• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.133-143
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• 2011

In this paper, a complexity-balancing algorithm is proposed for distributed video coding based on entropy coding. In order to reduce complexity of DVC-based decoders, the proposed method employs an entropy coder instead of channel coders and the complexity-balancing method is designed to improve RD performance with minimal computational complexity. The proposed method performs motion estimation in the decoder side and transmits the estimated motion vectors to the encoder. The proposed encoder can perform more accurate refinement using the transmitted motion vectors from the decoder. During the motion refinement, the optimal predicted motion vectors are decided by the received motion vector and the predicted motion vectors and complexity load of block is allocated by adjusting the search range based on the difference between the received motion vector and the predicted motion vectors. The computational complexity of the proposed encoder is decreased 11.9% compared to the H.264/AVC encoder and that of the proposed decoder are reduced 99% compared to the conventional DVC decoder.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.161-162
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• 2011

Recently, many research works are focusing on DVC (Distributed Video Coding) system for low complexity encoder. However the feedback channel-based parity bit control is a major cause of the high decoding time latency. Spatial and temporal correlation is high in video and, therefore, the statistical property can be applied for the parity bit request of LDPCA frame. By introducing frame adaptive parity bit request estimation method, this paper proposes a new method for reducing the decoding time latency. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method achieves about 80% of complexity reduction, compared to the conventional no-estimation method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.259-265
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• 2012

Recently, many research works are focusing on DVC (Distributed Video Coding) system for low complexity encoder. Most DVC systems need feedback channel for parity bit control to achieve the good RD performances, however, this causes the system to have high decoding latency and is considered as one of the most critical problems for real implementation. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an effective distributed video decoding method using adaptive LDPCA frame-based parity bit request estimation. The proposed method applies for the pixel-domain Wyner-Ziv system and exploits the statistical characteristics between adjacent LDPCA frames to estimate adaptively the parity bit request. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method achieves about 80% of latency reduction compared to the conventional no-estimation DVC system.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.510-519
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• 2011

Intra mode decision is a useful coding tool in Distributed Video Coding (DVC) for improving DVC coding efficiency for video sequences having fast motion. A major limitation associated with the existing intra mode decision methods, however, is that its efficiency highly depends on user-specified thresholds or modeling parameters. This paper proposes an entropy-based method to address this problem. The probabilities of intra and Wyner?Ziv (WZ) modes are determined firstly by examining correlation of pixels in spatial and temporal directions. Based on these probabilities, entropy of the intra and the WZ modes are computed. A comparison based on the entropy values decides a coding mode between intra coding and WZ coding without relying on any user-specified thresholds or modeling parameters. Experimental results show its superior rate-distortion performance of improvements of PSNR up to 2 dB against a conventional Wyner?Ziv coding without intra mode decision. Furthermore, since the proposed method does not require any thresholds or modeling parameters from users, it is very attractive for real life applications.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.179-190
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• 2012

In Distributed Video Coding(DVC), a low complexity encoder can be realized by shifting complex processes of encoder such as motion estimation to decoder. Since not only motion estimation/compensation processes but also channel decoding process needs to be performed at DVC decoder, the complexity of a decoder is significantly increased in consequence. Therefore, various fast channel decoding methods are proposed for the most computationally complex part, which is the channel decoding process in DVC decoding. As the channel decoding process becomes faster using various methods, however, the complexity of the other processes are relatively highlighted. For instance, the complexity of side information generation process in the DVC decoder is relatively increased. In this paper, therefore, a fast method for the DVC decoding is proposed by using adaptive search range method in side information generation process. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves time saving of about 63% in side information generation process, while its rate distortion performance is degraded only by about 0.17% in BDBR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.28-31
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• 2010

분산 비디오 부호화 시스템(distributed video coding:DVC)에서는 기존의 비디오 부호화 시스템과는 달리 부호기가 아닌 복호기에서 움직임 추정 연산을 함으로써 부호기의 복잡성을 크게 줄일 수 있다. DVC 시스템의 복호기에서 생성되는 부가정보(side information : SI)는 전체 DVC 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미친다. DVC 시스템의 복호기에서 SI 정보를 생생하기 위해서 움직임 보상 보간(motion compensated interpolation : MCI) 기법이 많이 사용되는데 본 논문에서는 다양한 MCI 기법들의 성능을 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.891-898
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• 2014

The DVC (Distributed Video Coding) provides a theoretical basis for the implementation of light video encoder. Conventionally, lots of studies have been focused on the codec scheme of Stanford University that has a feedback channel to control the bit rate finely. However, the codec scheme can not evaluate the qualities of the frames reconstructed by the received parity bits at the decoder side. This paper presents an efficient method of estimating distortion by correcting the virtual channel noises in side information and then facilitating the measurements of the visual qualities. Through several simulations, it is shown that the proposed method is very efficient in estimating the visual qualities of the reconstructed WZ frames.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.284-286
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• 2011

LDPC(low density parity check) 부호는 낮은 복잡성과 Shannon의 한계에 근접하는 오류 정정 능력을 보이기 때문에 turbo 부호와 함께 많은 응용분야에 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 분산 동영상 부호화(distributed video coding: DVC) 시스템을 위한 부호율 적응적인(rate adaptive) LDPC 부호를 설계하기 위하여 패리티 점검 노드를 병합하는 방법을 제안한다. ACE(approximation cycles EMD) 알고리즘을 기반으로 효율적인 LDPC 부호를 설계하고 부호율 적응적인 특성을 갖기 위해 일정한 범위를 지정하고 지정된 범위에 따라 패리티 점검 노드를 병합한다. 그리고 ACE 알고리즘의 계수와 degree distribution을 변화시키면서 성능을 해석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.582-584
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• 2011

This paper presents a Channel DiVision (CDV) scheme for transform-domain distributed video coding. In the proposed system, we employ the symmetric motion estimation to generate high quality side information for Wyner-Ziv (WZ) frames. Also, the decoder estimates the distortion of the side information, which is used to classify the transmitting channels for WZ frames. Each channel has a different expected noise. Then, the encoder allocates an appropriate number noise. Then, the encoder allocates an appropriate number present rate-distortion performance results and comparisons with existing state-of-the-art algorithms and H.264.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.144-153
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• 2009

Recently, as the necessity of a light-weighted video encoding technique has been rising for applications such as UCC(User Created Contents) or Multiview Video, Distributed Video Coding(DVC) where a decoder, not an encoder, performs the motion estimation/compensation taking most of computational complexity has been vigorously investigated. Wyner-Ziv coding reconstructs an image by eliminating the noise on side information which is decoder-side prediction of original image using channel code. Generally the side information of Wyner-Ziv coding is generated by using frame interpolation between key frames. The channel code such as Turbo code or LDPC code which shows a performance close to the Shannon's limit is employed. The noise model of Wyner-Ziv coding for channel decoding is called Virtual Channel Noise and is generally modeled by Laplacian or Gaussian distribution. In this paper, we propose a Wyner-Ziv coding method based on the frequency-adaptive channel noise modeling in transform domain. The experimental results with various sequences prove that the proposed method makes the channel noise model more accurate compared to the conventional scheme, resulting in improvement of the rate-distortion performance by up to 0.52dB.