• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제36C권4호
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• pp.31-43
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• 1999

본 논문의 주요 목표는 고성능 SVP(Stack-based Video Processor)를 설계하는 것이다. SVP는 과거에 제안된 스택 머신과 영상 프로세서의 최적의 측면만을 선택함으로써 더 좋은 구조를 갖도록 하는 포괄적인 구조이다. 본 구조는 객체 지향형 프로그램의 소규모의 많은 서브루틴을 가지고 있기 때문에 스택 버퍼를 갖는 준범용 S-RISC(Stack-based Reduced Instruction Set Comuter)를 이용하여 객체 지향형 영상 데이터를 처리한다. 그리고 MPEG-4의 반화소 단위 처리와 고급 모드 움직임 보상, 움직임 예측, SA-DCT(Shape Adaptive-Discrete Cosine Transform)가 가능하며, 절대값기, 반감기를 가지고 있어서 부호화하기로 확장할 수 있도록 하였다. SVP는 0.6㎛ 3-메탈 계층 CMOS 표준 셀 기준을 이용하여 설계되었으며, 110K 로직 게이트와 12Kbit SRAM 내부 버퍼로 이루어지고 50 MHz의 동작 속도를 가진다 . MPEG-4의 VLBL(Very Low Bitrate Video) 최대 전송율인 QCIF 15fps(frame per second)로 영상 재생 알고리즘을 수행한다.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권5호
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• pp.155-164
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• 1996

The architecture of a programmable video codec IC is described that employs multiple vector processors in a single chip. The vector processors operate in parallel and communicate with one another through on-chip shared memories. A single scalar control processor schedules each vector processor independently to achieve real-tiem video coding with special vector instructions. With programmable interconnection buses, the proposed architecture performs multi-processing of tasks and data in video coding. Therefore, it can provide good parallelism as well as good programmability. especially, it can operate multithread video coding, which processes several independent image sequences simultaneously. We explain its scheduling, multithred video coding, and vector processor architectures. We implemented a prototype video codec with a 0.8um CMOS cell-based technology for the multi-standard videophone. This codec can execute video encoding and decoding simultaneously for the QCIF image at a frame rate of 30Hz.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2005

This paper presents a system-on-a-chip (SOC) design for digital TV. The single LSI incorporates almost all essential parts such as CPU, ISO/IEC 11172/13818 system/audio/video decoders, a video post-processor, a graphics/OSD processor and a display processor. It has analog IP's inside such as video DACs, an audio PLL, and a system PLL to reduce the system-level implementation cost. Descramblers and Smart Card interface are included to support widely used conditional access systems. The video decoder can decode two video streams simultaneously. The DSP-based audio decoder can process various audio coding specifications. The functional blocks for video quality enhancement also form outstanding features of this SoC. The SoC supports world-wide major DTV services including ATSC, ARIB, DVB, and DIRECTV.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.491-496
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• 2005

An application specific processor for an H.264 decoder with a configurable embedded processor is designed in this research. The motion compensation, inverse integer transform, inverse quantization, and entropy decoding algorithm of H.264 decoder software are optimized. We improved the performance of the processor with instruction-level hardware optimization, which is tailored to configurable embedded processor architecture. The optimized instructions for video processing can be used in other video compression standards such as MPEG 1, 2, and 4. A significant performance improvement is achieved with high flexibility. Experimental results show that we could achieve 300% performance for the H.264 baseline profile level 2 decoder.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.452-464
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• 2003

FPGA를 사용하여 실시간 응용 가능한 다시점 3차원 비디오 프로세서를 설계 및 구현하였다. 본 연구에서 설계된 3차원 비디오 프로세서는 최대 16시점으로부터의 2차원 비디오 신호를 입력받아 공간분할방식의 3차원 비디오 신호로 변환해주는 역할을 한다. 3차원 카메라 시스템의 다양한 구조에 대응이 가능하며, 또한 다양한 해상도의 3차원 디스플레이 장치에 대응이 가능하도록 설계하였다. 5개의 FPGA를 사용한 검증보드를 제작하여 3차원 비디오 프로세서의 기능을 검증하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.116-126
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• 2011

