• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.241-242
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.222-223
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 HEVC의 화면내 모드에서 예측을 수행할 블록의 주변적 특성을 이용한 고속 모드 결정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 화면내 예측 방법으로는 33가지 방향성 예측방법과 두 가지의 무 방향성 방법을 이용하게 된다. 이때 최적의 예측 모드를 선택하기 위하여 RD cost 계산을 하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 모드 선택의 복잡성을 줄이고 고속 모드를 결정하기 위하여 예측 할 블록의 주변 중 가장 자리와 가중치 특성을 고려하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.145-146
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• 2015

HEVC(High Efficient Video Coding)는 H.264/AVC 대비 하여 50% 정도의 높은 압축률을 보이지만 인코더의 복잡도가 크게 증가하였다. 이러한 높은 복잡도로 인한 실사용에 있어서의 문제를 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 변환계수의 분포와 cbf(coded block flag)를 이용하여 예측블록의 크기를 빠르게 결정짓는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 HM16.0 대비 42%의 부호화 속도를 향상시켰으며 1.9%의 성능 감소를 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2009

H.264/AVC의 인트라 예측에서 미리 현재 블록 내의 정보 및 이전 블록의 예측 모드 정보 등을 이용하여 현재 블록의 예측 부호화 블록 크기가 결정되었을 경우, 예측된 블록 크기에 적합한 예측 모드 결정이 요구된다. 이에 사전에 결정된 예측 블록 크기 정보와 주변 블록과의 화소 변화량을 계산하여 예측 모드를 결정하는 기법을 제안하고 성능을 평가한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.130-136
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• 2016

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) extension considers screen content as one of its main candidate sources for encoding. Among the tools already included in HEVC version 1, the technique of using transform skip mode allows transform to be skipped and to perform quantization process only. It is known to improve video coding efficiency for screen contents which are characterized to have much high frequency energy. But encoding complexity increases since its encoder should decide whether transform should be used or not in each $4{\times}4$ transform block. Based on statistical correlation between IBC (Intra block copy) and transform skip modes both of which are known effective in screen contents, this paper proposes a combined method of the fast transform skip mode decision and a modified transform skip signaling which signals transform_skip_flag at CU level as a representative transform skip signal. By simulation, the proposed method is shown to reduce encoding time of $4{\times}4$ transform blocks by about 32%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.360-372
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• 2007

We propose a fast inter-layer mode decision method by utilizing coding information of base layer upward its enhancement layer inscalable video coding (SVC), also called MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Video Coding Amendment 3 or H.264 Scalable Extension (SE) which is being standardized. In this paper, when the motion vectors from the base layer have zero motion (0, 0) in inter-layer motion prediction or the Integer Transform coefficients of the residual between current MB and the motion compensated MB by the predicted motion vectors from the base layer are all zero, the block mode of the corresponding block to be encoded at the enhancement layer is determined to be the $16{\times}16$ mode. In addition, if the predicted mode of the MB to be encoded at the enhancement layer is not equal to the $16{\times}16$ mode, then the rate-distortion optimization is only performed on the reduced candidated modes which are same or smaller partitioned modes. Our proposed method exhibits the complexity reduction in encoding time up to 72%. Nevertheless, it shows negligible PSNR degradation and bit rate increase up to 0.25dB and 1.73%, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.171-182
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• 2015

HEVC can increase the coding efficiency significantly compared with H.264/AVC however it requires much larger computational complexities in both encoder and decoder. In this paper, the decision process of inter-prediction modes in the HEVC reference software has been studied and a fast algorithm to reduce the computational complexity of encoder and decoder is introduced. The proposed scheme introduces a early decision criteria using the outputs of uni-directional predictions to skip the bi-directional prediction estimation. From the experimental results, it was proven that the proposed method can reduce the encoding complexity by 12.0%, 14.6% and 17.2% with 0.6%, 1.0% and 1.5% of coding efficiency penalty, respectively. In addition, the ratio of bi-directional prediction mode was reduced by 6.3%, 11.8% and 16.6% at the same level of coding efficiency penalty, respectively, which should lead to the decoder complexity reduction. Finally, the effects of the proposed scheme are maintained regardless of the use of the early skip decision algorithm which is implemented in the HEVC reference software.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.35-47
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• 2001

This paper describes an efficient harmonic-CELP speech coder by taking advantages of harmonic and CELP coders into account. According to frame voicing decision, the proposed harmonic-CELP coder adopts the RP-VSELP coder as a fast CELP in case of an unvoiced frame, or an improved harmonic coder in case of a voiced frame. The proposed coder has main features as follows: simple pitch detection, fast harmonic estimation, variable dimension harmonic vector quantization, perceptual weighting reflecting frequency resolution, fast harmonic synthesis, naturalness control using band voicing, and multi-mode. These features make the proposed coder require very low complexity, compared with HVXC coder To demonstrate the performance of the proposed coder, a 2.4 kbps coder has been implemented and compared with reference coders. From results of informal listening tests, the proposed coder showed good quality while requiring low delay and complexity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

In this paper, we study receiver design issue to apply the OFDM based WLAN specification, such as 802.11p, to the communications in high speed mobile environment, e.g., for the ICT based railroad control on a train having its speed up to 300 km/hr. To successfully apply the existing WLAN specifications without modifying its transmission format, the performance at the receiver will solely depends on the channel estimation performance if we ignore the affect of frequency offset With a speed of multiple hundred km/hr, the channel estimation using only the preamble will not provide enough precision since the channel changes so fast. Therefore, in this paper, taking the high mobility into account, we focus on the design of decision directed channel estimation and equalization techniques and perform simulations to evaluate and compare their performances and to finally confirm the applicability of the existing WLAN specification to the systems with very high mobility.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.3C
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• pp.247-254
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• 2008

H.264 provides a good coding efficiency compared with existing video coding standards, H.263, MPEG-4, based on the use of multiple reference frame for variable block size motion estimation, quarter-pixel motion estimation and compensation, $4{\times}4$ integer DCT, rate-distortion optimization, and etc. However, many modules used to increase its performance also require H.264 to have increased complexity so that fast algorithms are to be implemented as practical approach. In this paper, among many approaches, fast mode decision algorithm by skipping variable block size motion estimation and spatial-predictive coding, which occupies most encoder complexity, is proposed. This approach takes advantages of temporal and spatial properties of fast mode selection techniques. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can save encoding time up to 65% compared with the H.264 standard while maintaining the visual perspectives.