• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.422-433
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• 2015

In this paper, we demonstrate inter-layer prediction tools for scalable video coders. The proposed scalable coder is designed to support not only spatial, quality and temporal scalabilities, but also view scalability. In addition, we propose quad-tree inter-layer prediction tools to improve coding efficiency at enhancement layers. The proposed inter-layer prediction tools generate texture prediction signal with exploiting texture, syntaxes, and residual information from a reference layer. Furthermore, the tools can be used with inter and intra prediction blocks within a large coding unit. The proposed framework guarantees the rate distortion performance for a base layer because it does not have any compulsion such as constraint intra prediction. According to experiments, the framework supports the spatial scalable functionality with about 18.6%, 18.5% and 25.2% overhead bits against to the single layer coding. The proposed inter-layer prediction tool in multi-loop decoding design framework enables to achieve coding gains of 14.0%, 5.1%, and 12.1% in BD-Bitrate at the enhancement layer, compared to a single layer HEVC for all-intra, low-delay, and random access cases, respectively. For the single-loop decoding design, the proposed quad-tree inter-layer prediction can achieve 14.0%, 3.7%, and 9.8% bit saving.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2014

In the scalable video coding standard, inter-layer prediction based on the coding information of the base layer was adopted to increase the coding performance. This prediction tool results in new syntax elements called motion_prediction_flag (mPF) and residul_prediction_flag(rPF), which are carried to notify the motion vector predictor (MVP) and reference block required in the motion compensation of the decoder. In this paper, an efficient coding method for mPF is proposed to enhance coding efficiency of the salable video coding standard. Through an analysis on the transmission of mPF based on the relationship between the MVPs, we discover the conditions where mPF is unnecessary at the decoder and suggest a modified rate-distortion (RD) cost function to make RD optimization more effective. Simulation results show that the proposed method offers BD rate savings of approximately 1.4%, compared with the conventional SVC standard.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.249-260
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• 2013

고해상도의 고품질 비디오 서비스가 보편화됨에 따라 최근 초고해상도(UHD) 비디오 부호화를 위한 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 표준이 마무리되었으며, 향후 융합환경에서 HD 및 UHD 비디오를 동시에 제공하기 위한 스케일러블 확장 HEVC 표준화도 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 UHD/HD 비디오를 동시에 제공하기 위한 H.264/SVC의 확장 부호화 기법을 제시한다. 즉, HEVC의 대표적인 부호화 툴인 Large Block 개념을 H.264/SVC에 적용함으로써 계층간 예측 및 신택스 부호화 등의 부호화 효율성을 개선한 부호화 기법을 제시하고 그 부호화 성능을 분석한다. 실험결과 Large Block을 적용한 SVC가 기존의 H.264/SVC에 비하여 평균 4.53% 내외의 비트 감소의 이득이 있음을 확인하였다.