Abstract
With the popularity of high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, a video server usually transcodes a video stream to HEVC for its higher compression ratio. In this paper, a fast H.264/advanced video coding (AVC) to HEVC transcoding method is proposed. In the HEVC encoding procedure, a coding unit(CU), which is a motion-homogeneous block, is first checked based on the analysis of the decoded information from H.264/AVC bit stream. Then, for motion-homogeneous blocks, CU depth and the corresponding prediction unit (PU) mode’s early termination strategies are proposed based on the CU size and corresponding prior statistical knowledge. For non-motion-homogeneous blocks,a corresponding PU mode’s early termination strategy is also proposed. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1416-1430 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61571274 and Grant 61501299, in part by the Shandong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar under Grant JQ201614, and in part by the Young Scholars Program of Shandong University under Grant 2015WLJH39.Keywords
- H.264/advanced video coding (AVC)
- high-efficiency video coding (HEVC)
- low complexity video coding
- motion-homogeneous bloc
- video transcoding