• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.592-608
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• 2016

Recently, many researches on digital holograms, which retain almost perfect 3 dimensional image information, have been performed actively that it seems for them to be serviced soon. Accordingly, this paper proposes a data compression technique for a digital hologram video for this service. It uses H.265/HEVC, the most recent international 2 dimensional video compression standard, for which we consider various domain transform methods to increase the correlation among the pixels in a digital hologram. Also we consider the various parameters on H.265/HEVC. The purpose of this paper is to find empirically the optimal condition for the domain transform method, the size of transform unit, and the H.265/HEVC parameters. The proposed method satisfying the optimal parameter set found is compared to the existing methods to prove that ours shows better performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.321-322
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 Intra 코딩 기반의 위상 홀로그램 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 다음과 같다. 홀로그램을 Intra 코딩의 블록 단위로 세그먼트를 나누는 과정, Intra 코딩의 예측을 고려한 위상 펼침 과정, H.265/HEVC 입력을 고려한 양자화 과정, 마지막으로 H.265/HEVC를 이용한 압축과정으로 구성된다. 제안한 알고리즘은 위상정보에 아무런 전후처리를 하지않고 H.265/HEVC를 압축한 결과보다 100:1 이상의 고압축률 구간에서 압축효율이 향상되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.140-142
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 심층적 강화학습 기반 GOP (Group of Picture) 크기를 선택하여 HEVC/H.265의 인코더를 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존 방법에서는 현재 비디오 신호를 부호화 하는 과정에서 이미 부호화한 정보를 사용해야하는 부호화 의존성에 관한 문제가 있었다. 제안 방법은 강화학습 방식을 도입하여 이러한 문제를 극복하고 입력 비디오의 시간적 상관도에 따라 GOP의 크기를 적응적으로 선택하여 부호화 한다. 본 논문에서는 GOP 선택을 위한 강화학습 환경을 새롭게 정의하고 부호화 성능에 따른 보상을 부여하는 방식으로 학습을 수행한다. 제안된 적응적 GOP 선택에 따라 인코더 제어 시, 부호화 방법의 부호화 효율이 -6.07% BD-rate 향상된 실험 결과를 보이며 본 방법의 우수성을 입증한다.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.102-108
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• 2019

VVC(Versatile Video Coding)는 H.264/AVC(Advanced Video Coding)와 H.265/HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)의 엔트로피 코딩 기술로 사용되었던 CABAC(Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding)을 기반으로하여 압축율과 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 다양한 기술들이 채택되어 현재 CD(Committee Draft)가 완성되었고 참조 모델인 VTM6.0이 정식으로 배포되었다. 본 논문에서는 VVC Draft 6에 채택된 엔트로피 코딩 관련 기술들과 H.265/HEVC의 엔트로피 코딩의 차이점을 설명하고 엔트로피 코딩의 압축 성능과 엔트로피 코딩의 복잡도를 분석한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.141-146
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• 2016

HEVC/H.265 is the latest joint video coding standard proposed by ITU-T SG 16 WP and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG 11. In H.265, pictures are divided into a sequence of coding tree units(CTUs), and the CTU further is partitioned into multiple CUs to adapt to various local characteristics. Its coding efficiency is approximately two times high compared to previous standard H.264/AVC. However according to the size of extended CU(coding unit) and transform block, the hardware size of PMR(prediction/mode decision/reconstruction) block within video encoder is about 4 times larger than previous standard. In this study, we propose a new less complex hardware architecture of PMR block which has the most high complexity within encoder without any noticeable PSNR loss. Using this simplified block, we can shrink the overall size the H.265 encoder. For FHD image, it operates at clocking frequency of 300 MHz and frame rate of 60 fps. And also for the test image, the Bjøntegaard Delta (BD) bit rate increase about average 30 % in PMR prediction block, and the total estimated gate count of PMR block is around 1.8 M.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.9-22
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• 2010

