• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.79-89
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• 2010

Recently, distributed video coding (DVC) has been actively studied for low complexity video encoder. The complexity of the encoder in DVC is much simpler than that of traditional video coding schemes such as H.264/AVC, but the complexity of the decoder in DVC increases. In this paper, we propose the Region-Of-Interest (ROI) based DVC with low decoding complexity. The proposed scheme uses the ROI, the region the motion of objects is quickly moving as the input of the Wyner-Ziv (WZ) encoder instead of the whole WZ frame. In this case, the complexity of encoder and decoder is reduced, and the bite rate decreases. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme obtain 0.95 dB as the maximum PSNR gain in Hall Monitor sequence and 1.87 dB in Salesman sequence. Moreover, the complexity of encoder and decoder in the proposed scheme is significantly reduced by 73.7% and 63.3% over the traditional DVC scheme, respectively. In addition, we employ the layered belief propagation (LBP) algorithm whose decoding convergence speed is 1.73 times faster than belief propagation algorithm as the Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder for low decoding complexity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.66-74
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• 2010

Recently distributed video coding (DVC) is spotlighted for the environment which has restriction in computing resource at encoder. Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding is a representative scheme of DVC. The WZ encoder independently encodes key frame and WZ frame respectively by conventional intra coding and channel code. WZ decoder generates side information from reconstructed two key frames (t-1, t+1) based on temporal correlation. The side information is regarded as a noisy version of original WZ frame. Virtual channel noise can be removed by channel decoding process. So the performance of WZ coding greatly depends on the performance of channel code. Among existing channel codes, Turbo code and LDPC code have the most powerful error correction capability. These channel codes use stochastically iterative decoding process. However the iterative decoding process is quite time-consuming, so complexity of WZ decoder is considerably increased. Analysis of the complexity of LPDCA with real video data shows that the portion of complexity of LDPCA decoding is higher than 60% in total WZ decoding complexity. Using the HDA (Hard Decision Aided) method proposed in channel code area, channel decoding complexity can be much reduced. But considerable RD performance loss is possible according to different thresholds and its proper value is different for each sequence. In this paper, we propose an adaptive HDA method which sets up a proper threshold according to sequence. The proposed method shows about 62% and 32% of time saving, respectively in LDPCA and WZ decoding process, while RD performance is not that decreased.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.23-31
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• 2010

The increasing demands on low-power, and low-complexity video encoder have been motivating extensive research activities on distributed video coding (DVC) in which the encoder compresses frames without utilizing inter-frame statistical correlation. In DVC encoder, contrary to the conventional video encoder, an error control code compresses the video frames by representing the frames in the form of syndrome bits. In the meantime, the DVC decoder generates side information which is modeled as a noisy version of the original video frames, and a decoder of the error-control code corrects the errors in the side information with the syndrome bits. The noisy observation, i.e., the side information can be understood as the output of a virtual channel corresponding to the orignal video frames, and the conditional probability of the virtual channel model is assumed to follow a Laplacian distribution. Thus, performance improvement of DVC systems depends on performances of the error-control code and the optimal reconstruction step in the DVC decoder. In turn, the performances of two constituent blocks are directly related to a better estimation of the parameter of the correlation channel. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to estimate the parameter of the correlation channel and also a low-complexity version of the proposed algorithm. In particular, the proposed algorithm minimizes squared-error of the Laplacian probability distribution and the empirical observations. Finally, we show that the conventional algorithm can be improved by adopting a confidential window. The proposed algorithm results in PSNR gain up to 1.8 dB and 1.1 dB on Mother and Foreman video sequences, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.259-265
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• 2012

Recently, many research works are focusing on DVC (Distributed Video Coding) system for low complexity encoder. Most DVC systems need feedback channel for parity bit control to achieve the good RD performances, however, this causes the system to have high decoding latency and is considered as one of the most critical problems for real implementation. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an effective distributed video decoding method using adaptive LDPCA frame-based parity bit request estimation. The proposed method applies for the pixel-domain Wyner-Ziv system and exploits the statistical characteristics between adjacent LDPCA frames to estimate adaptively the parity bit request. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method achieves about 80% of latency reduction compared to the conventional no-estimation DVC system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.1A
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• pp.34-42
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• 2012

