• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.167-173
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 동영상 신호에 대한 워터마킹 알고리즘의 관점에서 워터마킹 성능, 부호화성능, 실시간 구현 등의 요구조건 사이의 관계를 살펴보고, 모의실험을 바탕으로 재부호화시의 강인성, 필터링공격에 대한 강인성 등 동영상 워터마킹 방법에 대해 성능을 분석한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.162-173
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an effective stereo-view video coding method that considers stereo-view and displayer characteristics. Current many stereo video displayers are designed for not only stereo display but also conventional single view display. In these systems, the resolution of two input videos for a stereo mode is half of that of single view for compatibility with conventional single view video services. In this raper, we propose a stereo video codec to deal with both single view and stereo view services by encoding whole left image and down-sampled right image. However, direct disparity estimation is not possible between two views because the resolution of a left image is different from that of the corresponding right image. So, we propose a disparity estimation method to make use of full information of the left reference image without down-sampling. In experimental result, we achieved $0.5{\sim}0.8\;dB$ coding gain, compared with several conventional algorithms.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.375-376
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• 2009

모바일 환경 상에서 영상통화는 제한된 대역폭 및 손떨림 현상 등의 문제로 인하여 저품질의 서비스가 제공되고 있다. 기존의 영상통화 환경에서 향상된 품질의 영상통화 서비스를 제공하기 위하여 중요 객체와 비중요 객체를 구분하여 분리하며, 중요 객체에 대해서는 고화질을 갖도록 하는 비디오 압축 방법을 제안한다. 매 프레임 마다 중요 객체와 비중요 객체를 분리하며, 분리된 객체는 다른 비트율과 화질을 갖도록 각 객체에 적합한 변환 커널을 적용하여 부호화 절차를 달리한다. 중요 객체는 저압축, 고화질을 가지도록 부호화하며, 비중요 객체에 대해서는 고압축, 저화질을 가지도록 부호화함으로써 제한된 대역폭 내에서 비트율을 유지하도록 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.33-36
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• 2001

멀티 미디어 기술의 총아라고 불리는 차세대 디지털 방송의 핵심적인 기술인 MPEG-2 표준은 주로 방송용에 적합한 고화질 부호화가 목표였다. 1.5Mbps 이하의 저비트율, 즉 보다 고압축률의 부호화 방식에는 대응하고 있지 않았다. MPEG-4 표준 기술은 방송, 통신, 및 컴퓨터 분야에서 앞으로 차기 허용 대역폭이 증가는 하겠지만, 현재의 네트워크 대역폭이 비디오 데이터를 전송하기에는 저대역폭인 상황에서 전송을 위해 새롭게 사용될 멀티미디어 부호화 기술로서 자연 영상뿐만 아니라 그래픽 합성 영상 등 다양한 멀티미디어 정보를 사용자가 대화형으로 쉽게 접근, 편집 처리할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 향후 다양한 응용 분야에 적용될 MPEG-4 비디오 부호화기를 직접 설계 및 구현함으로써 응용의 가능성을 검증할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 실험결과는 제안한 부호화기의 구조가 국제표준에 근거하여 다양한 응용 제품의 개발에 적합함을 보여 준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12C
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• pp.721-726
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• 2011

The compression performance of HEVC (high efficiency video coding) is improved 40%, compared to H.264/AVC. Since the existing 3D video CODEC is based on H.264/AVC or MPEG-2, we can improve the compression performance when we use the proposed stereoscopic video coding method based on HEVC. Since the stereoscopic video has the temporal and inter-view correlations, the videos of the left and right cameras encode together to improve the performance. Especially, we implemented the proposed technique using HM(HEVC test model) 3.4. To compare the performance of the proposed method, we only compare the right view video which is coded using the inter-view prediction. The proposed method which is considered inter-view correlation is improved the performance which BDBR reduce about 36.24% and BDPSNR increase approximately 1.19 dB compared to the separated-coding method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.385-387
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• 2001

비디오 객체 분할은 MPEG-4와 같은 객체 기반 코딩 단계를 위한 중요한 구성 요소이다. 새로운 MPEG-4 비디오 표준은 움직임 객체의 모양 정보를 고려하여 높은 효율의 부호화 뿐만 아니라 움직임 객체에 대한 내용기반 기능의 부호화를 수행한다. 본 논문은 비디오 시퀀스에서 움직임 객체 분할을 위한 새로운 알고리즘과 VOP(Video Object Plane) 추출 방법을 소개한다. 본 알고리즘은 첫 번째 프레임을 기준영상으로 설정한 후 두 개의 연속된 프레임 사이의 차이 값으로부터 시작된다. 즉 차이영상을 추출한 후 차이영상에 Canny 에지를 적용하고 다음 프레임의 영상에 Canny 에지와 morphologic일 연산을 적용하여 정확한 움직임 객체 에지(Moving Object Edge)를 생성한다. 이후 생성된 에지를 이용하여 VOP를 추출한다. VOP 추출 단계에서 더욱 정확한 움직임 객체 에지를 얻기 위하여 morphological 연산을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.513-526
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a de-blocking filter for improvement of coding efficiency and computational complexity reduction on a high definition video coding. Recently, the H.264/AVC standard-based research for high definition video coding method is under way because the amount of used of high definition videos is on the increase. The H.264/AVC de-blocking filter is designed for low bitrate video coding and it improves not only the subjective quality but also coding efficiency by minimizing the blocking artifact. However, the H.264/AVC de-blocking filter that strong filtering is performed is not suitable in a high definition video coding which occurs relatively low blocking artifact. Also, the conventional de-blocking filter has high computational complexity in decoder side. The computational complexity of the proposed method is reduced about maximum 8.8% than conventional method. Furthermore, the coding efficiency of the proposed method is about maximum 7.3% better than H.264/AVC de-blocking filter.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.29
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• pp.463-473
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose Adaptive GOP Structure to enhance the coding performance of scalable video coding in JVT. Adaptive GOP Structure considers temporal variances of video sequence. In general, SVC encodes a video sequence with fixed GOP size. The coding performance is varying according to the temporal variance of a video sequence. Thus, Adaptive GOP Structure method is proposed. It selects GOP size adaptively by considering temporal variance of video sequence. In the experiments, the propose method showed the enhanced coding performance in most sequences. The PSNR gain of Crew sequence is up to 0.63 dB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.2010-2024
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• 1998

In video coding, it is important to improve the average picture quality as well as to maintain cosistent picture quality between consecutive pictures. In this paper, we propose a distortion-rate estimation method for MPEG-2 video and a forward rate control method, using the proposed estimation result, to be able to obtain the improved and consistent picture quality of CBR (Constant Bit Rate) encoded MPEG-2 video. The proposed distortion-rate estimation enable us to predict the distortion and the bits generated from an encoded picture at a given quantization step size and vice versa. The most attactive features of proposed distortion-rate estimation are its accuracy and low computational complexity enough to be applied to the practical video coding. In addition, the proposed rate control first determined a quantization parameter per frame by following procedure: distortion-rate estimation, target bit allocation, distortion constraint and VBV(Video Buffer Verification) constraint. And then this quantization parameter is applied to the encoding so that improved and consisten picture quality can be obtained. Furthermore the proposed rate control method can solve the error propagation problem caused by scene change or anchor picture degradation by using the B-picture skipping and the guarantee of the minimum bit allocation for the anchor picture. Experimental results, comparing the proposed forward rate control method with TM5 method, show that the proposed method makes more improed and consistent picture quality than TM5.