• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권8호
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• pp.1199-1203
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• 2012

H.264 adopted many compression tools to increase image data compression efficiency such as B frame bi-directional predictions, the direct mode coding and so on. Despite its high compression efficiency, H.264 can suffer from its long coding time due to the complicated tools of H.264. To realize a high performance H.264, several fast algorithms were proposed. One of them is adaptive fast direct mode decision algorithm using mode and Lagrangian cost prediction for B frame in H.264/AVC (MLP) algorithm which can determine the direct coding mode for macroblocks without a complex mode decision process. However, in this algorithm, macroblocks not satisfying the conditions of the MLP algorithm are required to process the complex mode decision calculation, yet suffering a long coding time. To overcome the problem, this paper proposes a fast direct mode prediction algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can determine the direct mode coding without a complex mode decision process for 42% more macroblocks and, this algorithm can reduce coding time by up to 23%, compared with Jin's algorithm. This enables to encode B frames fast with a less quality degradation.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.501-506
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• 2009

In the H.264/ AVC video coding standard, the intra-prediction coding with various block sizes offers a considerably high improvement in coding efficiency compared to previous standards. In order to achieve this, H.264/AVC uses the Rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique to select the best intraprediction mode for a macroblock, and it brings about the drastic increase of the computation complexity of H.264 encoder. To reduce the computation complexity and stabilize the coding performance on visual quality, this paper proposed a fast intra-prediction mode decision algorithm using non-parametric thresholds and simplified directional masks. The use of nonparametric thresholds makes the intra-coding performance not be dependent on types of video sequences and simplified directional masks reduces the compuation loads needed by the calculation of local edge information. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm is able to reduce more than 55% of the whole encoding time with a negligible loss in PSNR and bitrates and provides the stable performance regardless types of video sequences.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.328-338
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• 2008

H.264/AVC기반의 다시점 영상 부호화 기술은 시점간 상관성을 이용한 새로운 예측 방법을 이용하여 여러 대의 카메라로부터 촬영된 영상을 효율적으로 부호화하는 기술이다. 그러나 다시점 부호화 기술은 시점의 증가와 시점간 예측의 사용으로 인해 부호화 시간이 크게 증가한다. 본 논문은 부호화 시간을 줄이기 위해 다시점 영상에서 시점간에 대응하는 마크로블록 (Macroblock) 기반 영역 분할 정보와 시점간의 전역 변이 벡터를 이용한 고속 모드 결정 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 다시점 영상 부호화 표준의 참조 소프트웨어인 joint multi-view video model (JMVM) 4.0에 비해 약 0.04dB의 화질 열화를 보이지만 전체 부호화 시간을 평균적으로 40% 단축할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2004

최근에 표준화가 완료된 H.264 비디오 부호화 표준은 기존 표준에 비해 높은 부호화 효율을 제공한다. H.264에는 움직임 보상 부호화를 위해 블록 크기에 따른 7가지 모드가 있으며, 인트라 부호화를 위해서는 인트라 예측 방향에 따라 다양한 모드를 지원한다. 이렇게 다양한 모드 중에서 가장 부호화 효율이 높은 모드를 결정하기 위하여, H.264 참조 모델은 복잡도가 높은 비트율-왜곡(Rate distortion) 최적화 기법을 채택하고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 '조기 SKIP 모드 결정법'과 '선택적 인트라 모드 생략법'은, 부호화 효율의 큰 감소 없이 H.264의 모드 결정에 소요되는 비트율-왜곡치(Rate distortion cost) 계산수를 평균 72% 감소 시켰으며, 전체 부호화 시간도 평균 30% 감소시켰다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.721-731
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• 2006

A fast intra skip detection algorithm based on the ratedistortion (RD) cost for an inter frame (P-slices) is proposed for H.264/AVC video encoding. In the H.264/AVC coding standard, a robust rate-distortion optimization technique is used to select the best coding mode and reference frame for each macroblock (MB). There are three types of intra predictions according to profiles. These are $16{\times}16$ and $4{\times}4$ intra predictions for luminance and an $8{\times}8$ intra prediction for chroma. For the high profile, an $8{\times}8$ intra prediction has been added for luminance. The $4{\times}4$ prediction mode has 9 prediction directions with 4 directions for $16{\times}16$ and $8{\times}8$ luma, and $8{\times}8$ chrominance. In addition to the inter mode search procedure, an intra mode search causes a significant increase in the complexity and computational load for an inter frame. To reduce the computational load of the intra mode search at the inter frame, the RD costs of the neighborhood MBs for the current MB are used and we propose an adaptive thresholding scheme for the intra skip extraction. We verified the performance of the proposed scheme through comparative analysis of experimental results using joint model reference software. The overall encoding time was reduced up to 32% for the IPPP sequence type and 35% for the IBBPBBP sequence type.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2017

