High-Efficiency Video Coder in Pruned Environment Using Adaptive Quantization Parameter Selection

The high-efficiency video coder(HEVC)is one of the most advanced techniques used in growing real-time multimedia applications today.However,they require large bandwidth for transmission through bandwidth,and bandwidth varies with different video sequences/formats.This paper proposes an adaptive information-based variable quantization matrix(AIVQM)developed for different video formats having variable energy levels.The quantization method is adapted based on video sequence using statistical analysis,improving bit budget,quality and complexity reduction.Further,to have precise control over bit rate and quality,a multi-constraint prune algorithm is proposed in the second stage of the AI-VQM technique for pre-calculating K numbers of paths.The same should be handy to selfadapt and choose one of the K-path automatically in dynamically changing bandwidth availability as per requirement after extensive testing of the proposed algorithm in the multi-constraint environment for multiple paths and evaluating the performance based on peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR),bit-budget and time complexity for different videos a noticeable improvement in rate-distortion(RD)performance is achieved.Using the proposed AIVQM technique,more feasible and efficient video sequences are achieved with less loss in PSNR than the variable quantization method(VQM)algorithm with approximately a rise of 10%–20%based on different video sequences/formats.

An adaptive preprocessing algorithm for low bitrate video coding

At low bitrate, all block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) based video coding algorithms suffer from visible blocking and ringing artifacts in the reconstructed images because the quantization is too coarse and high frequency DCT coefficients are inclined to be quantized to zeros. Preprocessing algorithms can enhance coding efficiency and thus reduce the likelihood of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts generated in the video coding process by applying a low-pass filter before video encoding to remove some relatively insignificant high frequent components. In this paper, we introduce a new adaptive preprocessing algo- rithm, which employs an improved bilateral filter to provide adaptive edge-preserving low-pass filtering which is adjusted ac- cording to the quantization parameters. Whether at low or high bit rate, the preprocessing can provide proper filtering to make the video encoder more efficient and have better reconstructed image quality. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed preprocessing algorithm can significantly improve both subjective and objective quality.