• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.484-492
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• 2016

The High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the newest video coding standard that achieves coding efficiency higher than previous video coding standards such as H.264/AVC. In intra prediction, the prediction units (PUs) are derived from a large coding unit (LCU) which is partitioned into smaller coding units (CUs) sizing from 8x8 to 64x64 in a quad-tree structure. As they are divided until having the minimum depth, Optimum CU splitting is selected in RDO (Rate Distortion Optimization) process. In this process, HEVC demands high computational complexity. In this paper, to reduce the complexity of HEVC, we propose a fast CU mode decision (FCDD) for intra prediction by using FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test) corner detection. The proposed method reduces computational complexity with 53.73% of the computational time for the intra prediction while coding performance degradation with 0.7% BDBR is small compared to conventional HEVC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4C
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• pp.321-329
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• 2008

H.264/AVC video coding standard enables a considerably higher improvement in coding efficiency compared with previous standards such as MPEG-2, H.263 and MPEG-4. To achieve this, for each macro-block in H.264/AVC, Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) technique is employed to select the best motion vector, reference frame, and macro-block mode. As a result, computational complexity is increased significantly whereas RDO achieve higher improvement. This paper presents fast intra mode selection algorithm based on constraints of frequency characteristics which are derived from intra coding modes of H.264/AVC. First of all, we observe the features of each intra mode through the frequency analysis of image. And then proposed Frequency Error Costs (FECs) are calculated to select the best mode which has minimum cost. Computational complexity is considerably reduced because rate-distortion costs only calculate the candidate modes which are set of best mode and its neighbouring two modes. Experimental results show that proposed algorithm reduces the complexity dramatically maintaining the rate-distortion performance compared with H.264/AVC reference software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.252-253
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• 2010

H.264/AVC는 P 슬라이스에 2개의 인트라 모드, 4개의 인터 모드 그리고 SKIP모드, 총 7개의 모드를 허용한다. 다양한 블록 모드들을 효율적으로 이용하기 위하여 RDO를 통하여 최적의 모드를 결정한다. 그러나 SKIP 모드의 RD 점과 다른 모드들의 RD점 사이의 간격이 넓은 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점은 부호화 성능에 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 SKIP 모드와 4개의 인터 모드 사이의 RD 성능의 중간 성격을 지니는 새로운 인터 모드를 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 inter16x16의 움직임 정보와 inter16x16의 움직임 정보를 이용하여 찾은 예측 블록에 대한 잔차 블록의 평균 에너지만을 보내준다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 H.264/AVC의 참조 소프트웨어인 JM 17.0에 비하여 WQVGA 영상에서 평균 0.71%의 비트 감소를 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2008

예비 슬라이스(Redundant picture)는 에러가 발생하기 쉬운 환경에서 비디오가 전송될 때 에러를 보상하기 위한 H.264/AVC 부호화 표준의 도구들 중에 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 예비 슬라이스의 삽입으로 인해 발생하는 오버헤드 비트와 손실률을 고려한 LA-RDO(Loss-aware rate-distortion optimization) 모델을 제시하며 제안하는 모델에 기초해서 예비 슬라이스의 삽입 여부를 결정한다. 실험결과는 제안하는 방법이 참조 소프트웨어(JM: Joint Model)에 있는 HRP(Hierarchical redundant picture)와 비교했을 때 평균 0.5dB의 PSNR이 증가함을 보였다. 특별히 낮은 비트율에서 상대적으로 높은 성능을 보이므로 비디오 화상 회의와 같이 낮은 비트의 영상을 요구하는 무선 전송 환경에 적합할 것으로 보인다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.102-107
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• 2010

This paper presented a rate-distortion estimation method for effective mode decision in H.264/AVC. In this approach, in order to decide a mode, laplacian distribution modeling of DCT coefficients is utilized, which do not need to such process as quantization, entropy coding. From the simulation results, proposed a method showed that rate-distortion between proposed scheme and practical value was almost the same and performed 0.02dB of PSNR gain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.335-337
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• 2013

본 논문은 HEVC(high efficiency video coding)의 다양한 화면내 부호화 모드에 대한 성능을 분석하고, 그 분석에 바탕하여 RMD(rough mode decision)가 고려하는 화면내 예측 모드의 개수를 PU 의 크기별로 감소시키는 것과 함께, MPM(most probable mode)의 추가를 최소화해 RDO 가 고려하는 후보의 개수를 줄이고, 상위 CU 와의 Cost 차이값을 이용하여 CU 의 분할을 줄이는 것으로 부호화 복잡도를 감소시키기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과에서는 2.02% BD-rate 증가만으로 부호화 시간을 10.87% 감소시킬 수 있음을 보인다.

• 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.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.501-506
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• 2009

In the H.264/ AVC video coding standard, the intra-prediction coding with various block sizes offers a considerably high improvement in coding efficiency compared to previous standards. In order to achieve this, H.264/AVC uses the Rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique to select the best intraprediction mode for a macroblock, and it brings about the drastic increase of the computation complexity of H.264 encoder. To reduce the computation complexity and stabilize the coding performance on visual quality, this paper proposed a fast intra-prediction mode decision algorithm using non-parametric thresholds and simplified directional masks. The use of nonparametric thresholds makes the intra-coding performance not be dependent on types of video sequences and simplified directional masks reduces the compuation loads needed by the calculation of local edge information. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm is able to reduce more than 55% of the whole encoding time with a negligible loss in PSNR and bitrates and provides the stable performance regardless types of video sequences.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.683-685
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• 2004

This paper introduces a basic design for the short-term load forecasting system using a commercial data base. The proposed system uses a hybrid load forecasting method using fuzzy linear regression for forecasting of weekends and Monday and general exponential smoothing for forecasting of weekdays. The temperature sensitive is used to improve the accuracy of the load forecasting during the summer season. MS-SQL Sever has been used a commercial data base for the proposed system and the database is operated by ADO(ActiveX Data Objects) and RDO(Remote Data Object). Database has been constructed by altering the historical load data for the past 38 years. The weather iDormation is included in the database. The developed short-term load forecasting system is developed as a user friendly system based on GUI(Graphical User interface) using MFC(Microsoft Foundation Class). Test results show that the developed system efficiently performs short-term load forecasting.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.71-72
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• 2008

In order to prepare new video coding standard, ITU-T SG16/Q.6 VCEG is gathering high efficiency and low complexity coding tools. In this paper, we introduce the latest KTA codec that includes new coding tools such as AIF, APEC, AQMS, AQP, IBDI, MDDT, MVC, 1/8-pel MC, and RDO-Q. After that, we describe the our prospection and strategy for these future video coding technology.