• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04d
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• pp.178-180
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• 2003

이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 프록시는 트랜스코딩과 캐슁 등의 방법으로 미디어 스트림을 재가공하여 멀티미디어 스트리밍의 연속성을 보장해 준다. 프록시에 대한 기존의 접근들은 대체로 트랜스코딩과 캐슁을 별개의 주제로 다루었었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 트랜스코딩과 캐슁을 통할하여 연동시킨 프록시 시스템 아키텍처를 구현하였다. 또한 서버와 프록시 사이의 전송 지연. 프록시에서의 미디어 스트림 재가공에 걸리는 지연, 프록시와 클라이언트 사이의 bandwidth 자원 등을 창조하여 adaptive한 트랜스코딩 및 캐슁을 할 수 있도록 해주는 transco-prefix caching에 대해 제안하였다. 그 결과 transco-prefix caching을 통하여 트랜스코딩과 캐슁의 장점들을 동시에 살필 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.140-148
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• 2009

Recent advances in communication and multimedia technologies make it possible to provide video-on-demand(VOD) services and people can access video servers over the Internet at any time using their electronic devices, such as PDA, mobile phone and digital TV. Each device has different processing capabilities, energy budgets, display sizes and network connectivities. To support such diverse devices, multiple versions of videos are needed to meet users' requests. In general cases, VOD servers cannot store all the versions of videos due to the storage limitation. When a device requests a stored version, the server can send the appropriate version immediately, but when the requested version is not stored, the server first converts some stored version to the requested version, and then sends it to the client. We call this conversion process transcoding. If transcoding occurs frequently in a VOD server, the CPU resource of the server becomes insufficient to response to clients. Thus, to admit as many requests as possible, we need to maximize the CPU availability. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to select versions from those stored on disk using a branch and bound technique to maximize the CPU availability. We also explore the impact of these storage management policies on streaming to heterogeneous users.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.333-338
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• 2000

MPEG2(or some situations, MPEG is mostly used to change the raw image into the compressed bitstreams for digital image processing. Also these bitsreams are stored in computer for several applications such as multimedia area. Transmission channels have various capacities according to the application area, and the bitstreams stored in computer should be converted in order not to exceed the capacities of a transmission channel. So the problem is how to convert compressed bitstreams of a given bit-rate into compressed bitstreams of other bit-rates. Such a specific transcoding problem in this paper is referred to as bit-rate conversion. Several researches have been done on bit-rate conversion for the bitstreams compressed by MPEG. But the existing schemes are not suitable fort MPEG4 applications because it needs to transmit shape information( which is not necessary for MPEG2) as well as texture information in MPEG4 system. So we propose a new bit-rate converter which considers both texture and shape information.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.1 s.39
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• pp.251-258
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• 2006

When producing a wireless web contents by using wire web contents for PC environment, we should consider how to represent lots of information being suitable with PC environment to wireless devices having narrow performance. Therefore, we propose mobile page editor for manager to select and modify specific contents with the existing wire web page. Also, we try to define an intermediate language based on DID(Digital Item Declaration) of MPEG-21 multimedia framework which defines source of converting information and wireless web contents generating at mobile editor in considering real time service problem when transcoding multimedia information in a web server into wireless device having low resolution, narrow performance of media process, memory, and so on.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.139-148
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• 2005

The desired level for multimedia services in the mobile web environment, the next generation web environment, is expected to be of PC level quality. And great efforts have been made in the development of hadware technology, communication technology, various kinds of services and standardization to support these services, In the mobile web environment, multimedia contents adaptation services should be available through supporting various kinds of devices, network abilities and users' preferences. It means that due to the variety of both desired devices' hardware specifications, called destinations, and desired QoSes, the QoSes in the destinations are not fixed or defined. If a new user wants to stream multimedia contents in a server through a new kind of terminal device, it should be considered whether the existing transcoders are able to adapt the multimedia contents. However, the existing libraries for multimedia adaptation have heavy transcoder figures which include all adaptive functions in one library, The challenge of universal access is too complex to be solved with these all in one solutions. Therefore, in this paper we propose an application independent multimedia adaptation framework which meets the QoS of new and varied mobile devices. This framework is composed of a group of unit transcoders having only one transcoding function respectively, Instead of heavy transcoders. Also, It includes the transcoder manager supporting the dynamic connections of the unit transcoders in order to satisfy end to end QoS.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.613-616
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• 2003

