• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.63-72
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• 1999

Recent studies on the Constant Bit Rate and Variable Bit Rate transmissions have mainly focused on the frame by frame encoder rate control based on the quantization parameter. With the existing approaches it is difficult to guarantee a consistent video quality. Also, the rate control overhead is too high for the real-time video sources. In this paper, a channel rate allocation scheme based on the control period is proposed to transmit a real-time video, in which the control period is defined by a pre-specified number of frames or group of pictures. At each control period, video traffic information is collected to determine the channel rate at the next control period. The channel rate is allocated to satisfy various channel rate constraints such that the buffer occupancy at the decoder is maintained at a target level. If the allocated channel rate approaches the level at which the negotiated traffic descriptions may be violated, the encoder rate is decreased through adjusting quantization parameters in the MPEG encoder. In the experimental results, the video quality and the overflow and underflow probabilities at the buffer are compared at different control periods. Experiments show that the video quality and the utilization of network bandwidth resources can be optimized through the suitable selection of the control period.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.54-58
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• 2007

A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for distortion variation minimization. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. The proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권9B호
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• pp.1755-1766
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• 1999

A region-based video codec based on the H.263+ standard is examined and its associated novel rate control scheme is proposed in this work. The region-based coding scheme is a hybrid method that consists of the traditional block DCT coding and the object-based coding. Basically, we adopt H.263+ as the platform, and develop a fast macroblock-based segmentation method to implement the region-based video codec. The proposed rate control solution includes rate control in three levels: encoding frame selection, frame-layer rate control and macroblock-layer rate control. The goal is to enhance the visual quality of decoded frames at low bit rates. The efficiency of proposed rate control scheme applied to the region-based video codes is demonstrated via several typical test sequences.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1997년도 Proceedings International Workshop on New Video Media Technology
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• pp.43-48
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• 1997

The video transmission for real-time viewing over the Internet is a core operation for the multimedia services. However, its realization is very difficult because the Internet has two major problems, namely, very narrow endpoint-bandwidth and the network jitter. We already proposed a scalable video transmission method in [8] which used MPEG-4 video VM(Verification Model) 2.0[3] for very low bit rate coding and an adaptive temporal rate control of video objects to overcome the network jitter problem. In this paper, we present the improved adaptive temporal rate control scheme for the scalable transmission. Experimental results for three test video sequences show that the adaptive temporal rate control can transfer the video bitstream at source frame rate under variable network condition.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.114-124
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 인터넷과 같은 IP망에서 SVC(scalable video coding) 비디오를 전송할 때 주어진 최소 전송대역폭 조건에 부합되는 실용적인 TCP 친화적 전송률 제어 기법을 제안한다. UDP 프로토콜을 이용하여 실시간 비디오를 전송할 때 상위 응용계층의 프로토콜로서 실시간 수송 프로토콜(RTP)과 실시간 수송 제어 프로토콜(RTCP)이 일반적으로 사용이 되는데, 이때 발생되는 패킷 스트림의 전송률을 네트워크 내에서의 다른 TCP세션과 공평하게 분배하여 결정할 수 있는 방법이 TCP 친화적 전송률 제어(TCP-friendly rate control) 기법이다. 기존의 TCP 친화적 전송률 제어 기법에서 제안한 전송률 결정 모델에서는 채널의 최소 전송 대역폭에 대한 고려가 반영이 되지 못하여 패킷 손실이 큰 경우에 대해서는 모델에 의해 결정된 전송률이 채널의 실제 최소 전송 대역폭과 매우 상이한 문제점이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 최소 전송 대역폭을 고려하여 개선된 TCP 친화적 전송률 제어 모델을 고안하고, 이 모델을 기반으로 SVC의 기본계층(base layer)에 대해 최소 전송률을 할당하며 나머지 가용한 전송률을 향상계층(enhancement layer) 스트림에 할당하는 TCP 친화적 스케일러블 비디오 전송 기법을 제안한다. 실제적인 인트라 및 인터넷 망을 통한 SVC 비디오 전송에 의한 필드 테스트를 통해 제안된 기법의 성능을 검증한다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.668-672
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• 2009

