• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.216-225
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• 2011

Following the proliferation of three-dimensional video contents and displays, many terrestrial broadcasting companies have been preparing for stereoscopic 3DTV service. In terrestrial stereoscopic broadcast, it is a difficult task to code and transmit two video sequences while sustaining as high quality as 2DTV broadcast due to the limited bandwidth defined by the existing digital TV standards such as ATSC. Thus, a terrestrial 3DTV broadcasting with a heterogeneous video codec system, where the left image and right images are based on MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively, is considered in order to achieve both high quality broadcasting service and compatibility for the existing 2DTV viewers. Without significant change in the current terrestrial broadcasting systems, we propose a joint rate control scheme for stereoscopic 3DTV service based on the heterogeneous dual codec systems. The proposed joint rate control scheme applies to the MPEG-2 encoder a quadratic rate-quantization model which is adopted in the H.264/AVC. Then the controller is designed for the sum of the left and right bitstreams to meet the bandwidth requirement of broadcasting standards while the sum of image distortions is minimized by adjusting quantization parameter obtained from the proposed optimization scheme. Besides, we consider a condition on maintaining quality difference between the left and right images around a desired level in the optimization in order to mitigate negative effects on human visual system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed bit rate control scheme outperforms the rate control method where each video coding standard uses its own bit rate control algorithm independently in terms of the increase in PSNR by 2.02%, the decrease in the average absolute quality difference by 77.6% and the reduction in the variance of the quality difference by 74.38%.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.75-82
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• 2002

In this report, the complexity analysis of the JVT(Joint Video Team) codec, which has jointly developed the next video coding standard, is performed. Three types of configurations in terms of coding efficiency are set and the analysis of the memory band width and computation time for each configuration is performed. ATOMIUM complexity analysis tool is used for both the memory access statistics and computation time calculation of JVT codec. Also the complexity of each video coding tool in the encoder and decoder is shown in relative complexity.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.179-188
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• 2017

The Internet Video Coding (IVC) standard is due to be published by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) for various Internet applications such as internet broadcast streaming. IVC aims at three things fundamentally: 1) forming IVC patents under a free of charge license, 2) reaching comparable compression performance to AVC/H.264 constrained Baseline Profile (cBP), and 3) maintaining computational complexity for feasible implementation of real-time encoding and decoding. MPEG experts have worked diligently on the intellectual property rights issues for IVC, and they reported that IVC already achieved the second goal (compression performance) and even showed comparable performance to even AVC/H.264 High Profile (HP). For the complexity issue, however, there has not been thorough analysis on IVC decoder. In this paper, we analyze the IVC decoder in view of the time complexity by evaluating running time. Through the experimental results, IVC is 3.6 times and 3.1 times more complex than AVC/H.264 cBP under constrained set (CS) 1 and CS2, respectively. Compared to AVC/H.264 HP, IVC is 2.8 times and 2.9 times slower in decoding time under CS1 and CS2, respectively. The most critical tool to be improved for lightweight IVC decoder is motion compensation process containing a resolution-adaptive interpolation filtering process.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1370-1378
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• 1996

A subjective video quality assessment methods are proposed based on CCIR Rec. 500-5 for an evaluation and testing of compressed video quality and performance of video codec to be designed in accordance with the MPEG-2 MP ML specification which is adapted as a DTV standard for Korea digital DBS. Video sequence compressed in compliance with MPEG-2 MP ML encoding parameterswastested by the proposed video quality evaluation procedure. Test sequence were compressed at the bit rate 6Mbps, 7.5Mbps and 9Mbps, repectively. Test results of the 7.5Mbps bitrate showed a satisfactory picture quality at about 4.0 on the 5.0 absolute scale of ITU-R 500-5.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.6 s.102
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• pp.637-646
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• 2005

Most of the multimedia contents for DBM services art provided as MPEG-2 bit streams. However, they have to be transcoded to H.264 bit streams for practical services because the standard video codec for DMB is H.264. The existing transcoder architecture is Cascaded Pixel-Domain Transcoding Architecture, which consists of the MPEG-2 dacoding phase and the H.264 encoding phase. This architecture can be easily implemented using MPEG-2 decoder and H.264 encoder without source modifying. However. It has disadvantages in transcoding time and DCT-mismatch problem. In this paper, we propose two kinds of transcoder architecture, DCT-OPEN and DCT-CLOSED, to complement the CPDT architecture. Although DCT-OPEN has lower PSNR than CPDT due to drift problem, it is efficient for real-time transcoding. On the contrary, the DCT-CLOSED architecture has the advantage of PSNR over CPDT at the cost of transcoding time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.477-485
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• 2002

