Studies show that encoding technologies in H.264/AVC,including prediction and conversion,are essential technologies.However,these technologies are more complicated than the MPEG-4,which is a standard method and widely...Studies show that encoding technologies in H.264/AVC,including prediction and conversion,are essential technologies.However,these technologies are more complicated than the MPEG-4,which is a standard method and widely adopted worldwide.Therefore,the amount of calculation in H.264/AVC is significantly up-regulated compared to that of the MPEG-4.In the present study,it is intended to simplify the computational expenses in the international standard compression coding system H.264/AVC for moving images.Inter prediction refers to the most feasible compression technology,taking up to 60%of the entire encoding.In this regard,prediction error and motion vector information are proposed to simplify the computation of inter predictive coding technology.In the initial frame,motion compensation is performed in all target modes and then basic information is collected and analyzed.After the initial frame,motion compensation is performed only in the middle 8×8 modes,and the basic information amount shifts.In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method and assess the motion image compression coding,four types of motion images,defined by the international telecommunication union(ITU),are employed.Based on the obtained results,it is concluded that the developed method is capable of simplifying the calculation,while it is slightly affected by the inferior image quality and the amount of information.展开更多
A fast intra mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce the complexity of H.264 encoder. The proposed algorithm adopted the pre-processing method based on edge feature in pictures to filter out some i...A fast intra mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce the complexity of H.264 encoder. The proposed algorithm adopted the pre-processing method based on edge feature in pictures to filter out some impossible prediction modes. Context information and pre-computed threshold are used to determine whether it is necessary to check the DC mode. This method is able to get rid of most of candidate modes so that only 66—150 modes are left for the final mode decision, instead of 592 modes in the case of full search （FS） method of H.264. Simulation results demonstrate that the coding time of the proposed algorithm falls down 71.70/0 compared with FS method, while the performance loss is trivial compared with FS mode decision scheme.展开更多
With advanced prediction modes of intra prediction, intra coding of H.264/AVC offers significant coding gains compared with previous video coding standards. It uses an important tool called Lagrangian rate-distortion ...With advanced prediction modes of intra prediction, intra coding of H.264/AVC offers significant coding gains compared with previous video coding standards. It uses an important tool called Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization (RDO)technique to decide the best coding mode for a block, but the computational burden is extremely high. In this paper, we proposed an improved fast intra prediction algorithm including block type selection and mode decision algorithm based on analysis of edge feature of a block. Our algorithm filters out unlikely block type and candidate modes to reduce the RDO calculations. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm can reduce the computation complexity of intra prediction from 52.90% to 56.31%, with 0.04 dB PSNR degradation and 2% increase of bit rate.展开更多
A fast mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to accelerate the process of transcoding videos into H.264with arbitrary rate spatial resolution down-scaling. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps. F...A fast mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to accelerate the process of transcoding videos into H.264with arbitrary rate spatial resolution down-scaling. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps. First, an early-stop technique is introduced to determine the 16× 16-mode blocks, which take up about 70% of all the macroblocks; then, a bottom-up merging process is performed to determine the mode of rest non-early-stopped blocks; and then, we adopt half-pixel motion estimation to further refine the acquired predictive motion vectors. In order to obtain the predictive motion vectors for early-stop and merging processes, we propose a motion vector composition scheme, which can reuse the information in the input pre-encoded videos to handle the spatial resolution down-scaling. Experimental results showed that our algorithm is about four times faster than the Cascaded-Decoder-Encoder method and has negligible PSNR drop and little bit rate increase.展开更多
Although H.264 video coding standard provides several error resilience tools, the damage caused by error propagation may still be tremendous. This work is aimed at developing a robust and standard-compliant error resi...Although H.264 video coding standard provides several error resilience tools, the damage caused by error propagation may still be tremendous. This work is aimed at developing a robust and standard-compliant error resilient coding scheme for H.264and uses techniques of mode decision, data hiding, and error concealment to reduce the damage from error propagation. This paper proposes a system with two error resilience techniques that can improve the robustness of H.264 in noisy channels. The first technique is Nearest Neighbor motion compensated Error Concealment (NNEC) that chooses the nearest neighbors in the reference frames for error concealment. The second technique is Distortion Estimated Mode Decision (DEMD) that selects an optimal mode based on stochastically distorted frames. Observed simulation results showed that the rate-distortion performances of the proposed algorithms are better than those of the compared algorithms.展开更多
