• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.20-29
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• 2013

The compression of video data is intended for real-time transmission of band-limited channels. Compressed video bit-streams are very sensitive to transmission error. If we lose packets or receive them with errors during transmission, not only the current frame will be corrupted, but also the error will propagate to succeeding frames due to the spatio-temporal predictive coding structure of sequences. Error detection and concealment is a good approach to reduce the bad influence on the reconstructed visual quality. To increase concealment efficiency, we need to get some more accurate error detection algorithm. In this paper, We hide specific data into the motion vector difference of each macro-block, which is obtained from the procedure of inter prediction mode in H.264/AVC. Then, the location of errors can be detected easily by checking transmitted specific data in decoder. We verified that the proposed algorithm generates good performances in PSNR and subjective visual quality through the computer simulation by H.324M mobile simulation tool.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.360-372
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• 2007

We propose a fast inter-layer mode decision method by utilizing coding information of base layer upward its enhancement layer inscalable video coding (SVC), also called MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Video Coding Amendment 3 or H.264 Scalable Extension (SE) which is being standardized. In this paper, when the motion vectors from the base layer have zero motion (0, 0) in inter-layer motion prediction or the Integer Transform coefficients of the residual between current MB and the motion compensated MB by the predicted motion vectors from the base layer are all zero, the block mode of the corresponding block to be encoded at the enhancement layer is determined to be the $16{\times}16$ mode. In addition, if the predicted mode of the MB to be encoded at the enhancement layer is not equal to the $16{\times}16$ mode, then the rate-distortion optimization is only performed on the reduced candidated modes which are same or smaller partitioned modes. Our proposed method exhibits the complexity reduction in encoding time up to 72%. Nevertheless, it shows negligible PSNR degradation and bit rate increase up to 0.25dB and 1.73%, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1C
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• pp.48-55
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• 2009

In scalable video coding, MCTF plays an important role for time-scalability and SNR-scalability. But there is image quality decreasing as MCTF level is increased because time interval of each frame is extended so that is hard to find suitable motion vector. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to prevent image quality from decreasing with unsuitable motion vector during MCTF update process using JND. We adapt JND to find errors within blocks of image and set a threshold which is used to add high frequency components during update process. We can overcome time-gap between frames and achieve better image quality through the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.28-36
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a frame-rate up-conversion method for temporal quality enhancement. The proposed method adaptively changes search range during hierarchical motion estimation and reconstructs hole regions using the proposed bi-direction prediction and linear interpolation. In order to alleviate errors due to inaccurate motion vector estimation, search range is adaptively changed based on reliability and for more accurate, motion estimation is performed in descending order of block variance. After segmentation of background and object regions, for filling hole regions, the pixel values of background regions are reconstructed using linear interpolation and those of object regions are compensated based on the proposed hi-directional prediction. The proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of PSNR with original uncompressed sequences. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is better than conventional methods by around 2dB, and blocky artifacts and blur artifacts are significantly diminished.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.74-79
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• 2008

In an H.264/AVC video encoder, the motion estimation at fractional pixel accuracy improves a coding efficiency and image quality. However, it requires additional computation overheads for fractional search and interpolation, and thus, reducing the computation complexity of fractional search becomes more important. This paper proposes fast fractional search algorithms by combining the SASR(Simplified Adaptive Search Range) and the MSDSP(Mixed Small Diamond Search Pattern) with the predicted fractional motion vector. Compared with the full search and the prediction-based directional fractional pixel search, the proposed algorithms can reduce up to 93.2% and 81% of fractional search points, respectively with the maximum PSNR lost less than 0.04dB. Therefore, the proposed fast search algorithms are quite suitable for mobile applications requiring low power and complexity.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.997-1003
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• 2007

H.264/AVC enhances inter-frame coding performance adopting new intra and inter mode prediction in inter-frame motion prediction. H.264 encoder provides performance superior to existing standards with the prediction modes. Instead of enhanced performance, however, both predictions increase complexity of encoder and demand a lot of coding time. This paper proposes a method using local statistics of resultant intra mode, my and mode map to predict inter mode. There are relationship between intra and inter mode, and we can predict inter mode using neighboring macroblocks' resultant mode and motion vector according to the contents of frame. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm reduces encoding time by 31% on average with a negligible loss of PSNR and bitrate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.12
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• pp.85-96
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• 1999

