• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.356-361
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• 2014

This paper proposes hardware architecture of HEVC (high efficiency video coding) CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) binarizer. The proposed binarizer was designed and implemented as an independent module that can be integrated into HEVC CABAC encoder. It generates each bin string of each syntax element in a single cycle. It consists of controller module, TU (truncated unary binarization) module, TR (truncated Rice binarization) module, FL (fixed length binarization) module, EGK (k-th order exp-Golomb coding) module, CALR (coeff_abs_level_remaining) module, QP Delta (cu_qp_delta_abs) module, Intra Pred (intra_chroma_pred_mode) module, Inter Pred (inter_pred_idc) module, and Part Mode (part_mode) module. The proposed binarizer was designed in Verilog HDL, and it was implemented in 45 nm technology. Its operating speed, gate count, and power consumption are 200 MHz, 1,678 gates, and 50 uW, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.390-392
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new error concealment (EC) method using inter-layer correlation for scalable video coding. In the proposed method, the auxiliary motion vector (MV) and the auxiliary mode number (MN) of intra prediction are interleaved into the bitstream to recover the corrupted frame. In order to reduce the bit rate, the proposed method encodes the difference between the original and the predicted values of the MV and MN instead of the original values. Experimental results show that the proposed EC outperforms the conventional EC by 2.8 dB to 6.7 dB.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2016

This paper presents new prediction methods to improve compression performance of the so-called near-lossless RGB-domain image coder, which is designed to effectively decrease the memory bandwidth of a system-on-chip (SoC) for image processing. First, variable block size (VBS)-based intra prediction is employed to eliminate spatial redundancy for the green (G) component of an input image on a pixel-line basis. Second, inter-color prediction (ICP) using spectral correlation is performed to predict the R and B components from the previously reconstructed G-component image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves coding efficiency by up to 30% compared with an existing algorithm for natural images, and improves coding efficiency with low computational cost by about 50% for computer graphics (CG) images.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2016

The emerging High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard attempts to improve coding efficiency by a factor of two over H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) at the expense of an increase in computational complexity. Mode decision with motion estimation (ME) is still one of the most time-consuming computations in HEVC, as it is with H.264/AVC. Thus, fast mode decisions are not only an important issue to be researched, but also an urgent one. Several schemes for fast mode decisions have been presented in reference software and in other studies. However, the conventional hierarchical mode decision can be useless when block-level parallelism is exploited. This paper proposes operation-level exploration that offers more chances for early termination. An early termination condition is checked between integer and fractional MEs and between the parts of one partition type. The fast decision points of the proposed algorithm do not overlap those in previous works. Thus, the proposed algorithms are easily used with other fast algorithms, and consequently, independent speed-up is possible.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.435-436
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• 2006

When working with multi-view images, imbalances between multi-view images occur a serious problem in multi-view video coding because they decrease the performance of disparity estimation. To overcome this problem, we propose inter-view balanced disparity estimation for multi-view video coding. In general, the imbalance problem can be solved by a preprocessing step that transforms reference images linearly. However, there are some problems in pre-processing such as the transformation of the original images. In order to obtain a balancing effect among the views, we perform block-based disparity estimation, which includes several balancing parameters.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2022

