• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.169-181
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose and discuss about image enhancement techniques for MPEG-4. which represents very low bit-rate, content-based. and object-based hierarchical audio-visual coding standard. The proposed enhancement technique removes undesired artifacts arising in the compression procedure and increase resolution in both spatial and temporal domains. In order to remove undesired artifacts. we divide the MPEG-4 video algorithm in two parts: MPEG-2 like part and the new part. For removing artifacts caused by the first part. we adopt the conventional blocking artifacts algorithm developed for MPEG-2. On the other hand for removing artifacts caused by the second part. we provide a new degradation model. and propose the corresponding image restoration method. For increasing resolution of the MPEG-4 images, we propose a general framework of multichannel image interpolation process. which includes both spatial and temporal interpolations. As the MPEG-4 standard is under development. various sophisticated techniques are considered. but research on image enhancement techniques is relatively underestimated. By this reason. additional image enhancement techniques will become very important issue in realization phase of MPEG-4.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.169-172
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• 1997

본 논문은 ITU-T에서 제시한 H.323, H.225 표준설계를 토대로 MPEG-4 DMIF의 트랜스먹스 레이어 설계, 구현에 관한 것이다. 윈도우 95 및 윈도우 NT환경에서 Winsock을 이용하여 UDP로 MPEG-4 비트스트림을 전달하고 전송제어를 TCP로 구현하였다. 신뢰성이 없는 UDP의 문제를 보완하기 위해 신뢰성 있는 TCP를 한 프로세스에 동시에 할당하여 요구자의 MPEG-4 비트스트림 선택, UDP의 패킷발생률, 패킷사이즈 등 QoS를 제어함으로써 UDP를 보완하도록 구현하였다. MPEG 표준위원회가 제공하는 소프트웨어를 이용하였고, 본 연구에서는 서버에 있는 MPEG-4 비트스트림을 클라이언트가 다운로딩 할 수 있도록 MPEG-4 DMIF 다양한 트랜스먹스 레이어 네트워크 프로토콜 중 MPEG-4 FlexMux/UDP/IP 구현하는 것인데 이는 앞으로 해야 할 실시간 전송 프로토콜의 RTP에 대해 기본틀을 마련하였다고 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.333-338
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• 2000

MPEG2(or some situations, MPEG is mostly used to change the raw image into the compressed bitstreams for digital image processing. Also these bitsreams are stored in computer for several applications such as multimedia area. Transmission channels have various capacities according to the application area, and the bitstreams stored in computer should be converted in order not to exceed the capacities of a transmission channel. So the problem is how to convert compressed bitstreams of a given bit-rate into compressed bitstreams of other bit-rates. Such a specific transcoding problem in this paper is referred to as bit-rate conversion. Several researches have been done on bit-rate conversion for the bitstreams compressed by MPEG. But the existing schemes are not suitable fort MPEG4 applications because it needs to transmit shape information( which is not necessary for MPEG2) as well as texture information in MPEG4 system. So we propose a new bit-rate converter which considers both texture and shape information.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.290-295
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• 2002

In Mpeg-4 system, objects are composed of ES(Elementary Stream). Each of the objects is managed independently by object-based coding and is transmitted via DMIF(Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework). The data streams in Mpeg-4 are transmitted with using DVB-Data Carousel which can improve the reliability and efficiency by cyclic retransmission. This paper describes a system which transmits some part of data stream of Mpeg-4 object with using DVB-Data Carousel to clients via satellite. This also uses a performance enhancing proxy server for reducing round trip time between ground network and satellite.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.220-230
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• 2006

As the computing technique and mobile devices get developed, the demand of multimedia contents for mobile environment has been increased. The multimedia contents provided on PDA has so far been limited to the materials such as video and audio. MPEG-4 is the international standard used for supporting to properly save, communicate multimedia in formation such as video, audio, image, text and two-dimensional object, which can present various, multimedia contents by using adaptation techniques. However, since most MPEG-4 contents are not used for PDA but desktop, it seems not to be played on PDA where needs low power consumption, limited memory capability and GUI, and so on. In this paper, we propose the adaptation techniques, which can present the MPEG-4 contents on PDA, using scene composition with MPEG-4. The proposed scheme consists of three subparts: physical adaptation, variation adaptation and resource adaptation. Physical adaptation adjusts the physical difference of between the authoring environment and playback environment. Event adaptation part transforms events used for desktop to the events used for playback on PDA. The resource adaptation enables efficiency of playback to promote by using the essential information table on BIFS parser. As the proposed scheme is applied to MPEG-4 player, we see that the MPEG-4 contents are efficiently played on PDA.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.251-254
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• 2003

