• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.498-512
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• 2010

Intra coding is an indispensable coding tool since it can provide random accessibility as well as error resiliency. However, it is the problem that intra coding has relatively low coding efficiency compared with inter coding in the area of video coding. Even though H.264/AVC has significantly improved the intra coding performance compared with previous video standards, H.264/AVC encoder complexity is significantly increased, which is not suitable for low bit rate interactive services. In this paper, a Voting-based Intra Mode Bit Skip (V-IMBS) scheme is proposed to improve coding efficiency as well as to reduce encoding time complexity using decoder-side prediction. In case that the decoder can determine the same prediction mode as what is chosen by the encoder, the encoder does not send that intra prediction mode; otherwise, the conventional H.264/AVC intra coding is performed. Simulation results reveal a performance increase up to 4.44% overall rate savings and 0.24 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio while the frame encoding speed of proposed method is about 42.8% better than that of H.264/AVC.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.695-704
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• 2003

A wavelet-based video stream is more susceptible to the network transmission errors than DCT-based video. This is because bit-errors in a subband of a video frame affect not only the other subbands within the current frame but also the subsequent frames. In this paper, we propose a video source coding scheme called IPC(Intra Prediction Coding) scheme in order to reduce the error propagation to the subsequent frames. In the proposed scheme, a subband except LL subband in the current frame refers to the lower-level subband within the same frame. This reduces the error propagation to subsequent frames. We evaluated the performance of our proposed scheme in the simulated wireless network environment. As a result of tests, it was shown that the proposed algorithm shows better performance than MRME in a heavy motion image sequence while IPC outperforms MRME at a high bit-rate in small motion image sequence.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.549-556
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• 2008

To achieve flexible visual content adaption for multimedia communications, the ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG form the JVT to develop SVC amendment for the H.264/AVC standard. JVT uses inter-layer prediction as well as inter prediction and intra prediction that are provided in H.264/AVC to remove the redundancy among layers. The main goal consists of designing inter-layer prediction tools that enable the usage of as much as possible base layer information to improve the rate-distortion efficiency of the enhancement layer. But inter layer prediction causes the computational complexity to be increased. In this paper, we proposed an efficient residual prediction. In order to reduce the computational complexity while maintaining the high coding efficiency. The proposed residual prediction uses modified interpolation that is defined in H.264/AVC SVC.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.231-234
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• 2006

H.264 코딩시 Intra 모드는 다양한 모드 즉, 매크로블록(MB) 당 16개의 $4{\times}4$ 블록 각각에 대한 9가지의 $4{\times}4$ 모드와 4가지의 $16{\times}16$ 모드의 오류 값을 계산하여 최상의 모드를 선택하게 된다. 이와 같은 픽셀 기반의 예측 기법을 DCT 기반의 MPEG-2/H.264 트랜스코더에 적용할 경우 DCT 변환의 특성으로 인하여 모드 예측을 위한 계산량이 높아지는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 MPEG2 DCT를 H.264의 정수형 DCT로 변환한 후, DCT 계수의 특징을 이용하여 Intra 모드를 결정하는 기법을 제안한다. 이때, 계수의 특징이 모호하여 모드를 결정하기 어려운 경우는 몇 가지 모드를 선택하여 오류 값을 계산하여 모드를 결정한다. 현재 정밀한 실험은 진행 중이며, 여러 동영상의 첫 Intra 프레임에 대한 실험을 수행한 결과 MB의 모드 결정의 정확도는 프레임 내 이미지의 특징에 영향을 많이 받았다. 예를 들면 Mobile과 같이 프레임 내의 픽셀 간 에지가 많이 존재하는 프레임은 추가적인 모드 결정을 사용하지 않아도 93%정도의 정확도를 보였으며 Akiyo, Foreman과 같이 이웃한 픽셀간 유사도가 상대적으로 높은 경우는 약 80% 정도의 순수 정확성을 보였다. 그러나 모드 판단이 모호한 경우의 모드도 결정한다면 90%이상의 정확도를 보일 것으로 예상된다. 향후 이미지의 특성에 따라 모드를 결정하는 값을 유동적으로 설정하는 기법을 연구하여 정확도를 높이는 연구를 수행하도록 하겠다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.672-680
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• 2010

This paper presents an adaptive quantization matrix selection scheme for H.264 video encoding. Conventional H.264 coding standard applies the same quantization matrix to the entire video sequence without considering local characteristics in each frame. In this paper, we propose block adaptive selection of quantization matrix according to edge directivity of each block. Firstly, edge directivity of each block is determined using intra prediction modes of its spatially adjacent blocks. If the block is decided as a directional block, new weighted quantization matrix is applied to the block. Otherwise, conventional quantization matrix is used for quantization of the non-directional block. Since the proposed weighted quantization is designed based on statistical distribution of transform coefficients in accordance with intra prediction modes, we can achieve high coding efficiency. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can improve coding efficiency by about 2% in terms of BD bit-rate.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.310-318
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• 2008

