• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.207-218
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• 2008

With the growth of the Internet, multimedia streaming becomes an important means to deliver video contents over the Internet and the amount of the streaming multimedia contents is also getting increased. However, it becomes difficult to guarantee the quality of service in real-time over the IP network environment with instantaneously varying bandwidth. In this paper, we propose an optimal adaptation framework for streaming contents over the Internet in the sense that the perceptual quality of the multi-angie content with multiple visual objects is maximized given the constraints such as available bandwidth and transcoding cost. In the multi-angle video service framework, the user can select his/her preferred alternate views among the given multiple video streams captured at different view angles for a same event. This enhanced experience often entails streaming problems in real-time over the network, such as instantaneous bandwidth changes in the Internet. In order to cope with this problem, we assume that multi-angle video contents are encoded at different bitrates and the appropriate video streams are then selected or transcoded for delivery to meet such bandwidth constraints. For the user selective consumption of the various bitstreams in the multi-angle video service, the bitstream in each angle can be encoded in various bitrate, and the user can select a sub-bitrstream in the given bitrstreams or transcode the corresponding content in order to deliver the optimally adapted video contents to the instantaneously changing network condition. Therefore, we define the transcoding cost which means the time taken for transcoding the video stream and formulate a unified optimization framework which maximizes the perceptual quality of the multiple video objects in the given constraints such as the transcoding cost and the network bandwidth. Finally, we present plenty of the experimental results to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.89-101
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• 1999

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

In this paper, the dynamic buffering based smart OTT platform was proposed, and analyzed for adaptive bit-rate video delivery with the optimization of HLS (HTTP Live Streaming). This platform consists of the software platform between sever and client which detects the bandwidth capacity, and adjusts the quality of the streaming for multiple bit-rates resolutions. In order to apply adaptive buffering, two buffers are added to the basic HLS player, and each buffer is responsible for constantly buffering a previous and the next channels relative to the current channel. This adaptive transmitting with smart OTT platform is superior to delivering a static video file at a single buffering, because the video stream of adaptive double buffers can be switched streaming according to client's available network speed. As a result, this proposed smart OTT can be cooperated to the application of HLS server with segmented H.265 MPEG-2 TS video & m3u8 files with its information based on the optimized transmission channel state of live and VOD, and applied to PLC transmission, too.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.259-265
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• 2012

Recently, many research works are focusing on DVC (Distributed Video Coding) system for low complexity encoder. Most DVC systems need feedback channel for parity bit control to achieve the good RD performances, however, this causes the system to have high decoding latency and is considered as one of the most critical problems for real implementation. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an effective distributed video decoding method using adaptive LDPCA frame-based parity bit request estimation. The proposed method applies for the pixel-domain Wyner-Ziv system and exploits the statistical characteristics between adjacent LDPCA frames to estimate adaptively the parity bit request. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method achieves about 80% of latency reduction compared to the conventional no-estimation DVC system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.177-180
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• 2008

최근 유/무선 통신망과 접속 기술의 발달로 사용자들은 다양한 네트워크로의 접근이 가능하게 되었다. 하지만 이러한 여러 종류의 접속 기술은 접속 기술간 서비스 이동에 따른 이동성 보장이 서로 독립적이기 때문에 핸드오버 시 부가적인 지연이 발생하는 문제가 있다. 또한 다른 접속 서비스로의 비디오 전송 시 QoS 보장이 어려운 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서 IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover 정보 서비스를 이용하여 네트워크 접속망에서 스케일러블 비디오 코딩 전송 방법을 제안한다. 이는 MIH Function에서 각 단말기에 대한 데이터 전송률과 QoS 정보를 MIH 정보 서버로부터 얻어 비디오 스케일링 레이어를 결정한다. 이렇게 결정된 스케일링 레이어를 이용하여 스케일러블 비디오 코딩을 수행한 후, 각각의 단말기에게 비디오를 전송하게 된다. 이러한 새로운 스케일러블 비디오 전송 모델은 서로 다른 여러 종류의 해상도, 화질, 프레임 전송률을 갖는 영상을 다양한 네트워크의 다양한 디바이스로 적응적인 비디오 전송이 가능하다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.2042-2051
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• 1998

VBR compressed, pre-recorded video is known to exhibit significant, multiple time-scale bit rate variability. To reduce the variability and burstiness of the aggregated transmission rate as low as possible, in this paper, we present an adaptive bandwidth smoothing algorithm, that can be effectively applicalble for VoD services over a shared-medium channel. For these environments where many clients are connected to a single server, by introducing the conventional MVBA(minimum variability bandwidth allocation) algorithm and controlling adaptively the conventional MVBA(minimum variability bandwidth asllocation) algorithm and controlling adaptively the aggregated transmission rate whenever a new clients request is arrived at the server side, the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the burstiness and variability of the aggregated transmission rate. Through computer experiments, it is shown that the proposed method perporms better than the convertional non-aggregated bandwidth smoothing schemes in terms of the peak rate, standard deviation, number of rate changes for the aggregated traffic.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.674-676
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• 2000

인터넷과 같은 이질적인 네트워크환경에서 대용량의 비디오 데이터를 실시간으로 전송하기 위해서 계층적 코딩기법에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있으며, MPEG-2 비디오에서도 Scalability를 제공하고 있다. 하지만 이러한 계층적 코딩기법을 사용한다 하더라도 기본계층의 데이터량이 크기 때문에 실시간 서비스를 위해서는 상당량의 네트워크 자원을 필요로 하게 된다. 이에 네트워크 대여폭 변화에 능동적으로 적응하면서 네트워크 자원을 보다 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 새로운 계층적 코딩기법과 전송 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 MPEG 비디오를 픽처층을 이용하여 공간적 계층적 코딩 후 다시 DCT블록에 대한 공간적 계층적 코딩을 수행하여 15개의 레이어로 분할하게 된다. 이렇게 분할된 레이어는 네트워크의 상태에 따라 선별적으로 전송되게 된다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.2922-2931
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a new framework for scalable media object to adapt the various QoS requirements in the heterogeneous networking environment. An MPEG-2 video is split into a set of scalable media objects in terms of temporal scaling and fidelity scaling. The portion of the scalable media objects is selectively delivered to adapt the QoS requirement. This framework can satisfy the various QoS requirements on bandwidth, even though the clients share a multipoint channel. By analysis on the rate-distortion characteristics of scalable media object framework, we shows our approach is feasible to support the various QoS requirements.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.326-334
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel covariance matrix estimation scheme for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming. By accurately tracking direction-of-sound source arrival (DoA) information using audio-visual sensors, the covariance matrix is efficiently estimated by adopting a variable forgetting factor. The variable forgetting factor is determined by considering signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). Experimental results verify that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of the conventional one in terms of interference/noise reduction and speech distortion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.161-162
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• 2011

Recently, many research works are focusing on DVC (Distributed Video Coding) system for low complexity encoder. However the feedback channel-based parity bit control is a major cause of the high decoding time latency. Spatial and temporal correlation is high in video and, therefore, the statistical property can be applied for the parity bit request of LDPCA frame. By introducing frame adaptive parity bit request estimation method, this paper proposes a new method for reducing the decoding time latency. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method achieves about 80% of complexity reduction, compared to the conventional no-estimation method.