• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1222-1236
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an improved distributed multi-view video coding method that is robust to illumination changes among different views. The use of view dependency is not effective for multi-view video because each view has different intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. In this paper, a modified distributed multi-view coding method is presented that applies illumination compensation when generating side information. The proposed encoder codes DC values of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients separately by entropy coding. The proposed decoder can generate more accurate side information by using the transmitted DC coefficients to compensate for illumination changes. Furthermore, AC coefficients are coded with conventional entropy or channel coders depending on the frequency band. We found that the proposed algorithm is about 0.1~0.5 dB better than conventional algorithms.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10B호
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• pp.1093-1103
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 효율적인 보조 정보 생성을 통한 새로운 분산 다시점 비디오 코딩 기법을 제안한다. 분산 비디오 코딩은 원영상과 디코더에서 생성한 보조 정보 간의 오차를 채널 코딩 기법으로 정정한다. 따라서 보조 정보를 정확히 만들수록 분산 비디오 코딩의 성능은 좋아지게 된다. 제안한 기법에서는 깊이지도를 기반으로 하는 다시점 비디오 코딩에 분산 비디오 코딩 기법을 적용한다. 또한 깊이지도를 이용한 3차원 워핑을 통해 인접한 시점의 영상으로부터 보조 정보를 생성하고, 3차원 워핑과 시간 축 상의 인접한 영상을 이용하는 MCTI(motion compensated temporal interpolation)를 효율적으로 혼합하여 사용한다. 실험 결과 제안한 기법으로 생성한 보조 정보는 MCTI와 3차원 위핑을 따로 사용한 방법보다 평균 0.97dB의 PSNR이 향상되었음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 R-D 곡선 상에서 동일 PSNR 대비 평균 8.01%의 비트율이 감소되었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1762-1773
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• 2014

In this paper, a distributed image coding scheme for multi-view video through an efficient generation of side information is proposed. A distributed video coding technique corrects the errors in the side information, which is generated with the original image, by using the channel coding technique at the decoder. Therefore, the more correct the generated side information is, the better the performance of distributed video coding. The proposed technique is to apply the distributed video coding schemes to the image coding for multi-view video. It generates side information by selectively and efficiently using both 3-dimensional warping based on the depth map with spatially adjacent frames and motion-compensated temporal interpolation with temporally adjacent frames. In this scheme the difference between the adjacent frames, the sizes of the motion vectors for the adjacent blocks, and the edge information are used as the selection criteria. From the experiments, it was observed that the quality of the side information generated by the proposed technique was improved by the average peak signal-to-noise ratio of 0.97dB than the one by motion-compensated temporal interpolation or 3-dimensional warping. The result from analyzing the rate-distortion curves revealed that the proposed scheme could reduce the bit-rate by 8.01% on average at the same peak signal-to-noise ratio value, compared to previous work.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2011

In this paper, an adaptive motion vector smoothing scheme based on weighted vector median filtering is proposed in order to eliminate the motion outliers more effectively for improving the quality of side information in frame-based distributed video coding. We use a simple motion vector outlier reliability measure for each block in a motion compensated interpolated frame and apply weighted vector median filtering only to the blocks with unreliable motion vectors. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive motion vector smoothing algorithm improves the quality of the side information significantly while maintaining low complexity at the encoder in frame-based distributed video coding.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.585-595
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• 2007

분산 동영상 코딩 (Distributed video coding)은 Slepian과 Wolf 그리고 Wyner와 Ziv의 정보 이론에 기반을 둔 새로운 동영상 압축 패러다임이다. 수신측의 보조정보를 이용하는 손실 압축인 분산 동영상 코딩은 계산의 복잡도를 디코더쪽으로 옮김으로써 적은 연산량의 동영상 인코딩을 가능하게 한다. RD 성능은 기존의 인트라 프레임 코딩보다 뛰어나지만 움직임 보상 (motion-compensated) 기반 인터 프레임 코딩의 성능에는 미치지 못한다. 본 논문은 DV근의 기본 개념과 구조에 대하여 소개하고 실험을 통하여 코딩 방식에 따른 성능을 비교 분석하며 나아가 공간 계층화 코더로서의 DVC의 성능을 보인다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.257-267
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• 2014