본 논문은 다양한 비디오 표준의 복호화가 가능한 프로세서를 설계하고, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 및 AVS(Audio video standard)를 이용하여 프로세서의 성능을 검증하였다. 일반적으로 하드웨어 비디오 복호화기는 고속의 복호가 가능하나 설계 및 수정이 어렵다. 반면, 소프트웨어기반의 경우에는 구현이 상대적으로 수월하고 수정이 용이하나, 동작 성능이 낮아 기대하는 속도를 얻기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 두 가지 연구 설계방법의 장점을 동시에 충족시키는 방법으로 ASIP(Application specific instruction-set processor) 프로세서를 설계하였다. 또한, 비디오 복호화기의 공통 모듈을 연구하여 8개의 모듈로 나누었고, 각 모듈에 공통적으로 적용할 수 있는 다수의 멀티미디어 전용 명령어를 프로세서에 추가하였다. 비디오 복호화기를 위해 개발된 프로세서는 Synopsys 플랫폼 시뮬레이터와 FPGA 보드에서 성능을 평가하였다. 결과적으로 MPEG-2, MPEG-4 및 AVS에 적용하여 평균 37%의 복호 속도를 향상시켰다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2012

In this paper we propose a method for verifying video in a video telephony system implemented in DM6446 DaVinci Processor. Each frame is categorized either error free frame or error frame depending on the predefined criteria. Human face is chosen as a basic means for authenticating the video frame. Skin color based algorithm is implemented for detecting the face in the video frame. The video frame is classified as error free frame if there is single face object with clear view of facial features (eyes, nose, mouth etc.) and the background of the image frame is not different then the predefined background, otherwise it will be classified as error frame. We also implemented the image histogram based NCC (Normalized Cross Correlation) comparison for video verification to speed up the system. The experimental result shows that the system is able to classify frames with 90.83% of accuracy.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.216-219
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• 2002

A novel approach of embedded systems for video coding is introduced with the main theme focused on logic-enhanced DRAM and configurable processor. This approach is aiming at reducing high computational costs and frequent memory accessing, which embedded systems are suffering with in the execution of video coding. According Co the software execution analysis, large size functions with intensive memory accesses are tuned to be executed by the logic-enhanced DRAM while small size functions repeatedly called are to be executed by dedicated instructions, which are newly introduced in the configurable processor. The proposed system can speed up H.263 video coding algorithm 7.4 times in comparison with the conventional embedded processor based system.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2012

This paper provides a method for compression transmission of on-chip bus data. As the data traffic on on-chip buses is rapidly increasing with enlarged video resolutions, many video processor chips suffer from a lack of bus bandwidth and their IP cores have to wait for a longer time to get a bus grant. In multimedia data such as images and video, the adjacent data signals very often have little or no difference between them. Taking advantage of this point, this paper develops a simple bus data compression method to improve the chip performance and presents its hardware implementation. The method is applied to a Video Codec - 1 (VC-1) decoder chip and reduces the processing time of one macro-block by 13.6% and 10.3% for SD and HD videos, respectively

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권7호
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• pp.28-37
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• 1997

In this paper, we designed a motion estimator for MPEG-2 video coder using VHDL. Motion estimation is indispensable for encoding MPEG 2 video. Motion estimation takes over 50% computation power of video encoding 37 frames per second and is suitable for real-time processing. The number of data accesses for computation is fewer than 2 times compared with that of old one. This makes slower memory module available. We minimize input pins to migrate input data through PEs. This processor can compute various motio estimation modes at one calculation that is supported by MPEG-2 video standard. Also independent control architecture makes this processor a single processor or a sub module in amultimedia chip.