• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.142-150
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• 2004

MPEG-4 AVC is an international video coding standard that is being developed. The standardization is mainly targeted at a very high compression ratio. MPEG-4 AVC is a general video coding technology that may be used in various applications. Therefore, MPEG-4 AVC needs an efficient rate control method to be applied in various communication environments. This paper is based on the rate control method that considers human visual characteristic. In this paper, we propose the constant bit rate control method using adaptive quantization and scene change detection. Experiments performed using various test images and experimentation results exhibits a favorable performance over existing rate control methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.179-187
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed the qualify metric based on SVC and the subjective quality. The proposed quality metric is for a general purpose. It means we can use it for any video sequences regardless of its temporal and spatial characteristics. The Quality of Service(QoS) is one of the important issues in heterogeneous environment which has diverse restrictions such as limited network bandwidth and limited display resolution. Scalable Video Coding(SVC) is the efficient video coding skill in heterogeneous environment. Because SVC can be adapted to various quality bitstreams using three scalabilities(spatial, temporal, and SNR) from one bitstream which has full scalability. To maximize the QoS in this environment, we should consider the subjective quality which is the viewer response. And also we should consider temporal and spatial characteristics of video sequence because the subjective quality is affected by temporal and spatial characteristics of video sequence. To verify the efficiency of the proposed method, we perform subjective assessments. The experimental results show that the proposed method has high correlation with subjective quality. The proposed method can be a decision tool of SVC birstream extraction.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.652-663
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• 2002

Recently, many advanced video application services over the mobile wireless networks have required a transcoder which can efficiently reduce the size of compressed video bitstreams. The transcoder can be worked in either the spatial domain or the DCT domain. In this paper, we propose a new fast hybrid-type transcoder which can efficiently reduce the frame size with keeping the visual quality. The proposed scheme consists of two major processes: a transform domain process and a spatial domain process. We also propose a scheme for coding mode selection and motion vector refinement. Experimental results show that our approach can reduce the computational complexity more than any other conventional spatial-domain transcoder with keeping the visual quality.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.99-108
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• 2008

For video compression, we have to consider two performance factors that are the search speed and coded video's quality. In this paper, we propose an enhanced fast block matching algorithm using the spatial correlation of the video sequence and the center-biased characteristic of motion vectors(MV). The proposed algorithm first finds a predicted motion vector from the adjacent macro blocks of the current frame and determines an exact motion vector using the cross pattern and a flat hexagon search pattern. From the performance evaluations, we can see that our algorithm outperforms both the hexagon-based search(HEXBS) and the cross-hexagon search(CHS) algorithms in terms of the search speed and coded video's quality. Using our algorithm, we can improve the search speed by up to 31%, and also increase the PSNR(Peak Signal Noise Ratio) by at most 0.5 dB, thereby improving the video quality.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.527-533
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• 2008

Motion compensation always produces the principal bottleneck in the real-time high quality video applications. Therefore, a fast dedicated hardware is needed to perform motion compensation in the real-time video applications. In many video encoding methods, the frames are partitioned into blocks of Pixels. In general, motion compensation predicts present block by estimating the motion from previous frame. In motion compensation, the higher pixel accuracy shows the better performance but the computing complexity is increased. In this paper, we studied an architecture of motion compensator suitable for H.264/AVC encoder that supports quarter-pixel accuracy. The designed motion compensator increases the throughput using transpose array and 3 6-tap Luma filters and efficiently reduces the memory access. The motion compensator is described in VHDL and synthesized in Xilinx ISE and verified using Modelsim_6.1i. Our motion compensator uses 36-tap filters only and performs in 640 clock-cycle per macro block. The motion compensator proposed in this paper is suitable to the areas that require the real-time video processing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.697-702
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• 2010

Contour artifact is known as the unintentional result of quantizing a flat area that has smooth gradients. In this letter, a decontouring algorithm is proposed to efficiently remove false contours that occur in typical block-based video coding applications. First, the algorithm goes through a refinement stage to determine candidate blocks probably having noticeable false contours with different kinds of features in a block. Then, pseudo-random noise masking is applied to those blocks to mitigate the contour artifacts. This block-based selective decontouring can efficiently remove the unnecessary processing of those blocks that have no false contour, which incidentally ensures a minor penalty in visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed algorithm was demonstrated, integrated into H.264/AVC, that visual quality can be significantly enhanced with an ignorable rate-distortion (RD) loss and an minor increase in computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.543-546
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• 2001

