• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.189-192
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• 2021

three degree of freedom (3DoF), three degree of freedom plus (3DoF+), six degree of freedom(6DoF) 등 몰입형 비디오의 높은 몰입감을 제공하기 위해 다중 비디오 영상을 효율적으로 처리하는 기법이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 이를 위해 원본의 몰입형 비디오가 입력되면 기본 시점 영상과 추가 시점 영상에서의 중복을 제거하고 기본 시점(basic view)에서는 보이지 않지만 추가 시점(additional view)에서는 보이는 영역을 추출하는 프루닝 과정이 이뤄지는 부호기에서의 부호화 모드 결정은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문은 test model for immersive video (TMIV)의 모드 중 하나인 MPEG immersive video (MIV) view mode 를 통해 만들어진 프루닝 (pruning) 그래프에서 선택된 시점들을 활용하여 뷰 간 중복성을 제거할 수 있는 효율적인 부호화 구조로 클러스터를 기반으로 병렬적으로 부호화하는 클러스터 기반 정렬 기법을 제안한다. 선택된 시점들을 인덱스 순서에 따라 부호화하는 기존 방법에 비해 제안하는 방법은 peak signal-to-noise ratio (Y-PSNR)에서 평균 3.9%의 BD-rate 절감을 보여주었다. 본 연구는 또한 더 객관적인 품질 측정을 위해 immersive video peak signal-to-noise ratio (IV-PSNR)에 의한 비교 결과도 함께 제공하며, 참조 순서에 맞게 정렬한 프루닝 기반 정렬 기법과의 비교도 함께 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2014

실감형 디스플레이 장치들을 지원하기 위해 다시점 영상을 효율적으로 코딩하는 방법은 다시점 비디오 코딩 방법과 다양한 전송 환경과 다양한 종류의 단말들을 통합적으로 지원할 수 있는 스케일러블 비디오 코딩 방법은 존재하지만, 현재 유비쿼터스 환경에서 실감형 서비스를 지원하면서 동시에 다양한 환경을 지원할 수 있는 통합된 동영상 정보를 생성하는 방법은 존재하지 않는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 통합된 동영상 정보를 생성하는 다중 확장 비디오 코딩의 개념과 동작에 대해 설명하고 최적의 inter layer 참조 영상 선택 방법에 대해 분석한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.28-41
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• 2017

In this paper, the fast encoding algorithm in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoder was studied. For the encoding efficiency, the current HEVC reference software is divided the input image into Coding Tree Unit (CTU). then, it should be re-divided into CU up to maximum depth in form of quad-tree for RDO (Rate-Distortion Optimization) in encoding precess. But, it is one of the reason why complexity is high in the encoding precess. In this paper, to reduce the high complexity in the encoding process, it proposed the method by determining the maximum depth of the CU using a hierarchical clustering at the pre-processing. The hierarchical clustering results represented an average combination of motion vectors (MV) on neighboring blocks. Experimental results showed that the proposed method could achieve an average of 16% time saving with minimal BD-rate loss at 1080p video resolution. When combined the previous fast algorithm, the proposed method could achieve an average 45.13% time saving with 1.84% BD-rate loss.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.165-178
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• 2012

In most conventional video codecs, such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, inter coding is performed with the fixed motion vector resolution. When KTA software was developed, resolution for MVs can be selected in each slice. Although KTA codec uses a variety of resolutions for ME, the selected resolution is applied over the entire pixels in the slice and the statistical property of the local area is not considered. In this paper, we propose an adaptive decision scheme for motion vector resolution which depends on region, where MV search area is divided to multiple regions according to the distance from PMV. In each region, the assigned resolution is used to estimate MV. Each region supports different resolution for ME from other regions. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is affected from threshold values to divide the search area and the entropy coding method to encode the estimated MV. Simulation results with HM3.0 which is the reference software of HEVC show that the proposed scheme provides bit rate gains of 0.9%, 0.6%, and 2.9% in Random Access, Low Delay with B picture, and Low Delay with P picture structures, respectively.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.345-349
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• 2013

