• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.469-479
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• 2013

This paper proposes an efficient computation-aware mode decision and search point (SP) allocation algorithm for spatial and quality scalabilities in Scalable Video Coding. In our proposal, a linear model is derived to allocate the computation for macroblocks in enhancement layers by using the rate distortion costs of the base layer. In addition, an adaptive SP decision algorithm is proposed to decide the number of SPs for motion estimation under the constraint of the allocated computation. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm allocates the computation resource efficiently and outperforms other works in rate distortion performance under the same computational availability constraint.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.826-828
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• 2007

Efficient downscaling in a transcoder is important when the output should be converted to a lower resolution video. In this letter, we suggest an efficient algorithm for transcoding from MPEG-4 SP (with simple profile) to H.264/AVC with spatial downscaling. First, target image blocks are classified into monotonous, complex, and very complex regions for fast mode decision. Second, adaptive search ranges are applied to these image classes for fast motion estimation in an H.264/AVC encoder with predicted motion vectors. Simulation results show that our transcoder considerably reduces transcoding time while video quality is kept almost optimal.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.165-178
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• 2012

In most conventional video codecs, such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, inter coding is performed with the fixed motion vector resolution. When KTA software was developed, resolution for MVs can be selected in each slice. Although KTA codec uses a variety of resolutions for ME, the selected resolution is applied over the entire pixels in the slice and the statistical property of the local area is not considered. In this paper, we propose an adaptive decision scheme for motion vector resolution which depends on region, where MV search area is divided to multiple regions according to the distance from PMV. In each region, the assigned resolution is used to estimate MV. Each region supports different resolution for ME from other regions. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is affected from threshold values to divide the search area and the entropy coding method to encode the estimated MV. Simulation results with HM3.0 which is the reference software of HEVC show that the proposed scheme provides bit rate gains of 0.9%, 0.6%, and 2.9% in Random Access, Low Delay with B picture, and Low Delay with P picture structures, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.520-529
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• 2007

In this paper, we study the characteristics of parameters which are related to performance of MCTF which is a key technique for wavelet-based scalable video coding, and propose an improved MCTF method. The proposed MCTF method adopts the motion estimation of which motion vector field is distributed more uniformly using variable block sizes. By using the proposed method, the decomposition performance of temporal filter is improved, and the energy in high-frequency frames is reduced. It can help the entropy coder to generate lower bitrate. From simulation results, we verify the decomposed energy on high-frequency frame using the proposed method is reduced by 25.86% at the most in terms of variance of the high-frequency frame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2009

In object tracking, the template matching methods have been developed and frequently used. It is fast enough, but not robust to an object with the variation of size and shape. In order to overcome the limitation of the template matching method, this paper proposes a template update technique. After finding an object position using the correlation-based adaptive predictive search, the proposed method selects blocks which contain object's boundary. It estimates the motion of boundary using block matching, and then updates template. We applied it to IR image sequences including an approaching object. From the experimental results, the proposed method showed successful performance to track object.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1932-1935
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263 등에서 블록정합을 위해 사용되는 움직임 추정(Motion Estimation) 기법에서 적응적 탐색 범위를 기존의 알고리듬에 적용시킴으로써 계산량을 줄이고 화질도 개선하는 방법을 제안한다 제안된 알고리듬은 먼저 이웃한 움직임 벡터(Motion Vector)의 위치를 이용하여 예상된 움직임 벡터를 찾고 이 예상된 움직임 벡터의 X, Y 값의 크기를 작은 값, 중간 값, 큰 값, 세 가지로 분류해서 탐색범위를 적응적으로 변화시켜 움직임 벡터가 있을 확률이 큰 범위를 집중적으로 찾는다 그리고 각 분류에서 작은 값일 때는 전역 탐색을 적용하고 큰 값일 때는 기존의 알고리듬을 적용시키고 중간 값 일 때는 3단계탐색 기법을 적용시켜 더 적합한 움직임 벡터를 찾도록 하였다. 그리고 작은 값 일 때 구해진 움직임 벡터의 SAD(Sum of Absolute Difference) 값과 이웃한 움직임 벡터의 SAD값을 비교해 국소점에 빠졌다고 판단이 되면 다시 탐색 범위를 조정해서 움직임 벡터를 구함으로써 국소점에 빠지는 경우를 줄였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.292-294
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• 2007

Recently, for satisfying many application demands such as coding delay, computing power, transporting channel characteristic, etc, many profiles are supported in video coding standards. Therefore, in transcoding between same standards or between other standards, the functional difference of profiles supported by application occur many problems. In this paper, transcoding MPEG-2 main profile to H.264/AVC baseline profile which has restriction in the number of reference frame is focused. In this case, the bidirectional prediction supported in MPEG-2 main profile is not supported in H.264/AVC baseline profile. Also, in the restriction of reference frame, motion vectors in the MPEG-2 decoder as predictor should be adjusted. In this paper, the proposed algorithm is based on the characteristic of which motion. vector is uniform according to the distance from reference frame. The adaptive search techniques through the determination of the uniformity extremely reduce the computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.115-118
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• 2008

H.264/AVC는 동영상 데이터를 효율적으로 전송하기 위한 압축 기술로써 7가지 가변 블록에 대한 움직임 예측(Motion Estimation) 및 움직임 보상(Motion Compensation), DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform), 엔트로피 부호화(Entropy Coding), 디블록킹 필터 등 여러 가지 방법이 있다. 이러한 방법들로 인해 압축 효율은 높아졌으나 많은 계산량으로 인해 부호화 시간이 증가하게 되었다. 따라서 화질 손실을 최소한으로 줄이면서 소모되는 시간을 단축시키는 H.264 부호화 방법들이 개발되어야 한다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 H.264 부호화 과정 중 시간이 많이 소모되는 움직임 예측에서 움직임 벡터를 찾기 위한 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.355-363
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• 2011

Recently, as one of several methods to improve the performance of DVC(Distributed Video Coding) system, many research works are focusing on the iterative refinement of side information. Most of the conventional techniques are mainly based on the relationship between the reconstruction level and side information, or the vector median filtering of motion vectors, but, their performance improvements are restricted. In order to overcome the performance limit of the conventional schemes, in this paper, a side information generation scheme is designed by measuring the block-cost estimation. Then, by adaptively selecting the compensation mode using the received bit-plane information, we propose a block-adaptive iterative refinement which is efficient for non-symmetric moving objects. Computer simulations show that, by using the proposed refinement method, the performance can be improved up to 0.2 dB in rate-distortion.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.5624-5638
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• 2016

A novel method based on Surf points is proposed to detect and lock-track single ground target in aerial videos. Videos captured by moving cameras contain complex motions, which bring difficulty in moving object detection. Our approach contains three parts: moving target template detection, search area estimation and target tracking. Global motion estimation and compensation are first made by grids-sampling Surf points selecting and matching. And then, the single ground target is detected by joint spatial-temporal information processing. The temporal process is made by calculating difference between compensated reference and current image and the spatial process is implementing morphological operations and adaptive binarization. The second part improves KALMAN filter with surf points scale information to predict target position and search area adaptively. Lastly, the local Surf points of target template are matched in this search region to realize target tracking. The long-term tracking is updated following target scaling, occlusion and large deformation. Experimental results show that the algorithm can correctly detect small moving target in dynamic scenes with complex motions. It is robust to vehicle dithering and target scale changing, rotation, especially partial occlusion or temporal complete occlusion. Comparing with traditional algorithms, our method enables real time operation, processing $520{\times}390$ frames at around 15fps.