• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.299-302
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• 2005

요즘 시대는 영상 기술과 IT 발전으로 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스를 제공하기 위해 고품질의 비디오와 높은 데이터 압축을 요구하게 되었고, 이를 위해 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264에서는 기존의 MPEG-4에서 채택한 VLC 기술과 유사한 Context-based Adaptive Variable Length Code(CAVLC)기술을 채택하여 이를 가능하게 하였다. 특히 CAVLC 기술은 HDTV처럼 큰 영상 뿐 아니라 카메라폰이나 DMB등과 같은 영상에서 고품질의 영상을 보다 효율적으로 제공 한다. 본 논문은 최근의 이미지와 비디오 압축에 대한 요구에 따라 H.264/AVC와 MPEG4-PART 1-에서 표준으로 채택한 CAVLC의 부호화 과정을 연구하여 Visual C++언어를 이용한 최적화된 시뮬레이션과 CAVLC의 성능평가를 통한 최적화를 실시하였고, 최적화된 예측 정보를 바탕으로 CAVLC를 VHDL언어를 이용하여 하드웨어로 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.890-893
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• 2006

동영상과 관련된 멀티미디어가 많은 관심을 받으며 영상 압축 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있는 가운데, 최근 다른 표준보다 두 배 이상 좋은 새로운 비디오 코딩 표준인 H.264/AVC의 압축 기술이 발표되었다. 이 기술은 지상파 DMB와 PMP, 카메라폰 그리고 핸드폰의 게임과 음악 및 영상에 관련된 컨텐츠에서 고품질의 영상을 보다 효율적으로 제공한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC의 부호화 과정에서 발생하는 오류로 인한 블록화를 최소화하기 위해 사용되는 deblocking 필터의 메모리와 처리속도의 향상을 제안하였다. 27*32SRAM을 사용하여 Vertical edge를 모두 처리하고 Horizontal edge를 처리하는 방식이 아닌 한 블록에 대한 Vertical edge후에 바로 Horizontal edge를 처리함으로써 28(prebuffering)19(Y)+32(Cb)+32(Cr)=188clocks에 $16\times16$ 블록 처리가 완료되는 deblocking 필터를 제안하여 하드웨어 설계언어인 VHDL언어로 설계하였다. 그리고 FPGA칩인 XCV1000E에 다운로드하여 칩 레벨의 시뮬레이션을 수행함으로써 설계된 deblocking 필터를 검증하였다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.971-974
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• 2014

H.264/AVC 영상 부호화기의 비트율(Bitrate) 제어에 사람의 눈에 잘 인식되는 부분의 화질을 향상하고 인식률이 낮은 부분의 화질을 낮추어 상대적으로 향상된 화질을 얻기 위한 방법을 연구하였다. 먼저 H.264/AVC 영상 부호화기에서, 장면 변화로 인한 참조 프레임의 비트 낭비를 막기 위해 GOP(Group of Pictures) 단위로 장면 변화를 검출한 후, 검출된 장면 변화에 대해 GOP를 적용 시킨다. 해당 GOP 내에서 시각 인지도에 기초하여 물체의 움직임으로 인한 인식률이 높은 부분을 검출하고, 인식률이 높은 부분에 대해 QP(Quantization Parameter)의 재분배로 비트율을 높임으로써 화질을 향상시키고, 인식률이 낮은 부분에 대해서는 비트율을 적게 분배한다. 그 결과 한정된 대역폭을 갖는 전송 환경에서 영상을 향상된 화질로 이용할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.341-344
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• 2007

In this paper, a new temporal error concealment method for the new coding standard H.264/AVC is presented, which uses the high correlation between the motion vectors of neighboring blocks. By using the motion vector of neighboring MB of the lost MB, the MV of the lost MB are recovered. It is shown that under FMO coding method of H.264/AVC, the proposed method increases PSNR gain up to 2.85dB compared to build-in algorithm in the H.264/AVC test model and 2.59dB compared to Lagrange interpolation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.3-14
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• 2009

