• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2000

인터넷이 일상생활에 다양하게 활용되면서 인터넷 채널을 통한 정보의 형태는 문자와 이미지 외에 음성, 오디오 신호 및 동영상 부분까지 확대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG4-CELP를 인터넷 화상 통신의 음성 코덱용으로 사용하기 위한 최적화 기법 및 알고리듬의 개선을, DSP칩이 내장된 보드가 아닌 인터넷의 터미널로 사용되고 있는 펜티엄 프로세서를 장착한 PC에 초점을 맞추어 수행하였다. MPEG4-CELP VM C소스를 분석 및 프로파일(Profile)한 결과를 토대로 패라미터 추출을 위해 많은 연산을 수행하는 부호화기에 대해서 CPU상에 부하를 많이 주는 함수들을 제 1차 최적화 대상 함수들로 선정하고, CPU에 부하를 많이 주지는 않으나 호출되는 회수가 많은 함수를 2차 최적화 대상 함수로 선정해, C소스 레벨의 소프트웨어 파이프 라이닝(Software Pipelinging) 기법들을 적용하여 최적화를 수행하였다. 또한 1차 최적화 대상 함수의 경우에는 소프트웨어 파이프라이닝의 적용과 함께 연산량 감소를 위한 알고리듬 변형까지 수행하였다. 위의 과정을 거쳐 최적화 된 MPEG4-CELP는 펜티엄Ⅲ 450㎒ PC에서 음성을 부호화 하는데 원 VM소스에 비해 약 2배정도의 시간이 단축되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.839-842
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 매크로블록 단위의 효율적인 파이프라인 구조를 사용하여 구현하였다. MPEG-4 QCIF/CIF 영상 시퀀스의 디블록킹 필터링 효과를 보일것이며, 디블록킹 필터링의 많은 계산량을 줄임과 동시에 낮은 클록에서 실시간 처리할 수 있는 구조를 제안하였다. 대부분 블록기반의 비디오 코딩 시스템에서, 블록 에지 효과는 블록기반 영상 압축에 치명적인 화질 저하를 나타낸다. 특히 압축 비율이 커질수록 화질 저하는 뚜렷하다. 그래서, 영상 후처리 기술로서 디블록킹 필터를 사용하여 블록 에지 영향을 줄임으로써 영상 화질을 향상시킨다. 그러나 디블록킹 필터의 주요 단점은 많은 계산량을 요구하고 있어서 구현에 어려움이 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해, MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 매크로 블록단위의 파이프라인 구조로 설계하였고, 실시간으로 동작하는 MPEG-4 SP@L2의 비디오 코덱 칩을 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.831-834
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• 2003

본 논문에서 기술하고 있는 디블로킹 필터는 ISO/1EC 14496-2 의 디블로킹 필터링 알고리즘[1][2]을 기반으로 한다. 한 개의 레지스터 뱅크를 이용한 효율적인 데이터 스케줄링을 통해 면적과 전력 측면에서 디블로킹 필터를 사용함으로써 생기는 오버헤드를 최소화 시켰으며, CIF 급 영상을 27MHz 동작주파수에서 실시간으로 처리할 수 있도록 설계 하였다. 0.25㎛ Standard Cell Library 로 합성한 결과 총 9800 게이트로 구성 되었으며, 외부 메모리의 도움 없이 동작 시키기 위해 4.4KByte의 버퍼가 사용되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1996.06b
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• pp.67-71
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• 1996

We have developed an MPEG2 realtime codec system and ATM interface, and evaluated the performance and characteristics of the audio-visual communication in terms of Interoperability specification of The ATM Forum, ITU-T H.310 draft recommendation [1] and the reference points of DAVIC specification through the experiments using the experimental public ATM network.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.775-781
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• 2015

