• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1C
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• pp.56-62
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• 2009

In H.264/AVC, rate distortion optimization algorithm is used to decide the best block mode from various block modes. It improves a bit rate but greatly increases an amount of computation. This paper proposes a fast rate distortion optimization algorithm that omits a rate distortion optimization adaptively by predicting its cost from the cost calculated for motion estimation. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm, on average, keeps nearly the image quality and the bit rate made by the rate distortion optimization while reduces 69.86% and 69.63% of computation added by it in CIF and QCIF respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.1C
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• pp.34-44
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• 2008

In this paper, a new rate-distortion estimation method is proposed for fast rate-distortion optimized(RDO) mode decision in H.264 encoder. A bit-rate and distortion should be calculated by encoding and reconstruction of each macroblock mode in order to select the optimal RDO mode. To reduce the computations for getting them, a bit-rate and distortion is efficiently estimated in DCT domain. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves computational saving about 81% of RDO mode decision and saves about 26% of total encoding time without noticeable degradation in coding performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.101-109
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an efficient algerian for wavelet-based sti image coding method that utilizes the rate-distortion (R-D) theory. Since conventional tree-structured image coding schemes do not consider the rate-distortion theory properly, they show reduced coding performance. In this paper, we apply an rate-distortion optimized embedding (RDE) operation into the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm. In this algorithm, we use the rate-distortion slope as a criterion for the coding order of wavelet coefficients in SPIHT lists. We also describe modified set partitioning and rate-distortion optimized list scan methods. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the SPIHT algorithm and the rate-distortion optimized embedding algerian with respect to the PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) performance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a rate-distortion optimization method to improve the coding efficiency of the conventional 3D-DCT based compression method using adaptive block mode selection for integral images. In the conventional 3D-DCT based compression method, 3D-DCT blocks of variable block sizes are adaptively selected depending on the characteristics of integral images, and then 3D-DCT is performed. The proposed method applies a rate-distortion optimization to determine the optimal block mode. In addition, we suggest the optimal Lagrangian parameter for integral images. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives bit-rate reduction of about 5%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1C
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• pp.63-71
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• 2009

In this paper, a new low-complexity distortion estimation method for H.264 rate-distortion optimized mode decision is proposed. The coding processes, such as DCT, quantization, inverse quantization, inverse DCT, and reconstruction are needed to compute the distortion in an H.264 encoder. To reduce these processes, we estimate distortion using integer operations with coefficients obtained in the quantization process. Inverse quantization, inverse DCT, and reconstruction processes are not needed by the proposed method. For quantization parameters 24 to 36, experimental results show that the time saving of rate-distortion optimized mode decision is on average 29 % and as high as 42 % with negligible degradation in coding performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.11
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• pp.625-636
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a new embedded image compression scheme which uses rate-distortion optimized block coding of wavelet coefficients. Unlike to previous works in which set-partition or block-partition is performed according to the magnitude of wavelet coefficients, the proposed scheme achieves rate-distortion optimization by sorting wavelet coefficients or blocks according to their expected rate-distortion slope. At the same time, it performs the optimized block-partition coding using the expected rate-distortion slope of blocks. The proposed scheme also uses various relationship of wavelet coefficients for the entropy coding. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed image compression scheme provides better overall performance than the existing embedded coding schemes such as SPIHT and EBCOT, in which the PSNR gains of the proposed scheme are about 0.11~1.16dB and -0.18~0.52dB, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.475-478
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• 2011

율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 통한 화면내 예측 모드 결정 방법은 부호화 효율이 높지만 복잡도가 크다. 본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC의 율-왜곡 값의 특성을 분석하여 율-왜곡 최적화 기법에 사용되는 예측 모드의 후보를 줄임으로써 보다 빠른 휘도 화면내 $4{\times}4$ 예측 모드 결정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 균일한 차분 블록값을 가지는 예측 모드와 균일하지 않은 차분 블록값을 가지는 예측 모드의 통계적 분석을 통해 부호화 속도를 향상시킨다. H.264/AVC의 참조 소프트웨어 JM 14.2와 비교하여 0.04[dB]라는 무시할 수 있는 PSNR의 손실을 가지면서도 0.3[%]의 비트율 절약과 19.6[%]의 부호화 속도 향상을 가져왔다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.565-574
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• 2002

We propose an algorithm for the robust transmission of video in error prone environment based on multiple description (MD) scheme and simple rate-distortion operators. The redundancy rate-distortion (RRD) criteria is used to split a one-layer compressed video stream into two correlated descriptions. The proposed algorithm can find more candidate points on the RRD curve than the conventional RRD based methods. A new distortion measure is also defined in this paper, which considers more realistic error environments. Since the proposed MD video coder is based on the standard H.263 coder, each description can be decoded independently by the standard H.263 decoder. Also, several descriptions can be decoded into a single stream by additional merge stage and the H.263 decoder. Simulation results show that the proposed MD video coder yields better performance than the conventional MD splitting algorithm at all bitrates both in single and two description cases.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.801-812
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• 2005

H.264/AVC is the international video coding standard which has significant improvements of coding efficiency. ITU-T(International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector) and MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group) adopts various complex coding tool such as variable block size motion, multiple reference frames, quarter-pel motion estimation/compensation (ME/MC) and rate-distortion(RD) optimization, etc. H.264 reference model employs complex mode decision technique based on RD optimization which requires high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an efficient coding mode decision based on the cost distribution of RD in the macroblock coding mode sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces encoding time by 34% on average and save the number of computing RD cost by 82%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.267-270
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• 2008

H.264|AVC는 인트라 부호화 효율을 높이기 위해 공간 영역에서 주변 화소를 이용하여 다양한 방향에 대한 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용하여 최적의 인트라 예측 모드를 선택한다. 하지만 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용함에 따라 인트라 부호화에 높은 복잡도가 필요하게 되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 인트라 예측 모드 결정의 연산 복잡도를 감소시키고자 사전에 인트라 4x4 예측 모드들의 SATD(Sum of Absolute Transform Difference)를 계산하여 조기에 최우선 모드(Most Probable Mode)를 선택하는 방법을 제안하고, SATD의 값에 따라 제한된 후보 모드에 대해서만 율-왜곡 최적화를 수행하여 연산 복잡도를 감소하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 Vertical, Horizontal 그리고 DC모드는 인트라 $4{\times}4$와 인트라 $16{\times}16$의 공통적인 모드이므로 인트라 $4{\times}4$에서 계산되어진 SATD값을 이용하여 인트라 $16{\times}16$에서의 SAD 계산 복잡도를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 빠른 인트라 예측 모드 결정 기법은 연산 복잡도는 평균 61.4% 감소 시킨 반면 부호화 손실은 평균 3.09%에 불과하였다.