This paper proposes a simplified generalized residual prediction (GRP) that reduces the computational complexity of spatial scalability in scalable high efficiency video coding (SHVC). GRP is a coding tool to improve the inter prediction by adding a residual signal to the inter predictor. The residual signal was created by carrying out motion compensation (MC) of both the enhancement layer (EL) and up-sampled reference layer (RL) with the motion vector (MV) of the EL. In the MC process, interpolation of the EL and the up-sampled RL are required when the MV of the EL has sub-pel accuracy. Because the up-sampled RL has few high frequency components, interpolation of the up-sampled RL does not give significantly new information. Therefore, the proposed method reduces the computational complexity of the GRP by skipping the interpolation of the up-sampled RL. The experiment on SHVC software (SHM-2.0) showed that the proposed method reduces the decoding time by 10 % compared to conventional GRP. The BD-rate loss of the proposed method was as low as 1.0% on the top of SHM-2.0.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.699-712
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a new Adaptive Search Range (ASR) decision algorithm for accelerating GPU-based Integer-pel Motion Estimation (IME) of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). For deciding the ASR, we classify a frame into two models using Motion Vector Differences (MVDs) then adaptively decide the search ranges of each model. In order to apply the proposed algorithm to the GPU-based ME process, starting points of the ME are decided using only temporal Motion Vectors (MVs). The CPU decides the ASR as well as the starting points and transfers them to the GPU. Then, the GPU performs the integer-pel ME. The proposed algorithm reduces the total encoding time by 37.9% with BD-rate increase of 1.1% and yields 951.2 times faster ME against the CPU-based anchor. In addition, the proposed algorithm achieves the time reduction of 57.5% in the ME running time with the negligible coding loss of 0.6%, compared with the simple GPU-based ME without ASR decision.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.149-151
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• 2018

H.265/HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)에서는 하드웨어 비디오 인코더의 처리율(Throughput)을 높이기 위하여 동일 CU(Coding Unit) 내 PU(Prediction Unit)들이 병렬로 머지 후보 리스트를 생성할 수 있는 병렬 머지 방법이 표준 기술로 사용되고 있다. 하지만 이 방법은 동일 CU 내의 PU 간의 의존성만 제거할 수 있고 코딩 순서상의 이전 CU 와의 의존성은 제거할 수 없다. 결국 이전 CU 의 모드 결정 과정이 완료된 후에 현재 CU 내의 PU 가 머지 후보 리스트를 생성할 수 있기 때문에 높은 처리율 향상을 기대할 수 없다. 또한 CU 내의 대부분의 PU 들이 가장 인접한 MV(Motion Vector)를 머지 후보로 사용하지 못하여 압축 효율에 대한 손실도 크다. 본 논문에서는 이전 CU 와의 의존성을 제거함으로써 높은 처리율을 갖으면서 압축 효율에 대한 손실을 최소화할 수 있는 개선된 병렬 머지 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법은 기존 병렬 머지 방법 대비 동일 화질에서 평균 약 1.8%의 압축률이 향상되는 것으로 나타났다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1728-1743
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• 2021

Three-dimensional (3D) video scenes are complex and difficult to control, especially when scene switching occurs. In this paper, we propose two algorithms based on an incremental proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm and a similarity analysis between views to improve the method of bit allocation for multi-view high efficiency video coding (MV-HEVC). Firstly, an incremental PID algorithm is introduced to control the buffer "liquid level" to reduce the negative impact on the target bit allocation of the view layer and frame layer owing to the fluctuation of the buffer "liquid level". Then, using the image similarity between views is used to establish, a bit allocation calculation model for the multi-view video main viewpoint and non-main viewpoint is established. Then, a bit allocation calculation method based on hierarchical B frames is proposed. Experimental simulation results verify that the algorithm ensures a smooth transition of image quality while increasing the coding efficiency, and the PSNR increases by 0.03 to 0.82dB while not significantly increasing the calculation complexity.