Two-dimensional map based fast mode decision for H.264/AVC

Tiesong ZHAO, Hanli WANG, Xiangyang JI, Sam KWONG

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Abstract

The state-of-the-art video coding standard H.264/AVC achieves significant coding performance improvement by choosing the rate-distortion (RD) optimized encoding mode from a list of candidate modes at the cost of intensive computations, which limits the practical application of H.264/AVC. A number of fast mode decision algorithms have been recently presented in the literature in order to reduce H.264/AVC encoding computations. In this paper, a novel two-dimensional (2D) map based fast mode decision scheme is proposed, which produces a flexible mode checking order for fast mode decision. Experimental results demonstrate that with the proposed algorithm, the computational complexity of H.264/AVC coding is significantly reduced while the video quality and compression efficiency are preserved. © 2008 Springer.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages148-157
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

This work is supported by Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant Project 9041236 (CityU 114707).

Keywords

  • 2D map
  • H.264/AVC
  • Mode decision
  • Temporal-spatial correlation

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