• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.54-58
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• 2007

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for distortion variation minimization. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. The proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2016

In this paper, a novel rate control scheme for low delay video coding of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is proposed. The proposed scheme is developed by considering a new temporal prediction structure of HEVC. In the proposed scheme, the relationship between bit rate and quantization step is exploited firstly to formulate an accurate quadratic rate-quantization (R-Q) model. Secondly, a method of determining the quantization parameters (QPs) for the first frames within a group of pictures is proposed. Thirdly, an accurate frame-level bit allocation method is proposed for HEVC. Finally, based on the proposed R-Q model and the target bit allocated for the frame, the QPs are predicted for coding tree units by using rate-distortion (R-D) optimization. We compare our scheme against that of three other state-of-the-art rate control schemes. Experimental results show that the proposed rate control scheme can increase the Bjøntegaard delta peak signal-to-noise ratio by 0.65 dB and 0.09 dB on average compared with the JCTVC-I0094 and JCTVC-M0036 schemes, respectively, both of which have been implemented in an HEVC test model encoder; furthermore, the proposed scheme achieves a similar R-D performance to Wang's scheme, as well as obtaining the smallest bit rate mismatch error of all the schemes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권5A호
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• pp.726-742
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• 2000

A novel rte control algorithm consisting of two major components, i.e. a variable encoding frame rate method and a hybrid DCT/wavelet I-frame coding scheme, is proposed in this work for low bit rate video coding. Most existing rate control algorithms for low bit rate video focus on bit allocation at the macroblock level under a constant frame rate assumption. The proposed rate control algorithm is able to adjust the encoding frame rate at the expense of tolerable time-delay. Furthermore, an R-D optimized hybrid DCT/wavelet scheme is used for effective I-frame coding. The new rate-control algorithm attempts to achieve a good balance between spatial quality and temporal quality to enhance the overall human perceptual quality at low bit rates. It is demonstrated that the rate control algorithm achieves higher coding efficiency at low bit rates with a low additional computational cost. The variable frame rate method and hybrid I-frame coding scheme are compatible with the bi stream structure of H.263+.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1040-1057
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• 2014

In this paper, a new bit rate estimation scheme is proposed to determine the bit rate for each subclass in an MPEG-2 TS to H.264/AVC transcoder after dividing an input MPEG-2 TS sequence into several subclasses. Video format transcoding in conventional IPTV and Smart TV services is a time-consuming process since the input sequence should be fully transcoded several times with different bit-rates to decide the bit-rate suitable for a service. The proposed scheme can automatically decide the bit-rate for the transcoded video sequence in those services which can be stored on a video streaming server as small as possible without losing any subject quality loss. In the proposed scheme, an input sequence to the transcoder is sub-classified by hierarchical clustering using a parameter value extracted from each frame. The candidate frames of each subclass are used to estimate the bit rate using a statistical analysis and a mathematical model. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme reduces the bit rate by, on an average approximately 52% in low-complexity video and 6% in high-complexity video with negligible degradation in subjective quality.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권6C호
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• pp.842-847
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 낮은 전송률에서 공간적 시간적 해상도를 tradeoff하는 새로운 비디오 코딩 알고리듬을 제안한다. 먼저 영상의 움직임을 측정하여 최적의 frame rate를 선택한다. DCT quantization parameter (QP)는 앞에서 결정된 frame rate와 주어진 bit rate에 따라 결정한다. 마지막으로, 본 논문은 skip된 비디오 영상에 대해 단순하고 효과적인 distortion 측정방법을 제안한다. 실험결과, 제안한 알고리듬이 H.263 TMN5 보다 영상 품질이 2 ㏈ 정도 개선되었다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

