• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.45-48
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• 2008

This paper presents a brief overview of scalable video coding (SVC) with a focus on spatial scalability and its application to Advanced Terrestrial-DMB (AT-DMB). By adopting SVC with two spatial-layers and hierarchical modulation, AT-DMB provides standard definition (SD)-level video while maintaining compatability with the existing CIF-level video. In this paper, we suggest a layer-configuration and coding parameters of SVC which are well suit for an AT-DMB system. In order to reduce extremely large encoding time resulted by an exhaustive search of a macroblock coding mode in spatial scalability, we propose a fast mode decision method which excludes redundant modes in each layer. It utilizes the mode distribution of each layer and their correlations. Experimental results show that a simplified encoding model with the method reduces the computational complexity significantly with negligible coding loss.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.75-76
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• 2008

A low complexity encoding scheme for coarse grain scalability is proposed. The proposed method exploits the statistics of residuals between current and reference blocks using the macroblock mode predicted from the previous quality layer. To test how the mode is optimal in the current layer, the statistical hypothesis testing for the variances of the residual sub-blocks is performed. The proposed method reduces the total encoding time up to 51% when three CGS scalability layers are encoded. However, the quality degradation and bit-rate increment of the each layer are negligible.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 II
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• pp.839-842
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 매크로블록 단위의 효율적인 파이프라인 구조를 사용하여 구현하였다. MPEG-4 QCIF/CIF 영상 시퀀스의 디블록킹 필터링 효과를 보일것이며, 디블록킹 필터링의 많은 계산량을 줄임과 동시에 낮은 클록에서 실시간 처리할 수 있는 구조를 제안하였다. 대부분 블록기반의 비디오 코딩 시스템에서, 블록 에지 효과는 블록기반 영상 압축에 치명적인 화질 저하를 나타낸다. 특히 압축 비율이 커질수록 화질 저하는 뚜렷하다. 그래서, 영상 후처리 기술로서 디블록킹 필터를 사용하여 블록 에지 영향을 줄임으로써 영상 화질을 향상시킨다. 그러나 디블록킹 필터의 주요 단점은 많은 계산량을 요구하고 있어서 구현에 어려움이 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해, MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 매크로 블록단위의 파이프라인 구조로 설계하였고, 실시간으로 동작하는 MPEG-4 SP@L2의 비디오 코덱 칩을 구현하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권12호
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• pp.2538-2541
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• 2009

H.264/AVC High 4:4:4 Intra/Predictive profiles supports RGB 4:4:4 sequences for high fidelity video. RGB color planes rather than YCbCr color planes are preferred by high-fidelity video applications such as digital cinema, medical imaging, and UHDTV. Several RGB coding tools have therefore been developed to improve the coding efficiency of RGB video. In this paper, we propose a new method to extract more accurate correlation parameters for inter-plane prediction. We use a searching method to determine the matched macroblock (MB) that has a similar inter-color relation to the current MB. Using this block, we can infer more accurate correlation parameters to predict chroma MB from luma MB. Our proposed inter-plane prediction mode shows an average bits saving of 15.6% and a PSNR increase of 0.99 dB compared with H.264 high4:4:4 intra-profile RGB coding. Furthermore, extensive performance evaluation revealed that our proposed algorithm has better coding efficiency than existing algorithms..

• 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.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.273-277
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• 2009

A compressed video stream is very sensitive to transmission errors that may severely degrade the reconstructed image. Therefore, error resilience is an essential problem in video communications. In this paper, we propose novel temporal error concealment techniques for recovering lost or erroneously received macroblock (MB). To reduce the computational complexity, the proposed method adaptively determines the search range for each lost MB to find best matched block in the previous frame. And the original corrupted MB split into for $8{\times}8$ sub-MBs, and estimates motion vector (MV) of each sub-MB using its boundary information. Then the estimated MVs are utilized to reconstruct the damaged MB. In simulation results, the proposed method shows better performance than conventional methods in both aspects of PSNR.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.28 No.1 (B)
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• pp.418-420
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• 2001

최근 디지털 비디오 데이터의 사용이 급격히 증가하면서 보다 정확하게 샷을 검출하는 기법이 요구되고 있다. 비디오 정보를 이용하여 샷을 검출하는 역는 크게 이산코사인 변환의 결과값을 이용하는 방법과 움직임 보상의 결과값을 이용하는 방법으로 그룹화할 수 있는데 전자의 방법은 점진적인 변화를 검출할 수 있는 반면에 전체적인 검출율이 떨어진다는 단점이 있고, 후자의 방법은 전체적인 검출율은 높지만 점진적인 변화를 검출할 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 실험을 통하여 이러한 두 가지 방법의 특징을 살펴본 후 이 방법들을 이용한 새로운 샷 경계 검출 방법을 제안한다. 전체적으로 검출율을 높이는 데 목적을 두었기 때문에 매크로블록 타입을 이용하는 방법을 기본으로 하면서 히스토그램을 이용하는 방법을 추가하여 precision을 높일 수 있도록 하였다. 히스토그램을 이용하는 방법에서는 단순히 프레임과의 비교를 하던 기존의 방법에다 프레임들간의 차이의 차이를 이용하여 성능을 높일 수 있도록 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 실험을 한 결과 평균 0.96의 recall과 0.96의 precision을 보이고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 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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• 제5권8호
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• pp.1444-1456
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• 2011

This paper presents a low-complexity algorithm for an H.264/AVC encoder. The proposed motion estimation scheme determines the best coding mode for a given macroblock (MB) by finding motion-blurred MBs; identifying, before motion estimation, an early selection of MBs; and hence saving processing time for these MBs. It has been observed that human vision is more sensitive to the movement of well-structured objects than to the movement of randomly structured objects. This study analyzed permissible perceptual distortions and assigned a larger inter-mode value to the regions that are perceptually less sensitive to human vision. Simulation results illustrate that the algorithm can reduce the computational complexity of motion estimation by up to 47.16% while maintaining high compression efficiency.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2008

With widespread use of the Internet and improvements in streaming media and compression technology, digital music, video, and image can be distributed instantaneously across the Internet to end-users. However, most conventional Digital Right Management are often not secure and fast enough to process the vast amount of data generated by the multimedia applications to meet the real-time constraints. In this paper, we propose the copyright protection using encryption of DCT coefficients and motion vector in MPEG-4 video codec of mobile device. This paper presents a new Digital Rights Management that modifies the Motion Vector of Macroblock for mobile device. Experimental results indicate that the proposed DRM can not only achieve very low cost of the encryption but also enable separable authentication to individual mobile devices such as Portable Multimedia Player and Personal Digital Assistants. The performance of the proposed methods have low complexity and low increase of bit rate in overhead.