• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.105-108
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• 2003

In the framework of universal multimedia access, one challenge for video transmission (communication) is to deliver video content through heterogeneous network channels matching the diversity of client devices. As one of the many adaptation methods, media transcoding is commonly considered. Particularly, FD (Frame Dropping)/CD Coefficient Dropping) transcoding is used due to the low computational complexity and simple implementation. In this scheme, CD is simply implemented by truncating the high frequency AC DCT coefficient bits. But, the CD error tends to be propagated within single GOV. In this paper, we derive the distortion relationships between CD error and propagation error, and investigate the error characteristics by computer simulations. The CD error characteristics can be effectively used in the FD/CD transcoding scheme.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.401-415
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• 2005

Owing to the improved wireless communication technologies, it is possible to provide streaming service of multimedia with PDAs and mobile phones in addition to desktop PCs. Since mobile client devices have low computing power and low network bandwidth due to wireless network, the transcoding technology to adapt media for mobile client devices considering their characteristics is necessary. Transcoding servers transcode the source media to the target media within corresponding grades and provide QoS in real-time. In particular, an effective load balancing policy for transcoding servers is inevitable to support QoS for large scale mobile users. In this paper, the resource weighted load distribution policy is proposed for a fair load balance and a more scalable performance in cluster-based transcoding servers. Our proposed policy is based on the resource weighted table and number of maximum supported users, which are pre-computed for each pre-defined grade. We implement the proposed policy on cluster-based transcoding servers and evaluate its fair load distribution and scalable performance with the number of transcoding servers.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2009

The perforrnance and portability of mobile applications can be greatly increased by adopting proxy modiles which exists between the conventional system and the device. When mobile devices collaborate with the conventional computers, there are problems to address: a battery life problem, limited input and output methods, and intermittent wireless connection. Those issues are magnified in the multimedia collaboration environment since it works in a real-time condition and the size of the message in the system is big in many cases. Additionally, because multimedia collaboration system softwares are too heavy and complex for mobile devices, it is veη hard to integrate them with conventional systems. In this paper, we describe our design and its implementation of a novel approach to map events (i.e. messages) using a proxy for mobile applications. We adopt a proxy to provide a content adaptation (i.e. transcoding) where the message contents are customized. Also, we design a mobile version publish/subscribe system to provide communication service for mobile device in loosely coupled and flexible manner. We present our empirical results which show that our design can be efficiently implemented and integrated with a conventional multimedia collaboration system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.2 (3)
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• pp.514-516
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• 2002

최근의 무선통신 기술의 발전은 사용자가 이동하면서 멀티미디어 서비스를 제공받는 것을 가능하게 하였다. 하지만 무선망의 특성상 높은 대역폭을 요구하는 비디오 스트림을 이동컴퓨터가 서비스 받기에는 많은 문제점이 있다. 이런 문제점들을 해결하기 위한 방안으로 본 논문에서는 유무선망 사이에 중재역할을 하는 프록시 서버를 이용하여 이동 컴퓨터가 멀티미디어 서버로부터 비디오 스트림을 서비스 받을 때, 사용자가 요구하는 대역폭을 유무선 환경에 맞추어 적절하게 조절하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.818-826
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• 2006

In this paper, we investigate the relationship of bitrate and quantization parameter needed for the trans-coding method that makes the H.264 bitstream of a particular bitrate to the other titrate. Also we propose the new method in order to transcode the titrate between H.264 video coded bitstreams. The proposed transcoding method updates the model parameters from previous picture or slice by using the approximated relationship of bitrate and quantization step-size and finds the target quantization step-size, and then generates the target titrate by simple coding processing just after requantization. Therefore, the proposed method does not need the complex bitrate control and converts to the target titrate by simple implementation. From simulation, we can see that the proposed method transcodes exactly to an assigned target bitrate for the four test sequences with different their characteristics.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2006

As wireless network technology has advanced, demands for multimedia contents through mobile environment have tendered to upward. Since network situation is changing every moment and types of user terminals are diverse, it is difficult for a content provider to consider network situation and type of user terminal to provide multimedia contents. As one solution, transcoding techniques have been proposed, but those have much complexity. In this paper, in order to reduce computational complexity, we propose a fast mode decision using input modes, motion vectors, and residual energies which are obtained from input bitstream for 2:1 down-scaling spatial transcoding application. The proposed method reduces processing time in mode decision by restricting possible mode types based on input information. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves about 2.66 times improvement in encoding time compared to the normal encoding process while the PSNR is degraded by about 0.04dB, and bit-rate is increased by 1.6%.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제12B권4호
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• pp.451-458
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• 2005

The transcoding is a solution which is able to adapt to heterogeneous clients of requesting a different playback rate of multimedia data. Thus, The transcoding needs decoding and encoding. In general, previous studies to reduce complexity have a problem, the degradation of visual quality On the contrary, previous studies to reduce the degradation of visual quality lead to heavy computation. Thus, many researchers have studied a solution between the complexity and the degradation of visual quality. But until now, most researches of this region have dealt with the transcoder itself, such researches about a server's assistance to improve the performance of transcoder is rarely studied. In case of servicing multimedia data to heterogeneous clients which have low capabilities, the assistance of server side is able to reduce frames with processing in the transcoder and improve the performance of the transcoder. Thus in this paper, we propose the frame-skipping transcoder system architecture that takes into consideration transcoder and server side to reduce the complexity of the transcoder.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.1581-1588
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• 2005

The primary goal of this paper is to facilitate the rate-distortion control in compressed domain, without introducing a full decoding and re-encoding system in pixel domain. For this aim, the error propagation behavior over several frame-sequences due to DCT coefficients-drop is investigated on the basis of statistical and empirical properties. Then, such properties are used to develop a simple estimation model for the CD distortion accounting for the characteristics of the underlying coded-frame. Experimental results show that the proposed model allows us to effectively control rate-distortions into coded-frames over different kinds of video sequences.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅲ
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• pp.1661-1664
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• 2003

The transcoding is a method which converts a multimedia stream to an adaptive format, such as frame rate and resolution, that can be played in the mobile devices. Due to the heavy consumption of CPU power for transcoding, the server in charge cannot supply all streams requested from clients if it is already occupied by several streams. The load balancing among proxies is a common approach for solving such problem. In addition to collaborative works for load balancing, the mobility must be taken into account in the mobile environments. Thus, the wired-network based algorithm is not suitable for the streams service in the mobile environments. In this paper, we propose an alternative scheme for cooperative proxy architecture that considers the case in which mobile devices are moving over other zones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2005년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.32 No.1 (A)
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• pp.364-366
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• 2005

최신 동영상 압축 표준인 H.264는 압축 효율을 높이기 위해 기존의 표준과는 다른 1/2 화소 생성 방법을 사용한다. 그러므로 기존의 동영상 압축표준으로 압축된 비트열을 DCT 상에서 H.264로 트랜스코딩(transcoding)하기 위해서는 추가적인 보정 작업이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-2로 압축된 비트열을 DCT 상에서 H.264로 트랜스코딩 할 때 두 표준 간 1/2 화소 값의 차이를 보정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 1/2 화소 보정 기법에서는 DCT 상태의 창조 프레임을 이용하여 두 표준 간의 차이 값을 구하여 입력으로 들어온 블록의 값에 더하여 보정한다. 픽셀 기반에서 보정하는 기법과 성능을 비교한 결과 제안하는 기법이 화질 면에서 우수하며 움직임이 빠른 비디오의 경우 계산량이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다.