• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.7
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• pp.495-502
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• 2013

Motion estimation (ME) that limits the performance of image quality and encoding speed has been developed to reduce temporal redundancy in video sequences and plays an important role in digital video compression. But it is computational demanding part of the encoder. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. ME for Multi-view video requires high computational complexity. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a fast motion estimation method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of modified diamond search patten, multi gird diamond search pattern, and raster search pattern. These search patterns place search points symmetrically and evenly that can cover the overall search area not to fall into the local minimum or exploits the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.2 ~3 times faster while maintaining similar video quality and bit rates.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.900-910
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• 2014

Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of multi view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, improved prediction structure and motion estimation method is proposed in this paper. The proposed prediction structure exploits an average distance between the current picture and its reference pictures. The proposed prediction structure divides every GOP into several groups to decide the maximum index of hierarchical B layer and the number of pictures of each B layer. And the proposed motion estimation method uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of modified diamond search pattern, progressive diamond search pattern and modified raster search pattern. Experiment results show that the complexity reduction of the proposed prediction structure and motion estimation method over JMVC (Joint Multiview Video Coding) reference model using hierarchical B pictures of Fraunhofer-HHI and TZ search method can be up to 40~70% while maintaining similar video quality and bit rates.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.329-336
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• 2017

In video compression, Motion Estimation(ME) limits the performance of image quality and generated bit rates. However, it requires much complexity in the encoder part. Multi-view video uses many cameras at different positions. Multi-view video coding needs huge computational complexity in proportion to the number of the cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, an effective motion estimation method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method exploiting the characteristics of motion vector distribution and the motion of video. The proposed is a kind of a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy consists of multi-grid rhombus pattern, diagonal pattern, rectangle pattern, and refinement pattern. Experiment results show that the complexity reduction of the proposed method over TZ search method and PBS (Pel Block Search) on JMVC (Joint Multiview Video Coding) can be up to 40~75% and 98% respectively while maintaining similar video image quality and generated bit rates.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.333-341
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• 2014

Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. Multi-view video coding requires high computational complexity. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, an effective early termination motion estimation method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method exploiting the characteristic of motion vector distribution uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of multi-grid square search pattern, modified diamond search pattern, small diamond search pattern and raster search pattern. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method and FS(Full Search) method JMVC (Joint Multiview Video Coding) can be up to 1.7~4.5 times and 90 times faster respectively while maintaining similar video quality and bit rates.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.786-791
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• 2012

This paper presents a depth boundary sharpening method for improved view synthesis in 3D video. In depth coding, distortion occurs around object boundaries, degrading the quality of synthesized images. In order to encounter this problem, the proposed method estimates an edge map for each frame to filter only the boundary regions. In particular, a window-based filter is employed to choose the most reliable pixel as the replacement considering three factors: frequency, similarity and closeness. The proposed method was implemented as post-processing of the deblocking filter in JMVC 8.3.Compared to the conventional methods, the proposed method generated 0.49 dB PSNR increase and 16.58% bitrate decrease on average. The improved portions were subjectively confirmed as well.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.386-389
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• 2012

다시점 비디오는 3차원 정보를 표현하기 위한 영상으로 하나의 3차원 장면을 여러 시점에서 다수의 카메라로 촬영한 동영상이다. 영상들 사이에 존재하는 시간적 상관성과 화면간 상관성을 이용하는 다시점 비디오 부호화는 카메라의 수에 비례하여 데이터의 양이 늘어나기 때문에 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 다시점 비디오 부호화 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 다시점 비디오의 부호화 성능을 향상시키기 위한 효율적인 예측구조를 제안한다. 제안한 예측 구조는 다시점 비디오의 부호화 효율을 높이기 위하여 부호화되는 현재 화면과 현재 화면이 참조하는 참조 화면들과의 평균 거리, B계층 최대 인덱스 그리고 각 B계층의 화면 수를 고려하였다. 제안한 예측 구조의 성능을 참조 예측 구조의 성능과 비교하였을 때 영상 화질 면에 있어서 제안한 예측 구조가 참조 예측 구조보다 약 0.07~0.13 (dB) 성능 향상을 보였다. 발생되는 평균 초당 비트량에 있어서 제안한 예측 구조가 참조 예측 구조보다약 +3 ~ -6.5(Kbps) 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.296-298
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 향상된 중간 시점 합성 영상을 위한 깊이 영상 부호화 방식을 제안한다. 깊이 영상은 실제 영상과 다르게 날카로운 경계를 기준으로 완만한 변화를 가지는 픽셀 값을 가지는 특성이 있다. 따라서 깊이 영상의 부호화에서는 경계 영역을 효율적으로 부호화하는 것이 중요하다. 기존의 다시점 비디오 부호화기 (Multiview Video Coding)가 하나의 프레임 내에서 고정된 양자화 파라미터 값을 사용하는 것에 반해, 제안된 방식에서는 경계 영역을 효율적으로 부호화하기 위해 블록의 특성에 따라 적응적으로 양자화 파라미터를 할당한다. 2 차 미분 영상의 분포에 기반해 각 블록을 경계 블록, 평탄 블록, 일반 블록으로 구분하고 이에 따라 양자화 파라미터를 할당한다. 실험결과로서, 제안하는 방법의 성능이 다시점 비디오 부호화기 참조 소프트웨어 JMVC 8.3 에 비하여 BD-PSNR 이 평균 0.18dB 향상되고, BD-BR 은 평균 4.03% 감소되어 부호화 효율이 우수함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1205-1215
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• 2015

Efficient multi-view coding techniques are needed to reduce the complexity of multi-view video which increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce the complexity and maintain image quality and bit-rates, an motion estimation method and temporal prediction structure are proposed in this paper. The proposed motion estimation method exploits the characteristic of motion vector distribution and the motion direction and motion size of the block to place search points and decide the search patten adaptively. And the proposed prediction structure divides every GOP to decide the maximum index of hierarchical B layer and the number of pictures of each B layer. Experiment results show that the complexity reduction of the proposed temporal prediction structure and motion estimation method over hierarchical B pictures prediction structure and TZ search method which are used in JMVC(Joint Multi-view Video Coding) reference model can be up to 45∼70% while maintaining similar video quality and bit rates.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.35-45
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• 2018

Motion Estimation(ME) has been developed to reduce the redundant data in digital video signal. ME is an important part of video encoding system, However, it requires huge computational complexity of the encoder part, and fast motion search methods have been proposed to reduce huge complexity. Multi- view video is obtained by capturing on a three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions and its complexity increases in proportion to the number of cameras. In this paper, we proposed an efficient motion method which chooses a search pattern adaptively by using the temporal-spatial correlation of the block and the characteristics of the block. Experiment results show that the computational complexity reduction of the proposed method over TZ search method and FS method can be up to 70~75% and 99% respectively while keeping similar image quality and bit rates.