• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.725-733
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• 2012

MPEG and VCEG have constituted a collaboration team called JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding) and have been developing the HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) standard. The next generation video coding standard HEVC shows higher compression rate compared with the H.264/AVC standard, but the encoder computational complexity of the HEVC encoder is significantly high. In order to reduce this computational complexity in the HEVC encoder, a fast prediction unit decision is proposed. The proposed fast prediction unit decision method reduces the encoder complexity by skipping the remaining prediction units if the current prediction unit does not have any non-zero quantized transform coefficient. The proposed method reduces the encoder computational complexity by 50.3% comparing with HM6.0 but it maintains the same level of coding efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.50-57
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• 2009

This paper presents a new model-based macroblock layer rate control algorithm for low bit rate video coding which generates output bits corresponding to a target bit budget. The H.264 standard uses various coding modes and optimization methods to improve the compression performance, which makes it difficult to control the generated traffic accurately in low bit rate environments. In the proposed scheme, we first estimate MAD values of macroblocks in a frame and define a target remaining bits using the estimated MAD values before encoding each macroblock. If a difference between the target value and the actual value is greater than a threshold value, the quantization parameter is adjusted to decrease the difference. It is shown by experimental results that the new algorithm can obtain more than 66% decrease of the difference between the target bits and the resulting bits for a frame with the PSNR performance better than that of the existing rate control algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an adaptive in-loop filter to improve the coding efficiency. Recently, there are post-filter hint SEI and block-based adaptive filter control (BAFC) methods based on the Wiener filter which can minimize the mean square error between the input image and the decoded image in video coding standards. However, since the post-filter hint SEI is applied only to the output image, it cannot reduce the prediction errors of the subsequent frames. Because BAFC is also conducted with a deblocking filter, independently, it has a problem of high computational complexity on the encoder and decoder sides. In this paper, we propose the low-complexity adaptive in-loop filter (LCALF) which has lower computational complexity by using H.264/AVC deblocking filter, adaptively, as well as shows better performance than the conventional method. In the experimental results, the computational complexity of the proposed method is reduced about 22% than the conventional method. Furthermore, the coding efficiency of the proposed method is about 1% better than the BAFC.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.2
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• pp.123-130
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• 2009

Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression. But it limits the performance of image quality and encoding speed and is computational demanding part of the encoder. To reduce computational time and maintain the image quality, integer pel and fractional pel ME methods are proposed in this paper. The proposed method for integer pel ME uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of symmetrical cross-X pattern, multi square grid pattern, diamond patterns. These search patterns places search points symmetrically and evenly that can cover the overall search area not to fall into the local minimum and to reduce the computational time. The proposed method for fractional pel uses full search pattern, center biased fractional pel search pattern and the proposed search pattern. According to block sizes, the proposed method for fractional pel decides the search pattern adaptively. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over Unsymmetrical cross Multi Hexagon grid Search (UMHexagonS) and Full Search (FS) can be up to around $1.2{\sim}5.2$ times faster. Compared to image quality of FS, the proposed method shows an average PSNR drop of 0.01 dB while showing an average PSNR gain of 0.02 dB in comparison to that of UMHexagonS.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.241-246
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• 2012

In this paper, we apply the next generation Internet Broadcasting Move Picture solution, FlashVideo has been designed and implemented. Currently being broadcast in the field to compress HD video in real time, as well as live Internet VOD services are available through the online system, the Internet LIVE broadcast and VOD service easy to operate and UCC services that support the solution. VOD video cameras and in real time using H264 CORECODEC to compress MPEC4, WMV, and real-time video streaming on the Internet, and phone system that supports the first, real-time recording of camera images featured nation's first real-time encoder system (Real time encoder system) is, Web and smart environment suitable for supporting the latest CORECODEC technology and software products. Second, the video can be played in MP4 player and customize your chat, and customizing is a possible two-way Internet Broadcasting System. Third, CMS (Contents Management System) feature video contents and course management contents in real time via the Android phone and iPhone streaming service is available.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.93-97
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• 2012

In this paper, we apply the next generation Internet TV solution, FLV has been designed and implemented. Currently being broadcast in the field to compress HD video in real time, as well as live Internet VOD services are available through the online system, the Internet LIVE broadcast and VOD service easy to operate and UCC services that support the solution. VOD video cameras and in real time using H264 CORECODEC to compress MPEC4, WMV, and real-time video streaming on the Internet, and phone system that supports the first, real-time recording of camera images featured nation's first real-time encoder system (Real time encoder system) is, Web and smart environment suitable for supporting the latest CORECODEC technology and software products. Second, the video can be played in MP4 player and customize your chat, and Custer (customizing) is a possible two-way Internet Broadcasting System. Third, CMS (Contents Management System) feature video content and course management content in real time via the Android phone and iPhone streaming service is available.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.598-601
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• 2011

