• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.41-44
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• 2002

In the communications systems with diversity, we are commonly faced on needing of new source coding technique, error resilient coding. The error resilient coding addresses the coding algorithm that has the robustness to unreliability of communications channel. In recent years, many error resilient coding techniques were proposed such as data partitioning, resynchronization, error detection, concealment, reference picture selection and multiple description coding (MDC). In this paper, we proposed an MDC using whitening transform. The conventional MDC using correlating transform is need additional information to decode the image. But, if an image is transformed using the whitening transform, the additional information is not necessary to transform because the coefficients of whitening transform have uni-variance statistics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3118-3134
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• 2013

This paper deliberates for a multimedia transmission scheme combining multiple description coding (MDC) and network coding (NC). Our goal is to take advantage from the property of MDC to provide quantized and compressed independent and identically distributed (iid) descriptions and also from the benefit of network coding, which uses network resources efficiently to recover lost data in the network. Recently, p-cycle NC has been introduced to recover and protect any lost or distorted descriptions at the receiver part exactly without need of retransmission. So far, MDC have not been explored using this type of NC. Compressed and coded descriptions are transmitted through the network where p-cycle NC is applied. P-cycle based algorithm is proposed for single and multiple descriptions lost. Results show that in the fixed bit rate, the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) of our reconstructed image and also subjective evaluation is improved significantly compared to previous work which is averaging method joint with MDC in order to conceal lost descriptions.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.3 s.100
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• pp.211-222
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• 2006

The cluster system with shared-nothing storage cannot escape from the problem of skewed request toward specific contents. This paper, therefore, suggests streaming method using MDC (Multiple Description Coding) instead of using single original content; this method is able to cope with skewed request in shared-nothing storage server as well as to continue to provide services in case of the system failure. Also, the system can support adaptive streaming service according to user player type, network status, the load of server, and client.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.293-297
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• 2013

Delivery of high quality video over a wide area network with large number of users poses great challenges for the video communication system. To ensure video quality, multiple descriptions have recently attracted various attention as a way of encoding and visual information delivery over wireless network. We propose a new efficient multiple description coding (MDC) technique. Quincunx lattice sub-sampling is used for generating multiple descriptions of an image. In this paper, we propose the application of a directional discrete cosine transform (DCT) to a sub-sampled quincunx lattice to create an MDC representation. On the decoder side, the image is decoded from the received side information. If all the descriptions arrive successfully, the image is reconstructed by combining the descriptions. However, if only one side description is received, decoding is executed using an interpolation process. The experimental results show that such the directional DCT can achieve a better coding gain as well as energy packing efficiency than the conventional DCT with re-alignment.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.17-31
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• 2004

This paper proposes an algorithm for the robust transmission of video in error Prone environment using multiple description codingby optimal split of DCT coefficients and rate-distortionoptimization framework. In MDC, a source signal is split Into several coded streams, which is called descriptions, and each description is transmitted to the decoder through different channel. Between descriptions, structured correlations are introduced at the encoder, and the decoder exploits this correlation to reconstruct the original signal even if some descriptions are missing. It has been shown that the MDC is more resilient than the singe description coding(SDC) against severe packet loss ratecondition. But the excessive redundancy in MDC, i.e., the correlation between the descriptions, degrades the RD performance under low PLR condition. To overcome this Problem of MDC, we propose a hybrid MDC method that controls the SDC/MDC switching according to channel condition. For example, the SDC is used for coding efficiency at low PLR condition and the MDC is used for the error resilience at high PLR condition. To control the SDC/MDC switching in the optimal way, RD optimization framework are used. Lagrange optimization technique minimizes the RD-based cost function, D+M, where R is the actually coded bit rate and D is the estimated distortion. The recursive optimal pet-pixel estimatetechnique is adopted to estimate accurate the decoder distortion. Experimental results show that the proposed optimal split of DCT coefficients and SD/MD switching algorithm is more effective than the conventional MU algorithms in low PLR conditions as well as In high PLR condition.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1003-1006
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• 2002

