• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.2464-2479
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• 2014

Multi-view video coding is an international encoding standard that attains good performance by fully utilizing temporal and inter-view correlations. However, it suffers from high computational complexity. This paper presents a fast encoder design to reduce the level of complexity. First, when the temporal correlation of a group of pictures is sufficiently strong, macroblock-based inter-view prediction is not employed for the non-anchor pictures of B-views. Second, when the disparity between two adjacent views is above some threshold, frame-based inter-view prediction is disabled. Third, inter-view prediction is not performed on boundary macroblocks in the auxiliary views, because the references for these blocks may not exist in neighboring views. Fourth, finer partitions of inter-view prediction are cancelled for macroblocks in static image areas. Finally, when estimating the disparity of a macroblock, the search range is adjusted according to the mode size distribution of the neighboring view. Compared with reference software, these techniques produce an average time reduction of 83.65%, while the bit-rate increase and peak signal-to-noise ratio loss are less than 0.54% and 0.05dB, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.426-445
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• 2012

Conventional rate control (RC) schemes for H.264 video coding usually regulate output bit rate to match channel bandwidth by adjusting quantization parameter (QP) at fixed full frame rate, and the passive frame skipping to avoid buffer overflow usually occurs when scene changes or high motions exist in video sequences especially at low bit rate, which degrades spatial-temporal quality and causes jerky effect. In this paper, an active content adaptive frame skipping scheme is proposed instead of passive methods, which skips subjectively trivial frames by structural similarity (SSIM) measurement between the original frame and the interpolated frame via motion vector (MV) copy scheme. The saved bits from skipped frames are allocated to coded key ones to enhance their spatial quality, and the skipped frames are well recovered based on MV copy scheme from adjacent key ones at the decoder side to maintain constant frame rate. Experimental results show that the proposed active SSIM-based frameskip scheme acquires better and more consistent spatial-temporal quality both in objective (PSNR) and subjective (SSIM) sense with low complexity compared to classic fixed frame rate control method JVT-G012 and prior objective metric based frameskip method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.3165-3181
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• 2019

Spherical videos, which are also called 360-degree videos, have become increasingly popular due to the rapid development of virtual reality technology. However, the large amount of data in such videos is a huge challenge for existing transmission system. To use the existing encode framework, it should be converted into a 2D image plane by using a specific projection format, e.g. the equi-rectangular projection (ERP) format. The existing high-efficiency video coding standard (HEVC) can effectively compress video content, but its enormous computational complexity makes the time spent on compressing high-frame-rate and high-resolution 360-degree videos disproportionate to the benefits of compression. Focusing on the ERP format characteristics of 360-degree videos, this work develops a fast decision algorithm for predicting the coding unit depth interval and adaptive mode decision for intra prediction mode. The algorithm makes full use of the video characteristics of the ERP format by dealing with pole and equatorial areas separately. It sets different reference blocks and determination conditions according to the degree of stretching, which can reduce the coding time while ensuring the quality. Compared with the original reference software HM-16.16, the proposed algorithm can reduce time consumption by 39.3% in the all-intra configuration, and the BD-rate increases by only 0.84%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1728-1743
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• 2021

Three-dimensional (3D) video scenes are complex and difficult to control, especially when scene switching occurs. In this paper, we propose two algorithms based on an incremental proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm and a similarity analysis between views to improve the method of bit allocation for multi-view high efficiency video coding (MV-HEVC). Firstly, an incremental PID algorithm is introduced to control the buffer "liquid level" to reduce the negative impact on the target bit allocation of the view layer and frame layer owing to the fluctuation of the buffer "liquid level". Then, using the image similarity between views is used to establish, a bit allocation calculation model for the multi-view video main viewpoint and non-main viewpoint is established. Then, a bit allocation calculation method based on hierarchical B frames is proposed. Experimental simulation results verify that the algorithm ensures a smooth transition of image quality while increasing the coding efficiency, and the PSNR increases by 0.03 to 0.82dB while not significantly increasing the calculation complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.262-263
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• 2014

