• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.249-250
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 VVC 화면간 예측 모드 Combined Inter-intra Prediction(CIIP)의 화면내 예측 과정에서의 향상된 PLANAR 예측 방법을 제안한다. Combined Inter-intra Prediction(CIIP) 모드는 화면간 예측 신호와 PLANAR 모드로 생성되는 화면내 예측 신호를 가중합 하여 최종 예측 신호를 생성하는 모드이다. 제안하는 방법은 화면간 예측 신호로 생성된 예측 샘플을 PLANAR 모드 예측 과정에서 우측 및 하단의 참조 샘플로 사용한다. 이후 PLANAR 예측 및 가중합 하여 예측 신호를 만들어내는 것은 기존 CIIP와 동일하다. 제안하는 방법의 성능 평가를 위하여 VVC의 참조 소프트웨어인 VTM 9.0에 구현하였으며, 기존 VTM 9.0과 부호화 성능을 비교한 결과로 휘도 성분에서 0.01 % 부호화 성능 감소를 보이고 색차 성분에 대하여 각각 0.17%, 0.13% 부호화 성능 향상을 보인다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.109-112
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• 2020

VVC uses 67 modes in intra prediction. Most probable mode (MPM) is used to reduce data for the representation of intra prediction mode. If the mode to send exists in the MPM candidate, the index of the MPM list is transmitted. If it does not exist in the MPM candidate, TBC encoding is applied. When TBC is applied in intra prediction, three are selected in order of low number mode and coded into 5 bits. The remaining modes except the mode encoded by 5 bits are encoded by 6 bits. In this paper, we examine the limitations of the TBC used in VVC intra prediction and propose an adaptive method that can encode more efficiently than conventional methods when using TBC in intra prediction. As a result, the coding efficiency of the overall coding performance is 0.01% and 0.04% in AI and RA, respectively, compared with the conventional coding method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.477-486
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel intra-prediction method using convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve a quality of a predicted block in VVC. The proposed algorithm goes through a two-step procedure. First, an input prediction block is generated using one of the VVC intra-prediction modes. Second, the prediction block is further refined through a CNN model, by inputting the prediction block itself and reconstructed reference samples in the boundary. The proposed algorithm outputs a refined block to reduce residual signals and enhance coding efficiency, which is enabled by a CU-level flag. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves improved rate-distortion performance as compared a VVC reference software, I.e., VTM version 10.0.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.698-708
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• 2020

VVC (Versatile Video Coding), which has been developing as a next generation video coding standard. Compared to HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), VVC is improved by about 34% in RA (Random Access) configuration and about 30% in LDB (Low-Delay B) configuration by adopting various techniques such as recursive block partitioning structure and GPM (Geometric Partitioning Mode). But the encoding complexity is increased by about 10x and 7x, respectively. In this paper, we propose a fast decision method of GPM mode and block partitioning using directionality of block to reduce encoding complexity of VVC. The proposed method is to apply the Hough transform to the current block to identify the directionality of the block, thereby determining the GPM mode and the specific block partitioning method to be skipped in the rate-distortion cost search process. As a result, compared to VTM8.0, the proposed method reduces about 31.01% and 29.84% encoding complexity for RA and LDB configuration with 2.48% and 2.69% BD-rate loss, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.253-260
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• 2021

Purpose: The least constrained prosthesis is generally recommended in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Nevertheless, a varus/valgus constrained (VVC) prosthesis should be implanted when a semi-constrained prosthesis is not good for adequate stability, especially in the coronal plane. In domestic situations, however, the VVC prosthesis could not always be prepared for every primary TKA case. Therefore, it is sometimes impractical to use a VVC prosthesis for unsual unstable situations. This study provides information for preparing VVC prostheses in the preoperative planning of primary TKA through an analysis of primary VVC TKA cases. Materials and Methods: This study reviewed 1,797 primary TKAs, performed between May 2003 and February 2016. The reasons for requiring VVC prosthesis and the preoperative conditions in 29 TKAs that underwent primary TKA with a VVC prosthesis were analyzed retrospectively. Results: In primary TKA, 29 cases (1.6%) in 27 patients (6 male and 21 female) used VVC prosthesis. Two patients underwent a VVC prosthesis on both knees. The mean age of the patients was 63.4 years old (34-79 years). The mean flexion contracture was 16.2° (-20°-90°), and the mean angle of great flexion was 111.7° (35°-145°). The situations requiring a VVC prosthesis were severe valgus deformity in 10 knees, knee stiffness requiring extensive soft tissue release in 10 knees, previously injured collateral ligaments in five knees, and distal femoral bone defect due to avascular necrosis in four knees. The mean tibiofemoral angle was 25.7° (21°-43°) in 10 cases with a valgus deformity. The mean flexion contracture was 37.5° (20°-90°), and the mean range of motion was 48.5° (10°-70°) in 10 cases with knee stiffness. Conclusion: The preparation of VVC prosthesis is recommended, even for primary TKA in cases of severe valgus deformity (tibiofemoral angle>20°), stiff knee (the range of motion: less than 70° with more than 20° flexion contracture), and the cases with a previous collateral ligament injury. This information will help in the preparation of adequate TKA prostheses for unusual unstable situations.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.10-25
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• 2019

