• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2001

Currently, the compression is one of the most important technology in multimedia society. Audio files arc rapidly propagated throughout internet Among them, the most famous one is MP-3(MPEC-1 Laver3) which can obtain CD tone from 128Kbps, but tone quality is abruptly down below 64Kbps. MPEC-II AAC(Advanccd Audio Coding) is not compatible with MPEG 1, but it has high compression of 1.4 times than MP 3, has max. 7.1 and 96KHz sampling rate. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that decreased the capacity of AAC encoding computation but increased the processing speed by optimizing psychoacoustic model which has enormous amount of computation in MPEG 2 AAC encoder. The optimized psychoacoustic model algorithm was implemented by C++ language. The experiment shows that the psychoacoustic model carries out FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) computation of 3048 point with 44.1 KHz sampling rate for SMR(Signal to Masking Ratio), and each entropy value is inputted to the subband filters for the control of encoder block. The proposed psychoacoustic model is operated with high speed because of optimization of unpredictable value. Also, when we transform unpredictable value into a tonality index, the speed of operation process is increased by a tonality index optimized in high frequency range.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.43-48
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• 2000

This paper introduces MPEG-2 AAC codec system fur digital audio broadcasting. This system consists of encoder and decoder, and this system provides MPEG-2 system multiplexing and demultiplexing functions. Four DSPs are adopted fur encoder and three DSPs fur decoder. Each DSP processes system control, I/O control, and audio signal processing, multiplexing and demultiplexing. This paper also discusses about some near future estimations related to DAB system and services. And at the end of this paper describes about future development plans.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.85-92
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• 2009

This paper proposes a full-search block-matching motion estimation circuit with hybrid architecture combining systolic arrays and adder trees for an MPEG-4 encoder. The proposed circuit uses systolic arrays for motion estimation with a small number of clock cycles and adder trees to reduce required circuit resources. The interpolation circuit for 1/2 pixel motion estimation consists of six adders, four subtracters and ten registers. We improved the circuit performance by resource sharing and efficient scheduling techniques. We described the motion estimation circuit for integer and 1/2 pixels at RTL in Verilog HDL. The logic-level circuit synthesized by using 130nm standard cell library contains 218,257 gates and can process 94 D1($720{\times}480$) image frames per second.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.37-44
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• 2000

In this paper, we described the real-time implementation effort of MPEG-4 audio HVXC (Harmonic Vector eXcitation Coding) algorithm for very low bitrates, which has target applications from mobile communications to Internet telephony, on current high performance floating point TMS320C6701 DSP. We adopted a hardware structure for real-time operation. In order for software optimization, we used C- and assembly-language level optimizations for time-critical functional codes. Utilizing the internal program memory of the DSP as the program cache, the internal data memory overlap technique and DMA functionality, we could get a goal of realtime operation of HVXC codec both at 2 kbit/s and at 4 kbit/s. For an encoder at 2 kbit/s, the optimization ratio to original code is about 96 %. Finally, we got the subjective quality of MOS 2.45 at 2 kbit/s from an informal quality test.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2004

In this paper, we have analyzed the current MPEG-4 video encoding tools and proposed efcient coding techniques that reduce the complexity of the encoder. Until recently, encoder optimization without shape coding has been a major concern in video for wire/wireless low bit rate coding services. Recently, we found out that the computational complexity of MPEG-4 shape coding plays a very important role in the object-based coding through experiments. We have made an experiment whether we could get optimized object-based coding method through successfully combining latest optimized texture coding techniques with our proposed optimized shape coding techniques. In texture coding, we applied the MVFAST method for motion estimation. We chose not to use IVOPF(Intelligent VOP Formation) but to use TRB(Tightest Rectangular Boundary) for positioning VOP and, finally, to eliminate the spiral search of shape motion estimation to reduce the complexity in shape coding. As a result of experiment, our proposed scheme achieved improved time complexity over the existing reference software by $57.3\%$ and over the optimized method on which only shape coding was applied by $48.7\%$, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2003

최근에 표준화가 완료된 차세대 비디오 코딩 표준인 H.264 는 적은 비트율에서 높은 품질의 비디오 압축을 목표로 하기 때문에, H.263+ 및 MPEG-2/4 와 같은 이전의 표준들보다 훨씬 더 많은 연산을 필요로 한다. 본 논문은 SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) 명령어를 가지는 범용 프로세서(예를 들면, 펜티엄 4)에서 H.264 S/W 인코더의 속도 최적화를 위한 알고리듬 및 구현 기술을 제안한다. 화질 저하 없이 RDO (Rate Distortion Optimization) 의 속도를 높일 수 있는 효율적인 모드 검색 건너뛰기 알고리듬을 제안하고, SIMD 명령어를 이용하여 1/4 화소 보간, SAD(Sum of Absolute Difference), SATD(Sum of Absolute Transformed Difference), SSD (Sum of Squared Difference) 등의 개별 루틴의 속도를 최적화한다. 일련의 최적화 후에 인코더는 화질 저하 없이 H.264 레퍼런스 인코더보다 평균 3배 정도의 속도 향상이 이루어진다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 IP-TV 보금을 위해서 고성능 저가의 IP-TV(Internet Protocol TV) 셋탑박스의 필요성을 감안하여 TV를 통한 인터넷 컨텐츠 이용에 최적화된 IP-TV 셋탑박스를 제조업체(Ninelanes)와 공동으로 개발하였다. 개발된 셋탑박스는 브로드밴드를 이용한 VOD서비스, 1Mbps급의 DVD급 화질을 지원하고 스트리밍 비디오와 저장된 콘텐츠를 직접 재생할 수 있다. 개발된 셋탑박스는 VHS(450kbps), DVD급(750kbps), DVD(1.2Mbps), MP3, AC3, MPEG-2/4, VP4/5/6, WMV9, DVIX 등의 다양한 디지털 미디어 재생 포맷을 지원 할 수 있도록 개발되어 가격경쟁력 향상 및 멀티미디어 지원환경 구축, 인코더방식의 코덱 전환이 가능하다. 또한 고집적, 저전력, 고성능, 저가형 개발 개념으로 개발된 이 셋탑박스는 각종 IP-TV기능을 펌웨어나 소프트웨어 수정으로 시스템 변경이 가능하여 IP-TV 셋탑박스 보급에 크게 기여할 것으로 기대된다.