모바일 환경에서의 동영상 콘텐츠는 네트워크 트래픽과 같은 성능을 고려하여 일반 동영상에 비해 비트율이 낮은 비디오 영상을 처리하게 되고, 비트율이 낮은 동영상에 대한 소유권 보호의 필요성이 요구된다. 따라서 모바일 장치는 퍼스널 컴퓨터와 성능면에서 많은 차이점을 가지고 있으므로 모바일 장치에서 디지털 미디어를 보호하기 위해서는 모바일 환경에 적합한 워터마킹 처리 알고리즘을 개발해야 한다. 본 논문은 M-Commerce 환경에서 모바일 장치의 낮은 성능을 고려하여 비트율이 낮은 비디오 콘텐츠에 대한 비시각적인 대역 확산(Spread Spectrum) 워터마킹 기법을 제안하고, 동영상 콘텐츠의 불법적인 행위자들을 추적하여 소유권의 보호를 보장할 수 있다. 워터마크가 내장된 콘텐츠의 공격에 대한 강인성의 평가는 워터마크를 제거하거나 손상된 콘텐츠를 추출 알고리즘의 상관관계(Correlation)로 나타낸다. 실험 결과에 따르면 워터마크의 강인성을 평가하기 위해 워터마크가 내장된 영상을 압축한 후 M-Sequence의 주기를 추출한 결과 모든 영상에서 고유한 M-Sequence의 주기를 쉽게 검출할 수 있었다. 따라서 비트율이 낮은 콘텐츠에서도 워터마크 추출을 보장하여 불법적인 사용자의 추적이 가능할 것으로 예상된다.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.60-77
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• 1994

This paper presents a survey of video coding schemes which use wavelet transform for the videophone on very low bit rate commun ication chan nel( ego 10 Kbps Public Service Telephone Network). Firstly, we introduce the standardization efforts to make the low bit rate videophone architecture and the typical application of low bit rate video coding scheme. Secondly, we summarize the several requirements on videophone, delay, encoder/decoder complexity, low bitrate, and progressive transmission capability. Third, we review the basic theory of wavelet transform without much mathematics. We compare the wavelet transform with short-time fourier transform and subband filters. Fourth, we summarize the video coding schemes proposed so far, and evaluate them with Ule requirements. Lastly, we conclude with fu¬ture research directions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.1814-1829
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a model-based video bit rate estimation scheme for reducing the bit rate while maintaining a given target quality in many video streaming services limited by network bandwidth, such as IPTV services. Each item of video content can be stored on a video streaming server and delivered with the estimated bit rate using the proposed scheme, which consists of the following two steps: 1) In the first step, the complexity of each intra-frame in a given item of video content is computed as a frame feature to extract a group of candidate frames with a lot of bits. 2) In the second step, the bit rate of the video content is determined by applying statistical analysis and hypothesis testing to that group. The experimental results show that our scheme can reduce the bit rate by up to 78% with negligible degradation of subjective quality, especially with the low-complexity videos commonly used in IPTV services.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.513-520
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm using sliding window method for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. A new frame-layer rate-distortion model is derived, and a non-iterative optimization method is used for low computational complexity. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performance than the existing TMN8 rate control method.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권10호
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• pp.2629-2639
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• 1997

최근 초저속 전송 매체용 비디오 코딩 기법에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 기존의 블럭을 기반으로 하는 변환 코딩기법들은 비트율 제한으로 인해 블럭화 현상 등으로 화질 열화가 심하다. 본 논문에서는 초저속 전송 매체를 위하여 웨이브릿 변환과 다중해상도 움직임 추정 및 보상 기법을 이용하는 비디오 코딩 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 non-stationary 신호를 적응적으로 표현하며, 인간 시각 특성을 잘 반영하는 웨이브릿 변환을 사용한다. 웨이브릿 변환된 계수들은 움직임 추정 및 보상 후 예측 오차의 크기에 따라서 다양한 모드로 코딩된다. 이와 함께 일정한 화질을 유지하기 위하여 간단한 버퍼 제어 기법을 사용한다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법은 블럭화 현상이 줄어들며, 기존의 블럭을 기반으로 하는 변환 코딩 기법보다 복원 영상의 화질이 좋음을 보였다.