• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.201-208
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• 2018

High Efficiency Video Coding range extensions (HEVC RExt) is a kind of extension model of HEVC. HEVC RExt was specially designed for dealing the high quality images. HEVC RExt is very essential for studio editing which handle the very high quality and various type of images. There are some problems to dealing these massive data in studio editing. One of the most important procedure is re-encoding and decoding procedure during the editing. Various codecs are widely used for studio data editing. But most of the codecs have common problems to dealing the massive data in studio editing. First, the re-encoding and decoding processes are frequently occurred during the studio data editing and it brings enormous time-consuming and video quality loss. This paper, we suggest new video coding structure for the efficient studio video editing. The coding structure which is called "ultra-low delay (ULD)". It has the very simple and low-delayed referencing structure. To simplify the referencing structure, we can minimize the number of the frames which need decoding and re-encoding process. It also prevents the quality degradation caused by the frequent re-encoding. Various fast coding algorithms are also proposed for efficient editing such as tool-level optimization, multi-serve based distributed coding and SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) based parallel processing. It can reduce the enormous computational complexity during the editing procedure. The proposed method shows 9500 times faster coding speed with negligible loss of quality. The proposed method also shows better coding gain compare to "intra only" structure. We can confirm that the proposed method can solve the existing problems of the studio video editing efficiently.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.129-138
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• 2014

This paper proposes a fast intra prediction method to reduce encoding time for the HEVC(high-efficiency video coding) encoder. The proposed fast Intra prediction method uses quadtree structure and SATD(Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences). In HEVC, a $8{\times}8$ SATD value using $8{\times}8$ hadamard transform is used to calculate a SATD value for $8{\times}8$ or larger blocks. The proposed method calculates the best SATD value by using each $8{\times}8$ SATD result in $16{\times}16$ or larger blocks. After that, the proposed method removes a candidate mode for RDO(Rate-Distortion Optimization) based on comparing SATD of the candidate mode and the best SATD. By removing candidate modes, the proposed method reduces the operation of RDO and reduces total encoding time. In $8{\times}8$ block, the proposed method uses additional $4{\times}4$ SATD to calculat the best SATD. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieved 5.08% reduction in encoding time compared to the HEVC test model 12.1 encoder with almost no loss in compression performance.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.224-237
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• 2015

In this paper, we introduce the fast decoding method with the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions for HEVC RExt (High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extensions). Several tools of HEVC RExt such as intra prediction, interpolation, inverse-quantization, inverse-transform, and clipping modules can be classified as the proper modules for applying the SIMD instructions. In consideration of bit-depth increasement of RExt, intra prediction, interpolation, inverse-quantization, inverse-transform, and clipping modules are accelerated by SSE (Streaming SIMD Extension) instructions. In addition, we propose effective implementations for interpolation filter, inverse-quantization, and clipping modules by utilizing a set of AVX2 (Advanced Vector eXtension 2) instructions that can use 256 bits register. The evaluation of the proposed methods were performed on the private HEVC RExt decoder developed based on HM 16.0. The experimental results show that the developed RExt decoder reduces 12% average decoding time, compared with the conventional sequential method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.546-548
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• 2015

HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)는 JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding)라는 ITU-T(VCEG)와 ISO-IEC(MPEG)가 공동으로 진행한 팀이 만들어낸 표준화이다. 이 표준화된 코덱에서 율-왜곡 최적화(RDO)는 실행함에 있어 높은 성능 향상을 보이지만 상대적으로 많은 부호화 시간이 요구된다. RDO 의 부호화 시간을 줄이기 위해서 이 논문에서는 변환 계수를 이용한 고속 인트라 예측 방법을 제안한다. 기존 HEVC 에서는 RMD(Rough Mode Decision)를 통해 상위 N 개의 후보를 구하고 MPM(Most Probable Mode)을 거쳐 나온 후보들의 수의 합을 가지고 RDO 를 구하게 된다. 여기서 제안하는 고속 인트라 예측 방법은 RDO 를 구하기 전에 나왔던 N 개의 후보에서 이산 여현 변환(DCT) 계수를 이용하여 예측 모드의 수를 한 번 더 줄임으로써 RDO 수행시간을 줄이는 방법이다. 이 방법은 기존 HEVC 부호화 방법보다 적은 손실에도 불구하고 높은 속도 향상을 보인다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.311-316
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• 2017

