• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.176-192
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• 2014

The realization of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) has been fostered by the availability of low cost and low power CMOS devices. However, the transmission of bulk video data requires adequate bandwidth, which cannot be promised by single path communication on an intrinsically low resourced sensor network. Moreover, the distortion or artifacts in the video data and the adherence to delay threshold adds to the challenge. In this paper, we propose a two stage Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteeing scheme called Prioritized Multipath WMSN (PMW) for transmitting H.264 encoded video. Multipath selection based on QoS metrics is done in the first stage, while the second stage further prioritizes the paths for sending H.264 encoded video frames on the best available path. PMW uses two composite metrics that are comprised of hop-count, path energy, BER, and end-to-end delay. A color-coded assisted network maintenance and failure recovery scheme has also been proposed using (a) smart greedy mode, (b) walking back mode, and (c) path switchover. Moreover, feedback controlled adaptive video encoding can smartly tune the encoding parameters based on the perceived video quality. Computer simulation using OPNET validates that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the conventional approaches on human eye perception and delay.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.69-84
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• 1998

In digital broadcasting, services such as digital satellite TV, cable TV and digital terrestrial TV, several video programs are compressed by MPEG-2, and then simultaneously transmitted over a conventional CBR (Constant Bit Rate) broadcasting channel. In this paper, we propose a joint quality control scheme to be able to accurately control the relative picture quality among the video programs, which is achieved by simdt;,nL'Ously controlling the video encoders to generate the VBR (Variable Bit Rate) compressed video streams. Our quality control scheme can prevent the video buffer overflow and underflow by total target bit allocation process, and also exactly control the relative picture quality in terms of PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) between some programs requiring higher picture quality and others by rate-distortion modification. Furthermore we present a rate-distortion estimation method for MPEG-2 video, which is base of our joint quality control, and verify its performance by experiments. The most attractive features of this estimation method are as follows: 1) computational complexity is low because main operation for the estimation is to calculate the histogram of OCT coefficients into quantizer; 2) estimation results are very accurate enough to be applied to the practical MPEG-2 video coding applications. Simulation results show that the proposed joint quality control scheme accurately controls the relative picture quality among the video progran1s transmitted over a single channel as well as provides more consistent and higher picture quality than independent coding scheme that encodes each program independently.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.683-684
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• 2006

본 논문은 비디오기반의 얼굴인식에 있어서 환경의 변화나 왜곡, 노이즈 등으로 발생할 수 있는 부분적인 가림현상(Partial Occlusion)에 대한 처리기법을 제시한다. 인증되는 각 사람은 하나의 Manifold 를 구성하며 각 Manifold 는 m 개의 pose-Manifold 로 구성된다. Pose-Manifold 를 구성하기 위한 학습데이터는 매우 유사한 포즈들로 구성되기 때문에 얼굴을 이루는 영역의 픽셀에 대한 Intensity 의 변화는 크지 않다. 입력되는 이미지의 Intensity 를 학습데이터의 Intensity 의 변화량을 고려한 Intensity Distortion 을 이용하면 Occlusion 이 발생한 영역을 찾을 수 있고, Occlusion 이 발생한 정도에 따라 가중치를 부여할 수 있다. 이렇게 Occlusion 에 따라 영역에 중요도를 다르게 하여 얼굴인식률을 높이고자 한다. 실험에서는 제시하는 Mask 를 사용하지 않았을 경우와 기존에 제시된 알고리즘과의 성능을 비교한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.100-102
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존의 인지 영상 부호화에 사용되던 Just Noticeable Distortion(JND) 보다 더 압축에 적합한 모델인 Just Noticeable Quantization Distortion(JNQD) 모델을 제시하고, 이를 사용한 인지적 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 인지적 영상 압축 방식은 영상 코덱 내부의 Rate-Distortion Optimization(RDO)을 수정하지 않고 입력되는 영상의 불필요한 정보들을 미리 제거하는 전처리 과정으로서, JNQD 모델을 사용하여 보다 간단하면서 압축 효율을 크게 증가 시킬 수 있다. 기존 영상 압축의 전처리 방법들은 부호화기의 양자화 값을 전처리 과정에서 고려하지 못하여 부정확한 인지 중복성 제거 결과를 초래하였으나, 제안하는 방법은 영상의 특성뿐만 아니라 양자화 크기 값을 고려하여 적응적으로 인지 왜곡이 발생하지 않는 주관적 인지 중복성 제거를 전처리 과정에서 수행할 수 있다. 거의 유사한 주관적 품질 수준을 유지하면서 HEVC 참조 소프트웨어 대비 약 15%의 압축효율 향상을 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.65-75
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• 2005

