• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.7A
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• pp.711-723
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• 2002

A finer granular scalable (FGS) version of ISO/IEC MPEG-4 video streaming is investigated in this work with the prioritized stream delivery over loss-rate differentiated networks. Our proposed system is focused on the seamless integration of rate adaptation, prioritized packetization, and simplified differentiation for the MPEG-4 FGS video streaming. The proposed system consists of three key components: 1) rate adaptation with scalable source encoding, 2) content-aware prioritized packetization, and 3) loss-based differential forwarding. More specifically, a constant-quality rate adaptation is first achieved by optimally truncating the over-coded FGS stream based on the embedding rate-distortion (R-D) information (obtained from a piecewise linear R-D model). The rate-controlled video stream is then packetized and prioritized according to the loss impact of each packet. Prioritized packets are transmitted over the underlying network, where packets are subject to differentiated dropping and forwarding. By focusing on the end-to-end quality, we establish an effective working conditions for the proposed video streaming and the superior performance is verified by simulated MPEG-4 FGS video streaming.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.489-502
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• 2003

This paper presents an MPEG-4 video codec, called MoVa, for video coding applications that adopts 3G-324M. We designed MoVa to be optimal by embedding a cost-effective ARM7TDMI core and partitioning it into hardwired blocks and firmware blocks to provide a reasonable tradeoff between computational requirements, power consumption, and programmability. Typical hardwired blocks are motion estimation and motion compensation, discrete cosine transform and quantization, and variable length coding and decoding, while intra refresh, rate control, error resilience, error concealment, etc. are implemented by software. MoVa has a pipeline structure and its operation is performed in four stages at encoding and in three stages at decoding. It meets the requirements of MPEG-4 SP@L2 and can perform either 30 frames/s (fps) of QCIF or SQCIF, or 7.5 fps (in codec mode) to 15 fps (in encode/decode mode) of CIF at a maximum clock rate of 27 MHz for 128 kbps or 144 kbps. MoVa can be applied to many video systems requiring a high bit rate and various video formats, such as videophone, videoconferencing, surveillance, news, and entertainment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.499-502
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• 2006

H.264/MPEG4 Advanced Video coding joint standard needs deblocking filter of decoder. We propose a better deblocking algorithm ensuring picture quality even if it is low bit-rate and bandwidth in MPEG-4 video. The complexity diminishes in proposed deblocking algorithm because it uses only simple shift, addition and comparison. We handle dividing into complexity area, medium area and simple area after counting boundary intensity of mask block to identify presence of block effects. As a result of experiment, we make certain of that block effects reduces in proposed deblocking algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.591-601
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• 2002

Motion compensation is a powerful method to compress an image sequence. Its main drawback is that once an error is occurred, the error propagates through the frames. Recently, the intra update method was proposed to stop the error propagation at the expense of reduction in compression efficiency. This paper proposes an intra update method based on a rate-distortion optimization in error prone environments. The rate and the distortion are estimated using the Lagrangian optimization to select the coding mode and the quantization step size. The proposed method is applied to MPEG-4 codec, and the experimental results show that it is robust to the error such as packet losses comparing with the conventional ones.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.69-78
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• 2001

MPEG-4 visual conformance standard specifies methods to verify whether bitstreams and decoders meet the requirements at the specified profile and level. The test of decoders can be divided into two parts: the static test and the dynamic test. The static test can be performed by examining the decoder output with that of a reference decoder. This paper proposes design methods of test bitstreams for static test of texture decoding, and shows the test results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.556-558
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• 2005

