• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.122-135
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• 2004

Although frame-based MPEG-4 video services have been successfully deployed since 2000, MPEG-4 video coding is now facing great competition in becoming a dominant player in the market. Object-based coding is one of the key functionalities of MPEG-4 video coding. Real-time object-based video encoding is also important for multimedia broadcasting for the near future. Object-based video services using MPEG-4 have not yet made a successful debut due to several reasons. One of the critical problems is the coding complexity of object-based video coding over frame-based video coding. Since a video object is described with an arbitrary shape, the bitstream contains not only motion and texture data but also shape data. This has introduced additional complexity to the decoder side as well as to the encoder side. In this paper, we have analyzed the current MPEG-4 video encoding tools and proposed efficient coding technologies that reduce the complexity of the encoder. Using the proposed coding schemes, we have obtained a 56 percent reduction in shape-coding complexity over the MPEG-4 video reference software (Microsoft version, 2000 edition).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1195-1211
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• 2016

The emerging video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has shown almost 40% bit-rate reduction over the state-of-the-art Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard but at about 40% computational complexity overhead. The main reason for HEVC computational complexity is the inter prediction that accounts for 60%-70% of the whole encoding time. In this paper, we propose several fast coding unit (CU) encoding schemes based on the Merge mode and motion estimation information to reduce the computational complexity caused by the HEVC inter prediction. Firstly, an early Merge mode decision method based on motion estimation (EMD) is proposed for each CU size. Then, a Merge mode based early termination method (MET) is developed to determine the CU size at an early stage. To provide a better balance between computational complexity and coding efficiency, several fast CU encoding schemes are surveyed according to the rate-distortion-complexity characteristics of EMD and MET methods as a function of CU sizes. These fast CU encoding schemes can be seamlessly incorporated in the existing control structures of the HEVC encoder without limiting its potential parallelization and hardware acceleration. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed schemes achieve 19%-46% computational complexity reduction over the HEVC test model reference software, HM 16.4, at a cost of 0.2%-2.4% bit-rate increases under the random access coding configuration. The respective values under the low-delay B coding configuration are 17%-43% and 0.1%-1.2%.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a simple Double random phase encryption (DRPE)-based orthogonal encoding technique for color image encryption. In the proposed orthogonal encoding technique, a color image is decomposed into red, green, and blue components before encryption, and the three components are independently encrypted with DRPE using the same key in order to decrease the complexity of encryption and decryption. Then, the encrypted data are encoded with a Hadamard matrix that has the orthogonal property. The purpose of the proposed orthogonal encoding technique is to improve the security of DRPE using the same key at the cost of a little complexity. The proposed orthogonal encoder consists of simple linear operations, so that it is easy to implement. We also provide the simulation results in order to show the effects of the proposed orthogonal encoding technique.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.255-258
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• 2006

In the H.264/AVC standard, intra prediction increases the coding efficiency of intra macroblocks and by applying rate-distortion optimization to each macroblock, it is possible to choose Inter or Intra encoding adaptively. This sort of encoding scheme, however, increases encoding complexity dramatically and causes troubles in practical applications of the real-time mobile environment. In order to decrease the complexity, variety of methods is proposed but most of those take only its current block into consideration for selecting candidate modes which naturally causes degradation in PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio). The proposed fast intra mode decision finds the candidate modes by analyzing transformed coefficients of neighboring blocks stored in the buffer at the encoder stage of input sequences. We verify this proposed scheme in complexity, PSNR and bit-rate.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권4_2호
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• pp.707-714
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• 2022

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the most recent video coding standard, which had been developed by Joint Video Expert Team (JVET). It can improve significant coding performance compared to the previous standard, namely High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). Although VVC can achieve the powerful coding performance, it requires the tremendous computational complexity of VVC encoder. Especially, affine motion compensation (AMC) was adopted the block-based 4-parameter or 6-parameter affine prediction to overcome the limit of translational motion model while VVC require the cost of higher encoding complexity. In this paper, we proposed the early termination of AMC that determines whether the affine motion estimation for AMC is performed or not. Experimental results showed that the proposed method reduced the encoding complexity of affine motion estimation (AME) up to 16% compared to the VVC Test Model 17 (VTM17).

