• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1128-1139
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• 2012

With the development of three-dimensional display and related technologies, depth video coding becomes a new topic and attracts great attention from industries and research institutes. Because (1) the depth video is not a sequence of images for final viewing by end users but an aid for rendering, and (2) depth video is simpler than the corresponding color video, fast algorithm for depth video is necessary and possible to reduce the computational burden of the encoder. This paper proposes a fast mode decision algorithm for depth video coding based on depth segmentation. Firstly, based on depth perception, the depth video is segmented into three regions: edge, foreground and background. Then, different mode candidates are searched to decide the encoding macroblock mode. Finally, encoding time, bit rate and video quality of virtual view of the proposed algorithm are tested. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm save encoding time ranging from 82.49% to 93.21% with negligible quality degradation of rendered virtual view image and bit rate increment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1730-1747
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• 2018

Multi-view video plus depth (MVD) is a mainstream format of 3D scene representation in free viewpoint video systems. The advanced 3D extension of the high efficiency video coding (3D-HEVC) standard introduces new prediction tools to improve the coding performance of depth video. However, the depth video in 3D-HEVC is time consuming. To reduce the complexity of the depth video inter coding, we propose a fast coding unit (CU) size and mode decision algorithm. First, an off-line trained Bayesian model is built which the feature vector contains the depth levels of the corresponding spatial, temporal, and inter-component (texture-depth) neighboring largest CUs (LCUs). Then, the model is used to predict the depth level of the current LCU, and terminate the CU recursive splitting process. Finally, the CU mode search process is early terminated by making use of the mode correlation of spatial, inter-component (texture-depth), and inter-view neighboring CUs. Compared to the 3D-HEVC reference software HTM-10.0, the proposed algorithm reduces the encoding time of depth video and the total encoding time by 65.03% and 41.04% on average, respectively, with negligible quality degradation of the synthesized virtual view.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2015

The 3D-AVC standard aims at improving coding efficiency by applying new techniques for utilizing intra, inter and view predictions. 3D video scenes are rendered with existing texture video and additional depth map. The depth map comes at the expense of increased computational complexity of the encoding process. For real-time applications, reducing the complexity of 3D-AVC is very important. In this paper, we present a fast intra mode decision algorithm to reduce the complexity burden in the 3D video system. The proposed algorithm uses similarity between texture video and depth map. The best intra prediction mode of the depth map is similar to that of the corresponding texture video. The early decision algorithm can be made on the intra prediction of depth map coding by using the coded intra mode of texture video. Adaptive threshold for early termination is also proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm saves the encoding time on average 29.7% without any significant loss in terms of the bit rate or PSNR value.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.549-552
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• 2005

This paper presents a 3D video content generation technique and system that uses the multi-view images and the depth map. The proposed uses 3-view video and depth inputs from the 3-view video camera and depth camera for the 3D video content production. Each camera is calibrated using Tsai's calibration method, and its parameters are used to rectify multi-view images for the multi-view stereo matching. The depth and disparity maps for the center-view are obtained from both the depth camera and the multi-view stereo matching technique. These two maps are fused to obtain more reliable depth map. Obtained depth map is not only used to insert a virtual object to the scene based on the depth key, but is also used to synthesize virtual viewpoint images. Some preliminary test results are given to show the functionality of the proposed technique.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.242-252
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• 2014

Since July of 2012, the 3D video extension of H.264/AVC has been under development to support the multi-view video plus depth format. In 3D video applications such as multi-view and free-view point applications, synthesized views are generated using coded texture video and coded depth video. Such synthesized views can be distorted by quantization noise and inaccuracy of 3D wrapping positions, thus it is important to improve their quality where possible. To achieve this, the relationship among the depth video, texture video, and synthesized view is investigated herein. Based on this investigation, an edge noise suppression filtering process to preserve the edges of the depth video and a method based on a total variation approach to maximum a posteriori probability estimates for reducing the quantization noise of the coded texture video. The experiment results show that the proposed methods improve the peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual quality of a synthesized view compared to a synthesized view without post processing methods.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2012

