• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.577-587
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• 2010

The layered coding structure of scalable video coding (SVC) with adaptive inter-layer prediction causes noticeable computational complexity increments when compared to existing video coding standards. To lighten the computational complexity of SVC, we present a fast algorithm to speed up the inter-mode decision process. The proposed algorithm terminates inter-mode decision early in the enhancement layers by estimating the rate-distortion (RD) cost from the macroblocks of the base layer and the enhancement layer in temporal, spatial, and inter-layer directions. Moreover, a search range decision algorithm is also proposed in this paper to further increase the motion estimation speed by using the motion vector information from temporal, spatial, or inter-layer domains. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can determine the best mode and provide more efficient total coding time saving with very slight RD performance degradation for spatial and quality scalabilities.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.736-744
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• 2007

We propose a fast macroblock (MB) mode prediction and decision algorithm based on temporal correlation for P-slices in the H.264/AVC video standard. There are eight block types for temporal decorrelation, including SKIP mode based on rate-distortion (RD) optimization. This scheme gives rise to exhaustive computations (search) in the coding procedure. To overcome this problem, a thresholding method for fast inter mode decision using a MB tracking scheme to find the most correlated block and RD cost of the correlated block is suggested for early stop of the inter mode determination. We propose a two-step inter mode candidate selection method using statistical analysis. In the first step, a mode is selected based on the mode information of the co-located MB from the previous frame. Then, an adaptive thresholding scheme is applied using the RD cost of the most correlated MB. Secondly, additional candidate modes are considered to determine the best mode of the initial candidate modes that does not satisfy the designed thresholding rule. Comparative analysis shows that a speed-up factor of up to 70.59% is obtained when compared with the full mode search method with a negligible bit increment and a minimal loss of image quality.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.425-434
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• 2006

We propose a fast macroblock mode prediction and decision algorithm based on contextual information for Pslices in the H.264/AVC video standard, in which the mode prediction part is composed of intra and inter modes. There are nine $4{\times}4$ and four $16{\times}16$ modes in the intra mode prediction, and seven block types exist for the best coding gain based on rate-distortion optimization. This scheme gives rise to exhaustive computations (search) in the coding procedure. To overcome this problem, a fast inter mode prediction scheme is applied that uses contextual mode information for P-slices. We verify the performance of the proposed scheme through a comparative analysis of experimental results. The suggested mode search procedure increased more than 57% in speed compared to a full mode search and more than 20% compared to the other methods.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2006

최근에 만들어진 비디오 압축 표준인 H.264는 매크로블록당 최적의 부호화 모드를 결정하기 위해 비트율-왜곡 (rate-distortion) 기법을 사용하지만, 그 복잡성으로 인해 부호화하는 데 많은 시간이 걸린다. 따라서, H.264의 부호화 시간을 단축하기 위해 고속 모드결정 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 양자화 계수에 따라 발생 모드가 변하는 특성에 기반하여 불필요한 움직임 예측 및 모드결정 과정을 생략하는 새로운 고속 모드결정 방법을 제안한다. 양자화 계수에 따라 최적모드의 발생 빈도가 변하게 되는데, 제안한 방법에서는 매크로블록의 양자화된 이산 여현변환 계수들이 모두 0일 때, 0의 값을 가지는 CBP(coded block pattern)를 고려하여 이러한 특성을 반영하며, 조기 SKIP 모드 결정방법과 조기 $16{\times}16$ 모드 결정방법을 이용한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안한 고속 인터모드 결정방법이 H.264의 참조 소프트웨어에 구현된 고속 인터모드 결정방법에 비해, Baseline 프로파일의 경우 19.6%, Main 프로파일의 경우 18.8%의 부호화 시간을 감소시키는 것을 확인했다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.42-49
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC에서 동영상의 통계적 특성을 이용하는 고속의 효율적인 매크로블록 모드 결정 알고리즘을 제안한다. H.264/AVC의 메크로블록 모드 결정에서 Inter$16{\times}8$, Inter$8{\times}16$ 모드의 율-왜곡 비용을 이용하여, 각각 동일한 방향성을 가지는 Sub$8{\times}4$, Sub$4{\times}8$ 모드의 생략 여부를 결정한다. 또한 P$8{\times}8$ 인터모드 내 서브매크로블록(submacroblock)의 최적 모드를 이용하여, 동영상의 움직임 상관성에 근거하여 Intra$4{\times}4$, Intra$16{\times}16$ 모드의 생략 여부를 결정한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 제안 기법들을 기존의 제안된 기법들의 장점들과 효과적으로 결합하여, 고속의 효율적인 매크로블록 결정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험 결과로부터, 제안 기법은 기존의 H.264/AVC 부호화 기법들에 비하여 부호화 효율을 유지시키면서 부호화 시간을 약 70% 단축시킬 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.20-22
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• 2007

