• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.291-294
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• 2009

최근 멀티미디어 기능을 가지는 다양한 기기가 보급되고, 이러한 기기들을 위해 다양한 화질과 해상도를 가지는 멀티미디어 서비스가 소비되고 있다. 이러한 서비스들은 목적 및 기기의 종류에 따라 전송환경이 다르기 때문에, 압축된 영상이 가지는 특성 또한 다르다. 일반적인 동영상 압축 표준에서 구문요소들에 코드워드를 할당하는 방법은 표준화 과정에서 얻어진 확률과 통계적인 수치에 의해 최적으로 결정된 것이다. 하지만 확률과 통계적인 수치는 영상의 특성에 따라 차이가 있기 때문에 최적의 코드워드는 항상 달라지는데, 현재 표준압축방법은 이러한 확률적인 특성이나 통계적인 수치를 반영하기 어려운 단점을 가진다. 이에 본 논문에서는 영상의 특징 및 부호화 조건에 따른 압축데이터의 특징을 반영하여 슬라이스 단위로 마크로 블록 타입에 대한 코드워드를 적응적으로 할당하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서 부호화 조건에 따른 압축 데이터의 특징을 파악하기 위해 정해진 부호화 조건에 따라 한 번의 부호화를 수행하여 마크로 블록 타입에 대한 슬라이스 통계를 구한다. 그 다음 구해진 통계에 근거하여 마크로블록 타입에 대해 최적의 코드워드를 할당하고, 이 코드워드에 근거하여 다시 한 번 부호화를 수행하고 이렇게 발생된 비트스트림을 복호화기로 전송하게 된다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법을 적용한 실험결과 BD-rate가 약 0.2~1.7% 정도 감소하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1121-1125
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• 2004

This paper is studied the fast block mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC. The fast block mode decision algorithm is consist of block range decision and merge algorithm. The block range decision algorithm classifies the block over 8$\times$8 size or below for 16$\times$16 macroblock to decide the size and type of sub blocks. The block over 8$\times$8 size is divided into the blocks of 16$\times$8, 8$\times$16 and 16$\times$16 size using merging algorithm which is considered MVD(motion vector difference) of 8$\times$8 block. The sub block range decision reduces encoding arithmetic amount by 48.25% on the average more than the case not using block range decision.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1405-1409
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• 2004

This paper is studied new block mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC. The fast block mode decision algorithm is consist of block range decision algorithm. The block range decision algorithm classifies the block over 8$\times$8 size or below for 16${\times}$16 macroblock to decide the size and type of sub blocks. As the sub blocks of 8$\times$8, 8r4, 4$\times$8 and 4$\times$4, which are the blocks below 8$\times$8 size, include important motion information, the exact sub block decision is required. RDC(RDO cost) is used as the matching parameter for the exact sub block decision. RDC is calculated with motion strength which is the mean value of neighbor pixels of each sub block. The sub block range decision reduces encoding arithmetic amount by 34.62% on the average more than the case not using block range decision. The block mode decision using motion strength shows improvement of PSNR of 0.05[dB].

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.595-598
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• 2005

MPEG-4 Visual is, and international standard for the object-based video compression, designed for supporting a wide range of applications from multimedia communication to HDTV. To control the minimum decoding complexity required at the decoder, the MPEG-4 Visual standard defines the co-called video buffering mechanism, which includes three video buffer models. Among them, the VCV(Video Complexity Verifier) defines the control of the processing speed for decoding of a macroblock, there are two models: VCV and B-VCV distinguishing the boundary and non-boundary MB. This paper presents the evaluation results of decoding complexity by measuring decoding time of a MB for rectangular, arbitrarily shaped video objects and the various types of objects supporting the resolution of HDTV using the optimized MPEG-4 Reference Software. The experimental results shows that decoding complexity varies depending on the coding type and more effective usage of decoding resources may be possible.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.261-270
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• 2013

A stereoscopic 3D video service is able to provide a 3D video service while keeping backward compatibility with the existing 2D video service. In the terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, a stereoscopic video codec is required to have high coding efficiency in order to provide a 3D video service in the same channel capacity. A hybrid codec consisting of MPEG-2 for base video and H.264/AVC or HEVC for 3D auxiliary video is considered. Furthermore, Non-Real-Time (NRT) delivery of stereoscopic video is also considered as a service scenario for 3DTV services to overcome the limited bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a stereoscopic video coding scheme using adaptive loop filter (ALF) which had been considered in HEVC as a pre-/post-filter for enhancing coding efficiency in NRT-based 3DTV services. In order to apply ALF as a post-filter to the reconstructed additional view coded by H.264/AVC, we devise a method in which ALF is adaptively applied based on a structure determined by using macroblock (MB) coding information such as MB mode type and reference index instead of coding unit (CU) structure on which ALF is applied in the HEVC. Experimental results shows that the proposed stereoscopic video coding scheme applying ALF obtains up to 24.9% gain of bit saving.