• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.911-921
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• 2020

Recently, MPEG-I (Immersive) has been exploring compression performance through standardization projects for immersive video. The MPEG Immersion Video (MIV) standard technology is intended to provide limited 6DoF based on depth map-based image rendering (DIBR). MIV is a model that processes the Basic View and the residual information into an Additional View, which is a collection of patches. Atlases have the unique characteristics depending on the kind of the view they are included, requiring consideration of the compression efficiency. In this paper, the performance comparison analysis of screen content coding tools such as intra block copy (IBC) is conducted, based on the pattern of various views and patches repetition. It is demonstrated that the proposed method improves coding performance around -15.74% BD-rate reduction in the MIV.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.3
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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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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.607-609
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• 2009

In this letter, an effective scanning method based on a morphological representation of quantized coefficients is proposed for intra coding in H.264. In the proposed scanning method, the scan order for each block is adaptively reconfigured by exploiting a residual correlation beyond the border of the block. An initial scan order for the current block is determined first by using the pattern of nonzero coefficients in the adjacent block. Then, a complete scan order is obtained by performing the dilation operation at each position within the initial scan order. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the coding efficiency up to 3.7% compared to the conventional zigzag scanning method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.246-249
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 화면 내 블록 카피 (IntraBC: Intra Block Copy) 예측 기술의 압축 성능 분석과 향상된 해쉬 기법을 통한 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩 성능 기법을 제안한다. 현재 SCM (Screen Content Coding Test Model) 에 채택 된 화면 내 블록 카피 기술에서는 $16{\times}16$ 블록에는 1차원 탐색을 수행하고 $8{\times}8$블록에서는 해쉬기반 전역 탐색을 수행하여 해쉬가 일치하는 블록들과 RD-Cost를 수행한다. 현재의 해쉬기반 전역탐색에는 기울기 (Gradient) 위주의 해쉬 구성으로 인해 해쉬가 고르게 분포하지 않아, RD-Cost 수행횟수가 과도하게 많아지는 문제가 있다. 제안하는 방법은 전역적 화면 내 블록 카피의 해쉬 구성 방법을 개선함으로써, 기존 SCM-6.1 대비 0.46%의 BDBR 향상을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.177-179
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• 2014

컴퓨터 그래픽의 발달 및 다양한 멀티미디어 기기들의 보급이 증가함에 따라 스크린 콘텐츠 영상에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 자연영상과 다른 특성을 지닌 스크린 콘텐츠 영상의 효율적인 압축을 위하여, 기존의 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)의 SCC (screen content coding) 에서는 스크린 콘텐츠 영상을 위한 새로운 예측 기술이 추가되었다, 추가된 대표적인 예측 기술로 화면 내 블록 카피 (IBC: intra block copy) 기술과 팔레트 모드 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩의 부호화 효율 향상 연구에 앞서, 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩에서 높은 부호화 효율을 보이는 화면 내 블록 카피 기술에 대하여 소개하고 화면 내 블록 카피 기술의 부호화 특성 및 블록 벡터 예측 기법에 대한 분석을 수행한다. 또한, 이러한 분석 결과를 토대로 화면 내 블록 카피 기술의 성능 향상을 위한 방법을 제시한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.145-154
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• 2011

We present a novel video codec for supporting entertainment-quality video. It has new coding tools such as an intra prediction with offset, integer sine transform, and enhanced block-based adaptive loop filter. These tools are used adaptively in the processing of intra prediction, transform, and loop filtering. In our experiments, the proposed codec achieved an average reduction of 13.35% in BD-rate relative to H.264/AVC for 720p sequences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.148-150
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• 2020

최근 VVC(Versatile Video Coding) 표준 완료 이후 JVET(Joint Video Experts Team)은 인공신경망 기반의 비디오 부호화를 위한 AhG(Ad-hoc Group) 구성하고 인공지능을 이용한 비디오 압축 기술들을 검증하고 있으며, MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 DNNVC(Deep Neural Network based Video Coding) 활동을 통해 딥러닝 기반의 차세대 비디오 부호화 표준 기술을 탐색하고 있다. 본 논문은 VVC 에 채택된 신경망 기반의 기술인 MIP(Matrix Weighted Intra Prediction)를 참조하여, MIP 모델의 학습에서 손실함수가 예측 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 즉, 예측의 왜곡(MSE)만을 고려한 경우와 예측오차의 부호화 비용도 함께 반영한 손실함수를 비교한다. 실험을 위해 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 화면내 예측 대비 평균적인 PSNR 향상 정도를 나타내는 성능 지표(��PSNR)를 정의한다. 실험결과 예측오차의 부호화 특성을 반영하는 손실함수를 이용한 학습이 MSE 만 고려한 학습 대비 ��PSNR 기준 평균 0.4dB 향상됨을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8C
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• pp.720-728
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• 2007

For the improvement of coding efficiency, the H.264/AVC video coding standard employs new coding tools compared with existing coding standards. However, due to these new coding tools, the complexity of H.2641AVC encoder is greatly increased. Specially, Inter/Intra mode decision method of H.264/AVC using RDO(rate-distortion optimization) technique is one of the most complex parts in H.264/AVC. In this paper, we focus on the complexity reduction in macroblock mode decision considering coding efficiency. From the simulation results, the proposed algorithm reduce the encoding time by maximum 80% of total, and reduce the bitrate of the overall sequences by $8{\sim}10%$ on the average compared with existing coding methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.56-68
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• 2002

The Universal Variable Length Coding(UVLC) scheme in H.26L has nice features such as error resiliency and two-way decodability. However, it has lower coding efficiency than the conventional Huffman coding. To improve the coding efficiency of UVLC, we Propose to use a dynamic codeword mapping that changes association between symbols and codewords in order to utilize the statistical characteristics of symbols as much as possible but without losing any features of the UVLC. Both encoder and decoder use the same re-association table, and hence the encoder need not send additional overhead for the re-mapping relationship to the decoder. Simulation results show that without significant change of the current H.26L coding scheme, the proposed method additionally attains up to about 8% and about 5% bit reductions respectively in intra and inter frames over the current H.26L encoding method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.137-151
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• 2008

H.264/AVC is showed high coding efficiency more than previous video coding standard by using new coding tools. Specially, Variable block-based motion estimation and Rate-Distortion Optimization are very important coding tools in H.264/AVC. These coding tools have high coding efficiency, however the encoder complexity greatly increase due to these coding tools. In this paper, we propose early SKIP mode decision and selective inter/intra mode decision to reduce the computational complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed method could reduce encoding time of the overall sequences by 30% on average than JM 10.2 without noticeable degradation of coding efficiency. Besides, the proposed method runs over twice as fast as the previous proposed Fast Coding Mode Selection method (FCMS)[5].