The H.264/AVC standard achieves higher coding efficiency than previous video coding standards with the rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique which selects the best coding mode and reference frame for each macroblock. As a result, the complexity of the encoder have been significantly increased. In this paper, a fast intra-mode decision algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational load of intra-mode search, which is based on the inverse tree-structure edge prediction algorithm. First, we obtained the dominant edge for each $4{\times}4$ block from local edge information, then the RDO process is only performed by the mode which corresponds to dominant edge direction. Then, for the $8{\times}8$ (or $16{\times}16$) block stage, the dominant edge is calculated from its four $4{\times}4$ (or $16{\times}16$) blocks' dominant edges without additional calculation and the RDO process is also performed by the mode which is related to dominant edge direction. Experimental results show that proposed scheme can significantly improve the speed of the intra prediction with a negligible loss in the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and a little increase of bits.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.157-158
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• 2013

현재 MPEG에서 무료(Royalty-Free) 비디오 코덱으로 표준화 중인 IVC(Internet Video Coding)에서는 인트라 부호화를 위하여 DC 모드의 한 가지 예측 모드만 사용하고 있다. 이러한 기존의 인트라 부호화 기법은 부호화 모드를 시그널링할 필요가 없고 부호화 시간이 빠른 장점이 있지만 인트라 예측의 정확도가 많이 떨어짐에 따라 부호화 효율이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 IVC의 인트라 부호화 성능 향상을 위하여 4 가지 예측 모드를 지원한다. 즉, 공간적 상관성을 고려하여 평활화된 참조화소 값을 사용하는 평활화된 다중모드 인트라 부호화 기법을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안된 기법은 All-Intra 부호화 구조에서 기존의 ITM 6.0 대비 7.4% 정도의 비트율 감소를 얻음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.648-658
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• 2018

Regarding the fact that wind power forecast accuracy is gradually improved as time is approaching, this paper proposes a two-stage rolling dispatch approach based on model predictive control (MPC), which contains an intra-day rolling optimal scheme and a real-time rolling base point tracing scheme. The scheduled output of the intra-day rolling scheme is set as the reference output, and the real-time rolling scheme is based on MPC which includes the leading rolling optimization and lagging feedback correction strategy. On the basis of the latest measured thermal unit output feedback, the closed-loop optimization is formed to correct the power deviation timely, making the unit output smoother, thus reducing the costs of power adjustment and promoting wind power accommodation. We adopt chance constraint to describe forecasts uncertainty. Then for reflecting the increasing prediction precision as well as the power dispatcher's rising expected satisfaction degree with reliable system operation, we set the confidence level of reserve constraints at different timescales as the incremental vector. The expectation of up/down reserve shortage is proposed to assess the adequacy of the upward/downward reserve. The studies executed on the modified IEEE RTS system demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.222-235
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• 2008

Recently, as growing of high definition media services like HDTV and IPTV, fast moving picture manipulation techniques need to meet what those services require. Especially, a fast reduced-size image extracting method is required in the areas of video indexing and video summary Conventional DC image extracting methods, however, can't be applied to H.264/AVC streams since a spatial domain prediction scheme is adopted in H.264/AVC intra mode. In this paper, we propose a theoretical method for extracting a thumbnail image from an H.264/AVC intra frame in the frequency domain. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can extract the thumbnail very fast since all operations are applied to transform coefficients directly, after a general equation for the thumbnail extraction in nine H.264/AVC intra prediction modes is introduced, an LUT(Look Up Table) for each mode is designed. Through the implementation and performance evaluation, while the subject quality difference between the output of our scheme and a conventional output is negligible, the former can extract the thumbnail faster then the latter by up to 63%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.341-348
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• 2016

HEVC is the next compression standard and is expected to be used widely replacing the conventional H.264/AVC standard. The compression ratio of the HEVC is twice times than H.264/AVC, whereas its computational complexity is increased by up to 40%. Many research efforts have been made to reduce the computational complexity and to speed up encoding. For intra coding, the rough mode decision (RMD) is commonly applied. The rate-distortion optimization (RDO) process to decide the best mode is too complex so that RMD chooses the candidate modes with a simple process and sends the candidates to RDO process. However, for large-size blocks, the RMD also requires considerable computations. In this paper, a down-sampling scheme is proposed for the RMD process. The reference pixel loading, predicted pixel generation are performed using the down-sampled pixel data. When the proposed scheme is applied to the RMD, the computational complexity is reduced by 70% with a marginal bitrate increase of 0.04%. In terms of area of hardware-based RMD, the gate count and the buffer size is reduced 33% and 66%, respectively.