• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.275-282
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• 2004

In this paper, a transcoding method that transforms MPEG-4 video bitstream coded in 30 Hz frame rate into H.264 video bitstream of 15 Hz frame rate is proposed. The block modes and motion vectors in MPEG-4 is utilized in H.264 for block mode conversion and motion vector (MV) interpolation methods. The proposed three types of MV interpolation method can be used without performing full motion estimation in H.264. The proposed transcoder reduces computation amount for full motion estimation in H.264 and provides good quality of H.264 video at low bitrates. In experimental results, the proposed methods achieves 3.2-4 times improvement in computational complexity compared to the cascaded pixel-domain transcoding, while the PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) is degraded with 0.2-0.9dB depending on video sizes.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.50-61
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• 2005

To provide adaptively video streaming services on network environment, video transcoding is introduced. The one of transcoding methods is the frame-rate conversion. it needs a re-estimation about a motion vector of the frame to refer a skipping frame. This re-estimation makes higher the computational complexity in video transcoding. To reduce the computational complexity of a motion vector refinement, this paper proposes a region & activity based motion vector composition scheme that refine the moving vector of a skipping frame. This scheme composes each motion vector from the weight based on the activity information of a macroblock and the site of the overlapped area. The experiment result shows that RABVC has a higher PSNR than the value of existing weight-based motion vector selection schemes though the computational complexity of our scheme is similar to that of other schemes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.3160-3162
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• 2000

변화 부호화는 기존에 부호화 되어있는 영상의 비트율을 더 낮은 비트율의 영상으로 재 부호화하거나. 다른 부호화 표준으로 재 부호화 하는 기법이다. 변환 부호화기의 설계에서 가장 중요시되는 문제는 화질 향상과 부호화 속도의 향상이다. 변환 부호화기의 많은 응용분야에서 실시간 변환을 필요로 하기 때문에 변환 속도를 향상시키면서 화질을 높이는 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 비트율 변환비가 매우 클 때에나 표준화 방법의 목적 영상 사이즈가 다를 때엔 비트율의 변환과 함께 영상의 크기를 함께 변환(1/2)해 주어야할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경우에 적합한 변환 부호화기법을 제안한다. 우선 영상의 크기를 다운스케일링 해 준후, 기존 영상의 움직임 벡터들로부터 AWW기법을 이용해 1차 추정 벡터를 추출하여 속도를 향상시키고, 1차 추출 벡터 부근의 한정된 영역으로부터 움직임 벡터 추정과정을 거쳐 최종 추정 벡터를 정제하여 화질을 향상시킨다. 실험 결과 기존의 재 부호화 기법에 비해 속도가 향상됨을 확인 할 수 있었으며. AWW 기법에 비해 연산량은 조금 많아지나 정제 과정을 통하여 약 1dB 정도의 화질 향상이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.2 s.9
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• pp.221-231
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an efficient requantization method for INTRA frames in heterogeneous transcoding from MPEG-1 to MPEG-4 simple profile. The quantizer for MPEG-1 INTRA MB usually uses a quantization weighting matrix while the quantizer for MPEG-4 simple profile doesn't. As a result, the quantization step sizes of the two quantizers may not be the same even for the same quantization parameter. Due to this mismatch in the quantization step site, the transcoded MPEG-4 sequence suffers from serious quality degradation and the number of bits produced by transcoding increases from the original MPEG-1 video sequence. To solve these problems, we propose an efficient method to find a near-optimum reconstruction level in the transcoder. We also present a PDF (probability distribution function) estimation method for the original DCT coefficients of MPEG-1 video sequence, which is required for the proposed requantization. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives $0.3{\sim}0.6dB$ improvement in PSNR over the conventional method, even at the reduced bit-rate about $5{\sim}7%$ from the conventional method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.59-72
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• 2006

The rapid growth of technology for network and terminal devices is able to service multimedia contents in mobile environments. But as the environment of networks and the performance of devices is varied, the same quality service is very difficult to be provided for user in internet and mobile environment. Therefore, multimedia streaming system must provide an adaptive service in considering network and device environment. Video transcoding techniques are the good solution that can provide video streaming service in various network environments adaptively. This paper proposes a dynamic frame-skipping transcoding scheme to provide adaptive streaming service in various network environments. This scheme uses the prediction period for transcoding. A proposed transcoding scheme can reduce time complexity through combination of prediction period and skipping period to control frame-skipping rate in encoder. In simulation results, the performance of proposed scheme is similar to the performance of a traditional dynamic frame-skipping scheme in PSNR value. But the performance of proposed scheme outperforms the performance of traditional scheme in time complexity.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.555-564
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• 2007

Discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient dropping is well recognized as an efficient rate adaptation transcoding in motion-compensated (MC)-DCT based MPEG-compressed videos. However, in this scheme, the errors incurred by the DCT coefficient-dropping are propagated and often result in significant visual quality degradation. This paper presents two propositions describing well the statistical properties of propagated errors. That is, we propose that the DCT error of the current frame is not correlated to the propagated errors of the previous frames. We also propose that the overall distortions in a given frame can be approximated as the sum of the DCT error of the current frame and the propagated errors from the previous frames. Then, it is shown that several computer simulations with different video sequences verify the effectiveness of the proposed statistical analyses.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.108-122
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• 2011

In this paper, a transcoding method with low computational complexity and high coding efficiency is proposed to transcode distributed video coding (DVC) bitstreams to H.264/AVC ones. For the proposed high-performance transcoding with low complexity, not only Wyner-Ziv frames but also key frames can be transcoded with motion vectors estimated in generation of side information. As a motion vector is estimated from a key frame to a prior key frame for side information generation, the motion vector can be used to encode the intra key frame as a predicted frame. Motion estimation is performed with two predicted motion vectors. One is the motion vector from side information generation and the other is median of motion vectors of neighboring blocks. The proposed method selects the best motion vector between two motion vectors based on rate-distortion optimization. Coding efficiency can be improved with a small size of search range, because a motion vector estimated in side information generation is used as an initial motion vector for transcoding. In the experimental results, complexity of transcoder is reduced about 12% and bitrate performance increases about 28.7%.