• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.216-217
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• 2014

고효율 비디오 부호화/복호화 표준인 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)는 ITU-T(VCEG)와 ISO-IEC(MPEG)이 JCT-VC라는 팀을 이루어 공동으로 표준화를 진행 하였다. 이 표준화에서는 기존 표준기술 보다 다양한 예측 방향을 통한 인트라 예측 방법을 사용하며, 이로 인해 부호기의 계산량이 매우 높은 단점을 가진다. 제안하는 방법은 예측단위인 PU의 서브샘플링 값을 구하고 이의 경사도를 이용해 율-왜곡 최적화 방법(Rate-Distortion Optimization)의 계산에 사용되는 후보 모드를 줄이는 방법으로 부호기의 속도를 개선하는 방법이다. 이 방법은 기존 방법보다 적은 비트 손실에도 불구하고 약 19%의 부호화 속도 향상을 가진다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.37-39
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• 2012

ITU-T와 ISO/IEC의 공동 작업으로 제정된 H.264/AVC는 기존 비디오 표준들에 비해 동일한 화질에서 약 30%~70%의 비트 량을 절감할 수 있으며, 동일한 비트 량으로 PSNR이 2~3dB 가량 우수한 영상을 제공할 수 있다. H.264/AVC는 인트라 부호화 효율을 높이기 위해 공간 영역에서 주변 화소를 이용하여 $4{\times}4$ luma 예측의 9가지 모드와 $16{\times}16$ luma 예측의 4가지 모드에 대한 비트율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용하여 최적의 인트라 예측 모드를 선택한다. 본 논문에서는 $4{\times}4$ luma 예측에서 발생하는 정보량을 줄이기 위해 사용하는 MPM을 기존의 방법과는 다르게 연산을 통해 상관도를 높임으로써 보다 정확한 MPM 결정으로 부호화 효율을 높이는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험결과, 제안한 방법은 기존의 방법과 비교하여 BD-RATE 평균 약 -1.4%의 성능 개선 효과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.291-292
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• 2006

This paper presents rate-distortion optimization that is considered sequence statistics(complexity) to choose the best macroblock mode decision in H.264. In previous work, Lagrange multiplier is derived by the function of constant value 0.85 and QP so that is not the proper Lagrange multilplier for any image sequence. The proposed algorithm solves the problem by changing constant value 0.85 into adaptive value which is influenced by image complexity, and by reducing the encoder complexity to estimate the image statistics with the multiplication of transformed, quantized rate and distortion. Proposed algorithm is achieved the bit-rate saving up to 5% better than previous method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.546-548
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• 2015

HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)는 JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding)라는 ITU-T(VCEG)와 ISO-IEC(MPEG)가 공동으로 진행한 팀이 만들어낸 표준화이다. 이 표준화된 코덱에서 율-왜곡 최적화(RDO)는 실행함에 있어 높은 성능 향상을 보이지만 상대적으로 많은 부호화 시간이 요구된다. RDO 의 부호화 시간을 줄이기 위해서 이 논문에서는 변환 계수를 이용한 고속 인트라 예측 방법을 제안한다. 기존 HEVC 에서는 RMD(Rough Mode Decision)를 통해 상위 N 개의 후보를 구하고 MPM(Most Probable Mode)을 거쳐 나온 후보들의 수의 합을 가지고 RDO 를 구하게 된다. 여기서 제안하는 고속 인트라 예측 방법은 RDO 를 구하기 전에 나왔던 N 개의 후보에서 이산 여현 변환(DCT) 계수를 이용하여 예측 모드의 수를 한 번 더 줄임으로써 RDO 수행시간을 줄이는 방법이다. 이 방법은 기존 HEVC 부호화 방법보다 적은 손실에도 불구하고 높은 속도 향상을 보인다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.381-396
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• 2017

In this paper, the perceptual rate control algorithm is studied for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) encoder with bit allocation based on perceived visual quality. This paper proposes perceptual rate control algorithm which could consider perceived quality for HEVC encoding method. The proposed rate control algorithm employs adaptive bit allocation for frame and CTU level using the perceived visual importance of each CTU. For performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm, the proposed algorithm was implemented on HM 16.9 and tested for sequences in Class B under the CTC (Common Test Condition) RA (Random Access) case. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the bitrate of 3.12%, and improves BD-PSNR of 0.08dB and bitrate accuracy of 0.07% on average. And also, we achieved MOS improvement of 0.16 with the proposed method, compared with the conventional method based on DSCQS (Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.332-335
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• 2007

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a transmission buffer is proposed for minimizing video quality variation. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize variation in distortion between frames. In order to reflect the buffer status, we use well-known PID control method. Computational complexity of PID control is very low, so the proposed algorithm is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better PSNR performance than the existing rate control method.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.20-27
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• 2009

H.264/AVC video coding standard adapting a rate-distortion optimization technique to select the best coding mode with multi reference frames for each macroblock gets a higher coding efficiency than those of previous video coding standards but the computational complexity increases drastically. Therefore, many fast mode decision algorithms are proposed to reduce the computational complexity. Among them, we propose a fast intra mode decision algorithm based on directional information of I4MB. The proposed algorithm achieves consistent time saving about 15% in IPPP sequences and 44% in all I frame sequences with negligible loss in PSNR and small increment of bit rate compared with that of JM11.0.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.2009-2014
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• 2007

A novel method of minimizing video quality variation is proposed for a real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a transmission buffer. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize variation in distortion between frames. In order to reflect the buffer status, we use well-known PID control method. Computational complexity of PID control is very low, so the proposed algorithm is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better PSNR performance than the existing rate control method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.4 s.316
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• pp.8-16
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• 2007

For the improvement of coding efficiency, the H.264/AVC video coding standard employs new coding tools compared with existing coding standards. However, due to these new coding tools, the complexity of K264/AVC standard encoder is greatly increased. Specifically, the inter/intra mode decision method using RDO(rate-distortion optimization) technique is one of the most complex parts in H.264/AVC. In this paper, we focus on the complexity reduction in macroblock mode decision. In the proposed method, we reduce the complexity of the $4{\times}4$ mode decision process using $4{\times}4$ simple square filters, and using spatial block correlation method. Additionally, exploiting the best mode of sub_macroblock in $Inter8{\times}8$ mode, we proposed an algorithm to eliminate some intra modes in current macroblock mode decision process. In addition, we employed a method to raise the probability to select SKIP, $Intra16{\times}16$, and $Intra16{\times}16$ modes which usually show low complexity and low bitrate compared with other modes. From the simulation results, the proposed algorithm reduce the encoding time by maximum 83% of total, and reduce the bitrate of the overall sequences by $8{\sim}10%$ on the average compared with existing coding methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.1B
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• pp.77-88
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• 2000

This paper presents an approach for rate control by adaptively selecting macroblock modes in video coding.The problem of rate control has been investigated by many authors where quantizer level is adjustedbased on the buffer fullness. The proposed approach is different fron the previous ones [4] id that it finds the optimal decision curve rather than finding a set of the modes. Proposed algorithm extends the coding decision options for rate control to motion/no-motion compensation as well as inter/intra decisions. Instead of having a fixed motion/no-notion compensation or inter/intra decision curve, one can utilize an adaptive decision curvebased on the characteristics of input frames so that the PSNR at a given bit rate is maximized. Therefore, the proposed approach provides better rate control than simple quantizer feedback approach interns of visual quality. The curve is obtained by utilizing simulated annealing optimization technique. Thealgorithm is implemented and simulations are compared with other approaches within H.261 video codec.