• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.139-143
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• 2014

This paper proposes a simplified DC calculation method for simplified depth coding (SDC) mode of 3D High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC) to reduce the computational complexity. For the computational complexity reduction, the current reference software of 3D-HEVC employs reference samples sub-sampling method. However, accumulation, branch, and division operations are still utilized and these operations increase computational complexity. The proposed method calculates DC value without those operations. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.1% coding gain for synthesized views in common test condition (CTC) with the significantly reduced number of computing operations.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2013년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.180-181
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• 2013

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) appears due to the demand on high compression video coding beyond H.264/AVC in ultra-high definition (UHD) videos. As for intra prediction, HEVC has 35 prediction modes while H.264/AVC has 9 intra modes. To exploit the spatial correlation, we adopt an edge detection method, establish the edge map, and adaptively select the candidate modes using the acquired edge information in a block. The number of the candidate modes is determined through trade-off between computational complexity and coding efficiency. Besides, the range of coding unit sizes is determined using the uniqueness of the edge directions for the given image block. As a result, we reduced the encoding time by 56.8% at the cost of 2.5% BD-BR increase on average compared to Full modes at the HEVC reference software (HM 6.0 [1]).

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.237-251
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 High Efficiency Video Coding(HEVC)을 기반으로 구현된 3D 스케일러블 코덱에서 부호화 효율을 향상시킬 수 있는 기술을 제안한다. 기존의 3D-HEVC에서는 dependent view를 부호화 할 때, 자신의 깊이 영상이 존재하지 않아 이웃 view의 base view의 깊이 영상을 이용하여 텍스처를 부호화한다. 하지만 스케일러블 부호화를 지원하는 형태의 3D-HEVC에서는 자신의 하위 spatial layer의 깊이영상을 이용하여 부호화 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 3D 스케일러블 코덱에서 텍스처 정보를 부호화하기 위한 향상된 깊이영상 예측방법을 제안한다. 저자들이 구현한 3D 스케일러블 코덱을 이용하여 제안한 알고리즘으로 실험을 한 결과, 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존 기술 대비 효율적인 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.118-127
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• 2014

This paper presents an efficient motion and disparity prediction method for multi-view video coding based on the high efficient video coding (HEVC) standard. The proposed method exploits inter-view candidates for effective prediction of the motion or disparity vector to be coded. The inter-view candidates include not only the motion vectors of adjacent views, but also global disparities across views. The motion vectors coded earlier in an adjacent view were found to be helpful in predicting the current motion vector to reduce the number of bits used in the motion vector information. In addition, the proposed disparity prediction using the global disparity method was found to be effective for interview predictions. A multi-view version based on HEVC was used to evaluate the proposed algorithm, and the proposed correspondence prediction method was implemented on a multi-view platform based on HEVC. The proposed algorithm yielded a coding gain of approximately 2.9% in a high efficiency configuration random access mode.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.354-362
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• 2012

MPEG과 ITU-T에서 최근 표준화가 진행되고 있는 HEVC는 H.264/AVC에 비해, CU(coding unit), PU(prediction unit), TU(transform unit)의 다양한 형태 분할 단위를 갖는 것을 큰 특징으로 한다. 이 중, CU와 TU는 쿼드트리 형태의 재귀적 분할 구조를 가지도록 구성되는데, 압축 효율은 향상시키지만 높은 부호화 복잡도를 갖는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 재귀적 분할 구조에서의 rate-distortion cost를 조건부 확률을 이용한 통계적 분석 방법을 사용하여, 분할이 일어나는 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우로 분류하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 HEVC의 재귀적 CU 부호화에 적용한 결과, 부호화 복잡도를 32% 가량 감소시키면서 압축 효율하락은 0.4-0.5%로 억제할 수 있었다. 또한, HM4.0에 구현되어 있는 고속 탐색 알고리즘과 함께 사용하는 경우, 압축 효율 하락을 0.9%로 억제하면서 부호화 복잡도를 1/2로 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.492-499
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• 2019

HEVC is the high efficiency video coding standard, which provides better coding efficiency contrasted with the other video coding standard. But at the same time the computational complexity increases drastically. Thirty-five kinds of intra-prediction modes are defined in HEVC, while 9 kinds of intra prediction modes are defined in H.264/AVC. This paper proposes a fast rough mode decision (RMD) algorithm which adopts the smoothness of the up-reference pixels and the left-reference pixels to decrease the computational complexity. The three step search method is implemented in RMD process. The experimental results compared with HM13.0 indicate that the proposed algorithm can save 39.7% of the encoding time, while Bjontegaard delta bitrate (BDBR) is increased slightly by 1.35% and Bjontegaard delta peak signal-to-noise ratio (BDPSNR) loss is negligible.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2018