현재 MPEG 에서 Royalty-Free 비디오 코덱인 Type-1 표준으로 진행중인 IVC(Internet Video Coding)에서는 저지연 모드(LD: Low-Delay) 부호화 구조에서 비참조 P 프레임 부호화 기법을 적응적으로 사용하여 부호화 이득을 얻고 있다. 비참조 P 프레임 기법은 P 프레임의 타입을 지정하여 고정된 부호화 구조의 비참조 P 프레임을 적용하고 있으나, ITM(IVC Test Model) 9.0 에 구현된 부호화 구조는 다중참조 프레임(MRF: Multiple Reference Frame)을 사용할 때 시간적 예측 거리가 먼 참조 프레임을 먼저 예측하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중참조 프레임에서 기존의 P 프레임 타입 설정을 변경하여 비참조 P 프레임의 부호화 구조를 개선하였다. 실험결과 제안 기법은 시퀀스에 따른 큰 성능 저하 없이 기존 기법 대비 0.6% 정도의 추가적인 비트율 감소로 얻음으로써 비참조 P 프레임 기법이 ITM 9.0 대비 7.9% 정도의 비트율 감소를 얻음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11C
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• pp.1068-1075
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• 2005

In this paper we propose a video coding method and associated packetization and decoding methods for error resilient transmission over the Internet. The proposed method re-organizes the input image into several mutually similar subimages. For this case, if the one of the subimage is lost in the network, the lost one is recovered by the proposed error concealment method which uses the correctly received other subimages. The performance of the proposed method is confirmed by the empirical results. The proposed method is not limited to the Internet communications but is applicable to the other packet-based networks.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.21-27
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• 2019

The video compression standard required a processing technique for a high resoluion image and increased the coding size to increase the resolution of the image. Accurate motion estimation and increased coding size provide high accuracy and compression rate, but there is a problem of increased computational complexity. In this paper, we use DCT - based motion estimation in the frequency domain to reduce complexity. However, we found that the DCT and quantization process used in a general video encoder are applied to the frequency domain encoder, resulting in problems caused by the scaling process. Therfore, in this paper, we extract the scaling matrix that can be applied in the DCT step and resolve the, and improve the performance of motion estimation using increased coding size.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2351-2369
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• 2012

This paper describes interpolation method of motion field in the Wyner-Ziv video coding (WZVC) based on Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. In the EM algorithm, the estimated motion field distribution is calculated on a block-by-block basis. Each pixel in the block shares similar probability distribution, producing an undesired blocking artefact on the pixel-based motion field. The proposed interpolation techniques are Bicubic and Lanczos which successively use 16 and 32 neighborhood probability distributions of block-based motion field for one pixel in k-by-k block on pixel-based motion field. EM-based WZVC codec updates the estimated probability distribution on block-based motion field, and interpolates it to pixel resolution. This is required to generate higher-quality soft side information (SI) such that the decoding algorithm is able to make syndrome estimation more quickly. Our experiments showed that the proposed interpolation methods have the capability to reduce EM-based WZVC decoding complexity with small increment of bit rate.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.37-43
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• 2023

Compressed still image or video bitstreams require protection from channel errors in a wireless channel. Embedded Zerotree Coding(EZW), SPIHT could have provided unprecedented high performance in image compression with low complexity. If bit error is generated by dint of wireless channel transmission problem, the loss of synchronization on between encoder and decoder causes serious performance degradation. But wavelet zerotree coding algorithms are producing variable-length codewords, extremely sensitive to bit errors. The idea is to partition the lifting coefficients. A many partition of lifting transform coefficients distributes channel error from wireless channel to each partition. Therefore synchronization problem that caused quality deterioration in still image and video stream was improved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.43-48
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• 1997

The video transmission for real-time viewing over the Internet is a core operation for the multimedia services. However, its realization is very difficult because the Internet has two major problems, namely, very narrow endpoint-bandwidth and the network jitter. We already proposed a scalable video transmission method in [8] which used MPEG-4 video VM(Verification Model) 2.0[3] for very low bit rate coding and an adaptive temporal rate control of video objects to overcome the network jitter problem. In this paper, we present the improved adaptive temporal rate control scheme for the scalable transmission. Experimental results for three test video sequences show that the adaptive temporal rate control can transfer the video bitstream at source frame rate under variable network condition.