• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2004

방송과 통신의 융합, 방송서비스의 다양화와 더불어 방송의 디지털화는 기존의 아날로그 방식에 비해 고화질 및 고음질의 방송 서비스 제공 및 타 매체와의 호환성 그리고 다양한 부가 서비스의 제공 등에 있어서 많은 이전을 제공할 수 있다. 또한, 디지털방송 방식은 기존 아날로그 방식의 이동수신 문제점을 해결하고자 디지털 오디오 방송(DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting)에 멀티미디어 서비스를 .제공하는 디지털 멀티미디어 방송(DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)을 제안하였다. 지상파 DMB 방송은 유럽의 Eureka-147 방식의 DAB를 기반으로 하며 디지털 라디오방송과 함께 오디오 외에도 다양한 멀티미디어를 전송하고, 콘텐츠에 대화형 기능을 포함하는 서비스 형태를 목표로 하고 있다. 현재 지상파 DMB 서비스에서는 기본적인 AV 서비스를 위해 비디오는 AVC, 오디오는 BSAC에 대해 규정하고 있다. 또한 AV 규격 외에 대화형 서비스를 제공하기 위한 보조 데이터로서 장면기술 데이터와 그래픽 데이터를 지원하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지상파 DMB를 이용한 대화형 서비스를 제공하기 위해 요구되는 초기 객체 정보, 객체 정보, 장면 구성 정보를 바이너리 형태로 생성해 주는 MPEG-4 바이너리 컨버터를 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1485-1490
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• 2005

Variable length code is an integral component of many international standards on image and video compression currently. Context-based Adaptive Variable Length Coding(CAVLC) is adopted by the emerging JVT(also called H.264, and AVC in MPEG-4). In this paper, we design an architecture for CAVLC encoder, including a coeff_token encoder, level encoder, total_zeros encoder and run_before encoder. The designed CAVLC encoder can encode one syntax element in one clock cycle. As a result of implementation by Vertex-1000e of Xilinx, its operation frequency is 68MHz. Therefore, it is very suitable for video applications that require high throughput.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.109-112
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• 2014

H.264/AVC is an international video coding standard that is established in cooperation with ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG, which shows improved code and efficiency than the previous video standards. Motion estimation using various macroblock from 44 to 1616 among the compression techniques of H.264/AVC contributes much to high compression efficiency. Generally, in the case of small motion vector or low complexity about P slice is decided $P16{\times}16$ mode encoding method. But according to circumstances, macroblock is decided $P16{\times}16$ mode despite large motion vector. If the motion vector variance is more than threshold and final select mode is $P16{\times}16$ mode, it is switched to $P8{\times}8$ mode, so this paper shows that the storage capacity is reduced. The results of experiment show that the proposed algorithm increases the compression efficiency of the H.264/AVC algorithm to 0.4%, even reducing the time and without increasing complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.498-512
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• 2010

Intra coding is an indispensable coding tool since it can provide random accessibility as well as error resiliency. However, it is the problem that intra coding has relatively low coding efficiency compared with inter coding in the area of video coding. Even though H.264/AVC has significantly improved the intra coding performance compared with previous video standards, H.264/AVC encoder complexity is significantly increased, which is not suitable for low bit rate interactive services. In this paper, a Voting-based Intra Mode Bit Skip (V-IMBS) scheme is proposed to improve coding efficiency as well as to reduce encoding time complexity using decoder-side prediction. In case that the decoder can determine the same prediction mode as what is chosen by the encoder, the encoder does not send that intra prediction mode; otherwise, the conventional H.264/AVC intra coding is performed. Simulation results reveal a performance increase up to 4.44% overall rate savings and 0.24 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio while the frame encoding speed of proposed method is about 42.8% better than that of H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.219-227
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• 2009

In H.264/AVC, if each block is quantized with a adaptive quantization parameter(QP) regardless of the characteristics of a block, it could be the deterioration of the picture quality. In this paper, an adaptive block-based QP selection method is proposed in order to improve picture quality by utilizing the bit amounts of the zigzag-scanned integer transform coefficients of the neighboring blocks and changing the QP value in the current block. The proposed method works in the same way as the encoder and decoder without transmitting the change of QP value to the decoder side. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a gain of about $0.1\sim0.3dB$ compared with H.264/AVC.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.74-79
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose and design a new 0.264/AVC watermarking algorithm for protection of copyright by inserting a watermark after quantization. This invisible watermarking algorithm insets a watermark into chrominance components of I frame such that we can avoid degradation of original images. According to test results we could limit image degradation by 1dB, avoid bit rate increment within 2% and increase processing time by only 2%. The IP is designed by Hynix 0.25 micron technology and the maximum operating frequency of 115MHz is achieved. The PSNR of the embedded watermark is about 35dB according to the test result.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.380-390
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• 2010

The most recent standard video codec, H.264/AVC achieves significant coding efficiency by using a rate-distortion optimization(RDO). The RDO is a measurement for selecting the best mode which minimizes the Lagrangian cost among several modes. As a result, the computational complexity is increased drastically in encoder. In this paper, a method for fast intra prediction mode decision is proposed to reduce the RDO complexity. To speed up Intra$4{\times}4$ and Chroma Intra encoding, the proposed method decides the case that MPM (Most Probable Mode) is the best prediction mode. In this case, the RDO process is skipped, and only MPM is used for encoding the block in Intra$4{\times}4$. And the proposed method is also applied to the chroma Intra prediction mode in a similar way to the Intra$4{\times}4$. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an average encoding time saving of about 63% with negligible loss of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio).

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.493-498
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• 2009

Bluetooth is a popular wireless data transmission method with low power consumption, but it has low data transmission rate. Thus, although many video stream players of a local or network file exist, there have been few players of video stream transmitted via Bluetooth. MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec is one of video codecs available with best compression rates for a certain quality, so a H.264 encoder seems to be adequate for video stream to be transmitted via Bluetooth. In this paper, we present a DirectShow filter based player of video stream encoded by H.264 codec, which is transmitted via Bluetooth. Details on the design and implementation of this program are described. Experimental results are shown to demonstrate the validity of the implemented program using various video samples.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.35-46
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• 2012

현재 ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group(VCEG)과 ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group(MPEG)에서는 고효율 영상 압축 기술(High-Efficiency Video Coding; HEVC) 표준화에 대한 막바지 작업을 진행하고 있다. 본 원고에서는 기존 H.264/AVC 대비 동일 주관적 화질 대비 압축률 2배를 목표로 하고 있는 HEVC 영상 압축 기술에 대해, 그 배경 및 주요 구성 요소 기술에 대해 설명하고, 표준화 진행과정에 대해서 간략하게 소개하고자 한다.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.9-22
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• 2010

최근 full-HD 3D 방송, UD(ultra-definition) 영상 서비스, mobile device 향 양방향 HD급 화상통신 등 기존 영상 서비스의 품질을 월등히 향상시키고자 하는 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 기고에서는 기존 H.264/AVC 영상 압축 표준의 성능을 2배 이상 향상시키는 것을 목표로 진행 중인 새로운 차세대 영상 압축 표준인 HEVC(high-efficiency video coding; MPEG-H/H.265)의 표준화 동향을 소개한다. 또한, 현재 HEVC test-model (HM) version 1을 구성하고 있는 요소 기술들을 결정하기 위해 진행되었던 성능 평가 과정에 대해 간략하게 소개하고, 마지막으로 HM의 전반적 구성 및 현재 성능 수준에 대한 평가결과를 보인다.