• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an efficience transcoder architecture to support a simutaneous multibitrate output. First, we discuss about some architectures to realize this feature. Next, we explain the proposed architecture, it shares not only VLD-IQ but alse Q-VlD which have the same quantization step sizes each other. We anlyze the numbers of Q-VLC times per on Macroblock to the investigate an effect of sharing, and evaluate its computation complexity. The result of simulation, that complexity has an upper limit and it cn support any numbers of bitstream by about 3~6 times complexity than single output.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3C
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• pp.133-140
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• 2005

This paper introduces a spatial error concealment technique using directional interpolation in block-based compression. The first step involves finding the spatial direction vectors represented an edge-direction in the lost block using spatial boundary matching algorithm. Then, the error blocks are recovered by directional interpolation through these vectors and concealed by using the recovered blocks which have lower directional boundary matching error out of them relatively. This proposed method is able to deal with errors on macroblock or slice level adaptively. And it has lower complexity and maintains better performance compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.343-345
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• 2010

H.264/AVC는 율-왜곡 계산에 기반한 화면 내 예측과 화면 간 예측을 통하여 높은 압축효율을 나타낸다. 그러나 모든 예측 모드의 율-왜곡 값을 계산하여 하나의 최적의 모드를 구하는 기존의 방법은 높은 계산량을 가지며 부호화에 걸리는 시간을 현저히 증가시킨다. 이러한 높은 계산량을 갖는 모든 예측모드의 율-왜곡 계산을 보완하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 매크로블록의 움직임 특성 을 고려한 고속 부호화 모드 결정 방법을 제안한다. 각각의 매크로블록을 부호화하기 위해 미리 계산되는 SKIP모드에 대한 율-왜곡 값을 바탕으로 두 가지 문턱 값을 사용하여 움직임의 특성을 판단한다. 움직임의 특성에 따라 매크로블록은 3가지 분류로 나뉘게 되며, 각 분류에 따라 경쟁 모드를 적응적으로 선별하여 최적의 모드를 선택한다. 이러한 움직임 특성을 고려한 선택적 부호화 모드 결정을 통하여 부호화 효율의 큰 손실 없이 계산량을 감소시킴으로서 H.264/AVC의 고속 부호화가 가능한 x.264 대비 MMX를 사용하였을 때 16%, MMX를 사용하지 않았을 때 22%의 속도향상을 가져왔다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.1 s.26
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• pp.77-82
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• 2005

We propose a highly Integrated motion estimation processor (MEP) for efficient video compression in an SoC platform. When compressing video by the standards like MPEG-4 and H.263, the macroblock related functions motion compensation. mode decision, motion vector prediction, and motion vector difference calculation require the frequent intervention of MCU. Thus the proposed MEP incorporates those functions with the motion estimation capability to reduce the number of interrupts to MCU, which can lead to a highly efficient SoC system. For low-power consumption, the proposed MEP can prevent the temporally static area from motion estimation or can skip the half-pel motion estimation for those macroblocks whose modes are decided as INTRA.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.187-194
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• 2001

The Advanced Intra Coding(AIC) mode included in the H.263+ which is for video ceding at low bit rates, selects one prediction direction of DCT coefficients among three directions for every intra macroblock. Based ()n the selected direction, It uses a different DCT scanning order, quantization scheme, and VLC table. The use of the AIC mode brings higher compression ratio and improved PSNR than the H.263 baseline. This paper proposes a simplified submode selection method for a direction of the DCT coefficient prediction for advanced ultra coding in H.263. Compared to the conventional method the proposed simplified method can achieve a similar coding Performance at computational complexity reduced to 1/7 and with much less memory requirement. The proposed method will be useful in implementing a simplified H.263 system.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.103-114
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new trnascoding method for improving picture's visual quality when frames are skipped. the proposed method utilizes the relationships of motion vectors between successive frames, and 4 motion vectors a macroblock are considered in transcoding. Since the proposed method does not require any decoding process of encoded bit stream, the computational complexity for estimating motion vectors can be eliminated. Experimental results illustrated that as transcoded frames are getting far from I pictures and as the degree of motions in video sequences are getting higher, the picture quality by using our proposed method shows better performances than existing schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.801-812
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• 2005

H.264/AVC is the international video coding standard which has significant improvements of coding efficiency. ITU-T(International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector) and MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group) adopts various complex coding tool such as variable block size motion, multiple reference frames, quarter-pel motion estimation/compensation (ME/MC) and rate-distortion(RD) optimization, etc. H.264 reference model employs complex mode decision technique based on RD optimization which requires high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an efficient coding mode decision based on the cost distribution of RD in the macroblock coding mode sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces encoding time by 34% on average and save the number of computing RD cost by 82%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9A
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• pp.1383-1391
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• 1999

This paper presents a rate control method that minimizes global distortion under given target bit rates for video communication. This method makes the quality of reconstructed images better than that of the conventional ones based on R-D model at the same bit rates. Given a set of quantizers, a sequence of macroblocks to be quantized selects the optimal quantizer for each macroblock so that the total cost measure is minimized and the finite buffer is never in overflow. To solve this problem we provide a heuristic algorithm based on Lagrangian optimization using an operational rate-distortion framework and a quantization method follows H.263recommendation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3C
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• pp.269-277
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a efficient transcoding method from MPEG-2 to H.264. The proposed transcoder is the transcoding method for spatial domain which consists of MPEG-2 decoder part and H.264 encoding part. In transcoder, we can get useful information to estimate less probable modes from MPEG-2 decoder. Using this information, H.264 encoder chooses the macroblock mode of I-frame and P-frame adaptively to reduce the whole complexity of the transcoder. Our experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm can archive about $30\sim60%$ computational saving without significant degradation of visual quality and increasing of bit rate.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.788-792
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a method that uses the constrained inter-view prediction for multi-view video coding. In the multi-view video, there exists occluded area because of the locations and angles of cameras. This increases the computational complexity, as it still uses both reference pictures for predicting the area which is not shown in the current frame. In this paper, we propose a method that does not use the inter-view prediction in cases of the occluded macroblocks. Experimental results show that benefits about 4% can be achieved compared with the conventional approaches.