개인용 단말기의 급속한 확산으로 인해 언제, 어디서나 시간과 공간의 제약없이 웹 컨텐츠를 이용하고자 하는 욕구가 증대하고 있다. 그러나 현재 유선에서 지원되는 웹 컨텐츠를 개인용 단말기에서 지원하기에는 단말기의 성능상 한계(screen size, memory size, bandwidth 등) 때문에 여러 가지 문제가 있다. 트랜스코딩이란 이러한 기존 유선 환경에서 제공되는 웹 컨텐츠를 특정 환경에 적합한 형태로 변환하는 것을 의미한다. 그러나 이와 관련된 기존 연구에서는 사용자가 요구하는 사항만을 변환하거나 서비스 제공자가 일방적으로 변환하여 웹 컨텐츠를 제공하고 있다. 따라서 이슈변화에 따른 사용자의 대처능력이 떨어지기 때문에 사용자의 사용성이 저하되며, 사용자에게 무의미한 정보 제공의 가능성이 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 사용자 프로파일에 의한 요구사항과 서비스 제공자의 의견을 함께 제공할 수 있는 변환 기법을 제안하고, 특히 멀티미디어 뉴스 제작을 위한 표준인 NewsML을 대상으로 적용하였다. 사용자 프로파일에 의한 요구 사항은 XML 문서의 구조 정보를 이용하여 자동으로 추출하고, 서비스 제공자의 의견은 문서의 레이아웃(Layout) 정보를 가지고, 어노테이션(Annotation) 기법을 활용하여 수동으로 추출한다. 그 결과, 사용자 관점에 부합하는 변환이 이루어지고, 다양한 이슈변화에 대한 대처능력이 향상되어 사용자의 사용성이 증대되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.341-354
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• 2005

The adaptation of video according to the heterogeneous and dynamic resource constraints on networks and devices, as well as on user preferences, is a promising approach for universal access and consumption of video content. For optimal adaptation that satisfies the constraints while maximizing the utility that results from the adapted video, it is necessary to devise a systematic way of selecting an appropriate adaptation operation among multiple feasible choices. This paper presents a general conceptual framework that allows the formulation of various adaptations as constrained optimization problems by modeling the relations among feasible adaptation operations, constraints, and utilities. In particular, we present the feasibility of the framework by applying it to a use case of rate adaptation of MPEG-4 video with an explicit modeling of adaptation employing a combination of frame dropping and discrete cosine transform coefficient dropping, constraint, utility, and their mapping relations. Furthermore, we provide a description tool that describes the adaptation-constraint-utility relations as a functional form referred to as a utility function, which has been accepted as a part of the terminal and network quality of service tool in MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA).

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.4 s.42
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• pp.61-68
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• 2006

As high speed Internet service technology develops. many people are accessing wireless internet service by using mobile devices. However. an HTLM web page for PC is not very compatible with wireless internet because of its unnecessary advertisements, high resolution. and various multimedia data. This is because the main focus when creating it was on high speed. As this research indicates with the RSS channel. converted from the main part of the HTLM web page, which users show interest in. a wireless compatibleinternet page can easily be created. Consequently, web administrators could create a wireless page easily and quickly, and wireless users would be able to find information in the same manner.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1017-1030
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• 2012

Most watermarking schemes for video contents protection have been studied to increase watermark's robustness and invisibility against such compressions and many kinds of signal processing after embedding copyright information to the original contents. This paper proposes an active watermarking that infect watermark to contents in the video decoding process using embedded infectious watermark and control signals from a video encoder side. To achieve this algorithm, we design a kernel based watermarking in video encoder side that is possible to recover the original contents and watermark in watermark detection procedure perfectly. And then, by reversible de-watermarking in video decoder side, we design the active watermark infection method using detected watermark and control signal. This means that our system can provide secure re-distributions of video contents without any quality degration and watermark bit error against transcoding or re-encoding processing. By experimental results, we confirmed that the embedded watermark was infected by video contents and codec perfectly without any declines of compression ratio and video quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1526-1537
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• 1998

The split-screen function on the multipoint control unit(MCU) which is usually using processing method based on pixel domain has many problems for manipulating the video signal in real-time. Although the researches and the developements to cope ith such problems are processing, these have too complex architecture to implement and are limited to method for H.261 video signal. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism for split-screen that can actually apply to ISO/IEC MPEG video standard. The new method that is proposed in this paper do the processes in complete compression domain, thus it is suitable for the application of real-time multipoint multimedia communication service. By simple interpreting and manipulating the MPEG video element stream, the split-screen functional module can be implemented easily and the result of the procedures does not accompany image degradation at all. Finally, the complexity of implementation, the aspect for processing delay and the loss of image quality as compared to that resulting in the case of applying the previous split-screen method has been investigated. And it is confirmed that the proposed mechanism has a significant advantage as a split-screen method.