In this paper, we consider a scenario in which the source has been offered QoS guarantees subject to token-bucket regulation. The rate of the source should be controlled such that it conforms to the token-bucket regulation, and also the distortion obtained is the minimum. We have developed an optimal scheduling algorithm for offline (like pre-recorded video) sources with convex distortion function and which can not tolerate any delay. This optimal offline algorithm has been extended for the real-time online source by predicting the number of packets that the source may send in future. The performance of the online scheduler is not substantially degraded as compared to that of the optimal offline scheduler. A sub-optimal offline algorithm has also been developed to reduce the computational complexity and it is shown to perform very well. We later consider the case where the source can tolerate a fixed amount of delay and derive optimal offline algorithm for such traffic source.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.541-547
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• 2017

The Joint Exploration Model (JEM), which is a reference SW codec of the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) exploring the future video standard technology, provides a recursive Quadtree plus Binary Tree (QTBT) block structure. QTBT can achieve enhanced coding efficiency by adding new block structures at the expense of largely increased computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a fast decision algorithm of QTBT block partitioning depth that uses the rate-distortion (RD) cost of the upper and current depth to reduce the complexity of the JEM encoder. Experimental results showed that the computational complexity of JEM 5.0 can be reduced up to 21.6% and 11.0% with BD-rate increase of 0.7% and 1.2% in AI (All Intra) and RA (Random Access), respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2315-2320
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• 2006

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1080-1087
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• 2005

Significant computations for full search (FS) motion estimation have been a big obstacle in real-time video coding and recent MPEG-4 AVC (advanced video coding) standard requires much more computations than conventional MPEG-2 for motion estimation. To reduce an amount of computation of full search (FS) algorithm for fast motion estimation, we propose a new and fast matching algorithm without any degradation of predicted images like the conventional FS. The computational reduction without any degradation in predicted image comes from fast elimination of impossible candidate motion vectors. We obtain faster elimination of inappropriate motion vectors using efficient matching units from localization of complex area in image data and dithering order based matching scan. Our algorithm reduces about $30\%$ of computations for block matching error compared with the conventional partial distortion elimination (PDE) algorithm, and our algorithm will be useful in real-time video coding applications using MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.800-818
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• 2013

Supporting video streaming over multi-hop wireless networks is particularly challenging due to the time-varying and error-prone characteristics of the wireless channel. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization scheme for video streaming over multi-hop wireless networks. Our coding scheme, called Joint Source/Network Coding (JSNC), combines source coding and network coding to maximize the video quality under the limited wireless resources and coding constraints. JSNC segments the streaming data into generations at the source node and exploits the intra-session coding on both the source and the intermediate nodes. The size of the generation and the level of redundancy influence the streaming performance significantly and need to be determined carefully. We formulate the problem as an optimization problem with the objective of minimizing the end-to-end distortion by jointly considering the generation size and the coding redundancy. The simulation results demonstrate that, with the appropriate generation size and coding redundancy, the JSNC scheme can achieve an optimal performance for video streaming over multi-hop wireless networks.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.129-142
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• 2016

In Wyner-Ziv coding, video signals are reconstructed by correcting side information generated by block-based motion estimation/compensation at the decoder. The correction is not always accurate due to the limited number of parity bits and early stopping of low-density parity check accumulate (LDPCA) decoding in distributed video coding, or due to the limited number of measurements in distributed compressive video sensing. The blocking artifacts caused by block-based processing are usually conspicuous in smooth areas and degrade the perceptual quality of the reconstructed video. Conventional deblocking filters try to remove the artifacts by treating both sides of the block boundary equally; however, coding errors generated by block-based processing are not necessarily the same on both sides of the block boundaries. Such a block-wise difference is exploited in this paper to improve deblocking for Wyner-Ziv frameworks by designing a filter where the deblocking strength at each block can be non-identical, depending on the reliability of the reconstructed pixels. Test results show that the proposed filter not only improves subjective quality by reducing the coding artifacts considerably, but also gains rate distortion performance.