• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.513-520
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm using sliding window method for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. A new frame-layer rate-distortion model is derived, and a non-iterative optimization method is used for low computational complexity. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performance than the existing TMN8 rate control method.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2016년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.264-266
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• 2016

During the $2^{nd}$ JVET (Joint Group on Future Video Coding Technology Exploration) meeting, up to 22 coding tools focusing on Future Video Coding (FVC) were proposed. Despite that the application of proposed coding tools has a considerable performance enhancement, however, the encoding time of Joint Exploration Model (JEM) software is over 20 times for All Intra coding mode, 6 times for Random Access coding mode, of HEVC reference model (HM), and decoding time is 1.6 times for All Intra coding mode, 7.9 times for Random Access coding mode, of HM. This paper focuses on analyzing the complexity of the JEM software compared with HM.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2009

본 논문은 H.264 동영상 부호기를 위한 효율적인 주파수 영역 잡음 제거 기법을 제안한다. 각 변환 블록과 잡음 제거를 위해 변형된 곱셈 팩터 행렬를 내적하는 방식으로 Wiener filtering이 이루어진다. 구현 시 look-up table을 이용하면 제안한 방법에서의 곱셈 연산을 간단히 대신할 수 있기 때문에 필터링에 의한 연산량은 무시할 만하다. 또한, 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 H.264 부호기에서 두드러진 잡음 제거 성능을 보임을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2014

Motion estimation is a core part of most video compression systems since it directly affects the output video quality and the encoding time. The full search (FS) technique gives the highest visual quality but has the problem of a significant computational load. To solve this problem, we present in this paper a modified median (MMED) operation and advanced search strategies for fast motion estimation. The proposed MMED operation includes a temporally co-located motion vector (MV) to select an appropriate initial candidate. Moreover, we introduce a search procedure that reduces the number of thresholds and simplifies the early termination conditions for the determination of a final MV. The experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves substantial speedup compared with the conventional methods including the motion vector field adaptive search technique (MVFAST) and predictive MVFAST (PMVFAST). The proposed algorithm also improves the PSNR values by increasing the correlation between the MVs, compared with the FS method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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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.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.195-197
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• 2005

In the scalable extension of H.264/AVC, spatial scalability is provided residual information as encoding layered spatial resolution between layers. We use the inter-layer prediction to remove this redundancy. In the inter-layer prediction, as the prediction we can use the signal that is the upsampled signal of the lower resolution layer. In this case, coding efficiency can be different from optimal prediction by kinds of interpolation filter. This paper indicates technique to choose the interpolation filter and to enhance coding efficiency for finding more correct prediction in intra macroblock.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.753-758
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• 2012

As the next-generation video coding standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has adopted advanced coding tools despite the increase in computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a selective bi-prediction method to reduce the encoding complexity of HEVC. The proposed method evaluates the statistical property of the sum of absolute differences in the motion estimation process and determines whether bi-prediction is performed. A performance comparison of the complexity reduction is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method compared to the HEVC test model version 4.0. On average, 50% of the bi-prediction time can be reduced by the proposed method, while maintaining a negligible bit increment and a minimal loss of image quality.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제2권9호
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• pp.1183-1190
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 아날로그의 비디오 신호를 디지털로 부호화하는데 기존과 다른 파이프라인 방식을 사용하도록 하였다. 부호화기의 전체 동작을 화소 클럭비에 따른 파이프라인 구조로 설계하여 각 하위 블록들의 동작 타이밍을 확보하여 시스템을 안정화시켰으며 고정된 계수와 곱셈의 경우 기존의 ROM 테이블 또는 곱셈기 방식을 사용하지 않고 쉬프트와 덧셈기 방식으로 설계함으로써 시스템의 복잡도를 줄이며 논리 게이트 수를 15%줄이는 효과를 보였다. 설계된 부호화기는 각각의 하위 블록으로 나누어 VHDL로 설계하였고, Max+plusII를 이용한 FPGA로 동작 확인을 하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1388-1399
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• 2012

This paper proposes a quality metric based on a No-Reference Bitstream (NR-B) having least computational complexity for the assessment of the human-perceptual quality of H.264 encoded video. The proposed NR-B method performs a modeling of encoding distortion with three bit-stream information (i.e. frame-rate, motion-vector, and quantization-parameter) that can be directly extractable from the encoded bitstream and does not require additional complex processing of final pictures. From performance evaluation using 165 compressed video sequences, the experiment results show that the proposed metric has a higher correlation with subjective quality than is achieved with other comparable methods.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.42-45
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• 2011

최근ISO/IEC와 ITU는 공동 협력팀(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding-JCT-VC)을 구성하여 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)라 불리는 새로운 비디오 압축 표준 기술을 개발하고 있다. JCT-VC의 목표 중 하나는 H.264/AVC 압축률의 2배를 향상하는 것으로 최근 HEVC 테스트 모델(HEVC Test Model - HM)을 확정했다. HM의 여러 기술 중에서 확장 블록 구조 (large block structure) 기술은 CU(Coding Unit)와 TU(Transform Unit), PU(Partition Unit)로 구성된다. CU와 TU는 압축 단위와 변환 기술을 확장한 반복적인 문법구조(recursive syntax structure)이며, PU는 H.264/AVC과 동일한 형태를 띈다. 확장 블록 구조는 CU, PU, TU의 여러 조합에 의해 다양한 모드를 지원하여 압축 성능은 높아졌지만 HM 부호화기의 복잡도는 증가한다. 본 논문에서는 HM에 채택된 확장 블록 구조 기술에 대해 설명한 후, 계층적 B프레임 구조로 부호화 되는 경우 이전 레벨의 CU Depth 정보를 이용하여 현재 레벨의 CU Depth를 효과적으로 제한하여 기존의 방법보다 빠르게 부호화하는 방법을 제안한다.