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the newest video coding standard for improvement in video data compression. This new standard provides a significant improvement in picture quality, especially for high-resolution videos. A quadtree-based structure is created for the encoding and decoding processes and the rate-distortion (RD) cost is calculated for all possible dimensions of coding units in the quadtree. To get the best combination of the block an optimization process is performed in the encoder, called rate distortion optimization (RDO). In this work we are proposing a novel approach to enhance the overall RDO process of HEVC encoder. The proposed algorithm is performed in two steps. In the first step, like HEVC, it performs general rate distortion optimization. The second step is an extra checking where a SSIM based cost is evaluated. Moreover, a fast SSIM (FSSIM) calculation technique is also proposed in this paper.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.256-261
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• 2012

Recently, many photovoltaic systems (PV systems) including solar parks and PV farms have been built to prepare for the post fossil fuel era. To investigate the degradation process of the PV systems and thus, efficiently operate PV systems, there is a need to visually monitor PV systems in the range of infrared ray through the Internet. For efficient visual monitoring, this paper explores a multithreaded implementation of a recently developed HEVC standard whose compression efficiency is almost two times higher than H.264. For an efficient parallel implementation under a meshbased 64 multicore system, this work takes into account various design choices which can solve potential problems of a two-dimensional interconnects-based 64 multicore system. These problems may have not occurred in a small-scale multicore system based on a simple bus network. Through extensive evaluation, this paper shows that, for an efficient multithreaded implementation of HEVC intra prediction in a mesh-based multicore system, much effort needs to be made to optimize communications among processing cores. Thus, this work provides three design choices regarding communications, i.e., main thread core location, cache home policy, and maximum coding unit size. These design choices are shown to improve the overall parallel performance of the HEVC intra prediction algorithm by up to 42%, achieving a 7 times higher speed-up.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.154-163
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• 2014

In this paper, there is suggested a fast intra prediction mode decision method in HEVC. To reduce the number of candidates in rough mode decision (RMD) process and rate-distortion optimization (RDO) process, the edge information and relative RMD cost are utilized. The experiment results show that the proposed method reduces encoding run-time by 26.81% with a negligible coding loss of 0.79% BD-rate on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.689-690
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• 2020

HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding)의 색차신호 화면내 예측(Intra Prediction)은 복호화된 주변 화소로부터의 예측과 동일한 위치의 휘도신호의 예측 모드를 이용한 예측을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 색차신호 화면내 예측의 성능 향상을 위하여 합성 곱 신경망(CNN: Convolutional Neural Network) 기반의 색차신호 예측 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 복원된 주변 블록의 휘도 및 색차신호로부터 CNN 을 이용하여 현재블록의 색차신호를 예측한다. 실험결과 제안한 CNN 기반의 색차신호 예측 기법이 HEVC 의 색차신호 화면내 예측보다 향상된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.234-235
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 최근 표준화 활동이 진행 중인 HEVC(high efficiency video coding) 표준의 무손실 부호화 모드를 위한 효율적인 계수 주사 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 무손실 비디오 부호기에서는 부호화 손실을 없애기 위해 변환 및 양자화 모듈이 제거된다. 이 경우 부호화해야 할 잔여데이터는 양자화된 변환 계수가 아닌 예측 후의 차분 화소이므로 잔여데이터의 확률 분포가 변화된다. 제안한 방법에서는 무손실 부호화에서 화면내 예측 모드 별 잔여데이터의 발생 확률을 분석하고, 이를 고려해 역방향 모드 기반 차분 화소 주사 방법을 사용한다. 일반적으로 참조 화소와의 거리가 멀어질수록 예측 정확도가 떨어져 잔여데이터의 발생 확률이 높아지기 때문에 제안한 역방향 주사 방법을 사용하면 잔여데이터 부호화에서 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 실험을 통해, 제안한 방법이 HEVC 무손실 부호화에 비해 약 1.7%의 부호화 성능을 향상시키는 것을 확인했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.145-146
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• 2015

HEVC(High Efficient Video Coding)는 H.264/AVC 대비 하여 50% 정도의 높은 압축률을 보이지만 인코더의 복잡도가 크게 증가하였다. 이러한 높은 복잡도로 인한 실사용에 있어서의 문제를 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 변환계수의 분포와 cbf(coded block flag)를 이용하여 예측블록의 크기를 빠르게 결정짓는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 HM16.0 대비 42%의 부호화 속도를 향상시켰으며 1.9%의 성능 감소를 갖는다.