Currently, H.264/AVC is used in many multimedia applications. Also, The MPEG-2 main profile which supports B pictures for bi-directional motion prediction is widely used in applications such as HDTV and DVD’s. Therefore, transcoding the MPEG-2 main profile to the H.264/AVC baseline is necessary for universal multimedia access. In this transcoding architecture including the GOP structure conversion, the proposed algorithms adopt the adaptive search range selection through the linearity test of a predictive motion vector and adaptive mode selection using the reference region complexity information. The proposed algorithms extremely reduce the computational complexity while maintaining the video quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.790-800
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• 2009

For the improvement of coding efficiency, the H.264/AYC standard uses new coding tools such as 1/4-pel-accurate motion estimation, multiple references, intra prediction, loop filter, variable block size etc. Using these coding tools, H.264/AYC has achieved significant improvements from rate-distortion point of view compared to existing standards. However, the encoder complexity was greatly increased due to these coding tools. We focus on the complexity reduction method of intra macroblock mode selection. The proposed algorithm for fast intra mode selection calculates the edge activity in transform domain, and performs fast encoding of intra frame in H.264/AYC through the fast prediction mode selection of intra4x4 and chrominance blocks. Simulation results show that the proposed method saves about 59.76% for QCIF sequences and 65.03% for CIF sequences of total encoding time, while bitrate increase and PSNR decrease are very small.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.68-73
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• 2013

In recent years, the developments in 3D technologies have initiated the commercialization of 3D services on mobile devices. For this purpose, stereoscopic 3D technology is used, which enables 3D TV on mobile devices including smartphone with glasses-free 3D viewing. As a result, the issues related with stereo imaging have been spotlighted greatly. Especially, three MPEG coding standards are provided for mobile 3D services, namely H.264/AVC with and without SEI message and H.264/MVC. In this respect, this paper presents an overview of developments in stereoscopic technologies for mobile devices to gain some perspective on the changes and progress. in this paper, we verified the availability of android based stereoscipic 3D technology related with mobile 3D TV and Smartphone with special emphasis on 3D video format and 3D features by various technollogy characteristics analysis.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.69-79
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• 2013

In this paper, DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) and CAVLC(Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding) are co-designed as hardware IP with software operation of the other modules in H.264/AVC codec. In order to increase the operation speed, a new method using SHIFT table is proposed. As a result, enhancement of about 16(%) in the operation speed is obtained. Designed Hardware IPs are downloaded into Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA in the ML-410 development board and H.264/AVC encoding is performed with Microblaze CPU implemented in FPGA. Software modules are developed from JM13.2 to make C code. In order to verify the designed Hardware IPs, Modelsim program is used for functional simulation. As a result that all Hardware IPs and software modules are downloaded into the FPGA, improvement of processing speed about multiples of 16 in case of DCT hardware IP and multiples of 10 in case of CAVLC compared with software-only processing. Although this paper deals with co-design of H/W and S/W for H.264, it can be utilized for the other embedded system design.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9C
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• pp.697-703
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC video coding standard provides higher coding efnciency compared to the conventional MPEG-2 standard. Since a lot of videos have been encoded using MPEG-2, the format conversion from MPEG-2 to H.264 is essential. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the conversion of DCT coefficients to H.264/AVC transform coefficients. This conversion is essential, since $8{\times}8$ DCT and $4{\times}4$ integer transform are used in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively. The mathematical analysis and computer simulation show that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced compared to the conventional algorithm, while the loss caused by the conversion is negligible.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.836-846
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• 2014

To expedite UHD (Ultra High Definition) video service, the HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) technology has recently been standardized and it achieves two times higher compression efficiency than the conventional H.264/AVC. To obtain the improved efficiency, however, it employs many complex methods which need complicated calculation, thereby resulting in a significantly increased computational complexity when compared to that of H.264/AVC. For example, to improve the coding efficiency of intra frame coding, up to 35 intra prediction modes are defined in HEVC, but this results in an increased encoding time than the H.264/AVC. In this paper, we propose a fast intra prediction mode decision scheme which reduces computational complexity by changing the number of intra prediction mode in accordance with the percentage of PU sizes for a given video resolution, and by classifying the 35 intra prediction modes into 4 categories considering video resolution and quantization parameter. The experimental results show that the total encoding time is reduced by about 7% on average at the cost of only 2% increase in BD-rate.