• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.913-921
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• 2009

Quantization is an essential method for compression of video. The quantizer can adjust the bitrate and control the picture quality. Especially, the subjective picture quality can be improved if the concerned region within a video sequence has good picture quality. In this paper, firstly a classification method according to the subjective concerned region within the video sequence is suggested. Also we propose a method that assigns the quantization step-size differentially according to the concerned region within the video. Totally subjective picture quality can be increased by appling the quantization step-size as small value relatively for the concerned region compared with the other regions. We can find the result that the proposed method gives the improved picture quality by assigning differently quantization step-size and the best improvement can be brought when the difference between maximum and minimum values of the quantization step-size in a picture is from 4 to 8.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.818-826
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• 2006

In this paper, we investigate the relationship of bitrate and quantization parameter needed for the trans-coding method that makes the H.264 bitstream of a particular bitrate to the other titrate. Also we propose the new method in order to transcode the titrate between H.264 video coded bitstreams. The proposed transcoding method updates the model parameters from previous picture or slice by using the approximated relationship of bitrate and quantization step-size and finds the target quantization step-size, and then generates the target titrate by simple coding processing just after requantization. Therefore, the proposed method does not need the complex bitrate control and converts to the target titrate by simple implementation. From simulation, we can see that the proposed method transcodes exactly to an assigned target bitrate for the four test sequences with different their characteristics.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.1154-1162
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• 2010

Because it is easy to implement the scalar quantizer, it is used in various video coding systems. Although the scalar quantizer with a large quantization stepsize can reduce the amount of data, it has disadvantage that the reconstructed picture quality is poor. In this paper, we propose an efficient method which improves the coding performance by maintaining original quantization stepsize and increasing the number of quantization reconstruction levels. Simultaneously, for the purpose of solving the problem of transmitting the added symbol informations which is used to indicate the region of quantizer reconstruction level as the number of quantizer reconstruction level is increased, we also suggest the method to reduce the added informations. Therefore, for the intra-coded picture of H.264 video coding system, we generate the huffman codes for the symbol informations of quantization reconstruction regions by 4${\times}$4(horizontal 4 pixels, vertical pixels) block unit. Furthermore, for the inter-coded picture, we also generate the huffman codes for the symbol informations of quantization reconstruction regions by 8${\times}$8 blocks and 4${\times}$4 blocks within a macroblock. Adopting this method of reducing the added information by increasing the number of quantization reconstruction region, It is shown that the coding performance can be improved at the same bitrate.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.670-675
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• 2012

If the region of interest (ROI) is set within the picture of image and video and the high quality is provided in ROI compared to Non ROI, then overall subjective picture quality can be increased. ROI extracted by the color camera only increases the calculation complexity and reduces the extraction accuracy. In this paper, we use depth camera to set the ROI and calculate the object distance from camera, then propose a method that the different picture quality is controlled by depending on the distance of an object. That is, we apply a high quantization step size to the far object, but relatively a low quantization step size to the close object, so better picture quality can be provided. Simulation results show that applying the differential quantization step size to the distance of objects by the proposed method can improve the subjective picture quality.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.264-265
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• 2000

1차원 반도체 구조인 양자 줄(Quantum Wire)은 새로운 물리 현상의 가능성을 보여줄 것으로 기대된다.$^{(1)(2)}$ 이 구조에서 운반자는 2차원 퍼텐셜에 가두어지므로 1차원 퍼텐셜인 양자 우물에 갇힌 운반자 보다 더 많이 양자화가 이루어져 이 운반자의 상태 에너지는 더 쪼개지며, 양자 줄의 상태 밀도는 에너지 준위에 대해 계단 함수가 아닌 변형된 Dirac $\delta$ 함수꼴을 가진다.$^{(3)}$ 그러나, 1차원 반도체 구조인 양자 줄이 나노(nano) 크기 내에서 만들어져야 하므로, 잘 정의된 양자 줄을 만드는 일은 기술상 매우 어려운 일이다. 양자 우물 구조에서 운반자는 결정을 키우는 방향을 따라 나노 크기의 활성 영역 안에 가두어지게 된다. 양자 줄 구조에서의 운반자는 결정 성장 방향뿐만 아니라 수직인 한 방향에서 각각 나노 크기를 갖는 활성 영역에 가두어져야 한다. 여기에서, 결정 성장 방향과 수직으로 활성 영역을 정의하는 것은, 결정 성장 방향과 평행하게 활성 영역을 정의하는 것보다 어려운 일이다. (중략)

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.2 s.9
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• pp.221-231
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an efficient requantization method for INTRA frames in heterogeneous transcoding from MPEG-1 to MPEG-4 simple profile. The quantizer for MPEG-1 INTRA MB usually uses a quantization weighting matrix while the quantizer for MPEG-4 simple profile doesn't. As a result, the quantization step sizes of the two quantizers may not be the same even for the same quantization parameter. Due to this mismatch in the quantization step site, the transcoded MPEG-4 sequence suffers from serious quality degradation and the number of bits produced by transcoding increases from the original MPEG-1 video sequence. To solve these problems, we propose an efficient method to find a near-optimum reconstruction level in the transcoder. We also present a PDF (probability distribution function) estimation method for the original DCT coefficients of MPEG-1 video sequence, which is required for the proposed requantization. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives $0.3{\sim}0.6dB$ improvement in PSNR over the conventional method, even at the reduced bit-rate about $5{\sim}7%$ from the conventional method.