Fast Transform Unit Depth Decision Based on Quantized Coefficients for HEVC

Zhaoqing PAN; Jianjun LEI; Yun ZHANG; Wenjie YAN; Sam KWONG

doi:10.1109/SMC.2015.202

Fast Transform Unit Depth Decision Based on Quantized Coefficients for HEVC

Zhaoqing PAN, Jianjun LEI, Yun ZHANG, Wenjie YAN, Sam KWONG

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Abstract

The quad tree structure based Transform Unit (TU) helps high efficiency video coding to improve the coding efficiency. However, the achieved coding efficiency comes at the cost of the increased computational complexity. In this paper, based on the quantizated coefficients of the TU, we propose an early termination for the quad tree structure based TU encoding process. If the quantized coefficients of the luminance components are all zeros, the TU encoding process will be terminated. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves about 55.13% on average TU encoding time saving, while the rate distortion performance degradation is negligible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2015
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1127-1132
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479986972
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2015.202
Publication status	Published - Oct 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2015 - Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Duration: 9 Oct 2015 → 12 Oct 2015

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2015
Abbreviated title	SMC 2015
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Kowloon Tong
Period	9/10/15 → 12/10/15

Keywords

fast algorithm
HEVC
Quadtree
transform unit
video coding

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PAN, Z, LEI, J, ZHANG, Y, YAN, W & KWONG, S 2015, Fast Transform Unit Depth Decision Based on Quantized Coefficients for HEVC. in The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2015. IEEE, pp. 1127-1132, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2015, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, 9/10/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2015.202

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