Many new techniques have been adopted in HEVC (High efficiency video coding) standard, such as quadtree-structured coding unit (CU), prediction unit (PU) partition, 35 intra-mode, and so on. To reduce computational complexity, the paper proposes two optimization algorithms which include fast CU depth range decision and fast PU partition mode decision. Firstly, depth range of CU is predicted according to spatial-temporal correlation. Secondly, we utilize the depth difference between the current CU and CU corresponding to the same position of adjacent frame for PU mode range selection. The number of traversal candidate modes is reduced. The experiment result shows the proposed algorithm obtains a lot of time reducing, and the loss of coding efficiency is inappreciable.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 SHVC 부호화 성능 개선을 위하여 딥러닝 기반 계층간 예측을 위한 참조 픽처 생성 방법을 제안한다. 새로운 참조 픽처를 생성하기 위하여 DCT-IF기반 업샘플링 된 픽처를 VDSR 네트워크를 이용한 필터링을 진행하는 구조와 SHVC 계층간 참조 픽처를 생성하기 위한 트레이닝 방법에 대해 설명한다. 제안하는 방법은 SHM 12.0 기반으로 구현되어 있다. 성능 평가를 위하여 사전 학습을 이용하여 계층간 예측 픽처를 생성하는 방법과 비교를 진행하였다. 그 결과 상위 계층의 부호화 성능은 사전 학습을 이용한 방법 대비 최대 13.14%의 비트 감소, SHM 대비 최대 15.39%의 비트 감소율을 보였고, 평균 6.46%의 비트 감소율을 보였다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.252-253
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• 2010

H.264/AVC는 P 슬라이스에 2개의 인트라 모드, 4개의 인터 모드 그리고 SKIP모드, 총 7개의 모드를 허용한다. 다양한 블록 모드들을 효율적으로 이용하기 위하여 RDO를 통하여 최적의 모드를 결정한다. 그러나 SKIP 모드의 RD 점과 다른 모드들의 RD점 사이의 간격이 넓은 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점은 부호화 성능에 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 SKIP 모드와 4개의 인터 모드 사이의 RD 성능의 중간 성격을 지니는 새로운 인터 모드를 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 inter16x16의 움직임 정보와 inter16x16의 움직임 정보를 이용하여 찾은 예측 블록에 대한 잔차 블록의 평균 에너지만을 보내준다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 H.264/AVC의 참조 소프트웨어인 JM 17.0에 비하여 WQVGA 영상에서 평균 0.71%의 비트 감소를 나타내었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.441-450
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• 2008

The scalable extension of H.264, known as scalable video coding (SVC) has been the main focus of the Joint Video Team's work and was finalized at the end of 2007. Synchronization between media is an important aspect in the design of a scalable video streaming system. This paper proposes an efficient media synchronization mechanism for SVC video transport over IP networks. To support synchronization between video and audio bitstreams transported over IP networks, a real-time transport protocol/RTP control protocol (RTP/RTCP) suite is usually employed. To provide an efficient mechanism for media synchronization between SVC video and audio, we suggest an efficient RTP packetization mode for inter-layer synchronization within SVC video and propose a computationally efficient RTCP packet processing method for inter-media synchronization. By adopting the computationally simple RTCP packet processing, we do not need to process every RTCP sender report packet for inter-media synchronization. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism by comparing its performance with that of the conventional method.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.997-1003
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• 2007

H.264/AVC는 프레임 간 움직임 추정에서 새로운 인트라 모드(intra mode)와 인터 모드(inter mode) 방식을 도입하여 프레임 간 압축률을 높이고 있다. 이들 두 모드들은 가변 크기 블록 모드를 사용하고 있으며 H.264 인코더는 이들 새로운 예측 모드들을 사용하여 이전 표준안들에 비해 뛰어난 압축률과 유연성을 제공해 준다. 그러나 압축률과 유연성에서 이득을 보는 대신, 이들 두 예측으로 인해 복잡도가 증가하고 부호화 시간을 많이 요구하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 결과 인트라 모드, 움직임 벡터와 모드 맵의 지역 통계를 사용하여 인터 모드를 예측하는 기법을 제안한다. 인트라와 인터 모드는 선택되는 블록 크기에서 연관성을 보이고 있으며, 영상 내용의 stationary에 따라 주변 매크로 블록의 결과 모드와 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 매크로 블록의 인터 모드를 예측할 수 있다. 본 논문의 결과에서는 다양한 비트율과 여덟 개의 영상 열에서 FMD와 비교하여 PSNR과 비트 율에서 거의 비슷하면서 평균 39.43%의 부호화 시간을 감소시키는 것을 보여 주고 있다.