• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1-6
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• 1978

This paper deals with speech digitization and bandwidth compression techniques, particularly two predictive coding methods-namely, adaptive diferentia1 pulse code modulation(ADPCM) and adaptive delta modulation (ADM). The principle of a typical adoptive quantizer that is used in ADPCM is explained, and two analysis methods for the adaptive predictor coefficents, block and sequential analyses, are discussed. Also, three companding methods (instantaneous, syllabic, and hybrid companding) that are used in ADM are explained in detail, and their performances are compared. In addition, the performances of ADPCM and ADM as speech coders are compared, and the merits of each coder are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.1024-1026
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• 2013

DVC (Distributed Video Coding) techniques provides a basic theory for the implementation of low-power video encoder. Conventional methods decide the parity bit request at decoder side. These are effective in controlling the bit-rate, but, are not able to control the visual quality. Thus, this paper presents an effective method of estimating visual quality improved by correcting the virtual channel noise for the reconstructed frame. Through several experiments, it is shown that the proposed method are able to estimate effectively the decoded visual quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.67-76
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• 2012

Expanding services and productions for screen content videos recently, necessity of new compression techniques is emerging. The next-generation video coding standard is also considering specified coding tools for screen content videos, but it is still preliminary stage. In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of screen content videos for which we propose the quantization in spatial domain to improve coding efficiency. The proposed method directly employs quantization for residual signal without any transformations. The proposed method also applies adaptive coefficients prediction and in-loop filter for quantized residual signals in spatial domain based on the characteristics of screen content videos. As a results, the proposed method for the random access, the low-delay and the all-intra modes achieve bit-saving about 4.4%, 5.1%. and 4.9%, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2012

Even after establishment of H.264/AVC standard, the video coding experts group (VCEG) of ITU-T has researched on development of promising coding techniques to increase coding efficiency based on the key technology area (KTA) software. Recently, the joint collaboration team video coding (JCT-VC) which was composed of the VCEG and the motion picture experts group (MPEG) of ISO/IEC is developing a next-generation video standard namely HEVC intended to gain twice efficiency than H.264/AVC. An adaptive interpolation technique, one of various next-generation techniques, reported higher coding efficiency. However, it has high computational complexity and does not deal with various error characteristics for videos. In this paper, we investigate characteristics of interpolation filters and propose an effective fixed interpolation filter bank including diverse properties of error. Experimental results is shown that the proposed method achieved bitrate reduction by 0.7% and 1.3% compared to fixed directional interpolation filter (FDIF) of the KTA and the directional interpolation filter (DIF) of the HEVC test model, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.271-279
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• 2009

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) have developed a new standard that promises to outperform the earlier MPEG-4 and H.263 standards. The new standard is called H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) and is published jointly as MPEG-4 Part 10 and ITU-T Recommendation H.264. In particular, the H.264/AVC intra prediction coding provides nine directional prediction modes for every $4{\times}4$ block in order to reduce spatial redundancies. In this paper, an ABS (Adaptive Bit Skip) mode is proposed. In order to achieve coding efficiency, the proposed method can remove the mode bits to represent the prediction mode by using the similarity of adjacent pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the PSNR gain of about 0.2 dB in R-D curve and reduces the bit rates about 3.6% compared with H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.716-724
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fast decision method of maximum coding depth decision and reference frame selection in HEVC. To reduce computational complexity and encoding time of HEVC, two methods are proposed. In the first method, the maximum depth of each coding unit (CU) in a largest CU (LCU) is constrained by using the maximum coding depth used by adjacent LCUs based on the assumption that the spatial correlation is very high and rate-distortion (R-D) cost. And we constrain the number of reference pictures for prediction unit (PU) performing motion estimation by using the motion information of the upper depth PU. The proposed methods reduce computational complexity of the HEVC encoder by constraining the maximum coding depth and the reference frame. We could achieve about 39% computational complexity reduction with marginal bitrate increase of 1.2% in the comparison with HM6.1 HEVC reference software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2009