In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture for the H.263 video codec and its VLSI implementation. This architecture is based on the unified interface by which internal hardware engines and an internal RISC processor are connected one another. The unified interface enables the modular design of internal blocks, efficient hardware/software partitioning, and pipelined paralled operations. The developed VLSI supports the H.263 version 2 profile 3 @ level 10, and moreover, both the control protocol H.245 and the multiplexing protocol H.223. Therefore, it can be used for the complete ITU-T H.324 or 3GPP 3G 324M multimedia processor with the help of an external audio codec. Simultaneous encoding and decoding of QCIF format images at a rate greater than 15 frames per second is achieved at 40 MHz clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.739-742
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• 1998

실시간 동영상의 전송을 위해 본 논문에서는 USB를 전송매체로 하여 구현했다. USB는 키보드, 스태너, 모뎀등 다양하게 사용되고 있는 인터페이스를 한나로 통일하고, 포트의 부족을 해결하기 위해서 개발된 것으로 고속의 데어터전송(12Mbps)을 가능하다. USB의 고속데이터 전송의 특징은 정지화상(JPEG) 뿐만 아니라 실시간 동영상(MPEG1, MPEG2)의 전송을 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 USB로 실시간 동영상 전송을 위한 시스템 구조를 제시하였고 보다 효율적인 데이터 전송을 위한 USB Data Transfer Type에 관해 연구하였다. 720×480의 동영상의 압축을 위해 기존의 널리 이용되는 DCT대신 wevelet 알고리즘을 이용하였고 실시간 압축과 복원을 위해 video compression codec인 adv601를 사용하여 동영상 및 정지화상압축을 하였다. 또한 DSP(TMS320C32)를 이용하여 Quantization Bin Width Calculation을 함으로써 video bit stream의 크기를 가변적으로 제어하려 하였다. 이로서 동영상의 전송시 발생될 수 있는 데이터 병목현상을 해결 하였고 USB뿐만 아니라 다양한 통신망｛ISDN(128Kbps), T1(1.5Mbps) T3(45Mbps)｝에서의 동영상의 실시간 전송이 가능한 시스템 구조를 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.261-266
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 인터넷 폰이나 디지털 이동통신에서와 같이 낮은 비트율이 요구되는 응용분야에서 사용될 수 있는 HVXC 부호화 및 복호화 알고리즘을 TMS320C6701 160MHz DSP를 사용하여 실시간 동작을 구현한 내용을 기술한다. 사용한 최적화 방법으로는 기본적으로 연산 시간이 많이 소요되는 함수 루틴에 대한 C 언어레벨의 최적화 및 어셈블리어 레벨의 최적화를 수행하였고, TMS320C6701 DSP 내부 프로그램 메모리를 프로그램 캐쉬로 사용하였다. 또한, 계산량이 많은 부분과 테이블 참조가 필요한 연산을DSP의 내부 데이터 메모리 영역에서 수행하여 소요시간을 단축하였으며, 음성신호 및 비트스트림의 입출력에는 background DMA(direct memory access) 방식을 이용하였다. 이와 같은 최적화결과 2kbps 및 4kbps의 비트율에서 압축 및 복원을 실시간으로 수행할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.192-194
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• 2005

Acceptance of the international standards for video compression, such as H.261, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, along with the developments in video codec hardware, has created an explosion of application. Among these, the long time quest for long-distance digital video transmission causes an increasing interest in transporting compressed video over networks which are nontraditional for this purpose, including asynchronous transfer mode networks, the Internet, and cellular and wireless channels. Transmission of compression video over packet network is improved for error resilience. And layered video coding techniques improves error resilience. We present a efficient method of scalable video coding for low bandwidth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2004

H.264/AVC (baseline profile)은 MPEG-4 (simple profile)에 비하여 약 2배정도 향상된 압축 성능을 나타내는 것으로 알려져, DMB 방송, DVD 등에 사용될 예정이며, 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스에 사용될 차세대 비디오 압축 표준으로 인정받고 있다 하지만, 부호기의 복잡도는 MPEG-4 simple profile에 비하여 16배정도 높아져서, 실시간을 요구하는 서비스, 또는 임베디드 환경을 갖는 서비스에 사용하는데 심각한 제약을 갖는다. 따라서, 기존의 표준 코덱들을 대체하여 다양한 통신 환경에서 향상된 화질의 비디오 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 코덱의 복잡도 개선이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문은 H.264/AVC 비디오 코덱을 임베디드 환경을 갖는 통신 서비스에 적용하기 위하여 코덱의 복잡도를 개선하기 위한 방법을 제시한다