The compression of video for both full HD and UHD requires the inclusion of extra vertical lines to every video frame, named as the DTV essential hidden area (DEHA), for the effective functioning of the MPEG-2/4/H encoder, stream, and decoder. However, while the encoding/decoding process is dependent on the DEHA, the DEHA is conventionally viewed as a redundancy in terms of channel utilization or storage efficiency. This paper proposes a block mode DEHA method to more effectively utilize the DEHA. Partitioning video block images and then evenly filling the representative DEHA macroblocks with the average DC coefficient of the active video macroblock can minimize the amount of DEHA data entering the compressed video stream. Theoretically, this process results in smaller DEHA data entering the video stream. Experimental testing of the proposed block mode DEHA method revealed a slight improvement in the quality of the active video. Outside of this technological improvement to video quality, the attractiveness of the proposed DEHA method is also heightened by the ease that it can be implemented with existing video encoders.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.45-48
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• 2008

This paper presents a brief overview of scalable video coding (SVC) with a focus on spatial scalability and its application to Advanced Terrestrial-DMB (AT-DMB). By adopting SVC with two spatial-layers and hierarchical modulation, AT-DMB provides standard definition (SD)-level video while maintaining compatability with the existing CIF-level video. In this paper, we suggest a layer-configuration and coding parameters of SVC which are well suit for an AT-DMB system. In order to reduce extremely large encoding time resulted by an exhaustive search of a macroblock coding mode in spatial scalability, we propose a fast mode decision method which excludes redundant modes in each layer. It utilizes the mode distribution of each layer and their correlations. Experimental results show that a simplified encoding model with the method reduces the computational complexity significantly with negligible coding loss.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.255-258
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• 2006

In the H.264/AVC standard, intra prediction increases the coding efficiency of intra macroblocks and by applying rate-distortion optimization to each macroblock, it is possible to choose Inter or Intra encoding adaptively. This sort of encoding scheme, however, increases encoding complexity dramatically and causes troubles in practical applications of the real-time mobile environment. In order to decrease the complexity, variety of methods is proposed but most of those take only its current block into consideration for selecting candidate modes which naturally causes degradation in PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio). The proposed fast intra mode decision finds the candidate modes by analyzing transformed coefficients of neighboring blocks stored in the buffer at the encoder stage of input sequences. We verify this proposed scheme in complexity, PSNR and bit-rate.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1776-1784
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• 2003

이 논문에서는 MPEG­4를 부호화하기 위한 스트림 생성기의 효율적인 구조 설계에 대하여 제안한다. 이 모듈은 DCT 및 양자화 모듈로부터 출력된 매크로 블록 단위의 양자화 된 계수를 입력으로 하여 부호화 기의 부호화 모드에 따라 VLC 부호화를 수행하며, MPEG­4 의 오류 은익 방법을 지원하며, 데이터 파티션을 지원한다. 이 구조는 VHDL 을 사용하여 설계하였으며, 포스트 시뮬레이션을 통해 설계된 부호화 기의 성능을 평가하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.20-27
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• 2009

다중 참조 영상을 이용한 최적 부호화 모드를 선택하기 위해 율-왜곡 최적화 기법을 적용한 H.264/AVC 동영상 압축 표준은 기존의 동영상 압축 표준들보다 높은 부호화 효율을 얻었지만 계산 복잡도가 그만큼 증가하게 되었다. 따라서 이런 계산의 복잡도를 줄이기 위한 많은 빠른 모드 결정 방법들이 제안되었다. 그중에 I4MB의 방향성 정보를 이용한 고속 인트라 모드 결정 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 JM11.0과 비교하여 무시할만하게 PSNR이 손실되고 비트율의 증가하지만 IPPP 영상들에서 전체 부호화 시간을 평균 15%와 모든 영상을 인트라로 처리한 영상들에서 부호화 시간을 평균 44% 감소시킬 수 있었다.