본 고는 ISO/IEC MPEG과 ITU-T VCEG이 참여하는 JVET(Joint Video Expert Team)에서 진행되고 있는 비디오 압축 표준 기술인 VVC(Versatile Video Coding)에 대하여 설명하고자 한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.346-352
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• 2020

Versatile Video Coding (VVC), a next-generation video coding standard that is in the final stage of standardization, has adopted various techniques to achieve more than twice the compression performance of HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding). VVC adopted Bi-prediction with CU-level Weight (BCW), which generates the final prediction signal with the weighted combination of bi-predictions with various weights, to enhance the performance of the bi-predictive inter prediction. The syntax element of the BCW index is adaptively coded according to the value of NoBackwardPredFlag which indicates if there is no future picture in the display order among the reference pictures. Such syntax structure for signaling the BCW index could violate the flexibility of video codec and cause the dependency issue at the stage of bitstream parsing. To address these issues, this paper proposes an efficient BCW weight signaling method which enables all weights and parsing without any condition check. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated with various weight searching methods in the encoder. The experimental results show that the proposed method gives negligible BD-rate losses and minor gains for 3 weights searching and 5 weights searching, respectively, while resolving the issues.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1035-1052
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• 2019

Recently, as the demand for immersive videos increases, efficient video processing techniques for omnidirectional immersive video is actively developed by MPEG-I. While the omnidirectional video provides a larger degree of freedom for a free viewpoint, the size of the video increases significantly. Furthermore, in order to compress 6 degree-of-freedom (6 DoF) videos that support motion parallax, it is required to develop a codec to yield better coding efficiency. In this paper, we develop a 6 DoF codec using Versatile Video Coding (VVC) as the next generation video coding standard. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first VVC-based 6 DoF video codec toward the future ISO/IEC 23090 Part 7 (Metadata for Immersive Media (Video)) MPEG-I standardization. The experiments were conducted on the seven test video sequences specified in Common Test Condition (CTC) in two operation modes of TMIV (Test Model for Immersive Media) software. It is demonstrated that the proposed codec improves coding performance around 33.8% BD-rate reduction in the MIV (Metadata for Immersive Video) mode and 30.2% BD-rate reduction in the MIV view mode as compared to the state-of-the-art TMIV reference software. We also show the performance comparisons using Immersive Video PSNR (IV-PSNR) and Mean Structural Similarity (MSSIM).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.17-19
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• 2019

ISO/IEC JTC1 WG11 Moving Picture Expers Group 과 ITU-T SC16 은 Joint Video Experts Team 을 구성하여 차세대 비디오 부호화 표준으로서 Versatile Video Coding(VVC)를 표준화 중이다. VVC 는 현재 블록의 화면내 예측 모드일 가능성이 높은 모드의 집합인 Most Probable Mode(MPM) 리스트를 유도하고, MPM 을 이용하여 효율적으로 화면내 예측 모드를 부호화한다. VVC 는 주변 블록의 화면내 예측 모드에 따라 7가지 종류의 MPM 리스트 유도 방식을 가지고 있으나 이 중 두 가지는 동일한 MPM 들로 유도되는 중복성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 이 중복성 문제를 해결하기 위한 MPM 유도 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 MPM 유도조건을 수정하여 중복적인 유도 방식이 제거된 6 가지 MPM 리스트 유도 방식을 갖는다. 실험을 통해 제안방법이 부호화 효율에 전혀 영향을 주기 않고 MPM 유도 과정을 단순화시켰음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.222-224
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• 2019

Light Field (LF) camera captures not only the light intensity but also the light direction coming to camera. While the rich information captured by LF camera enables many interesting applications such as digital refocusing, viewpoint changing, and 3D reconstruction, but it also requires powerful coding tools to reduce its large volume of data. In this paper, we investigate using the intra prediction scheme of the versatile video coding (VVC), which is the most recent video coding technology currently under developing, to compress the LF image. The Intra Block Copy (IBC) technique in VVC is exploited considering special LF image structure. The experimental result shows that VVC intra predict ion outperforms the H.265/HEVC intra coding technique in encoding LF data irrespective of using the IBC mode or not.