스케일러블 비디오 코딩은 레이어간 예측 기능을 이용하여 시뮬케스트 코딩에 비해 코딩 효율을 높인다. 하지만 스케일러블 비디오 코딩의 레이어간 예측으로는, 인트라 픽셀(inta pixel). 모션 정보(motion vector information), 레지듀얼(residual)등의 예측이 수행되는데, 이는 많은 계산 시간을 소요하게 되며, 시뮬케스트에 비해 코딩 시간이 증가하게 된다. 특히 인코더의 경우, 가장 최적의 모드를 선택하기 위하여, 기존 H.264 AVC에서 사용하는 예측을 수행한 뒤, 부가적으로 스케일러블 비디오 코딩의 레이어간 예측을 수행하기 때문에, 하나의 영상이 많은 레이어를 포함할수록 인코딩에 의한 계산부하가 매우 증가하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해, 멀티 코어 이용하여 레이어별로 병렬처리가 가능하도록 하는 스케일러블 비디오 인코더의 구조를 제안한다. 이로써 하나의 영상이 포함하는 레이어의 수가 증가함에 따라 발생하는 인코딩 계산 부하를 줄이도록 하였다. 그리하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 구조를 적용하였을 때, 2개의 공간영역으로의 스케일러빌리티를 가지는 영상들에 대해서는 평균 24.8%의 속도가 향상되었고, 1개의 공간영역과 1개의 화질 영역으로의 스케일러빌리티를 가지는 영상들에 대해서는 평균 82%의 속도 향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2013

ITU-T VCEG 과 ISO/IEC MPEG 이 공동으로 구성한 JCT-VC (Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding)이 표준화를 진행 중인 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)은 H.264/AVC 대비 약 2 배의 압축효율을 갖는다. 하지만, 계층적 구조를 갖는 가변크기 블록의 사용과 재귀적 부호화 구조에 따른 인코더의 복잡도 증가는 개선해야 할 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 표준화가 진행 중인 HEVC 인코더의 실시간 구현을 위한 SIMD 명령어를 이용한 data-level 병렬화 기법, CPU 및 GPU 를 이용한 multi-threading 기법과 같은 다양한 병렬화 기법을 소개한다. 또한, 이러한 병렬화 기법들을 HEVC 인코더에 적용하기 위해 적합한 연산 및 기능 모듈에 대하여 소개한다. 본 연구를 통하여 HM (HEVC reference model)에 적용한 결과 $832{\times}480$ 영상의 경우 20-30fps 의 부호화 속도를 나타냈으며, $1920{\times}1080$ 영상의 경우 5-10fps 의 부호화 속도를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.835-849
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• 2013

Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which have founded ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG, has standardized High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). Standardization of HEVC has started with purpose of twice or more coding performance compared to H.264/AVC. However, flexible and hierarchical coding block and recursive coding structure are problems to overcome of HEVC standard. Many fast encoding algorithms for reducing computational complexity of HEVC encoder have been proposed. However, it is hard to implement a real-time HEVC encoder only with those fast encoding algorithms. In this paper, for implementation of software-based real-time HEVC encoder, data-level parallelism using SIMD instructions and CPU/GPU multi-threading methods are proposed. And we also proposed appropriate operations and functional modules to apply the proposed methods on HM 10.0 software. Evaluation of the proposed methods implemented on HM 10.0 software showed 20-30fps for $832{\times}480$ sequences and 5-10fps for $1920{\times}1080$ sequences, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.31-43
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• 2022

Traditional video compression has developed so far based on hybrid compression methods through motion prediction, residual coding, and quantization. With the rapid development of technology through artificial neural networks in recent years, research on image compression and video compression based on artificial neural networks is also progressing rapidly, showing competitiveness compared to the performance of traditional video compression codecs. In this paper, a new method capable of improving the performance of such an artificial neural network-based video compression model is presented. Basically, we take the rate-distortion optimization method using the auto-encoder and entropy model adopted by the existing learned video compression model and shifts some components of the latent information that are difficult for entropy model to estimate when transmitting compressed latent representation to the decoder side from the encoder side, and finally compensates the distortion of lost information. In this way, the existing neural network based video compression framework, MFVC (Motion Free Video Compression) is improved and the BDBR (Bjøntegaard Delta-Rate) calculated based on H.264 is nearly twice the amount of bits (-27%) of MFVC (-14%). The proposed method has the advantage of being widely applicable to neural network based image or video compression technologies, not only to MFVC, but also to models using latent information and entropy model.