In a number of predictive video compression standards, the motion is compensated by the block-based motion compensation (BMC). The effective motion field used for the prediction by the BMC is obviously discontinuous since one motion vector is used for the entire macro-block. The usage of discontinuous motion field for the prediction causes the blocky artifacts and one obvious approach for eliminating such artifacts is to use a smoothed motion field. The optimal procedure will depend on the type of motion within the video. In this paper, several procedures for the motion vectors are considered. For any interpolation or approaches, however, the motion vectors as provided by the block matching algorithm(BMA) are no longer optimal. The optimum motion vectors(still one per macro-block) must minimize the of the displaced frame difference (DFD). We propose a unified algorithm that computes the optimum motion vectors to minimize the of the DFD using a conjugate gradient search. The proposed algorithm has been implemented and tested for the affine transformation based motion compensation (ATMC), the bilinear transformation based motion compensation (BTMC) and our own filtered motion compensation(FMC). The performance of these different approaches will be compared against the BMC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.560-563
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• 2007

다시점 영상은 관찰자가 원하는 시점을 선택할 수 있고, 자연스러운 입체감을 제공한다. 하지만 카메라의 수가 증가함에 따라 데이터양이 늘어나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 시.공간적 상관성을 고려한 시점 간 움직임 벡터 예측 기법을 제안한다. 인접한 시점의 영상이 비슷한 움직임 정보를 가지는 특징을 이용해 현재 블록의 움직임 벡터의 예측간을 계산한다. 또한 시간적으로 연속한 프레임의 경우 비슷한 변이 벡터를 가지므로, 이전 프레임의 변이 벡터 정보를 현재 매크로블록의 변이벡터로 활용하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.19-23
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• 2002

본 장에서는 H.26L 비디오 코덱에 적용되는 움직임 보상 기법(motion compensation) 및 B 픽쳐(Bi-predictive picture) 에 대해 다루기로 한다. 먼저 H.26L 비디오 코덱이 H.263 또는 MPEG-4 Part 2와 같은 종래 비디오 코덱들과 움직임 보상 관점에서 다른 점을 살펴보면, 복수개의 레퍼런스 픽쳐(multiple reference picture) 로부터 움직임 추정 (motion estimation) 밀 움직임 보상을 수행하고, 16x16 매크로 블록 크기부터 16x8, 8x16, 8x8블록 크기에서 매크로 블록 모드 타입이 결정되고 8x8 모드는 다시 8x4, 4x8, 4x4 단위에서 서브 모드 타입이 결정된다. 따라서 한 개의 매크로블록은 최대 16개의 모션벡터를 깆을 수 있다. 또한 복수개의 레퍼런스 픽쳐와 다양한 블록 타입을 적용함에 따라 모션벡터 예측(PMV: prediction of motion vector) 은 현재 블록과 이웃하는 블록들 사이의 레퍼런스 픽쳐 인덱스 비교 및 현재 블록 타입이 16x8또는 8x16 일 때 방향성 예측을 허용하는 새로운 기법들이 소개되어 있다. 그리고 코딩 효율을 높이기 위한 방법으로서 1/4 pel 단위의 움직임 보상을 하여 블록의 예측 정확도를 높이도록 하고 있다. 한편, H.26L에서의 B 픽쳐는 종래 비디오 코덱에 비해 확장된 정의를 갖고 있다. 예를 들어, 종래의 비디오 코덱에서는 B 픽쳐가 시간 스케일러빌러티(temporal scalability)에 사용됨에 따라 레퍼런스 픽쳐로서 사용될 수 없지만, H.26L은 B 픽쳐가 레퍼런스 픽쳐로서 사용되는 것을 허용하고 있다. 또한 종래의 B 픽쳐가 양방향에서 움직임 보상을 한 것과 달리 H.26L은 동일 방향에 존재하는 두개의 레퍼런스 픽쳐에서도 움직임 보상을 허용한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.280-289
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• 2010

The H.264/AVC standard uses efficient inter prediction technologies improving the coding efficiency by reducing temporal redundancy between images. However, since H.264/AVC does not efficiently encode a video sequence that occurs a local illumination change, the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC is decreased when a local illumination change happens in video. In this paper, we propose an improved motion compensation using adjacent pixels and motion vector refinement to efficiently encode local illumination changes. The proposed method always improves the BD-PSNR (Bj$\o$ntegaard Delta Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 0.01 ~ 0.21 dB compared with H.264/AVC.