• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.19-26
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• 2005

After various video coding standards such as H.263, MPEG-4, and H.264 have been introduced, there has bun strong need to support the multiple standards with limited resources efficiently. In terms of deblocking Inter which plays an important role in improving visual quality, K264 deblocking filter implementation has different aspects as compared with traditional $8\times8$ block-based post-filter implementation. Analyzing the differences, this paper proposes a H.264 deblocking filter implementation method that supports $8\times8$ block-based post-filtering for the traditional video coding systems. In the proposed implementation method the block boundaries to he filtered are adaptively chosen for $8\times8$ and $4\times4$ block boundary filtering. Since the filtered result is selectively used for motion compensation or not, both loop-filtering and post-filtering can be achieved. A quantization parameter conversion unit that converts H.263 quantization parameters to H.264 quantization parameters is utilized by examining the $8\times8$ block boundary errors based on human visual system. Since the original nature of the H.264 deblocking filter is well expanded to the $8\times8$ block-based post-filter with minor modifications, the proposed implementation method is suitable to implement the deblocking function of the multiple video standards such as H.263, MPEG-4, and K264, efficiently.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3896-3909
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• 2000

The MPEG Video Service of hilving il property of continuity and large cilPilcity needs lilrge network capilcity. Because most of users have a heterogeneous network environment, it's not efficient way that all users have same size of video data to provide them with real time video service. Therefore, for the pUl1Xlse of an efficient and appropriate utilization of network resources, it requires to develop and deploy a new scalable transmission technique in consideration of respective network environment and individual clients computing power. The purpose of this paper is to develop a technology that can adjust the amount of dilta transmitted as an M1'EG video stream according to its gi yen communication bandwidth, and a technique that can reflect dynamic bilndwidth while playing a video stream. For this purpose, we propose a TFS (Temporal-Fidelity Scaling) technique that splits the MPEG video stream into various substream according to picture type or resolution. Those methods proposed her can filcilitilte an effective use of network resources, and provide multimedia MPEG video services in real- time with respect to individual client computing environment

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2004

본 논문은 미국 차세대 디지털 케이블 방송 표준 규격인 오픈케이블($OpenCable^{TM}$)의 수신제한 모듈인 CableCard의 Physical Layer를 SystemC의 TLM(Transaction Level Modeling)과 RTL(Register-Transfer Level) 모델링 기법으로 설계하였다. 본 논문에서 설계한 CableCard의 Physical Layer는 PCMCIA Interface, Command Inteface 그리고 MPEG-2 TS Interface 로 구성된다. CableCard가 전원이 인가될 때, 카드 초기화를 위하여 동작하는 PCMCIA 인터페이스는 16 비트 PC 카드 SRAM 타입으로 2MByte Memory와 100ns access time으로 동작할 수 있게 설계하였다. PCMCIA 카드 초기화 동작이 완료된 후, CableCard의 기능을 수행하기 위하여 두 개의 논리적 인터페이스가 정의되는데 하나는 MPEG-2 TS 인터페이스이고, 다른 하나는 호스트(셋톱박스)와 모듈 사이의 명령어들을 전달하는 명령어 인터페이스(Command Interface)이다. 명령어 인터페이스(Command Interface)는 셋톱박스의 CPU와 통신하기 위한 1KByte의 Data Channel과 OOB(Out-Of-Band) 통신을 위한 4KByte의 Extended Channel 로 구성되고, 최대 20Mbits/s까지 동작한다. 그리고 MPEG-2 TS는 100Mbits/s까지 동작을 수행할 수 있게 설계하였다. 설계한 코드를 실행한 후, Cadence사의 SimVision을 통해서 타이밍 시뮬레이션을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.169-176
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• 2001

Most of the previous video watermarking algorithms cannot be supported by real-time video processing. The maul reason is that in order to develop a robust algorithm the watermarking technique requires a very high computational cost when embedding and extracting the watermark in various frequency domains. Previous embedding methods simultaneously try to compress a video by MPEG and embed a watermark supporting real-time processing. However, In this paper, our proposed algorithm can support real-time processing in both spatial and frequency domains. First. the watermark is created on the courier transform domain, and next is inverse-Fourier-transformed ; then, we directly embed it into the video frame In the spatial domain. This procedure does not require a lot of the computational cost during embedding because of the spatial domain processing. Also, it is possible to support a video stream service and a very robust algorithm from MPEG compression and various geometric attacks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.407-409
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 Web 기반의 원격 교육 환경에서 강사와 학습자 모두에게 도움을 줄 수 있는 판서장면 MPEG Stream Data에서의 온라인 문자 인식 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 강사가 별도의 프리젠테이션 자료를 만들 필요 없이 직접 판서한 MPEG Stream Data로부터 초당 3 Frame을 Sampling 한 후, 각 Frame에 Laplacian 마스크를 이용한 윤곽선 검출, Frame간 빼기 그리고 세선화 등의 영상처리 기법을 적용하여 문자인식에 필요한 좌표 값과 방향코드 등의 특징을 추출하였다. 좌표 값은 세선화 된 획의 중간 Pixel의 좌표 값이며, 구해진 좌표 값들을 이용하여 8방향 코드와 가상 획 코드를 구한 다음, 이 특징들을 사용해 은닉 마르코프 모델(Hidden Markov Model)을 학습시키고 한글 문자 인식을 행하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2003

