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A Skip-mode Coding for Distributed Compressive Video Sensing (분산 압축 비디오 센싱을 위한 스킵모드 부호화)

  • Nguyen, Quang Hong;Dinh, Khanh Quoc;Nguyen, Viet Anh;Trinh, Chien Van;Park, Younghyeon;Jeon, Byeungwoo
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.257-267
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    • 2014
  • Distributed compressive video sensing (DCVS) is a low cost sampling paradigm for video coding based on the compressive sensing and the distributed video coding. In this paper, we propose using a skip-mode coding in DCVS under the assumption that in case of high temporal correlation, temporal interpolation can guarantee sufficiently good quality of nonkey frame, therefore no need to transmit measurement data in such a nonkey frame. Furthermore, we extend it to use a hierarchical structure for better temporal interpolation. Simulation results show that the proposed skip-mode coding can save the average subrate of whole video sequence while the PSNR is reduced only slightly. In addition, by using the proposed scheme, the computational complexity is also highly decreased at decoder on average by 43.75% for video sequences that have strong temporal correlation.

Space-Time Quantization and Motion-Aligned Reconstruction for Block-Based Compressive Video Sensing

  • Li, Ran;Liu, Hongbing;He, Wei;Ma, Xingpo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.321-340
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    • 2016
  • The Compressive Video Sensing (CVS) is a useful technology for wireless systems requiring simple encoders but handling more complex decoders, and its rate-distortion performance is highly affected by the quantization of measurements and reconstruction of video frame, which motivates us to presents the Space-Time Quantization (ST-Q) and Motion-Aligned Reconstruction (MA-R) in this paper to both improve the performance of CVS system. The ST-Q removes the space-time redundancy in the measurement vector to reduce the amount of bits required to encode the video frame, and it also guarantees a low quantization error due to the fact that the high frequency of small values close to zero in the predictive residuals limits the intensity of quantizing noise. The MA-R constructs the Multi-Hypothesis (MH) matrix by selecting the temporal neighbors along the motion trajectory of current to-be-reconstructed block to improve the accuracy of prediction, and besides it reduces the computational complexity of motion estimation by the extraction of static area and 3-D Recursive Search (3DRS). Extensive experiments validate that the significant improvements is achieved by ST-Q in the rate-distortion as compared with the existing quantization methods, and the MA-R improves both the objective and the subjective quality of the reconstructed video frame. Combined with ST-Q and MA-R, the CVS system obtains a significant rate-distortion performance gain when compared with the existing CS-based video codecs.

Video Quality Measurement Using Wavelet Considering Local Image Contrast Features. (지역적 명도대비 특성을 적용한 wavelet을 이용한 화질 평가)

  • 안원석;이철희
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.592-594
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    • 2003
  • 이 논문에서는 wavelet과 sobel filter를 사용하여 영상의 객관적인 평가 점수를 계산하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 orthogonal wavelet 변환을 기초로 하고 있으며 원본 영상과 처리된 영상 데이터가 모두 가용하다는 것을 전제로 한다. Wavelet을 이용해 주파수에 따라 분할된 영상 정보를 이용해 각각의 부영역 별 차영상을 획득하고 이 획득된 영상의 에너지를 이용해 화질 평가 수치를 계산한다. 부영역 별로 획득된 영상은 일정한 크기의 블록으로 분할되어 동일한 블록 내에서 가용한 영상의 특징에 관한 정보(contrast, edge 영역의 분포 정도) 벡터와 내적하여 새로운 특징 벡터로 사용되고, 이 특징 벡터의 가중치를 최적화하여 높은 상관도의 화질평가 점수를 산출하게 된다.

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Measurement Scheme for One-Way Delay Variation with Detection and Removal of Clock Skew

  • Aoki, Makoto;Oki, Eiji;Rojas-Cessa, Roberto
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.854-862
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    • 2010
  • One-way delay variation (OWDV) has become increasingly of interest to researchers as a way to evaluate network state and service quality, especially for real-time and streaming services such as voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and video. Many schemes for OWDV measurement require clock synchronization through the global-positioning system (GPS) or network time protocol. In clock-synchronized approaches, the accuracy of OWDV measurement depends on the accuracy of the clock synchronization. GPS provides highly accurate clock synchronization. However, the deployment of GPS on legacy network equipment might be slow and costly. This paper proposes a method for measuring OWDV that dispenses with clock synchronization. The clock synchronization problem is mainly caused by clock skew. The proposed approach is based on the measurement of inter-packet delay and accumulated OWDV. This paper shows the performance of the proposed scheme via simulations and through experiments in a VoIP network. The presented simulation and measurement results indicate that clock skew can be efficiently measured and removed and that OWDV can be measured without requiring clock synchronization.

No-reference PSNR estimation of H.264/AVC video (H.264/AVC 영상의 무참조 PSNR 추정기법)

  • Ryu, Ji-Woo;Lee, Seon-Oh;Sim, Dong-Gyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.07a
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    • pp.276-277
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    • 2010
  • 비디오 전송시스템에서 사용자가 시청하는 비디오의 화질을 측정하는 것은 중요한 작업이다. 압축된 비디오 스트림에서는 원본 영상이 없어 PSNR을 구할 수 없기 때문에 비디오 스트림 내 정보의 통계적 특성을 이용한 무참조(no-reference) PSNR 추정기법이 사용된다. 그러나 이 알고리즘은 인터 프레임에서의 성능이 매우 떨어지는 단점이 있기 때문에 신뢰도가 떨어지며 ML방법을 이용해 이 문제를 개선한 알고리즘이 있지만 복잡도가 증가하여 상용화에는 부적합하다. 본 논문에서는 이전 프레임의 PSNR과 인터 블록의 통계적 특성을 고려한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하여 복잡도의 증가 없이 인터 프레임에서의 PSNR 추정 성능을 향상시켰다.

