• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2004

With video compression standards such as MPEG-4, a transmission error happens in a video-packet basis, rather than in a macroblock basis. In this context, we propose a semantic error prioritization method that determines the size of a video packet based on the importance of its contents. A video packet length is made to be short for an important area such as a facial area in order to reduce the possibility of error accumulation. To facilitate the semantic error prioritization, an efficient hardware algorithm for face tracking is proposed. The increase of hardware complexity is minimal because a motion estimation engine is efficiently re-used for face tracking. Experimental results demonstrate that the facial area is well protected with the proposed scheme.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2004년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.31 No.2 (2)
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• pp.631-633
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 비디오 포맷으로 인코딩(encoding)된 미디어 데이터에 적용할 수 있는 효과적인 암호화 방법에 대해서 제안하고 실험 결과에 대하여 기술한다 MPEG-4 파일로부터 추출한 I(Intra-coded)-VOP(Video Object Plane)의 매크로 블록(Macroblock)들 중의 최소부분 암호화, P(Predictive-coded)-VOP의 움직임 벡터(Motion Vector)들과 매크로블록들의 최소부분 암호화, 그리고 마지막으로 모든 VOP들의 최소 부분 암호화와 같은 3가지 암호화 방법을 구현하고 실험하였다. 이러한 방법은 모바일 또는 유비쿼터스 환경 하에서의 상용 서비스의 디지털 저작권 관리(Digital Rights Management)를 구축하는 데에 매우 용이하고 적합하게 적용되며, 주문형 비디오 서비스(Video On Demand)와 같은 비디오 스트리밍을 위한 DRM 시스템에 최소한의 부하만을 지우도록 설계되었다 미디어 데이터의 각 VOP들의 암호화에 소요되는 시간을 측정한 결과, 이러한 방법은 상용 멀티미디어 서비스에도 충분히 적용 가능한 성능을 나타내었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.280-289
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• 2002

In this work, we present a novel approach to the bit allocation problem that aims to minimize overall distortion subject to a bit rate constraint. The optimal solution can be found by the Lagrangian method with dynamic programming. However, the optimal bit allocation for block-based interframe coding is practically unattainable because of the interframe dependency of macroblocks caused by motion compensation. To reduce the computational burden while maintaining a result close to the optimum, i.e., near optimum, we propose an alternative method. First, we present a partitioned form of the bit allocation problem: a "frame-level problem" and "one-frame macroblock-level problems." We show that the solution to this new form is also the solution to the conventional bit allocation problem. Further, we propose a bit allocation algorithm using a "two-phase optimization technique" with an interframe dependency model and a rate-distortion model.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.610-612
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• 2009

We present intra-mixture prediction (IMP) mode for intra prediction and an enhanced estimation method for most probable mode (MPM). IMP mode supports more flexibility in intra prediction by mixing $4{\times}4$ blocks and $8{\times}8$ blocks in one macroblock, while the enhanced MPM estimation extends the number of referenced neighboring blocks and efficiently uses their prediction modes depending on their positions. Simulation results show that the combination of both proposed methods provides a bit reduction in the Bj${\phi}$ntegaard delta bitrate by an average of 2.56% compared to H.264/AVC.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.819-822
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• 2004

To transmit MPEG-2 video on an erroneous channel, a number of error control techniques He needed. Especially, error concealment techniques which can be implemented on receivers independent of transmitters are essential to obtain good video quality. In this paper, a motion adaptive boundary matching algorithm (MA-BMA) is presented for temporal error concealment. Before carrying out BMA, we perform error concealmmt by a motion vector prediction using neighboring motion vectors. If the candidate of error concealment is rot satisfied, search range and reliable boundary pixels are selected by the motion activity or motion vectors ane a damaged macroblock is concealed by applying the MA-BMA. This error concealment technique reduces the complexity and maintains PSNR gain of 0.3 0.7dB compared to the conventional BMA.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.152-155
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• 2002

In this paper, a new approach is proposed for the error detection dedicated to MPEG-4 video coding by using the digital watermarking. In the process of encoding, the proposed scheme abstracts the macroblock features of headers, motion vectors, and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients, which are embedded in the quantized DCT coefficients as the digital watermarks. The decoder performs the accurate error detection through the watermark extraction. Simulation results demonstrate that the error detection ability of the proposed approach can be significantly enhanced, and that digital watermark embedding incurs little degradation to the picture quality.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.859-862
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• 1998

Many playback methods of MPEG-1 video were developed and are have beendeveloped now. But nomal playback method demands great time. In this paper we designed and implemented the scene transition playback method of the MPEG-1 video data. The previous studies of scene transition playback have used to the DC or edge information after decoding process of picture. In this paper, scene transition is detected by macroblock information from MPEG-1 compressed area, then decodes and playbacks the only scene transition picture. This MPEG-1 video player was implemented by decoding control. So it is possible to add special playback method to MPEG-1 video player. As the result, which is proposed in this paper the scene transition method can minimize to decoding calculation and decrease to playback time of the MPEG-1 video data.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.725-728
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영상검색 기법에서 핵심인 Shot Change Detection 과 Non Linear Browsing 을 H/W기반으로 구현하여, S/W 적으로는 비실시간으로만 가능하였던 video indexing 을 DTV 에 적용하여 실시간으로 구현하는 방법을 제시한다. 이를 위해 H/W part 는 실시간으로 들어오는 방송용 MPEG-2 bitstream 을 full decoding 이 아닌 최소화된 VLD(Variable Length Decoding) 수준의 parsing 으로 picture 내의 luminance와 chrominance 의 DC 값, macroblock type, motion vector 정보를 얻어내어 각각의 histogram을 계산하여 memory interface를 통해 S/W 측에 넘겨주게 되고 S/W 는 각 상황에 맞게 indexing algorithm 을 변화시키며 최적의 video indexing 방법으로 확장할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.123-127
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• 2005

본 논문은 압축된 비디오 신호로부터 움직임 객체를 효과적으로 추출하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 압축된 비디오는 압축과정에서 얻은 비디오 객체에 관한 여러 가지 정보들을포함하고 있으며, 이러한 정보는 객체 추출에 중요한 힌트가 된다. 본 연구에서는 각 매크로 블록의 움직임 정보만을 이용하여 움직임 객체를 추출하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 이를 위하여 프레임에서 배경과 움직임 객체를 분리하고, 움직임 벡터의 히스토그램과 복잡도를 분석하여 움직임 객체의 유효성 여부를 판단한다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2017

The compression of video for both full HD and UHD requires the inclusion of extra vertical lines to every video frame, named as the DTV essential hidden area (DEHA), for the effective functioning of the MPEG-2/4/H encoder, stream, and decoder. However, while the encoding/decoding process is dependent on the DEHA, the DEHA is conventionally viewed as a redundancy in terms of channel utilization or storage efficiency. This paper proposes a block mode DEHA method to more effectively utilize the DEHA. Partitioning video block images and then evenly filling the representative DEHA macroblocks with the average DC coefficient of the active video macroblock can minimize the amount of DEHA data entering the compressed video stream. Theoretically, this process results in smaller DEHA data entering the video stream. Experimental testing of the proposed block mode DEHA method revealed a slight improvement in the quality of the active video. Outside of this technological improvement to video quality, the attractiveness of the proposed DEHA method is also heightened by the ease that it can be implemented with existing video encoders.