• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권5A호
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• pp.726-742
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• 2000

A novel rte control algorithm consisting of two major components, i.e. a variable encoding frame rate method and a hybrid DCT/wavelet I-frame coding scheme, is proposed in this work for low bit rate video coding. Most existing rate control algorithms for low bit rate video focus on bit allocation at the macroblock level under a constant frame rate assumption. The proposed rate control algorithm is able to adjust the encoding frame rate at the expense of tolerable time-delay. Furthermore, an R-D optimized hybrid DCT/wavelet scheme is used for effective I-frame coding. The new rate-control algorithm attempts to achieve a good balance between spatial quality and temporal quality to enhance the overall human perceptual quality at low bit rates. It is demonstrated that the rate control algorithm achieves higher coding efficiency at low bit rates with a low additional computational cost. The variable frame rate method and hybrid I-frame coding scheme are compatible with the bi stream structure of H.263+.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2016

In this paper, a novel rate control scheme for low delay video coding of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is proposed. The proposed scheme is developed by considering a new temporal prediction structure of HEVC. In the proposed scheme, the relationship between bit rate and quantization step is exploited firstly to formulate an accurate quadratic rate-quantization (R-Q) model. Secondly, a method of determining the quantization parameters (QPs) for the first frames within a group of pictures is proposed. Thirdly, an accurate frame-level bit allocation method is proposed for HEVC. Finally, based on the proposed R-Q model and the target bit allocated for the frame, the QPs are predicted for coding tree units by using rate-distortion (R-D) optimization. We compare our scheme against that of three other state-of-the-art rate control schemes. Experimental results show that the proposed rate control scheme can increase the Bjøntegaard delta peak signal-to-noise ratio by 0.65 dB and 0.09 dB on average compared with the JCTVC-I0094 and JCTVC-M0036 schemes, respectively, both of which have been implemented in an HEVC test model encoder; furthermore, the proposed scheme achieves a similar R-D performance to Wang's scheme, as well as obtaining the smallest bit rate mismatch error of all the schemes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.822-833
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• 1996

The video coding for very low bit rate has recently received considerable attention, but conventional block based transform coding schemes suffer from the blocking effect for the constraints of bit rates. In this paper, we present a video coding sysem suing multi-resolution motion estimation/compensation with variable size block(VMRME/C) and multi-resolution vector quantization(MRVQ) in wavelet transform domain for very low bit rate coding. It is shown that the presented scheme has better performance in the peak signal-to-nose ratio(RSNR) by 0.2-0.6 dB as well as subjective quality than that of conventional block based transform video coding techniques(especially, H. 263 which is DCT based video coding).

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권6C호
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• pp.842-847
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 낮은 전송률에서 공간적 시간적 해상도를 tradeoff하는 새로운 비디오 코딩 알고리듬을 제안한다. 먼저 영상의 움직임을 측정하여 최적의 frame rate를 선택한다. DCT quantization parameter (QP)는 앞에서 결정된 frame rate와 주어진 bit rate에 따라 결정한다. 마지막으로, 본 논문은 skip된 비디오 영상에 대해 단순하고 효과적인 distortion 측정방법을 제안한다. 실험결과, 제안한 알고리듬이 H.263 TMN5 보다 영상 품질이 2 ㏈ 정도 개선되었다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권10호
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• pp.2629-2639
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• 1997

최근 초저속 전송 매체용 비디오 코딩 기법에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 기존의 블럭을 기반으로 하는 변환 코딩기법들은 비트율 제한으로 인해 블럭화 현상 등으로 화질 열화가 심하다. 본 논문에서는 초저속 전송 매체를 위하여 웨이브릿 변환과 다중해상도 움직임 추정 및 보상 기법을 이용하는 비디오 코딩 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 non-stationary 신호를 적응적으로 표현하며, 인간 시각 특성을 잘 반영하는 웨이브릿 변환을 사용한다. 웨이브릿 변환된 계수들은 움직임 추정 및 보상 후 예측 오차의 크기에 따라서 다양한 모드로 코딩된다. 이와 함께 일정한 화질을 유지하기 위하여 간단한 버퍼 제어 기법을 사용한다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 기법은 블럭화 현상이 줄어들며, 기존의 블럭을 기반으로 하는 변환 코딩 기법보다 복원 영상의 화질이 좋음을 보였다.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.60-77
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• 1994

This paper presents a survey of video coding schemes which use wavelet transform for the videophone on very low bit rate commun ication chan nel( ego 10 Kbps Public Service Telephone Network). Firstly, we introduce the standardization efforts to make the low bit rate videophone architecture and the typical application of low bit rate video coding scheme. Secondly, we summarize the several requirements on videophone, delay, encoder/decoder complexity, low bitrate, and progressive transmission capability. Third, we review the basic theory of wavelet transform without much mathematics. We compare the wavelet transform with short-time fourier transform and subband filters. Fourth, we summarize the video coding schemes proposed so far, and evaluate them with Ule requirements. Lastly, we conclude with fu¬ture research directions.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.133-136
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a low bit-rate embedded video coding scheme with 3-D block partition in the wavelet domain. The proposed video coding scheme includes multi-level three dimensional dyadic wavelet decomposition, raster scanning within each subband, partitioning of blocks, and adaptive arithmetic entropy coding. Although the proposed video coding scheme is quite simple, it produces bit-streams with good features, including SNR scalability from the embedded nature. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed video coding scheme is quite competitive to other good wavelet-based video coders in the literature.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1132-1140
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• 1996

In video coding systems, an effective rate control method is one of the most improtant issues for the good video quality. This paper presents an adaptive rate control scheme based on the buffer fullness, quantization, and buffer utilization for very low bit rate communication lines, such as 16kbit/s, 24bit/s, and so on. The strategy is implemented on H.263, whichis a vide coding algorithm for narrow band telecommunication channels up to 64kbit/s recommended by ITU-T SG15, to show the effectiveness. The simulation result shows that the suggested rate control scheme has better SNR performance and buffer utilization of source coder than those of linear and non-linear[9] buffer control strategies.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2001

초저속 고압축 비디오는 고압축 부호화를 위해 주로 화면간 부호화 방법을 사용한다. 화면간 부호화는 현재 프레임과 이전 프레임간의 데이터 의존성이 높기 때문에 전송시 패킷 손실이 발생할 경우 복원 영상에 심각한 화질 열화를 야기할 수가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서 초저속 고압축 비디오 데이터에 대한 신뢰성 있는 전송과 미디어내 동기화를 위해 TCP 기반 멀티 스트림 생성 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 TCP 기반으로 신뢰성 있는 전송이 가능하며, 멀티 스트림을 통해 효율적인 전송과 네트워크 지터에 강하며, 클라이언트가 가진 대역폭을 최대한 활용할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.900-903
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• 2002

This paper proposes the use of wavelet packet transform in a transform based video coding scheme, which is mainly used in low/very low bit-rate video coding schemes i.e. H.263 standard. In the experiments, the discrete cosine transform in the video coding scheme is replaced by the wavelet packet transform, and the improved performance in term of peak signal to noise ratio is measured and compared with the results obtained from the coding scheme implementing the ordinary wavelet transform. The experimental results show an impressive improvement obtained from the use of wavelet packet transform.