• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.231-236
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• 2015

In this paper, the technical analysis and characteristics of screen content coding (SCC) based on High efficiency video coding (HEVC) are presented. For SCC, which is increasingly used these days, HEVC SCC standardization has been proceeded. Technologies such as intra block copy (IBC), palette coding, and adaptive color transform are developed and adopted to the HEVC SCC standard. This paper examines IBC and palette coding that significantly impacts RD performance of SCC for screen content. The HEVC SCC reference model (SCM) 4.0 was used to comparatively analyze the coding performance of HEVC SCC based on the HEVC range extension (RExt) model for screen content.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T developed the HEVC Screen Content Coding (HEVC SCC) standard as the HEVC extension for the screen content video coding. The Intra Block Copy (IBC) is the most effective tool adopted in HEVC SCC and predicts current block from already reconstructed neighboring blocks in the same picture. To reduce the amount of data in BV (Block Vector) to be transmitted, a BV predictor (BVP) is used to generate the BV differences in the IBC BV coding. In this paper, we analyze the current BV prediction process using HEVC reference software SCM-2.0 and SCM-4.0. Based on the analysis results, we propose an improved BVP candidate selection algorithm by adding a search process for adjacent BVs in addition to the existing spatial BVP candidates. Experimental results show that the BD-rate reduction of our proposed improvements ranges from 0.2% to 1%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-67
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• 2015

This paper describes and analyzes IBC (intra block copy) in HEVC (high efficiency video coding) SCC (screen content coding) to improve the coding efficiency of IBC. HEVC SCC reference software SCM 2 is employed to analyze the selection ratio of IBC which is newly adopted in HEVC SCC, and the tools for IBC such as the block vector prediction and block vector coding method are evaluated. Experimental results show the average IBC selection ratio is 31.08% and 0.33% in I-Slice and B-Slice, respectively. Based on this results, the coding efficiency of IBC could be improved by utilizing IBC selectively. In addition, analysis tests of block vector prediction and the block vector coding method show the current methods are not efficient to screen content videos, and the analysis results are presented to improve these methods.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.544-554
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• 2012

Screen content refers to images or videos generated by various electronic devices such as computers or mobile phones, whereas natural content refers to images captured by cameras. Screen contents show different statistical characteristics from natural images, so the conventional video codecs which were developed mainly for the coding of natural videos cannot guarantee good coding performances for screen contents. Recently, researches on efficient SCC(Screen Content Coding) are being actively studied, and especially at ongoing JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding) meeting for HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) standard, SCC issues are being discussed steadily. In this paper, we analyze the performances of high efficient coding tools in HM(HEVC Test Model) on SCC, and present an optimized SCC model based on the analysis results. We also present the characteristics of screen contents and the future research issues as well.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.388-392
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• 2014

This paper proposes an early termination method of a block vector search for fast encoding of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) screen content coding (SCC). In the proposed algorithm, two blocks indicated by two block vector predictors (BVPs) were first employed as an intra block copy (IBC) search. If the sum of absolute difference (SAD) value of the block is less than a threshold defined empirically, an IBC BV search is terminated early. The initial threshold for early termination is derived by statistical analysis and it can be modified adaptively based on a quantization parameter (QP). The proposed algorithm is evaluated on SCM-2.0 under all intra (AI) coding configurations. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm reduces IBC BV search time by 29.23% on average while the average BD-rate loss is 0.41% under the HEVC SCC common test conditions (CTC).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.115-125
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• 2018

This paper presents a fast partition decision framework for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Screen Content Coding (SCC) based on machine learning. Currently, the HEVC performs quad-tree block partitioning process to achieve optimal coding efficiency. Since this process requires a high computational complexity of the encoding device, the fast encoding process has been studied as determining the block structure early. However, in the case of the screen content video coding, it is difficult to apply the conventional early partition decision method because it shows different partition characteristics from natural content. The proposed method solves the problem by classifying the screen content blocks after partition decision, and it shows an increase of 3.11% BD-BR and 42% time reduction compared to the SCC common test condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2017

기존의 자연영상에 초점이 맞춰져 있던 HEVC 동영상 압축 표준은 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩(SCC)을 제안하여 문자와 그래픽 효과가 많이 포함된 스크린 콘텐츠 영상의 압축 성능을 향상시켰다. SCC의 화면 내 블록 카피 기법은 스크린 콘텐츠 영상의 특성상 한 화면 내 반복되는 무늬들을 찾아 예측에 활용한다. 이에 본 논문은 화면 내 블록 카피 기법에서 사용되는 블록 탐색 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 특히, 전역 탐색에서 사용되는 해시 기반의 탐색기법의 해시 값 구성의 분석을 통해, 해시 구성 요소들의 비중을 감소와 새로운 해시 구성 요소를 활용하여 최대 0.330% 비트레이트율 감소 및 0.328% 비트레이트율 감소 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.687-696
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• 2015

JCT-VC (Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding) continues developing HEVC/Screen Content Coding (HEVC/SCC) as an extension for efficiently coding screen content videos, including computer animations, graphics, and electrical documents, based on HEVC/Range extension (HEVC/RExt.). Color space conversion from RGB space being captured from CCD sensors is popular in natural video coding. However, the conversion is often undesired for screen contents because of a significant loss in perceptual quality. Therefore, several coding tools including cross-component prediction (CCP) and in-loop adaptive color space transform (ACST) have been developed for an efficient screen content video coding in order to reduce the redundancies between color spaces while maintaining the original color space. In this paper, we review the two coding tools, i.e., CCP and ACST exploiting the correlation in the RGB color space and conduct the performance analysis of the coding tools. In our simulation results, CCP and ACST provide 11.7% BD-rate saving and 16.4% BD-rate saving, respectively, while the two coding tools provide 18.2% BD-rate saving in total. Following this idea, if the two coding tools are exclusively selected, we provide 93% encoding measurement time with a 0.3% coding loss.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.177-179
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• 2014

컴퓨터 그래픽의 발달 및 다양한 멀티미디어 기기들의 보급이 증가함에 따라 스크린 콘텐츠 영상에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 자연영상과 다른 특성을 지닌 스크린 콘텐츠 영상의 효율적인 압축을 위하여, 기존의 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)의 SCC (screen content coding) 에서는 스크린 콘텐츠 영상을 위한 새로운 예측 기술이 추가되었다, 추가된 대표적인 예측 기술로 화면 내 블록 카피 (IBC: intra block copy) 기술과 팔레트 모드 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩의 부호화 효율 향상 연구에 앞서, 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩에서 높은 부호화 효율을 보이는 화면 내 블록 카피 기술에 대하여 소개하고 화면 내 블록 카피 기술의 부호화 특성 및 블록 벡터 예측 기법에 대한 분석을 수행한다. 또한, 이러한 분석 결과를 토대로 화면 내 블록 카피 기술의 성능 향상을 위한 방법을 제시한다.