• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.142-147
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• 2009

The recent H.264/AVC video coding standard provides a higher coding efficiency than previous standards. H.264/AVC achieves a bit rate saving of more than 50 % with many new technologies, but it is computationally complex. Most of fast mode decision algorithms have focused on Baseline profile of H.264/AVC. In this paper, a fast block mode decision scheme for P- slices in High profile is proposed to reduce the computational complexity for H.264/AVC because the High profile is useful for broadcasting and storage applications. To reduce the block mode decision complexity in P- pictures of High profile, we use the SAD value after $16{\times}16$ block motion estimation. This SAD value is used for the classification feature to divide all block modes into some proper candidate block modes. The proposed algorithm shows average speed-up factors of 47.42 ${\sim}$ 67.04% for IPPP sequences.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.128-135
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• 2017

In this paper, the changes of broadcasting loudness before and after are measured for the major broadcasting channels according to the amendment of broadcasting law and enforcement of digital television broadcasting loudness technology standards. Before the implementation of digital television broadcasting loudness technology standards. all the channels to be measured were broadcast at a higher volume level than the technical standards. However, after the implementation, most of the channels to be measured were maintained at a loudness level suitable for the technical standards. However, some programs are inadequate to meet technical standards, requiring corrective action, and the need for additional research to improve the measurement method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.6 s.102
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• pp.685-690
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• 2005

Recently, studies for effective multimedia data delivery have been widely performed. Among those researches, internet broadcasting is a technology to transmit various multimedia contents to variety of costumers on the internet simultaneously. To deliver large scale multimedia data such as internet broadcasting, efficient data delivery method is required. Therefore, technologies based on the overlay multicast of application larger multicast application are actively studied as an alternative for multicast overcoming shortcoming of uni-cast based technologies, which we one to one transmission methods. In this paper, we classify and study on the overlay multicasting for internet broadcasting, which can be implemented by application programs without modification in physical layer of the internet.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.259-267
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a media processor to provide interactive services in mobile multimedia broadcasting environments. The proposed system Is designed to support various functionalities, such as generation of MPEG-4 IOD (Initial Object Descriptor)/OD(Object Descriptor)/BIFS (Binary Format for Scene) data, encapsulation of MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)/BSAC (Bit Sliced Arithmetic Coding) stream and generated IOD/OD/BIFS data into SL (Sync Layer) packet, packetization of SL packet into TS (Transport Stream) packet and multiplexing. The proposed media processor can provide MPEG-4 based interactive services for users.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.868-875
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• 2010

AT-DMB was developed to raise the transmission rate of existing T-DMB with backward compatability. The transmission and hierarchical video service technique were legislated as Korean TTA standards, and other application service techniques including data services are being developed for the commercial service. In this paper, we consider the power of transmission power level of signals in Advanced Terrestrial Digital Multimedia System according to the constellation ratio. And we propose a new scheme for normalization of transmission signal power level in AT-DMB system. Adopting this scheme, the signal power level of hierarchical modulated signal can be uniform in AT-DMB system both for B Mode and Q Mode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.378-382
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• 2001

There are some technical problems in current internet-broadcasting. The load of server rises in proportion to user connection. And the inefficient usage of network bandwidth deteriorates quality of services and doesn't transport multimedia data in real time. To overcome above problems, multicast transport technology is applied to real-time multimedia data transport. But the reliability problem is still remained. This paper provides an efficient design of internet broadcasting server. We propose an multimedia data transport algorithm using adaptive encoding by grouping users according to similar connection environment. Performance evaluations show that the mechanism decreases the load of server and improves the quality of services.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.1765-1774
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• 2008

Due to recent increase of product placement(aka. PPL) in TV drama and entertainment program, the audience of these programs is exposed to the advertisement in the form of the props and backgrounds without discernment. Advancement in digital data broadcasting technology enabled advertisers to insert detailed information of the product or associated advertisement link into the content of the broadcast program as an interactive advertisement. With the interactive advertisement, the audience can focus on the content of the program and the advertiser can create an advertisement with a rich content through the interaction between the advertisement and the audience. It is possible because the interactive advertisement is dynamic advertisement behavior only activated by the audience's intention. In this research, we develop a Hot-spot generator to insert interactive advertisement in the DMB broadcast program. We also suggest dynamic Hot-spot generation technique that allows the Hot-spot object to follow not only the shape of the advertising object in the program, but also the movement of the object as the program progresses.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.415-425
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• 2019

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been successfully used in many image restoration tasks, including image denoising, super-resolution, and compression artifact reduction. By fully exploiting its characteristics, state-of-the-art image restoration techniques can be used to generate images with photorealistic details. However, there are many applications that require faithful rather than visually appealing image reconstruction, such as medical imaging, surveillance, and video coding. We found that previous GAN-training methods that used a loss function in the form of a weighted sum of fidelity and adversarial loss fails to reduce fidelity loss. This results in non-negligible degradation of the objective image quality, including peak signal-to-noise ratio. Our approach is to alternate between fidelity and adversarial loss in a way that the minimization of adversarial loss does not deteriorate the fidelity. Experimental results on compression-artifact reduction and super-resolution tasks show that the proposed method can perform faithful and photorealistic image restoration.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.197-205
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel framework for virtual content delivery networks (CDNs) based on cloud computing. The proposed framework aims to provide multimedia content delivery services customized for content providers by sharing virtual machines (VMs) in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, while fulfilling the service level agreement. Furthermore, it supports elastic virtual CDN services, which enables the capabilities of VMs to be scaled to encompass the dynamically changing resource demand of the aggregated virtual CDN services. For this, we provide the system architecture and relevant operations for the virtual CDNs and evaluate the performance based on a simulation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1628-1636
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• 2017

Such as closed caption, ancillary data, electronic program guide(EPG), data broadcasting, and etc, increased data for service convenience cause to degrade video quality of high definition contents. This article propose a method to transfer the closed caption data of video contents without video quality degradation. Video quality degradation does not cause in video compression by the block image insertion of caption data in DTV essential hidden area. Additionally the proposed methods have advantage to synchronize video, audio, and caption from preinserted script without time delay.