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Evaluating the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Measurement (혈압측정의 정확성 평가)

  • Cho, Sung-Hyun;Hwang, Jeong-Hae;Kim, Eun-Gyung;Oh, Byung-Hee;Kim, Chang-Yup
    • Quality Improvement in Health Care
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.94-103
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    • 1996
  • Background : Blood pressure is an important indicator in diagnosis and assessing treatment of a patient. Clinical staffs use blood pressure on the assumption that measured value is accurate and reliable. However, whether measured blood pressure is accurate has been rarely investigated in Korea. Objectives : The aims of this study are to evaluate clinical staffs' knowledge and technique as well as accuracy of sphygmomanometer. Also the program to improve the measurement is developed. Methods : Seventy-three registered nurses were asked nine multiple choice questions including Korotkoff sound, cuff size, and deflation rate. Simultaneously characteristics of nurses were examined, age, working place, duration of employment and academic degree. A testing videotape(Standardizing Measurement Video-Tutored Course) was used for evaluating the accuracy of measurement. Testees were to read and record the 12 cases of blood pressure measurement, watching a falling mercury column and hearing Korotkoff sounds. After 10 minutes' education, they were again tested with the same cases. Additionally, 83 mercury sphygmomanometers were checked to find defects such as inaccurate calibration and zero setting, leaky bladder, etc. Results: For the knowledge testing correct response rate was 41.1%. They were the lowest in selecting the proper cuff size and Korotkoff sound. In examining accuracy of blood pressure with videotape, nurses had 67.7% correct response rate. The correct response rate was significantly improved by a session of education. About 23% of sphygmomanometers was without discernable defects. Conclusion : The knowledge and skill of clinical staffs along with the accuracy of equipment have to be improved. A properly designed education program would contribute to the accuracy improvement of blood pressure measurement. Also, more concerns should be given to the precision and maintenance of equipment.

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A Study on The IPTV Quality Using FR or The NR Measurement (FR, NR 측정 방식을 이용한 IPTV 품질에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Jeong;Nam, Ki-Dong;Kim, Chang-Bong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.46 no.8
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2009
  • Recently, as the expectation about the IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) service quality is rapidly increased by the development of the national high-speed internet and TPS (the Triple Play Service : data + image + audio) service Therefore, the enactment of the national quality standards about the IPTV service quality guaranteeing the real time video quality of a subscriber and the international standards are hastily needed. This paper built a test bed with the network domain and the subscriber set-top box domain including the headend area and commercial network characteristic in order to test in the environment which is similar to the characteristic of the service business network. And by using the constructed environment, the characteristics required for SLA(service Level Agreement) of the IPTV service are presented as the quality test according to the service environment change.

The Influence of China's Network Video Features on Consumer Subscription Satisfaction and Continuous Subscription Intentions (중국 인터넷 동영상 특성이 소비자 구독 만족도와 지속구독의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Zhang, XinDan;Wang, Lu;Pang, QiWei;Bae, Ki-Hyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.423-435
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this paper is to verify the influence of the characteristics of Chinese online video on users' subscription satisfaction and continuous subscription intention. For this purpose, this paper conducted online and offline questionnaire for customers who had subscription experiences within one month from April 16 to May 16, 2021. A total of 338 questionnaires were collected, except for 55 dishonest responses and non-subscription responses. A total of 283 copies were used for empirical analysis. The analysis results are as follows. First, before implementing the hypothesis verification of this paper, the results of analyzing the rationality and reliability of the measurement concept show six factors of online video characteristics, such as accuracy, social impact, service quality, content diversity, information, and entertainment. Second, among the six factors of the characteristics of online video, accuracy, social influence, service quality, and information have a "positive (+)" impact on subscription satisfaction. Third, in addition to the content diversity and entertainment in the characteristics of online video, the other four factors have a positive impact on consumers' continuous subscription intention. Fourth, subscription satisfaction has a positive impact on continuous subscription intention. Fifth, there is a media effect of subscription satisfaction between the characteristics of online video and the intention of continuous subscription.

Reconstruction of Transmitted Images from Images Displayed on Video Terminals (영상 단말에 전송된 이미지를 이용한 전송 영상 복원)

  • Park, Su-Kyung;Lee, Seon-Oh;Sim, Dong-Gyu
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2012
  • An image reconstruction algorithm is proposed to estimate transmitted original images from images displayed on a video terminal. The proposed algorithm acquires images that are displayed on video terminal screens by using a camera. The transmitted images are then estimated with the acquired images. However, camera-acquired images exhibit geometric and color distortions caused by characteristics of the camera and display devices. We make use of a geometric distortion correction algorithm that exploits homography and color distortions using a weighted-linear model. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields promising estimation performance with respect to the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). PSNR values of the estimated images with respect to the corresponding original images range from 28-29 dB.

Research of accelerating method of video quality measurement program using GPGPU (GPGPU를 이용한 영상 품질 측정 프로그램의 가속화 연구)

  • Lee, Seonguk;Byeon, Gibeom;Kim, Kisu;Hong, Jiman
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2016
  • Recently, parallel computing using GPGPU(General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units) according to the development of the graphics processing unit is expanding. This can be achieved through the processing speeds faster than traditional computing environments across many fields, including science, medicine, engineering, and analysis. However, in using the GPU technology to implement the a parallel program there are many constraints. In this paper, we port a CPU-based program(Video Quality Measurement Program) to use technology. The program ported to GPU-based show about 1.83 times the execution speed than CPU-based program. We study on the acceleration of the GPU-based program. Also we discuss the technical constraints and problems that occur when you modify the CPU to the GPU-based programs.