이동멀티미디어 방송 서비스의 국내 표준인 디지털 멀티미디어 방송(DMB) 시스템에서 대화형 컨텐츠는 MPEG-4 씬 디스크립션 정보에 의해서 이루어진다. 따라서 사용자 상호작용이 풍부한 컨텐츠일수록 씬 디스크립션이 전송되기 위해서 요구되는 비트레이트도 높아진다. 그러나 이동 단말에 고품질의 멀티미디어 데이터를 전송하는 지상파 DMB 환경에서는 씬 디스크립션과 같은 부가 데이터의 전송율을 매우 제한적이다. 그러므로 오디오나 비디오 데이터뿐만 아니라 씬 디스크립션 정보도 저대역폭 및 이동 단말을 대상으로 유효한 품질을 보장할 수 있는 형태로 인코딩되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컨텐츠를 전송하기 전에 인코딩된 MPEG-4 씬 디스크립션 정보를 파악하여 전송시점에 예상되는 비트율에 최적화되도록 재구성함으로써 씬 디스크립션 정보의 전송지연 및 손실을 최소화하는 방안의 연구 내용물 제안하고 실험결과를 소개한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.583-592
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• 2006

Digital broadcasting technology has developed focusing on multi-channel/multi-media, high-definition quality, and mobility-support. Recently, there has been a clear trend toward bidirectional service with the convergence between broadcasting and communication. The broadcasting viewer is no longer simply a passive receptor but has also become an information generator. Currently, the digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) specifications are the major standard for portable digital broadcasting and have been establishing the overall guidelines for bidirectional service using the MPEG-4 system. While detailed specifications for DMB systems are not well-established for bidirectional service yet, they share the basic concepts underlying the European Eureka-147 Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system. This paper develops key scenarios for bidirectional service in DMB, describes the signal transaction of broadcasting and return channels, and demonstrates typical scenarios using binary format for scenes (BIFS) in the MPEG-4 system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2012

This paper presents a real-time image transferring and localization system utilizing HSDPA, a commercial wireless network system. A novel image compression algorithm is developed based on MPEG4 to comply with uploading bandwidth of 130 kbps and QVGA image transmission of 30 fps. Aiming at being embedded in moving vehicles, the proposed system has a small size, low power consumption, and robustness to disturbances. We validate the performance of the system by presenting captured images of transferring video and localization data. Our system can be applied to real-time surround monitoring in moving vehicles or real-time ecology observation in remote places.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.219-222
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• 2007

지상파 DMB 데이터 표준인 MPEG-4 BIFS Core2D@Level1을 이용하여 데이터 콘텐츠 구현 시, BIFS 언어가 갖고 있는 문제점으로 인해 GUI 표현이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하여 데이터 콘텐츠 개발자가 손쉽게 GUI 기능을 구현할 수 있도록 MPEG-4 BIFS GUI 프로파일을 설계하고 구현하였다. DMB 환경에 적합한 GUI 노드 선정을 위해 콘텐츠 개발자의 요구사항 조사와 타 솔루션과의 비교 분석 및 데이터 콘텐츠에서 자주 쓰이는 기능을 파악하였으며, 이와 같은 분석 내용을 바탕으로 GUI 프로파일을 구성을 위한 노드들을 정의하였다. 각 노드들은 XMT 형식으로 구현되었으며, 정의한 프로파일 검증을 위하여 테스트용 데이터 콘텐츠를 개발하였다. 이와 같은 연구를 통해 DMB 데이터 콘텐츠 개발 시 개발자가 화면 구성에 필요한 GUI를 손쉽게 구현할 수 있게 된다면, 다양한 데이터 콘텐츠 개발을 위한 발판이 되어 향후 데이터 방송 활성화에 기여할 수 있을 것이라 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.283-294
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• 2002

Now is the time for web-based video e-mail system because of world wide use of internet. But video data is so large, then data compression is much needed for transmission by web. In this paper, my colleagues and I implement full motion video e-mail system using MPEG-4, the international standards for audio-visual data. This video e-mail system is made of web-based active-X control, so easily accessible by web, and applies real-time audio-video compression. It's possible for everyone to send video e-mail for free to everywhere in the world if this system is used. The main application areas of this system are multimedia mailing service, web-based video advertisement, remote education, remote medical service and shopping mall construction, etc.