• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.691-701
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• 2013

In this paper, an early termination algorithm for merge process is proposed to reduce the computational complexity in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoder. In the HEVC, the same candidate modes from merge candidate list (MCL) are shared to predict a merge or merge SKIP mode. This search process is performed by the number of the obtained candidates for the both of the merge and SKIP modes. This may cause some redundant search operations. To reduce this redundant search operation, we employ the neighboring blocks which have been encoded in prior, to check on the contextual information. In this study, the spatial, temporal and depth neighboring blocks have been considered to compute a correlation information. With this correlation information, an early termination algorithm for merge process is suggested. When all modes of neighboring blocks are SKIP modes, then the merge process performs only SKIP mode. Otherwise, usual merge process of HEVC is performed Through experimental results, the proposed method achieves a time-saving factor of about 21.25% on average with small loss of BD-rate, when comparing to the original HM 10.0 encoder.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.180-181
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 JEM(Joint Exploration Model)의 부호화기 계산 복잡도 감소를 위한 CU 조기 결정 방법을 제시한다. 기존의 JEM 의 경우 현재 CU(Coding Unit)의 RDO(Rate Distortion Optimization)를 통한 최적의 예측 모드가 Merge SKIP 모드이고 BT(Binary Tree)의 깊이가 2 또는 3 이상일 때 CU 결정을 조기 종료한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 현재 CU 의 최적의 예측모드가 Merge SKIP 이고 BT 일 경우 통계적 분석을 통한 왜곡 값, CU 샘플 수, 시간적 계층 순서, 양자화 파라미터를 고려한 문턱 값을 이용하여 CU 를 조기 결정한다. 실험결과로써 제안하는 방법이 JEM 7.1 대비 Y, U, V 각각 평균 0.86%, 0.08%, 0.18%의 BD-rate 손실이 발생하고 평균 16% 부호화 속도를 개선시킨다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.40-45
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• 2011

MPEG과 VCEG으로 구성된 JCT-VC는 HEVC표준을 개발하고 있다. HEVC 표준은 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC보다 2배 이상의 압축률을 목표로 다양한 효과적인 방법들을 채택하여 왔다. 본 고에서는 최근의 HEVC 표준에 채택된 방법들 중에서 HEVC 화면간 예측기술 및 보간법에 대하여 설명하고자 한다. MVP, Merge 모드, Skip 모드가 화면간 예측기술로 사용되고, DCT-IF기술이 보간법으로 사용된다. 모두 화면간 예측을 효율적으로 하기 위한 기술이다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.178-184
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization technique of PU-level motion estimation (ME) in the next generation video coding standard, high efficiency video coding (HEVC) to reduce the time complexity of video encoding. It is difficult to encode video in real-time because ME has significant complexity (i.e., 80 percent at the encoder). In order to solve this problem, various techniques have been studied, and among them is the parallelization, which is carefully concerned in algorithm-level ME design. In this regard, merge estimation method using merge estimation region (MER) that enables ME to be designed in parallel has been proposed; but, parallel ME based on MER has still unconsidered problems to be implemented ideally in HEVC test model (HM). Therefore, we propose two strategies to implement stable parallel ME using MER in HM. Through experimental results, the excellence of our proposed methods is shown; the encoding time using the proposed method is reduced by 25.64 percent on average of that of HM which uses sequential ME.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.1-3
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 하드웨어 HEVC 인코더의 화면간 예측의 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 화면간 예측은 정수화소 움직임 예측을 통해 코딩 트리 유닛 내 코딩 유닛 분할과 각 코딩 유닛의 분할모드를 결정한다. 그리고, 부화소 움직임 예측, Merge모드 판단을 통해 예측 유닛의 움직임 벡터를 확정하고 움직임 보상을 수행한다. 이 과정에서 율-왜곡 비용계산 및 보간 필터 등의 하드웨어 자원이 효율적으로 공유된다. 또한, 전력소모를 줄이기 위하여 코딩 유닛의 skip 여부의 조기 판단을 통해 부화소 움직임 예측 및 화면내-화면간 최종 예측모드 결정과정의 전부 또는 일부를 생략하는 방법을 제공한다. 제안된 화면간 예측을 포함한 하드웨어 HEVC 인코더를 구현하여 실험한 결과, 250 MHz 의 동작 주파수에서 초당 124 Mpixel 의 처리성능을 보였으며, HM-14.0 대비 PSNR 0.5~0.8 dB 수준의 화질열화를 나타냈다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.18D no.6
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• pp.415-422
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• 2011

Finding similar strings is an important operation because textual data can have errors, duplications, and inconsistencies by nature. Many algorithms have been developed for string approximate searches and most of them make use of inverted lists to find similar strings. These algorithms basically perform merge operations on inverted lists. In this paper, we develop a bitmap representation of an inverted list and propose an efficient search algorithm that can skip unnecessary inverted lists without searching using bitmap filters. Experimental results show that the proposed technique consistently improve the performance of the search.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.1 s.8
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• pp.111-120
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• 2001

VC merging involves distinguishing cells from an identical merged VC label. Various approaches have been proposed to help this identification process. However, most of them incur additional buffering, protocol overhead and/or variable delay. They make the provision of QoS difficult to achieve. So it was proposed a merge capable scheduler to support VC-merging (VCMS). However, in situations where all VCs are to be merged or the incoming traffic load is very low, it could happen that there are not enough non-merging cells to snoop. In this situation the scheduler uses special control cells to fill the empty time slots out. Too many control cells can cause high cell loss ratio and an additional packet transfer delay. To overcome the drawbacks, we propose a Sequence Skipping(SS) method where the sequencers skip the empty queues and insert SS cells. We show SS method is suitable for VC-merging and can reduce the cell loss ratio and the mean packet transfer delay through simulations.