분산 압축 비디오 센싱 (DCVS) 기술은 압축센싱 및 분산 비디오 부호화 기술의 결합을 통해 저 비용의 샘플링을 실현하는 새로운 패러다임이다. 본 논문에서는 프레임 간 높은 시간 상관성을 활용한 DCVS에서의 스킵모드 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 일정조건을 만족하는 비 키-프레임에 대한 측정값을 복호화기에 전송하지 않아도 시간적 보간법을 통해 해당 비 키-프레임의 복원이 가능하도록 하여 율-왜곡 측면에서 좋은 압축 성능을 보장한다. 이와 더불어, 더 나은 시간적 보간을 위하여 계층적 구조를 사용하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 스킵모드 부호화 방법은 약간의 PSNR 감소에 비해 매우 높은 측정율 절약이 되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 제안하는 방법을 높은 시간 연관성을 갖는 비디오 영상에 적용할 경우, 복호화기의 연산 복잡도가 평균 43.75% 감소하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.731-739
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• 2017

Distributed compressed video sensing (DCVS) is a framework that integrates both compressed sensing and distributed video coding characteristics to achieve a low complexity video sampling. In DCVS schemes, motion estimation & motion compensation is employed at the decoder side, similarly to distributed video coding (DVC), for a low-complex encoder. However, since a simple BCS-SPL algorithm is applied to a residual arising from motion estimation and compensation in conventional MC-BCS-SPL (motion compensated block compressed sensing with smoothed projected Landweber) scheme, the reconstructed visual qualities are severly degraded in Wyner-Ziv (WZ) frames. Furthermore, the scheme takes lots of iteration to reconstruct WZ frames. In this paper, the conventional MC-BCS-SPL algorithm is improved to be operated in more effective way in WZ frames. That is, first, the proposed algorithm calculates a correlation coefficient between two reference key frames and, then, by selecting adaptively the reference frame, the residual reconstruction in pixel domain is performed to the conventional BCS-SPL scheme. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves significantly better visual qualities than conventional MC-BCS-SPL algorithm, while resulting in the significant reduction of the decoding time.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.112-121
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• 2010

분산 동영상 코딩(Distributed Video Coding)은 기존의 동영상 코딩과 다르게 인코더와 디코더 사이의 복잡도 분배가 가능한 새로운 코딩 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 단계적 움직임 예측을 이용하여 인코더와 디코더의 복잡도를 분배하는 방법을 제안한다. 인코더에서는 부분적으로 움직임 예측을 수행하여 그 결과를 디코더로 전송하고, 디코더는 이를 받아 좁혀진 범위 내에서 남은 움직임 예측을 수행하게 된다. 인코더에서 어느 정도 복잡도를 감당할 수 있을 때 인코더와 디코더 사이의 복잡도 분배 비율의 조절이 가능하다. 이를 통해 복잡도 분배 비율과 압축효율과의 상관성을 알아볼 수 있는데, 인코더의 복잡도 상승에 의한 압축효율 향상율이 디코더 복잡도 상승에 의한 압축효율 향상율보다 훨씬 크다는 것을 알 수 있다. 제안 방법을 통해 단말기의 성능이나 채널 상황에 따라 인코더와 디코더 사이의 복잡도를 적응적으로 분배하고 그에 따라 코딩 성능을 조절할 수 있다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2018

High Efficiency Video Coding range extensions (HEVC RExt) is a kind of extension model of HEVC. HEVC RExt was specially designed for dealing the high quality images. HEVC RExt is very essential for studio editing which handle the very high quality and various type of images. There are some problems to dealing these massive data in studio editing. One of the most important procedure is re-encoding and decoding procedure during the editing. Various codecs are widely used for studio data editing. But most of the codecs have common problems to dealing the massive data in studio editing. First, the re-encoding and decoding processes are frequently occurred during the studio data editing and it brings enormous time-consuming and video quality loss. This paper, we suggest new video coding structure for the efficient studio video editing. The coding structure which is called "ultra-low delay (ULD)". It has the very simple and low-delayed referencing structure. To simplify the referencing structure, we can minimize the number of the frames which need decoding and re-encoding process. It also prevents the quality degradation caused by the frequent re-encoding. Various fast coding algorithms are also proposed for efficient editing such as tool-level optimization, multi-serve based distributed coding and SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) based parallel processing. It can reduce the enormous computational complexity during the editing procedure. The proposed method shows 9500 times faster coding speed with negligible loss of quality. The proposed method also shows better coding gain compare to "intra only" structure. We can confirm that the proposed method can solve the existing problems of the studio video editing efficiently.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권2호
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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.