion cost, because it uses coded information of colocated-MB and motion vector cost in deciding SKIP mode and M-Type mode. The simulation results show that the proposed method reduces total coding time to 58.44% in average, and is effective in reducing computational burden in videos with little motion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2009

최근 HD 방송의 실현과 함께 HDTV가 빠르게 상용화되면서 고화질 비디오를 더 효율적으로 압축하기 위한 기술 개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 최신 표준 비디오 압축 방식인 H.264/AVC에서는 고정 6탭 필터를 사용하여 참조 영상을 보간하고 움직임 예측을 수행하는데, 이의 압축 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 고정 필터를 개선한 비분리 적응형 보간 필터가 개발되었다. 하지만 비분리 적응형 보간 필터는 압축률뿐만 아니라 계산량도 증가하는 단점이 있기 때문에 2차원 필터를 1차원 필터의 연결로 모델링 한 분리 적응형 보간 필터가 개발되었고, 그 결과 압축률은 비슷하게 유지하면서 계산량을 훨씬 줄일 수 있게 되었다. 분리 적응형 보간 필터는 1차원 필터 모델링을 할 때, 수평방향의 필터링 수행 후 수직방향 필터링을 하기 때문에 이를 통해 만들어진 보간 영상은 원 영상의 수평방향에 대한 특성을 더 많이 반영하게 된다. 따라서 수직방향으로 더 높은 주파수 특성을 갖는 영상의 경우에는 효율이 떨어지게 된다. 이를 고려하여 본 논문에서는 영상의 수직방향 주파수 특성을 더 많이 반영할 수 있는 보간 필터를 추가함으로써 영상의 주파수 특성에 따라 보간 필터를 적응적으로 선택하는 향상된 분리 적응형 보간 필터를 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용할 경우 기존의 분리 적응형 보간 필터에 비해 움직임 예측 및 보상이 더 정확하게 이뤄질 수 있으며, 부호화 효율이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.354-362
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• 2012

Recently, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is under development jointly by MPEG and ITU-T for the next international video coding standard. Compared to the previous standards, HEVC supports variety of splitting units, such as coding unit (CU), prediction unit (PU), and transform unit (TU). Among them, it has been known that the recursive quadtree structure of CU can improve the coding efficiency while the encoding complexity is increased significantly. In this paper, a simple conditional probability to predict the early termination condition of recursive unit structure is introduced. The proposed conditional probability is estimated based on Bayes' formula from local statistics of rate-distortion costs in encoder. Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the total encoding time by about 32% according to the test configuration while the coding efficiency loss is 0.4%-0.5%. In addition, the encoding time can be reduced by 50% with 0.9% coding efficiency loss when the proposed method was used jointly with HM4.0 early CU termination algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.29
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• pp.463-473
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose Adaptive GOP Structure to enhance the coding performance of scalable video coding in JVT. Adaptive GOP Structure considers temporal variances of video sequence. In general, SVC encodes a video sequence with fixed GOP size. The coding performance is varying according to the temporal variance of a video sequence. Thus, Adaptive GOP Structure method is proposed. It selects GOP size adaptively by considering temporal variance of video sequence. In the experiments, the propose method showed the enhanced coding performance in most sequences. The PSNR gain of Crew sequence is up to 0.63 dB.

• 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.