• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.299-311
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• 2012

Recently, H.264 SE(scalable extension) has become a standard of next generation multimedia service which is one source, multi-user service in the telecommunication environment of different kinds of networks and terminal equipments. But existing DRM schemes for multimedia service are not fit for H.264 SE system. Because the amount of transmitted multimedia data is changed considering network environment and terminal equipments' performance by the system, but in the existing DRM schemes, the amount of handled multimedia data are not variable according to network environment and terminal equipments' performance. In this paper, an information security scheme combined video watermarking and encryption is presented for H.264 SE. Amount of watermarks and embedding positions are calculated by the frame number of enhancement layers which are created according to the state of networks and terminal equipments. In order to minimize delayed time by video watermarking and encryption, the video data are watermarked and encrypted in the H.264 SE compression process. In the experimental results, we confirmed that proposed scheme is robust against video compression, general signal processing and geometric processing.

• 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.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.152-161
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• 2008

We investigate that when we restrict the encoding modes on the enhancement layer based on that of the base layer exploiting the high correlation between the best modes at base and enhancement layers, we should determine the set of surviving search modes to yield the minimum excessive RD-cost caused by the restriction. Based on these sets, we implement a fast mode decision algorithm for H.264 Scalable Extension (SE). Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior in the sense of the RD-performance to the conventional mode restriction method which is based on the conditional probabilities of the best modes.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.650-657
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• 2011

This paper proposes a novel bit allocation algorithm for H.264 scalable extension(SE) based on a human visual system (HVS) to improve the coding efficiency. The proposed algorithm is consist of two stages: visual weighting model and visual weighting-based bit allocation algorithm. In the first stage, the visual weighting for each macroblock (MB) is analyzed according to the region of interests. Then the adaptation of the visual weighting into the bit allocation routine for each quality layer is performed for improving the visual quality. In the simulation results, it is observed that the proposed scheme can improve the subjective and objective video quality in the same bit rate, compared to the previous scalable video coding in H.264.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.1 s.109
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• pp.122-129
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• 2008

H.264의 출현으로 디지털 콘텐츠는 고해상도 HD 서비스로 빠르게 전환되고 있다. H.264는 현존하는 가장 우수한 비디오 부호화 표준이지만, 모바일 TV에서는 QVGA 또는 CIF 해상도의 VCD급 품질만 제공 가능한 성능의 한계를 보이고 있다. HD 콘텐츠에 익숙해진 사용자들은 모바일 TV의 VCD급 서비스에 점차적으로 불만족을 느끼게 될 것이며, DVD급 이상의 서비스로 빠른 전환을 요구하게 될 것이다. 본 고에서는 현재 모바일 TV에서 사용되는 H.264 보다 높은 압축 성능을 위한 비디오 부호화 표준화 동향과 전망에 대해 설명하고자 한다. 먼저 H.264 이후에 진행된 MPEG의 SVC, MVC, RVC 비디오 부호화 현황에 대해 설명하고, VCEG에서 진행중인 H.265를 위한 KTA 현황 및 동향과 주요 기술들에 대해 설명하고, 향후 비디오 부호화 표준화에 대한 전망을 예측하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.506-515
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC standard has adopted new coding tools such as intra-prediction, variable block size, motion estimation with quarter-pixel-accuracy, loop filter, and so on. The adoption of these tools enables an H.264/AVC-coded bitstream to have more information than was possible with previous standards. In this paper, we propose an effective spatial error concealment method with low complexity in H.264/AVC intra-frame. From information included in an H.264/AVC-coded bitstream, we use prediction modes of intra-blocks to recover a damaged block. This is because the prediction direction in each prediction mode is highly correlated to the edge direction. We first estimate the edge direction of a damaged block using the prediction modes of the intra-blocks adjacent to a damaged block and classify the area inside the damaged block into edge and flat areas. Our method then recovers pixel values in the edge area using edge-directed interpolation, and recovers pixel values in the flat area using weighted interpolation. Simulation results show that the proposed method yields better video quality than conventional approaches.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.293-304
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed a new hardware architecture for motion estimation (ME) which is the most time-consuming unit among H.264 algorithms and designed to the type of intellectual property (IP). The proposed ME hardware consists of buffer, processing unit (PU) array, SAD (sum of absolute difference) selector, and motion vector (MVgenerator). PU array is composed of 16 PUs and each PU consists of 16 processing elements (PUs). The main characteristics of the proposed hardware are that current and reference frames are re-used to reduce the number of access to the external memory and that there is no clock loss during SAD operation. The implemented ME hardware occupies 3% hardware resources of StatixIII EP3SE80F1152C2 which is a FPGA of Altera Inc. and can operate at up to 446.43MHz. Therefore it can process up to 50 frames of 1080p in a second.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.392-392
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• 2006

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

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.21-26
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• 2010

This paper proposed an efficient algorithm to reduce the amount of calculation for Scalability Extension which takes a great deal of the operational time in H.264/AVC. This algorithm decides a search range according to the direction of predicted motion vector, and then performs an adaptive spiral search for the candidates with JM(Joint Model) FME(Fast Motion Estimation) which employs the rate-distortion optimization(RDO) method. Experimental results by applying the proposed method to various video sequences showed that the process time was decreased up to 80% comparing to the previous prediction methods. The degradation of video Quality was only from 0.05dB to 0.19dB and the compression ratio decreased as small as 0.58% in average. Therefore, we are sure that the proposed method is an efficient method for the fast inter prediction.