3차원 동영상은 다양한 응용분야들에서 차세대 콘텐츠로 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 2D-to-3D 변환은 3차원 동영상의 시대로 넘어가는 과도기 동안에 3차원 동영상 콘텐츠의 부족현상을 해결하기위한 강력한 기술로 여겨지고 있다. 일반적으로 2D-to-3D 변환을 위해서는 2차원 동영상 각 장면의 깊이영상을 추정/생성한 후 깊이 영상 기반 랜더링 (DIBR : Depth Image Based Rendering) 기술을 이용하여 스테레오 동영상을 합성한다. 본 논문은 2차원 동영상 내 존재하는 다양한 변환 단서들을 통합하는 새로운 깊이 융합 기법을 제안한다. 우선, 알맞은 깊이 융합을 위해 몇몇 단서가 현재 장면을 효과적으로 표현할 수 있는 지 아닌지 검사된다. 그 후, 신뢰성 검사의 결과를 기반으로 현재 장면은 4개의 유형 중 하나로 분류된다. 마지막으로 최종 깊이 영상을 생성하기 위해 신뢰할 수 있는 깊이 단서들을 조합하는 장면 적응적 깊이 융합이 수행된다. 실험 결과를 통해 각각의 단서가 장면 유형에 따라 타당하게 활용되었고 최종 깊이 영상이 현재 장면을 효과적으로 표현할 수 있는 단서들에 의해 생성되었음을 관찰할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2014

Depth-image-based rendering is generally used in real-time 2D-to-3D conversion for 3DTV. However, inaccurate depth maps cause flickering issues between image frames in a video sequence, resulting in eye fatigue while viewing 3DTV. To resolve this flickering issue, we propose a new 2D-to-3D conversion scheme based on fast and robust depth-map generation from a 2D video sequence. The proposed depth-map generation algorithm divides an input video sequence into several cuts using a color histogram. The initial depth of each cut is assigned based on a hypothesized depth-gradient model. The initial depth map of the current frame is refined using color and motion information. Thereafter, the depth map of the next frame is updated using the difference image to reduce depth flickering. The experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme performs real-time 2D-to-3D conversions effectively and reduces human eye fatigue.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.3018-3038
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• 2020

In the stereoscopic or multiview display, the depth video illustrates visual distances between objects and camera. To promote the computational efficiency of depth video encoder, we exploit the intra prediction of depth videos under Versatile Video Coding (VVC) and observe a diverse distribution of intra prediction modes with different coding unit sizes. We propose a hybrid scheme to further boost fast depth video coding. In the first stage, we adaptively predict the HADamard (HAD) costs of intra prediction modes and initialize a candidate list according to the HAD costs. Then, the candidate list is further improved by considering the probability distribution of candidate modes with different CU sizes. Finally, early termination of CU splitting is performed at each CU depth level based on the Bayesian theorem. Our proposed method is incorporated into VVC intra prediction for fast coding of depth videos. Experiments with 7 standard sequences and 4 Quantization parameters (Qps) validate the efficiency of our method.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2015

2D-to-3D 비디오 변환 기술은 2D 비디오 속에 내재하는 깊이 단서를 이용하여 스테레오 영상을 생성함으로써 2D 비디오에 3D 효과를 부여한다. 이 기술은 완전한 3D 비디오 시대로 가는 과도 기간 동안 3D 콘텐츠의 부족문제를 해결할 수 있는 유용한 기술이다. 본 논문은 2D-to-3D 비디오 변환의 저 복잡도 구현을 위한 새로운 깊이 생성 방안을 제시한다. 제안 기법에서는 전역 깊이의 시방향 일관성을 위하여 패턴 기반의 전역 깊이 생성 기법을 제안하였다. 뿐만 아니라 객체 영역의 3D 입체감 개선을 위한 저 복잡도의 객체 깊이 개선 알고리즘도 추가적으로 제시하였다. 실험을 통해 제안 알고리즘이 복잡도와 주관적 화질 측면에서 기존 방식들에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2014

깊이 영상을 고려한 다시점 비디오는 매우 많은 양의 데이터 때문에 저장과 전송을 위해서 새로운 부호화 압축 기술 개발이 요구된다. 계층적 깊이 영상은 다시점 비디오의 효과적인 표현방법이 된다. 이 방법은 다시점 칼라와 깊이 영상을 합성하는 데이터 구조를 만들어 준다. 이 새로운 콘텐츠를 효과적으로 압축하는 방법으로 3차원 워핑을 이용한 계층적 깊이 영상 표현과 비디오 압축 부호화를 적용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이 논문은 계층적 영상 표현을 사용한 H.264/AVC 비디오 부호화 기술의 개선된 압축 방법을 제시하여 준다. 컴퓨터 모의시험으로 좋은 압축율과 좋은 성능의 회복 영상을 얻을 수 있음을 제시하였다.