This paper proposes a database index and retrieval method using the PCA(Principal Component Analysis). We perform a scene change detection and key frame extraction from the DC Image constructed by DCT DC coefficients in the compressed video stream that is video compression standard such as MPEG. In the extracted key frame, we use the PCA, then we can make codebook that has a statistical data as a codeword, which is saved as a database index. We also provide retrieval image that are similar to user's query image in a video database. As a result of experiments, we confirmed that the proposed method clearly showed superior performance in video retrieval and reduced computation time and memory space.

• 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.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.534-542
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• 1999

A sell-designed rate control strategy can improve overall picture quality for video transmission over a constant bit rate channel and the rate control method is not a normative part of MPEG-video standard, the performance of MPEG video codec can be quite different depends on how to implement the rate control scheme. The rate control scheme proposed in MPEG show good results when scene changes is not occurred. But it has weakness that it does not properly handle scene-changed pictures. Therefore picture quality after scene change is deteriorated, and possibility of overflow occurrence becomes high. In this paper, a new method for detection of scene change occurrence using local variance and a new determination scheme for adaptive quantization parameter, mqunt, which can consider local characteristic of an image by using previously computed the local variance from the scene change detection part are proposed. IN addition, and adaptive rate control scheme which can handles scene changed picture very efficiently by scene-changed picture is proposed. Computer simulations are performed to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm. The suggested detection algorithm precisely detected scene change. And the proposed rate control scheme shows better rate control performance as compared with that of the conventional MPEG scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.432-443
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• 2017

The primary goal of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard is to provide immersive audio environments for high-resolution broadcasting services such as UHDTV. This standard incorporates a wide range of technologies such as encoding/decoding technology for multi-channel/object/scene-based signal, rendering technology for providing 3D audio in various playback environments, and post-processing technology. The reference software decoder of this standard is a structure combining several modules and can operate in various modes. Each module is composed of independent executable files and executed sequentially, real time decoding is impossible. In this paper, we make DLL library of the core decoder, format converter, object renderer, and binaural renderer of the standard and integrate them to enable frame-based decoding. In addition, by measuring the computation complexity of each mode of the MPEG-H 3D-Audio decoder, this paper also provides a reference for selecting the appropriate decoding mode for various hardware platforms. As a result of the computational complexity measurement, the low complexity profiles included in Korean broadcasting standard has a computation complexity of 2.8 times to 12.4 times that of the QMF synthesis operation in case of rendering as a channel signals, and it has a computation complexity of 4.1 times to 15.3 times of the QMF synthesis operation in case of rendering as a binaural signals.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.6
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• pp.745-752
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• 2002

The purpose of the paper is to enable a format transcoding between a heterogeneous compression format in a real time, and to enhance the compression ratio using characteristics of the compressed frame. In this paper, for the heterogeneous format transcoding, we tried to transcode from MPEG2 having a lower compression ratio to H.263 having a higher compression ratio. After analyzing MPEG 2 bit stream and H.263 bit stream of the same original video, we found that the number of intra coded macro blocks in MPEG 2 data is much higher than the number of the intra coded macro blocks in H.263 data. In the process of P frame generation, a intra coded macro block is generated when a motion estimation value representing the similarity between the previous frame and current frame does not meet a threshold. Especially the intra coded macro block has a great impact on the compression ratio. Hence the paper, we tried to minimize the number of intra coded macro blocks in H.263 data stream which is transcoded from MPEG 2 in a compressed domain. For the purpose, we propose a guided search method for transcoding the INTRA coded block into INTER coded block using the information about motion vectors surrounding the intra macro block in order to minimize the complexity of the motion estimation process. The experimental results show that the transcoding of MPEG 2 into H.263 can be done in a real time successfully.