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Improved Side Information Generation using Field Coding for Wyner-Ziv Codec

Wyner-Ziv 부호화기를 위한 필드 부호화 기반 개선된 보조정보 생성

  • 한찬희 (한밭대학교 정보통신전문대학원) ;
  • 전영일 (한밭대학교 정보통신전문대학원) ;
  • 이시웅 (한밭대학교 정보통신전문대학원)
  • Published : 2009.11.28

Abstract

Wyner-Ziv video coding is a new video compression paradigm based on distributed source coding theory of Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv. Wyner-Ziv coding enables light-encoder/heavy-decoder structure by shifting complex modules including motion estimation/compensation task to the decoder. Instead of performing the complicated motion estimation process in the encoder, the Wyner-Ziv decoder performs the motion estimation for the generation of side information in order to make the predicted signal of the Wyner-Ziv frame. The efficiency of side information generation deeply affects the overall coding performance, since the bit-rates of the Wyner-Ziv coding is directly dependent on side information. In this paper, an improved side information generation method using field coding is proposed. In the proposed method, top fields are coded with the existing SI generation method and bottom fields are coded with new SI generation method using the information of the top fields. Simulation results show that the proposed method improves the quality of the side information and rate-distortion performance compared to the conventional method.

Wyner-Ziv 비디오 부호화 기술은 Slepian-Wolf와 Wyner-Ziv의 분산 정보원 부호화 (DSC : distributed source coding) 이론을 기반으로 한 새로운 비디오 압축 패러다임이다. Wyner-Ziv 부호화는 기존 부호화기 측의 복잡한 작업을 복호화기 측으로 이동시킴으로써 단순한 부호화기/복잡한 복호화기의 구조를 실현한다. Wyner-Ziv 복호화기는 원영상의 예측신호인 보조정보를 생성하기 위해 움직임 추정 및 보상을 수행하며, Wyner-Ziv 부호화기의 정보량은 이 보조정보에 직접적으로 의존하기 때문에 보조정보 생성효율은 전체 부호화 성능에 큰 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 필드 부호화를 이용한 개선된 보조정보 생성방법을 제안한다. 우선 top 필드는 기존의 방식으로 부호화되고, bottom 필드는 이미 복호화 된 top 필드의 정보를 이용한 새로운 보조정보 생성방식으로 부호화된다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 보조정보 생성방식이 기존의 방식과 비교할 때, 율-왜곡 성능 및 주관적 화질이 개선되었음을 알 수 있다.

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