• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2011

높은 효율을 가진 비디오 압축 코덱인 H.264/AVC는 예전보다 압축 성능을 향상 시키기 위한 방법 중 하나로 율-왜곡 최적화 기법이라는 것을 사용한다. 이 기법은 압축된 결과를 가지고 손실과 압축률 두 가지를 모두 고려하여 어떤 경우가 더 최적의 압축인가 하는 것을 판별하는데, 여기서 모든 경우에 대해 압축을 수행해야 함으로 이전 보다 몇 배나 높은 복잡도를 가질 수 밖에 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고자 하는 노력으로 본 논문에서는 SAHTD(Sum of Absolute Hadamard Transform Difference)라는 기준을 사용하여 이를 이용해 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 사용하지 않거나, 사용을 최소화 하면서 압축 효율을 유지하는 방법을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서는 휘도 신호 $8{\times}$8과 $4{\times}4$블록을 위한 방법을 제시하고 있다. 이 두 가지 크기의 블록에 대해서 SAHTD값을 구해 SAHTD가 낮은 순으로 모드들을 정렬하고, 이것이 가장 낮은 3개의 모드를 선택해 이것 중에 MPM이 포함되지 않았을 경우에 대해서는 MPM을 포함해 4개의 모드를 선택해 압축을 수행하도록 한다. 여기서 얻은 모드들 중에 SAHTD값이 일정 값 이상 더 낮은 모드가 존재할 경우, 그 모드들에 대해서만 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 수행한다. 이를 통해 최적의 모드일 가능성이 낮은 모드들에 대한 부가적인 연산 수행을 방지하게 된다. 휘도신호 16x16이나 색차 신호 압축의 경우에는 SAHTD를 사용하여 가장 낮은 SAHTD값을 갖는 모드를 최적의 모드로 결정한다. JM 참조 소프트웨어를 통한 실험결과 제안된 기법은 기존 JM의 방식에 비해 화면 내 프레임의 부호화 시간의 82.2% 감소와 0.042dB의 PSNR 감소율, 0.527%의 비트 증가율을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.108-121
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• 2012

As Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is a video compression standard extended from H.264/AVC, it is a way to provide scalability in terms of temporal, spatial and quality. Although the compression efficiency of SVC is increased due to the scalability in many aspect, it is essential to reduce the complexity in order to efficiently use because the complexity is relatively increased. To reduce the complexity of SVC in the paper, we propose fast mode decision algorithm to reduce the complexity of encoding process using direction information of B-picture by efficiently performing inter-layer prediction. The proposed algorithm is a fast mode decision algorithm that makes different from detection mode number of forward and backward, bi-direction in the way using best mode of base-layer up-sampled after simply SKIP mode detection using the direction information of best mode of base-layer up-sampled. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm approach can achieve the maximum computational time saving about 53% with almost no loss of rate distortion (RD) performance in the enhancement layer.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.28-35
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• 2009

H.264/AVC, a recently developed video compression standard, is used for various applications because of its high coding efficiency. Variable block mode plays important role in the high coding efficiency of H.264/AVC but involves significant computations to select the optimal mode. In this paper, a fast mode decision method for H.264/AVC P slices is presented. To reduce computations for mode decision, the proposed mode decision method skips the mode decision processes for small partition modes using distortions of SKIP mode and intra16x16 mode. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce encoding time up to 66.41% while maintaining compression efficiency.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.99-110
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• 1989

The optimal control of xenon concentration in a nuclear reactor is posed as a linear quadratic regulator problem with state feedback control. Since it is not possible to measure the state variables such as xenon and iodine concentrations directly, implementation of the optimal state feedback control law requires estimation of the unmeasurable state variables. The estimation method used is based on the Luenberger observer. The set of the reactor kinetics equations is a stiff system. This singularly perturbed system arises from the interaction of slow dynamic modes (iodine and xenon concentrations) and fast dynamic modes (neutron flux, fuel and coolant temperatures). The singular perturbation technique is used to overcome this stiffness problem. The observer-based controller of the original system is effected by separate design of the observer and controller of the reduced subsystem and the fast subsystem. In particular, since in the reactor kinetics control problem analyzed in the study the fast mode dies out quickly, we need only design the observer for the reduced slow subsystem. The results of the test problems demonstrated that the state feedback control of the xenon oscillation can be accomplished efficiently and without sacrificing accuracy by using the observer combined with the singular perturbation method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1486-1488
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• 2009