The H.264/AVC standard developed by the joint Video Team (JVT) provides better coding efficiency than previous standards. The new emerging H.264/AVC employs variable block size motion estimation using multiple reference frame with 1/4-pel MV(Motion Vector) accuracy. These techniques are a important feature to accomplish higher coding efficiency. However, these techniques are increased overall computational complexity. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes advanced fast mode decision suited for variable block size by classifying inter mode based on Rate Distortion Optimization(RDO) technique. Proposed algorithm is going to use to implement H/W structure for fast mode decision. The experimental results shows that the proposed algorithm provides significant reduction computational complexity without any noticeable coding loss and additional computation. Entire computational complexity is decreased about 30%.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.163-174
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• 2008

H.264/AVC는 최신의 비디오 코딩 표준으로, MPEG-2나 MPEG-4에 비해 50% 정도의 높은 압축 효율을 가지고 있다. H.264/AVC에 포함된 여러 기술 중에서 다양한 모드를 이용한 부호화 기능은 높은 압축률이 가능한 기술이지만, 부호화 과정을 복잡하게 만드는 큰 요인이기도 하다. 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC에서 빠른 부호화를 위한 3단계 모드 선택 기법을 제안한다. 1단계에서는 시간적 공간적 상관성을 고려하여 SKIP 모드 또는 INTER 모드를 선택한다. 2단계에서는 1단계의 결과가 INTER일 경우 세부모드들을 2개의 그룹으로 나누어 그 중에서 하나의 그룹을 선택한다. 3단계에서는 2단계에서 선택된 그룹에 따라 오차 매크로블록의 픽셀 값 방향성 또는 주변 매크로블록의 모드를 고려하여 최종 모드를 선택한다. 제안한 기법의 성능을 실험한 결과, 기존의 JM10.2 표준과 비교했을 때, 적은 PSNR의 저하와 적은 비트율의 상승으로 평균 42%의 부호화 시간을 단축하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2016

The emerging High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard attempts to improve coding efficiency by a factor of two over H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) at the expense of an increase in computational complexity. Mode decision with motion estimation (ME) is still one of the most time-consuming computations in HEVC, as it is with H.264/AVC. Thus, fast mode decisions are not only an important issue to be researched, but also an urgent one. Several schemes for fast mode decisions have been presented in reference software and in other studies. However, the conventional hierarchical mode decision can be useless when block-level parallelism is exploited. This paper proposes operation-level exploration that offers more chances for early termination. An early termination condition is checked between integer and fractional MEs and between the parts of one partition type. The fast decision points of the proposed algorithm do not overlap those in previous works. Thus, the proposed algorithms are easily used with other fast algorithms, and consequently, independent speed-up is possible.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2022

Many new techniques have been adopted in HEVC (High efficiency video coding) standard, such as quadtree-structured coding unit (CU), prediction unit (PU) partition, 35 intra-mode, and so on. To reduce computational complexity, the paper proposes two optimization algorithms which include fast CU depth range decision and fast PU partition mode decision. Firstly, depth range of CU is predicted according to spatial-temporal correlation. Secondly, we utilize the depth difference between the current CU and CU corresponding to the same position of adjacent frame for PU mode range selection. The number of traversal candidate modes is reduced. The experiment result shows the proposed algorithm obtains a lot of time reducing, and the loss of coding efficiency is inappreciable.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1730-1747
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• 2018

Multi-view video plus depth (MVD) is a mainstream format of 3D scene representation in free viewpoint video systems. The advanced 3D extension of the high efficiency video coding (3D-HEVC) standard introduces new prediction tools to improve the coding performance of depth video. However, the depth video in 3D-HEVC is time consuming. To reduce the complexity of the depth video inter coding, we propose a fast coding unit (CU) size and mode decision algorithm. First, an off-line trained Bayesian model is built which the feature vector contains the depth levels of the corresponding spatial, temporal, and inter-component (texture-depth) neighboring largest CUs (LCUs). Then, the model is used to predict the depth level of the current LCU, and terminate the CU recursive splitting process. Finally, the CU mode search process is early terminated by making use of the mode correlation of spatial, inter-component (texture-depth), and inter-view neighboring CUs. Compared to the 3D-HEVC reference software HTM-10.0, the proposed algorithm reduces the encoding time of depth video and the total encoding time by 65.03% and 41.04% on average, respectively, with negligible quality degradation of the synthesized virtual view.