영상에 포함된 잡음은 시각적인 문제를 일으킬 뿐만 아니라, MPEG이나 H.263과 같은 영상 압축 시스템의 부호화 효율을 떨어뜨린다. 따라서 영상 압축 시스템의 입력으로 이러한 잡음이 포함된 신호가 들어갈 때, 잡음 제거 필터를 사용하여 잡음을 제거한 후 영상 압축을 하는 것이 시각적인 면에서나 압축 효율적인 면에서 매우 효과적이다. 본 논문에서는 이웃한 4개의 화소값을 참조하여 잡음의 존재 여부를 판단하고, 판단 결과를 이용하여 선택적으로 잡음을 제거하는 적응형 십자형 중간값(median) 필터를 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 이용하면 전체 영상에 걸쳐 필터를 이용하는 방법에 비해 계산량이 크게 줄고, 영상의 필터 처리후에 나타나는 뭉개짐(blurring) 현상을 줄일 수 있다. 또한 잡음이 처리된 영상을 시간방향으로 Look-up Table에 따른 IIR필터를 통과시킴으로써 시간상으로 존재하는 잡음을 제거하여 동영상의 주관적 화질을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.77-79
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 광원 정보를 사용하여 다양한 재생환경에서 효과적인 홀로그래픽 비디오 서비스를 제공하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서 부호화 과정에서는 가우시안 블러를 적용한 영상의 개수를 조절, 분리 하고 다운 샘플링 한 하나의 영상 압축을 한 뒤 전송한다. 이 영상을 다운 샘플링, 업 샘플링, 보간법, 양방향 필터 (Bi-lateral filter) 등의 기법을 이용하여 획득한 영상과 나머지 영상을 다운 샘플링과 업 샘플링 하여 더한 영상의 차를 압축하여 수신측으로 전송한다. 복호화 과정에서는 압축된 광원 정보를 복원한 후 기본계층 정보를 가진 영상을 업 샘플링과 보간법, 양방향 필터 (Bi-lateral filter) 등의 기법을 적용하고 수신자의 환경과 고려에 따라 차영상을 더 한 후 CGH를 통해 홀로그램을 획득하였다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 기법이 기존의 방법들 보다 우수한 홀로그램을 복원 할 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.7
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• pp.116-123
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• 1999

of a block if the method uses the quantization parameter depending on the bitrate control, and consequently it influence the image quality of video. In this paper, we propose a new method using the following three steps : calculating an averaging (Average of Sum, AS) value in each pixel's block of images, earning an average value of differences between each pixels and As (Differential Averaging Block Pixels, DABP), and finally achieving an improved coefficient values by the DABP and DCT coefficients. Simulation results show that the quality of moving picture could be improved by the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.693-696
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• 2001

이동 통신 채널과 같이 에러 발생율이 높은 환경에서 부호화된 비디오 스트림 전송시 발생된 에러는 비디오 화질에 큰 영향을 준다. 본 논문에서 현재 널리 사용되고 있는 H.263의 복호화기에서 전송도중 에러가 발생했을 경우 추가적인 데이터 스트림의 삽입 없이 효율적으로 에러를 은닉할 수 있는 기법에 관하여 제안하였다. 특히 인터프레임 영상에서 손상되거나 손실된 움직임벡터에 대해 시간영역에서 관계가 깊은 이전 프레임에서 손실블록(매크로블록)과 같은 위치에 있는 블록의 움직임벡터와 현재 프레임에서 손실블록과 인접한 블록들의 움직임벡터 정보를 이용하여 손실 블록의 후보 움직임벡터를 구하게된다. 이러한 후보 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 통일한 움직임 벡터를 갖는 영역을 찾아 손실 블록이 어떤 움직임 영역에 속하는 지를 판단하여 손실된 블록을 복원하는 방법을 제안한다.