In the communications systems with diversity, we are commonly faced on needing of new source coding technique, error resilient coding. The error resilient coding addresses the coding algorithm that has the robustness to unreliability of communications channel. In recent years, many error resilient coding techniques were proposed such as data partitioning, resynchronization, error detection, concealment, reference picture selection and multiple description coding (MDC). Especially, the MDC using correlating transform explicitly adds correlation between two descriptions to enable the estimation of one set from the other. However, in the conventional correlating transform method, there is a critical problem that decoder must know statistics of original image. In this paper, we propose an enhanced method, the MDC using whitening transform that is not necessary additional statistical information to decode image because the DCT coefficients to apply whitening transform to an image have uni-variance statistics. Our experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a good trade-off between the coding efficiency and the reconstruction quality. In the proposed method, the PSNR of images reconstructed from two descriptions is about 0.7dB higher than conventional method at the 1.0 BPP and from only one description is about 1,8dB higher at the same rate.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.19-22
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a new multiple description embedded zerotree wavelet coding method using the two splitted thresholds. We first model a half EZW coder and then we present multiple description coder which has two coding channels using wide threshold EZW(WTEZW) coders. To evaluate the performance of the proposed coder, we provide an image coding applications with two descriptions and compare MDC image coding results reported to date.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2052-2055
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• 2003

본 논문은 MDC의 전송 중 발생한 에러를 검출하고, 그 에러를 정정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 알고리즘은 기존의 MDC 와 같이 약간의 redundancy를 가지는 두 개의 sub-bitstream 을 생성하는데, 한쪽 sub-bitstream에 에러가 발생하였을 때, 다른 한쪽의 sub-bitstream을 이용하여, 발생한 비트 에러를 정정한다. 제안된 알고리즘에 대한 BER-SNR실험은 Generalized Gaussian source를 임의적으로 발생시켜서 결과를 얻어내었다. sub-bitstream에서 에러가 발생하였을 때 우리가 제안한 알고리즘은 BER<10/sup -3/에서 기존 알고리즘보다 약 12㏈ 높은 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.27-30
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 하이브리드 다중 표현(hybrid multiple description) 개념을 이용하여 에러가 발생하기 쉬운 환경에서 사용될 수 있는 강인한 동영상 압축 알고리듬을 제안한다. 다중 표현 압축은 단일 표현 압축(single description coding. SDC) 보다 패킷 손실 율(packet loss rate, PLR)이 높은 환경에서 에러에 더 강인성을 갖는다. 그러나 PLR 이 낮은 환경에서는 과도한 중복량(redundancy) 때문에 성능이 저하되는 문제가 발생한다 이러한 MDC 의 문제를 해결하기 위해서 채널 환경에 따라 SD/MID 를 전환할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 좀더 자세히 설명하면, 낮은 PLR 에서는 압축 효율을 위하여 SDC 를 사용하고 높은 PLR 환경에서는 에러에 대한 강인성을 위해 MDC 를 사용한다. SD/MD 전환을 최적화시키기 위해 비트율-왜곡 최적화 프레임웍(rate-distortion optimization framework)을 사용한다. 부호화시에 복호기에서의 왜곡(distortion)을 정확히 예측하기 위해서 ROPE(recursive optimal per-pixel estimate) 방법을 사용한다. 모의 실험 견과 제안된 SD/MD 전환 방법이 기존의 SDC-ROPE 와 MDC-ROPE 보다 모든 에러 환경에서 더 효과적임을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1435-1438
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• 2006

일반적인 비 공유 저장장치를 가진 시스템에서는 특정 컨텐츠에 대한 편향된(skewed) 요청 문제를 피할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 비 공유 저장장치 모델로 설계/구현된 클러스터 기반의 시트리밍 서버에서 사용자의 편향된 컨텐츠 요청에 대처할 수 있고 스트리밍 서비스 중인 서버 또는 NS 카드에 문제가 생기더라도 스트리밍 서비스가 중단되지 않도록 다중 스트리밍 방법인 MDC(Multiple Description Coding)를 적용한 스트리밍 전송방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 클러스터 시스템에서 단일 세션으로 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하는 것이 아니라 MDC 를 활용하여 다중 세션을 통한 스트리밍 서비스를 제공함으로써 모든 서버의 부하가 같아지고, 특정 서버에 문제가 발생하더라도 스트리밍 서비스가 끊어지지 않으면서 MDC 의 특성인 적응형 서비스도 가능하게 되는 장점이 있다.