DMB is a next-generation multimedia broadcasting system that not only enables digital broadcasting services such as transmission of CD-duality audio, traffic information, and real-time stock information, but also allows reception of high-quality digital TV in high-speed driving conditions. In the DMB system, MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) multiplex method and MPEG-4 System SL(Sync Layer) have been selected as the delivery layer. In this paper, an efficient interface scheme between an MPEG-2 TS processing hardware and software-implemented MPEG-4 system within a DMB terminal device is proposed.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.619-629
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• 2002

This paper describes the implementation of a RTSP-based MPEG-4 streaming system. The implemented system consists of content authoring tool, streaming server and streaming client. The existing MPEG-4 multiplexer has been modified with improvement to generate a file format with which the server load and streaming delay are reduced. The streaming system uses RTSP, instead of DMIF, as its communication protocol. With RTSP, the server provides extensive control functionalities as in DMIF and its implementation effort is greatly simplified. The implemented system supports the user interactivity for both streaming and local file playback. The effectiveness of the proposed multiplexing scheme has been validated with the various experiments on the fully functional server.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.124-132
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• 2005

We propose a method using a transformation of an object and a scene tree in order to author MPEG-4 contents for mobile devices in this paper. The method transforms media objects in the scene into geometry objects in order to reduce initial loading time of the contents, and reduces an external form of each object in a scene of the content for presenting it efficiently on the small interface of mobile devices. Therefore, the contents for mobile devices are reconstructed by the method. An original object in the scene is presented on a mobile device when a user clicks a related geometry object. The method was applied to a conventional authoring tool, so we could find that the method showed an efficient presentation of MPEG-4 contents on mobile devices.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.452-462
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• 2008

In this paper, we address issues associated with the real-time implementation of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II (or MUSICAM) and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) on TMS320C64x+ that is a fixed-point DSP processor with a clock speed of 330 MHz. To achieve the real-time requirement, they should be optimized in different steps as follows. First of all, a C-code level optimization is performed by sharing the memory, adjusting data types, and unrolling loops. Next, an algorithm level optimization is carried out such as the reconfiguration of bitstream reading, the modification of synthesis filtering, and the rearrangement of the window coefficients for synthesis filtering. In addition, the C-code of a synthesis filtering module of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II decoder is rewritten by using the linear assembly programming technique. This is because the synthesis filtering module requires the most processing time among all processing modules of the decoder. In order to show how the real-time implementation works, we obtain the percentage of the processing time for decoding and calculate a RMS value between the decoded audio signals by the reference MPEG decoder and its DSP version implemented in this paper. As a result, it is shown that the percentages of the processing time for the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders occupy less than 3% and 11% of the DSP clock cycles, respectively, and the RMS values of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders implemented in this paper all satisfy the criterion of -77.01 dB which is defined by the MPEG standards.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.259-261
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• 1999

본 논문은 MPEG-2 TM 5 video 부호기의 전체구조 및 처리과정을 기술한다. MPEG-2는 저장 매체, 통신, 방송 매체 등을 위한 동영상 압축이 표준이다. MPEG-2 압축 방법에는 공간적 압축과 시간적 압축 방법이 있다. 공간적 압축 방법에는 화면에서의 중복성을 줄이기 위한 표본화 주파수(4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0, format), DCT, scanning(zigzag 혹은 alternate scanning)과 quantization이 있고 시간적 압축 방법에는 움직임 예측(motion estimation)과 I, P, B-picture를 사용하는 방법이 있다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2 부호기의 핵심을 전체 구조, DPCM, MPEG bitstream syntax, MPEG-2 부호화 알고리즘, 움직임 예측, 움직임 벡터, rate control 그리고 가변길이 코딩(variable length coding)으로 구분하여 소개한다.