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.652-655
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• 2021

Versatile Video Coding(VVC)의 압축 효율을 끌어올리기 위하여 다양한 화면 간 예측(inter prediction)기법 중 적응적 움직임 벡터 해상도(Adaptive motion vector resolution, 이하 AMVR)기술이 채택되어 왔다. 다만, AMVR을 적용하여 최적의 해상도를 결정하기 위해서는 매 부호화 유닛마다 다양한 테스트를 진행해야 하며, 이는 율-왜곡 비용의 계산 복잡도 증가를 야기한다. 따라서 VVC의 부호화 복잡도의 감소를 위해 효과적으로 최적의 AMVR 모드를 찾아야 한다. 본 논문에서는 보다 다양한 데이터셋 기반 하에 경량화된 신경망 기반의 AMVR 결정 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.1654-1667
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• 1996

The conventional fractal image compression methods have high computational complexity at encoding reduce PSNR at low bit rate and havehighly visible blocking effects in a reconstructed image. In this paper we propose a fractal image compression method based on disctete wavelet transform domain, which takes the absolute value of discrete wavelet transform coefficient, and assembles the discrete wavelet tranform coefficients of different highpass subbands corresponding to the same spatial block and then applies "0" encoding according to the energy of each range blocks. The proposed method improved PSNR at low bit rate and reduced computational complexity at encoding distinctly. Also, this method can achieve a blockless reconstructed image and perform hierarchical decoding without recursive constractive transformation. Computer simulations with several test images show that the proposed method shows better performance than convnetional fractal coding methods for encoding still pictures. pictures.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.323-324
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• 2007

In this paper, we present the method of skipping the quantization for fast video encoding. Based on the theoretical analyzes for the integer transform and quantization in H.264 video coder, we can derive a sufficient threshold under which each quantized coefficient becomes zero. In addition, in order to reduce the complexity of the fast video encoding, complexity is improved, leading to improvement of total encoding time saving for given threshold. The simulation results show the capability of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.508-521
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• 2020

We compared a novel encoding Lempel-Ziv complexity (ELZC) with three common complexity algorithms i.e., approximate entropy (ApEn), sample entropy (SampEn), and classic Lempel-Ziv complexity (CLZC) so as to determine a satisfied complexity and its corresponding quality indices for assessing quality of multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). First, we calculated the aforementioned algorithms on six artificial time series in order to compare their performance in terms of discerning randomness and the inherent irregularity within time series. Then, for analyzing sensitivity of the algorithms to content level of different noises within the ECG, we investigated their change trend in five artificial synthetic noisy ECGs containing different noises at several signal noise ratios. Finally, three quality indices based on the ELZC of the multi-lead ECG were proposed to assess the quality of 862 real 12-lead ECGs from the MIT databases. The results showed the ELZC could discern randomness and the inherent irregularity within six artificial time series, and also reflect content level of different noises within five artificial synthetic ECGs. The results indicated the AUCs of three quality indices of the ELZC had statistical significance (>0.500). The ELZC and its corresponding three indices were more suitable for multi-lead ECG quality assessment than the other three algorithms.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2020

기존 동영상 부호화 표준보다 더 높은 효율의 표준에 대한 수요가 커지면서, 최근 MPEG과 VCEG에서 Versatile Video Coding(VVC)이라는 차세대 동영상 부호화 프로젝트를 개발하고 표준화하고 있다. 압축 효율 증대를 위하여 다양한 화면간 부호화 기법이 등장하였으며, 특히 움직임 벡터의 적응적인 해상도 부호화가 등장하여 VVC의 압축 효율을 올리는데 기여하였다. 다만, 최적의 움직임 벡터 해상도를 결정하기 위해 부호화기에서 다양한 율-왜곡 비용을 계산해야 했기에, 부호화기 시간 복잡도가 높아지게 되었다. 실시간 동영상 방송 및 스트리밍 서비스를 위해서는 부호화기의 복잡도를 줄이는 것이 필요하나, 아직 적응적 움직임 벡터 해상도 결정기법에 대한 복잡도 감소 연구는 미개척분야이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이 움직임 벡터 해상도 결정을 위한 부호화 복잡도를 줄이는 연구를 제안한다. 이를 위해, VVC의 특별한 트리 구조인 multi-type tree 구조 내에서의 부호화된 문맥을 활용한 고속 결정기법을 고안한다. 실험 결과, 본 고속결정 기법은 VVC 참조 소프트웨어 대비 약간의 압축효율 감소 내에서 10%의 전체 부호화 시간을 줄임을 확인하였다.