최근 full-HD 3D 방송, UD(ultra-definition) 영상 서비스, mobile device 향 양방향 HD급 화상통신 등 기존 영상 서비스의 품질을 월등히 향상시키고자 하는 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 기고에서는 기존 H.264/AVC 영상 압축 표준의 성능을 2배 이상 향상시키는 것을 목표로 진행 중인 새로운 차세대 영상 압축 표준인 HEVC(high-efficiency video coding; MPEG-H/H.265)의 표준화 동향을 소개한다. 또한, 현재 HEVC test-model (HM) version 1을 구성하고 있는 요소 기술들을 결정하기 위해 진행되었던 성능 평가 과정에 대해 간략하게 소개하고, 마지막으로 HM의 전반적 구성 및 현재 성능 수준에 대한 평가결과를 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 2016

The High Efficiency Video Coding (MPEG-H HEVC/ITU-T H.265) is the newest video coding standard which has the quadtree-structured coding unit (CU). The quadtree-structure splits a CU adaptively, and its optimum CU depth can be determined by rate-distortion optimization. Such HEVC encoding requires very high computational complexity for CU depth decision. Motivated that the blob detection, which is a well-known algorithm in computer vision, detects keypoints in pictures and decision of CU depth needs to consider high frequency energy distribution, in this paper, we propose to utilize these keypoints for fast CU depth decision. Experimental results show that 20% encoding time can be saved with only slightly increasing BDBR by 0.45% on all intra case.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.2464-2479
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• 2020

This paper presents a detailed subjective quality assessment for the ultra-high definition (UHD) videos having frame rates of 30fps and 60 fps. The subjective assessment is based on the ITU-R BT-500 recommendations, where double stimulus continuous quality scale (DSCQS-type II) test is performed for the evaluation of the perceived quality of the user's in terms of differential mean opinion score (DMOS). Encoding of the UHD videos by opting encoders i.e. H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and VP9 at five different quantization parameter (QP) levels is done to investigate the perceived user's quality of experience (QoE) given as DMOS. Moreover, the encoding efficiency as the encoding time for each encoder and qualitative performance by employing full-reference (FR) quality metrics are presented in this work.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.818-828
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• 2016

This paper proposes a reusable design for the merging process used in three-dimensional High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC), which can significantly reduce the implementation complexity by eliminating duplicated module redundancies. The majority of inter-prediction coding tools used in 3D-HEVC are utilized through a merge mode, whose extended merging process is based on built-in integration to completely wrap around the HEVC merging process. Consequently, the implementation complexity is unavoidably very high. To facilitate easy market implementation, the design of a legacy codec should be reused in an extended codec if possible. The proposed 3D-HEVC merging process is divided into the base merging process of reusing HEVC modules and reprocessing process of refining the existing processes that have been newly introduced or modified for 3D-HEVC. To create a reusable design, the causal and mutual dependencies between the newly added modules for 3D-HEVC and the reused HEVC modules are eliminated, and the ineffective methods are simplified. In an application of the proposed reusable design, the duplicated reimplementation of HEVC modules, which account for 50.7% of the 3D-HEVC merging process, can be eliminated while maintaining the same coding efficiency. The proposed method has been adopted as a normative coding tool in the 3D-HEVC international standard.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1085-1095
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• 2019

In this paper, we perform a subjective quality assessment on low-resolution surveillance videos, which are encoded with a very low target bit-rate to use in an ultra-low band transmission system and investigate the encoding effects on the perceived video quality. The test videos are collected based on their spatial and temporal characteristics which affect the perceived quality. H.265/HEVC encoder is used to prepare the impaired sequences for three target bit-rates 20, 45, and 65 kbps and subjective quality assessment is conducted to evaluate the quality from a viewing distance of 3H. The experimental results show that the quality of encoded videos, even at target bit-rate of 45 kbps can satisfy the users. Also we compare objective image/video quality assessment methods on the proposed dataset to measure their correlation with subjective scores. The experimental results show that the existing methods poorly performed, that indicates the need for a better quality assessment method.