High Efficiency Video Coding range extensions (HEVC RExt) is a kind of extension model of HEVC. HEVC RExt was specially designed for dealing the high quality images. HEVC RExt is very essential for studio editing which handle the very high quality and various type of images. There are some problems to dealing these massive data in studio editing. One of the most important procedure is re-encoding and decoding procedure during the editing. Various codecs are widely used for studio data editing. But most of the codecs have common problems to dealing the massive data in studio editing. First, the re-encoding and decoding processes are frequently occurred during the studio data editing and it brings enormous time-consuming and video quality loss. This paper, we suggest new video coding structure for the efficient studio video editing. The coding structure which is called "ultra-low delay (ULD)". It has the very simple and low-delayed referencing structure. To simplify the referencing structure, we can minimize the number of the frames which need decoding and re-encoding process. It also prevents the quality degradation caused by the frequent re-encoding. Various fast coding algorithms are also proposed for efficient editing such as tool-level optimization, multi-serve based distributed coding and SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) based parallel processing. It can reduce the enormous computational complexity during the editing procedure. The proposed method shows 9500 times faster coding speed with negligible loss of quality. The proposed method also shows better coding gain compare to "intra only" structure. We can confirm that the proposed method can solve the existing problems of the studio video editing efficiently.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.261-270
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• 2013

스테레오스코픽(stereoscopic) 3D 비디오 서비스는 기존 2D와의 호환성을 유지하면서 새로운 3D 비디오 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 전송 대역이 제한된 지상파 방송의 경우 높은 부호화 효율을 갖는 스테레오스코픽 비디오 코덱이 요구된다. 따라서 기준영상은 기존 2D 비디오 서비스와의 호환성을 위해 MPEG-2로 부호화하는 반면 3D를 위한 부가영상 부호화를 위해 부호화 효율이 높은 H.264/AVC, HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 등을 고려하고 있으며, 또한 부가영상을 비실시간으로 전송하는 NRT(Non-Real Time) 3D 서비스도 고려되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NRT 3D 서비스를 위한 스테레오스코픽 비디오 부호화에 있어서, HEVC에서 고려되었던 적응루프필터(ALF: Adaptive Loop Filter)를 전/후처리 필터로 적용하는 기법을 제시한다. 특히, 부가영상의 후처리에 ALF를 적용하기 위하여 부호화 과정에 결정되는 CU(Coding Unit) 구조를 이용하는 HEVC와 달리 MVC(Multiview Video Coding)로 부호화한 부가영상의 매크로블록(MB) 부호화 모드 및 참조영상 인덱스 등의 MB 부호화 정보를 이용한 ALF 적용 기법을 제안한다. 부가 영상 부호화에 있어서 제안한 기법으로 전처리 및 후처리 과정으로 ALF를 적용함으로써 최대 약 24.9%의 비트율 감소를 확인하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.280-283
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• 2017

HEVC(high efficiency video coding)의 엔트로피 코딩 방식인 CABAC(context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding)에서는 각 구문 요소의 발생 확률을 추정하는 문맥 모델이 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 CABAC 복호화에 필요한 문맥 모델러를 설계하고 이를 구현하였다. 초기화에 필요한 연산 숫자를 줄이고 속도를 높이기 위해 참조 테이블을 사용하였으며, HEVC의 표준 테스트 영상 및 표준 부호기 구성에 대해 12가지의 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 모두 성공적으로 동작하는 것을 확인하였다. 설계된 문맥 모델러를 0.18um에서 합성하였을 때의 최대 동작 주파수, 최대 처리율 및 게이트 수는 각각 200 MHz, 200 Mbin/s, 29,268 게이트이다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.483-494
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• 2015

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the most recent video codec standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The main goal of this newly introduced standard is for catering to high-resolution video in low bandwidth environments with a higher compression ratio. This paper provides a performance comparison between HEVC and H.264/AVC video compression standards in terms of objective quality, delay, and complexity in the broadcasting environment. The experimental investigation was carried out using six test sequences in the random access configuration of the HEVC test model (HM), the HEVC reference software. This was also carried out in similar configuration settings of the Joint Scalable Video Module (JSVM), the official scalable H.264/AVC reference implementation, running on a single layer mode. According to the results obtained, the HM achieves more than double the compression ratio compared to that of JSVM and delivers the same video quality at half the bitrate. Yet, the HM encodes two times slower (at most) than JSVM. Hence, it can be concluded that the application scenarios of HM and JSVM should be judiciously selected considering the availability of system resources. For instance, HM is not suitable for low delay applications, but it can be used effectively in low bandwidth environments.