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A Study using Variable Blocks of Boundary Matching Method for H.264 to MPEG-2 Video Transcoding

가변블럭의 경계정합방법을 이용한 H.264 to MPEG-2 Video Transcoding 연구

  • 손남례 (목포대학교 중점연구소) ;
  • 정민아 (목포대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 이성로 (목포대학교 정보전자공학) ;
  • 이귀상 (전남대학교 컴퓨터정보학부)
  • Published : 2009.11.30
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Abstract

After the efficiency of H.264 video compression has been announced, it replaced MPEG-2 standard in several applications. So transcoding methods of MPEG-2 to H.264 have been studying because there are variety devices and contents followed by MPEG-2. Although H.264 supported various service such as IPTV, DMB, digital broadcasting etc, but users using MPEG-2 devices cannot accessible to them. This paper propose H.264 to MPEG-2 transcoding for users of MPEG-2 devices without displacement H.264. The proposed method predicted a motion vector for MPEG-2 encoder after it extracted from motion vectors of variable blocks in H.264 to improve processing time. Also it predicted a optimal motion vector using modified boundary matching algorithm after grasped a special character for boundary and background of object. The experimental results from proposed method show a considerable reduction in processing time, as much as 65% averagely, with a small objective quality reduction in PSNR.

성능이 우수한 H.264동영상압축표준이 발표된 이후, 기존 동영상압축표준인 MPEG-2에서 H.264표준으로 대체되었고, 이로 인하여 기존에 MPEG-2표준으로 압축된 콘텐츠들은 H.264표준을 따르는 디바이스에 적합한 트랜스 코딩 방법들이 연구되어왔다. 또한 H.264표준으로 압축된 동영상은 현재 IPTV 및 DMB 등 서비스를 제공하고 있으나 MPEG-2 표준 디바이스를 사용하고 있는 사용자들은 시청할 수 없게 되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2 표준 디바이스를 사용하고 있는 사용자들은 H.264표준을 이용할 수 있는 H.264 to MPEG-2 트랜스코딩을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 H.264인코더의 특징인 가변블록의 움직임벡터를 MPEG-2의 매크로블록에 적합한 한 개의 움직임벡터를 예측하여 MPEG-2인코더의 계산량을 향상시키는 방법이다. 이때 물체의 경계와 배경의 특성을 파악하여 수정된 경계정합알고리즘을 사용하여 최적의 움직임벡터를 예측한다. 실험 결과, 제안한 방법은 MPEG-2 인코더의 "전역탐색"보다 PSNR은 거의 비슷하면서 부호화 계산 속도는 평균적으로 약 65% 감소하였다.

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