Low density parity check (LDPC) code is widely used, since it shows superior performance close to Shannon limit and its decoding complexity is lower than turbo code. Recently, it is used as a channel code to decode Wyner-Ziv frames in distributed video coding (DVC) system. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to design the parity check matrix H of LDPC codes. In order to apply LDPC code to DVC system, the LDPC code should have rate compatibility. Thus, we also propose a method to merge check nodes of LDPC code to attain the rate compatibility. LDPC code is designed using ACE algorithm and check nodes are merged for a given code rate to maximize the error correction capability. The performance of the designed LDPC code is analyzed extensively by computer simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.9C
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• pp.564-572
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• 2011

Distributed video coding (DVC) system has been proposed to reduce encoder complexity by using the correlation of frames in decoders. Since the block based motion estimation operation is not performed in the encoder of DVC system, lapped transforms, in which adjacent two blocks are transformed into one block, can be efficiently used in the DVC system. In this paper, an efficient DVC system using lapped transforms is proposed. The overlapped block motion compensated interpolation is used to produce side information, and the corresponding correlation noise between original Wyner-Ziv frame and side information is modeled. Extensive computer simulations show that the proposed DVC system outperforms conventional DVC systems.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.585-595
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• 2007

Distributed video coding is a new video coding paradigm based on Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv's information theory Distributed video coding whose decoder exploits side information transfers its computational burden from encoder to decoder, so that encoding with light computational power can be realized. RD performance is superior than that of standard video coding without motion compensation process but still has a gap with that of coding with motion compensation process. This parer introduces basic theory of distributed video coding and its structure and then shows RD performances of DVCs whose coding style is different from each other and of a DVC as a spatial scalable video coder.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.20-23
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• 2010

분산 동영상 부호화 시스템에서는 복호기에서 움직임 보상 보간 기법을 이용하여 부가정보를 생성한다. 생성된 부가정보의 정확성이 Wyner-Ziv 프레임을 복원하기 위한 parity 정보량에 큰 영향을 미치기 때문에 부가정보의 정확한 생성이 분산 동영상 부호화 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미친다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다양한 부가정보 생성 기법의 성능을 분석하고 효율적인 부가정보 생성 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 생성된 부가정보가 분산 동영상 부호화 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향을 비교분석 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.582-584
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• 2011

This paper presents a Channel DiVision (CDV) scheme for transform-domain distributed video coding. In the proposed system, we employ the symmetric motion estimation to generate high quality side information for Wyner-Ziv (WZ) frames. Also, the decoder estimates the distortion of the side information, which is used to classify the transmitting channels for WZ frames. Each channel has a different expected noise. Then, the encoder allocates an appropriate number noise. Then, the encoder allocates an appropriate number present rate-distortion performance results and comparisons with existing state-of-the-art algorithms and H.264.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.595-597
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• 2011

분산 비디오 기술의 대표적인 기술 중 하나는 와이너 지브 부호화 기술이다. 종래 와이너 지브 부호화 기술에서는 낮은 복잡도의 부호화기를 얻기 위하여 일반적으로 인트라 부호화된 키 픽처를 사용한다. 하지만 인트라 부호화 방법은 공간적 중복성분만을 제거하기 때문에, 정적인 영상에서 부호화 효율이 매우 떨어지게 되어, 전체적인 율 왜곡 성능을 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 움직임 벡터를 (0, 0)으로 간주한 제로 모션 키 픽처를 이용하여 공간적 중복성분 이외에 시간적 중복성분 또한 제거하여 부호화 효율 성향을 위한 방법에 대한 종래 인트라 키 픽처 대비 율 왜곡 성능을 비교하여 보이고, 제로 모션 키 픽처 부호화의 복잡도가 기존 인트라 부호화 방법과 유사한 것을 보였다. 실험결과 기존 방법에 비해 유사한 복잡도를 갖으면서, 정적인 영상에서 최대 56%의 비트율 이득을 얻었다.