In wireless ad-hoc network, knowing the available bandwidth of the time varying channel is imperative for live video streaming applications. This is because the available bandwidth is varying all the time and strictly limited against the large data size of video streaming. Additionally, adapting the encoding rate to the suitable bit-rate for the network, where an overlarge encoding rate induces congestion loss and playback delay, decreases the loss and delay. While some effective rate controlling methods have been proposed and simulated well like VTP (Video Transport Protocol) [1], implementing to cooperate with the encoder and tuning the parameters are still challenging works. In this paper, we show our result of the implementation experiment of VTP based encoding rate controlling method and then introduce some techniques of our parameter tuning for a video streaming application over wireless environment.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.147-148
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• 2015

This paper proposes a tile level rate control for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The proposed tile level rate control is designed by considering the multi-core platform of tile in HEVC. The proposed tile level rate control allocates the number of bits for each tile based on the predetermined weight generated from the current picture level rate control. According to the experimental results, the proposed tile level rate control for HEVC on multi-core platform loses negligibly the bitrate accuracy about 0.07% on average over the reference software HM-14.0.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.591-596
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• 1999

In this paper, we present a joint quality control system to be able to accurately control the relative picture quality among the video programs in terms of PSNR. The joint quality control system allows variable bit rate (VBR) for each video program to maintain the pre-determined relative picture quality among the aggregated video programs while keeping a constant sum of the bit rates for all programs to be transmitted over a single constant bit rate (CBR) channel. This is achieved by simultaneous controlling the video encoders to generate VBR video streams at the central controller. Furthermore we also suggest buffer regulation method based on the analysis of the constraints imposed by sender/receiver buffer sizes and total transmission rate. Through various simulation results, it is found that our quality control systems guarantee that the video buffers do not overflow and underflow and the quality control errors do not exceed 0.1 ㏈.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.523-531
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 패킷 손실 채널로의 전송을 위한 비디오 부호기의 소스/채널 부호화율 통합 제어 방식을 제안한다. 비디오 전송 시스템의 지연 제약에 따른 소스 부호화율 상한을 구하고, 부호화되거나 스킵된 화면에 대한 소스 왜곡과 패킷 손실에 의한 채널 왜곡을 기반으로 일정 부호화 구간에 대한 평균 왜곡을 정의한다. 주어진 채널률과 패킷 손실률에 대해 비디오 부호화 계수와 FEC 블록 크기를 제어계수로 하는 평균 왜곡 최소화 문제를 정의하고, 실시간 해결 알고리즘을 제안한다. 모의실험에서 제안방식은 40% 이하의 패킷 손실률과 30 프레임 이상의 인트라 매크로블럭 갱신률에서 TMN8에 비해 PSNR과 주관적 화질에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2016

In this paper, a novel rate control scheme for low delay video coding of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is proposed. The proposed scheme is developed by considering a new temporal prediction structure of HEVC. In the proposed scheme, the relationship between bit rate and quantization step is exploited firstly to formulate an accurate quadratic rate-quantization (R-Q) model. Secondly, a method of determining the quantization parameters (QPs) for the first frames within a group of pictures is proposed. Thirdly, an accurate frame-level bit allocation method is proposed for HEVC. Finally, based on the proposed R-Q model and the target bit allocated for the frame, the QPs are predicted for coding tree units by using rate-distortion (R-D) optimization. We compare our scheme against that of three other state-of-the-art rate control schemes. Experimental results show that the proposed rate control scheme can increase the Bjøntegaard delta peak signal-to-noise ratio by 0.65 dB and 0.09 dB on average compared with the JCTVC-I0094 and JCTVC-M0036 schemes, respectively, both of which have been implemented in an HEVC test model encoder; furthermore, the proposed scheme achieves a similar R-D performance to Wang's scheme, as well as obtaining the smallest bit rate mismatch error of all the schemes.