최근 HD 방송의 실현과 함께 HDTV가 빠르게 상용화되면서 고화질 비디오를 더 효율적으로 압축하기 위한 기술 개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 최신 표준 비디오 압축 방식인 H.264/AVC에서는 고정 6탭 필터를 사용하여 참조 영상을 보간하고 움직임 예측을 수행하는데, 이의 압축 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 고정 필터를 개선한 비분리 적응형 보간 필터가 개발되었다. 하지만 비분리 적응형 보간 필터는 압축률뿐만 아니라 계산량도 증가하는 단점이 있기 때문에 2차원 필터를 1차원 필터의 연결로 모델링 한 분리 적응형 보간 필터가 개발되었고, 그 결과 압축률은 비슷하게 유지하면서 계산량을 훨씬 줄일 수 있게 되었다. 분리 적응형 보간 필터는 1차원 필터 모델링을 할 때, 수평방향의 필터링 수행 후 수직방향 필터링을 하기 때문에 이를 통해 만들어진 보간 영상은 원 영상의 수평방향에 대한 특성을 더 많이 반영하게 된다. 따라서 수직방향으로 더 높은 주파수 특성을 갖는 영상의 경우에는 효율이 떨어지게 된다. 이를 고려하여 본 논문에서는 영상의 수직방향 주파수 특성을 더 많이 반영할 수 있는 보간 필터를 추가함으로써 영상의 주파수 특성에 따라 보간 필터를 적응적으로 선택하는 향상된 분리 적응형 보간 필터를 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용할 경우 기존의 분리 적응형 보간 필터에 비해 움직임 예측 및 보상이 더 정확하게 이뤄질 수 있으며, 부호화 효율이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.793-796
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• 2011

H.264/AVC compresses video data by applying DCT transform, quantization and entropy coding processes to the residual signal obtained by inter/intra prediction. This paper proposes a method enhancing an existing DC offset adjustment technology which uses information of neighboring blocks to reduce residual information for improving coding efficiency. DC offset information is not sent over bitstreams, but calculated in the same way both in the decoder and in the encoder. Experimental results show that the proposed method enhances coding efficiency by 0.25% in average BD-Rate compared to H.264/AVC and gives better or worse coding efficiency compared to the existing DC offset method depending on video sequences with coding efficiency degradation by 0.09% in average BD-Rate. This experimental results also show that further coding efficiency improvement is possible by applying the proposed method adaptively to slice or macroblock coding units.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.95-105
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• 2005

This paper proposes a new dynamic video adaptation scheme that could generate an adapted video stream customized to the requesting mobile device and current network status without repeated decode-encode cycles. In the proposed adaptation scheme, the characteristics of the video codec such as MPEG-1/-2/-4 are analyzed in advance focused on the relationships between the size and Quality of the encoded video stream, and they are stored in the proxy as a codec-dependent characteristic table. When a mobile device requests a video stream, it is dynamically decoded-encoded in the proxy with the highest quality to extract the contents-dependent attributes of the requested video stream. By comparing these attributes with codec-dependent characteristic table, the size and Quality of the requested video stream when being adapted to the target mobile device could be predicted. With this prediction, a version of adapted video stream, that meets the size constraints of mobile device while keeping the quality of encoded video stream as high as possible, could be selected without repeated decode-encode cycles. Experimental results show that the errors in our proposed scheme are less than 5% and produce an appropriate adapted video stream very quickly. It could be used t(1 build a proxy server for mobile devices that could quickly transcode the video streams widely spread in Internet which are encoded with various video codecs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.1A
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• pp.51-56
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• 2012

In order to reduce the complexity of HEVC, we propose a fast mode decision algorithm in depth videos. Since almost CU mode is decided as SKIP mode in depth-continuity regions, we design the algorithm using the property of depth videos. If cost of SKIP is smaller than the multiplication between the threshold for EarlySKIP and average cost of SKIP, EarlySKIP is performed. Otherwise, we calculate Inter $2N{\times}2N$. Then, if motion vector of Inter $2N{\times}2N$ is 0 and variance of CU is smaller than threshold for inter, we skip Inter $2N{\times}N$, Inter $N{\times}2N$. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm reduces the encoding time from 39% to 82% with negligible PSNR loss and bitrate increase.