• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.859-869
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• 2012

The Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) which is exploiting disparities between views has been developed to improve the coding efficiency of multi-view video. But MVC has a problem of having high computing complexities because of disparity estimation. This paper propose a fast mode decision for non-anchor picture to reduce the computational time of MVC. The proposed method uses two phases. Anchor pictures in hierarchical B picture structure have a higher correlation with prediction mode selection of non-anchor pictures, so in the first phase, prediction mode of non-anchor pictures is selected by exploiting the macro-block regions in anchor picture. In the second phase, we select a reference direction of inter prediction mode exploiting a higher correlation among reference directions of inter prediction modes of 7 block sizes. Experimental results show that the proposed method could save average about 44% in the encoding time with negligible coding efficiency losses.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.378-380
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• 2011

스테레오스코픽(stereoscopic) 3D 비디오 서비스는 기존 2D 와의 호환성을 유지하면서 새로운 3D 비디오 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 것으로, 전송 대역이 제한된 지상파 방송에서 높은 부호화 효율을 갖는 스테레오스코픽 비디오 코덱이 요구된다. 따라서 3D 를 위한 부가영상의 부호화를 위해 H.264/AVC 등을 고려하고 있으며, 또한 부가영상을 비실시간으로 전송하는 비실시간(Non-Real Time: NRT) 3D 서비스도 고려되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NRT 3D 서비스를 위한 스테레오스코픽 비디오 부호화에 있어서, HEVC 에서 고려중인 적응루프필터(ALF: Adaptive Loop Filter)를 전/후처리 필터로 적용하는 기법을 제시한다. 특히, 부가영상의 후처리에 ALF 를 적용하기 위하여 부호화 과정에 결정되는 CU(Coding Unit) 구조를 이용하는 HEVC 와 달리 H.264/MVC 로 부호화한 부가영상의 매크로블록(MB) 부호화 모드를 이용한 ALF 적용 기법을 제안한다. 부가영상 부호화에 있어서 전처리 및 후처리 과정으로 ALF 를 적용함으로써 최대 약 20.5%의 부가영상의 부호화 성능 향상을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.08a
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• pp.41-41
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• 1997

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.666-673
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• 2012

Non-real-time delivery of stereoscopic video has been considered as a service scenario for 3DTV to overcome the limited bandwidth in the terrestrial digital television system. A hybrid codec combining MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC has been suggested for the compression of stereoscopic video for 3DTV. In this paper, we propose a stereoscopic video coding scheme using adaptive pre-/post-filters (APPF) to improve the quality of 3D video while retaining compatibility with legacy video coding standards. The APPF are applied adaptively to blocks of various sizes determined by the macroblock coding mode and reference frame index. Experiment results show that the proposed method achieves up to 24.86% bit rate savings relative to a hybrid codec of MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC including the inter-view prediction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.408-427
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• 2011

Intensive computational complexity is an obstacle of enabling multiview video coding for real-time applications. In this paper, we present a fast macroblock (MB) mode selection algorithm for B frames which are based on the computational complexity analyses between the MB mode selection and reference frame selection. Three strategies are proposed to reduce the coding complexity jointly. First, the temporal correlation of MB modes between current MB and its temporal corresponding MBs is utilized to reduce computational complexity in determining the optimal MB mode. Secondly, Lagrangian cost of SKIP mode is compared with that of Inter $16{\times}16$ modes to early terminate the mode selection process. Thirdly, reference frame correlation among different Inter modes is exploited to reduce the number of reference frames. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can promote the encoding speed by 3.71~7.22 times with 0.08dB PSNR degradation and 2.03% bitrate increase on average compared with the joint multiview video model.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.912-915
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• 2002

In this report, we propose a non-separable two-dimensional (2D) Lossless Wavelet Transform (LWT) for image compression. Filter characteristics of our proposed LWT are the same as those or conventional 2D LWT based on applying 1D LWT twice but our coding performance is better due to reduction of rounding effects. Simulation results confirm effectiveness of our proposed LWT.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.652-657
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• 2003

In this paper, Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) is combined with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) multiplexing to improve the throughput performance of AMC. In addition, a system that adopts Selection Transmit Diversity (STD) in the AMC-MIMO multiplexing system is proposed. The received SNR is improved by adopting STD techniques. And it increases probability of selecting MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level that supports higher data rate. This leads to an increased throughput of the AMC-MIMO system. STD in our simulation selects 2 transmission antennas from 4 antennas and AMC-MIMO multiplexing process operates with the selected antennas. The computer simulation is performed in flat Rayleigh fading channel. The results show that the proposed system achieves a gain of 1Mbps over the AMC-MIMO multiplexing system with the same number of antennas at 15dB SNR.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.3185-3199
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• 1997

This paper suggests techniques to reduce coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, we choose new approximation coefficients using a non-linear approximation of luminance term. This boosts the fidelity. Our experiment employing the above methods shows enhancement in the coding time more than two times over traditional coding methods and shows improvement in PSNR value by about 1-3dB at the same com- pression rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

In this paper, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with respect to the subchannel coding schemes for interchannel interference (ICI) self-cancellation is analyzed. It is shown theoretically and experimentally that a shaping component is generated in the transmitted sequence in the conventional correlative coding where a pair of antipodal signals is assigned in adjacent subchannels. Due to the shaping component, the signal powers in the mid and edges of a symbol are scaled by different weighting coefficients, resulting in increased PAPR. To overcome this problem a simple adjacent subchannel coding scheme is presented in this paper. In the new scheme, the shaping component caused by partial repetition of signals is eliminated by assigning a pair of signals in which phase difference varies signal-to-signal. As results, the new scheme has 2-3 dB smaller PAPR than the conventional ICI self-cancellation OFDM while maintaining much higher carrier-to-interference ratio than a normal OFDM system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 1999

In this paper, picture set filter is proposed for preserving compression ratio and video qualify. This filter controls the compression ratio of each frame depending on the correlation to the reference frame by selectively eliminating less important high-resolution areas. Consequently, video quality can be preserved and bit rate can be controlled adaptively. In the simulation, to test the performance of the proposed coding method, comparisons with the full search block matching algorithm and the differential image coding algorithm are made. In the former case, video quality, compression ratio and encoding time is improved. In the latter case, video quality is degraded, but compression ratio and encoding time is improved. Consequently. the proposed method shows a reasonably good performance over existing ones.