EBS started 2HD MMS experimental broadcasting for the first time in Korea on Feb. 11, 2015. It uses the picture compression technique based on MPEG-2 CODEC, and applies the result of the experiment about variable bit rates and changes according to the scanning types, 1080i and 720p. But when changing channels, the delay in displaying picture occurs because of the operation of the variable GOP on MMS broadcasting, which optimizes image quality by application variable bit rates. In this study, verified the relationship between the decoding time of I frames and the GOP set in the encoding step by experimenting and analyzing ON-AIR TS. By using the verification data and adjusts the Encoder GOP parameters, improved the different video display time delays according to the scanning mode 1080i and 720p.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.28-37
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose new methods used in MPEG codec that can improve the picture quality degradations of the reconstructed images, such as blocking artifacts, without additional computations. At first, a new 2-step MAD motion search is presented in the motion search and compensation course to reduce the computations and the errors of block boundary pixels. And we also present an overlapped 2-step MAD motion search that use the pixels beyond the block boundary using the reduced computations. In DCT/quantization course for intra-blocks, 1-D DCT predictive quantization and pixel difference predictive quantization, those use the adjacent pixel sets of the Previously reconstructed blocks and improve the inter-block continuity, are presented. As simulation results, proposed methods shows better picture qualities by reducing blocking artifacts than that of the conventional MPEG.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.29-36
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• 2003

In this paper, an efficient VLSI architecture for DCTQ module, which consists of 2D-DCT, quantization, AC/DC prediction block, scan conversion, inverse quantization and 2D-IDCT, is presented. The architecture of the module is designed to handle a macroblock data within 1064 cycles and suitable for MPEG-4 video codec handling 30 frame CIF image for both encoder and decoder simultaneously. Only single 1-D DCT/IDCT cores are used for the design instead of 2-D DCT/IDCT, respectively. 1-bit serial distributed arithmetic architecture is adopted for 1-D DCT/IDCT to reduce the hardware area in this architecture. To reduce the power consumption of DCTQ modu1e, we propose the method not to operate the DCTQ modu1e exploiting the SAE(sum of absolute error) value from motion estimation and cbp(coded block pattern). To reduce the AC/DC prediction memory size, the memory architecture and memory access method for AC/DC prediction block is proposed. As the result, the maximum utilization of hardware can be achieved, and power consumption can be minimized. The proposed design is operated on 27MHz clock. The experimental results show that the accuracy of DCT and IDCT meet the IEEE specification.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1035-1052
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• 2019

Recently, as the demand for immersive videos increases, efficient video processing techniques for omnidirectional immersive video is actively developed by MPEG-I. While the omnidirectional video provides a larger degree of freedom for a free viewpoint, the size of the video increases significantly. Furthermore, in order to compress 6 degree-of-freedom (6 DoF) videos that support motion parallax, it is required to develop a codec to yield better coding efficiency. In this paper, we develop a 6 DoF codec using Versatile Video Coding (VVC) as the next generation video coding standard. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first VVC-based 6 DoF video codec toward the future ISO/IEC 23090 Part 7 (Metadata for Immersive Media (Video)) MPEG-I standardization. The experiments were conducted on the seven test video sequences specified in Common Test Condition (CTC) in two operation modes of TMIV (Test Model for Immersive Media) software. It is demonstrated that the proposed codec improves coding performance around 33.8% BD-rate reduction in the MIV (Metadata for Immersive Video) mode and 30.2% BD-rate reduction in the MIV view mode as compared to the state-of-the-art TMIV reference software. We also show the performance comparisons using Immersive Video PSNR (IV-PSNR) and Mean Structural Similarity (MSSIM).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2112-2122
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• 1997

This paper presents a new video codec which is based on 2-D triangular mesh-based motion compensation and two step grid point motion estimation. With this approach the efficiency of compression and the quality of reconstructed images are improved. The compensation of motion for each triangular patch is performed by image warping using motion vectors at the grid points. The prediction error coding and the rate control meet MPEG-4 VM 3.0 specification. The experimental results show that the codec system proposed is simple in complexity and moreover, the quality of decoded images is improved.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.41-44
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• 2001

Variable length coding (VLC) has been used in many well known standard video coding algorithms such as MPEG and H.26x. However, VLC can not be processed parallelly because of its sequentiality. This sequentiality is a big barrier for implementing a real-time software video codec since parallel schemes can not be applied. In this paper, we propose a new fast VLD (Variable Length Decoding) method based on the probabilistic distribution of symbols in VLC tables used in MPEG as well as H.263 standard codecs. Even though MPEG suggests the table partitioning method, they do not show theoretically why the number of partitioned tables is two or three. We suggest the method for deciding the number of partitioned tables. Applying our scheme to several well-known MPEG-2 test sequences, we can reduce the computational time up to about 10% without any sacrificing video quality