본 논문은 비디오 압축 기술인 H.264/AVC와 H.264/SVC에 적용할 수 있는 인증 목적의 효율적인 프레자일(fragile) 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 워터마킹 기법은 H.264/AVC 비디오 부호화기에서 압축률을 높이기 위해 사용하는 매크로블록(MB) 예측 모드들을 특징 값으로 추출하여 콘텐츠 제공자의 비밀키로 암호화 후 워터마크로 사용하는 인증 기법으로, 이는 공간적, 시간적 그리고 SNR 확장성을 가지는 H.264/SVC에도 확장하여 적용할 수 있다. 워터마크 삽입은 최적의 예측 모드를 찾기 위한 모드 결정과정에서 수행되어 워터마크 후에도 최적화 된 콘텐츠를 얻을 수 있으며, 간단한 연산을 엔코더와 결합시켜 낮은 시간 증가율을 가진다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7C
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• pp.681-686
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• 2009

In H.264/Ave, an intra prediction added to the P-frame coding slightly improves both of image quality and bit rate, but greatly increases an amount of computation. In order to reduce the increase in computation, this paper proposes an image contents based intra prediction coding using characteristics that the best intra block mode depends on the image content of a macro block. The proposed algorithm estimates the image content with image complexity and the best inter block mode, and then selects or excludes a intra block mode on the basis of it. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces average O.OldB in image quality, and increases average 0.38% in the bit rate, but reduces average 37.02% in computation time compared with the conventional algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.498-512
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• 2010

Intra coding is an indispensable coding tool since it can provide random accessibility as well as error resiliency. However, it is the problem that intra coding has relatively low coding efficiency compared with inter coding in the area of video coding. Even though H.264/AVC has significantly improved the intra coding performance compared with previous video standards, H.264/AVC encoder complexity is significantly increased, which is not suitable for low bit rate interactive services. In this paper, a Voting-based Intra Mode Bit Skip (V-IMBS) scheme is proposed to improve coding efficiency as well as to reduce encoding time complexity using decoder-side prediction. In case that the decoder can determine the same prediction mode as what is chosen by the encoder, the encoder does not send that intra prediction mode; otherwise, the conventional H.264/AVC intra coding is performed. Simulation results reveal a performance increase up to 4.44% overall rate savings and 0.24 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio while the frame encoding speed of proposed method is about 42.8% better than that of H.264/AVC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.969-972
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an algorithm of angular mode selection for high-performance HEVC intra prediction. HEVC intra prediction is used to remove the spatial redundancy. Intra prediction has a total of 35 modes and block size of $64{\times}64$ to $4{\times}4$. Intra prediction has a high amount of calculation and operational time due to performing all 35 modes for each block size for the best cost. The angular mode algorithm proposed has a simple difference between pixels of the original image and the selected angular mode. A decision is made to select one angular mode plus planar mode and DC mode to perform the intra prediction and determine the mode with the best cost. In effect, only three modes are executed compared to the traditional 35 modes. Performance evaluation index used are BD-PSNR and BD-Bitrate. For the proposed algorithm, BD-PSNR results averagely increased by 0.035 and BD-Bitrate decreased by 0.623 relative to the HM-16.9 intra prediction. In addition, the encoding time is decreased by about 6.905%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.11-19
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• 2006

The recent video coding standard H.264 employs the rate-distortion optimization (RDO) method for choosing the best coding mode; however, it causes a large amount of encoding time. Thus, in order to reduce the encoding time, we need a fast mode decision algorithm. In this paper, we propose a fast inter mode decision algorithm considering quantization parameter (QP). The occurrence of best modes depends on QP. In order to reflect these characteristics, we consider the coded block pattern (CBP) which has 0 value when all quantized discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients are zero. We also use the early SKIP mode decision and early $16{\times}16$ mode decision methods. By computer simulations, we have verified that the proposed algorithm requires less encoding time than the fast inter mode decision method of the H.264 reference software for the Baseline and Main profiles by 19.6% and 18.8%, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.310-318
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC standard achieves higher coding efficiency than previous video coding standards with the rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique which selects the best coding mode and reference frame for each macroblock. As a result, the complexity of the encoder have been significantly increased. In this paper, a fast intra-mode decision algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational load of intra-mode search, which is based on the inverse tree-structure edge prediction algorithm. First, we obtained the dominant edge for each $4{\times}4$ block from local edge information, then the RDO process is only performed by the mode which corresponds to dominant edge direction. Then, for the $8{\times}8$ (or $16{\times}16$) block stage, the dominant edge is calculated from its four $4{\times}4$ (or $16{\times}16$) blocks' dominant edges without additional calculation and the RDO process is also performed by the mode which is related to dominant edge direction. Experimental results show that proposed scheme can significantly improve the speed of the intra prediction with a negligible loss in the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and a little increase of bits.