Mode decision based on rate-distortion optimization algorithm brings high compression efficiency to H.264/AVC. However, heavy computation load is also added to the encoder at the same time. In order to reduce the comp...Mode decision based on rate-distortion optimization algorithm brings high compression efficiency to H.264/AVC. However, heavy computation load is also added to the encoder at the same time. In order to reduce the computation burden of mode decision, this paper presented a fast mode decision method based on mode information of the previously coded frame. Moreover, all coding modes were activated when scene change occurs and a scheme to detect scene change was proposed. The simulation results show that compared to the original encoder, the proposed method achieves a reduction of over 38% encoding time and keeps almost the same PSNR and bitrate for a wide range of quantization parameter.展开更多
In this paper, a fast mode decision algorithm for inter macroblocks in H.264/AVC is proposed, The algorithm is able to classify all modes by both gradient operator and comparison of space-time correlation. Because on...In this paper, a fast mode decision algorithm for inter macroblocks in H.264/AVC is proposed, The algorithm is able to classify all modes by both gradient operator and comparison of space-time correlation. Because only part of modes is used to compare with each other the computational complexity can be reduced greatly. The simulation results show that it takes about 75 % of encoding time for other algorithm with similar visual quality.展开更多
H.264 video coding standard introduces motion estimation with multiple block sizes to achieve a considerably higher coding efficiency than other video coding algorithms. However, this comes at the greatly increased co...H.264 video coding standard introduces motion estimation with multiple block sizes to achieve a considerably higher coding efficiency than other video coding algorithms. However, this comes at the greatly increased computing complexity at the encoder. In this paper, a method is proposed to eliminate some redundant coding modes that contribute very little coding gain. The simulation results show that the algorithm can remarkably decrease the complexity at the encoder while keeping satisfying coding efficiency.展开更多
基金supported by QingLan Project of Jiangsu Province and National Science Fund of China(Nos.61806088,61902160)was supported by Changzhou Science and Technology Support Plan(No.CE20185044).
文摘Studies show that encoding technologies in H.264/AVC,including prediction and conversion,are essential technologies.However,these technologies are more complicated than the MPEG-4,which is a standard method and widely adopted worldwide.Therefore,the amount of calculation in H.264/AVC is significantly up-regulated compared to that of the MPEG-4.In the present study,it is intended to simplify the computational expenses in the international standard compression coding system H.264/AVC for moving images.Inter prediction refers to the most feasible compression technology,taking up to 60%of the entire encoding.In this regard,prediction error and motion vector information are proposed to simplify the computation of inter predictive coding technology.In the initial frame,motion compensation is performed in all target modes and then basic information is collected and analyzed.After the initial frame,motion compensation is performed only in the middle 8×8 modes,and the basic information amount shifts.In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method and assess the motion image compression coding,four types of motion images,defined by the international telecommunication union(ITU),are employed.Based on the obtained results,it is concluded that the developed method is capable of simplifying the calculation,while it is slightly affected by the inferior image quality and the amount of information.
文摘A fast intra mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce the complexity of H.264 encoder. The proposed algorithm adopted the pre-processing method based on edge feature in pictures to filter out some impossible prediction modes. Context information and pre-computed threshold are used to determine whether it is necessary to check the DC mode. This method is able to get rid of most of candidate modes so that only 66—150 modes are left for the final mode decision, instead of 592 modes in the case of full search （FS） method of H.264. Simulation results demonstrate that the coding time of the proposed algorithm falls down 71.70/0 compared with FS method, while the performance loss is trivial compared with FS mode decision scheme.
基金Project (No. 60472040) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘With advanced prediction modes of intra prediction, intra coding of H.264/AVC offers significant coding gains compared with previous video coding standards. It uses an important tool called Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization (RDO)technique to decide the best coding mode for a block, but the computational burden is extremely high. In this paper, we proposed an improved fast intra prediction algorithm including block type selection and mode decision algorithm based on analysis of edge feature of a block. Our algorithm filters out unlikely block type and candidate modes to reduce the RDO calculations. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm can reduce the computation complexity of intra prediction from 52.90% to 56.31%, with 0.04 dB PSNR degradation and 2% increase of bit rate.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60573176)the Key Technologies R & D Program of Zhejiang Province (Nos. 2005C23047 and 2004C11052), China
文摘A fast mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper to accelerate the process of transcoding videos into H.264with arbitrary rate spatial resolution down-scaling. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps. First, an early-stop technique is introduced to determine the 16× 16-mode blocks, which take up about 70% of all the macroblocks; then, a bottom-up merging process is performed to determine the mode of rest non-early-stopped blocks; and then, we adopt half-pixel motion estimation to further refine the acquired predictive motion vectors. In order to obtain the predictive motion vectors for early-stop and merging processes, we propose a motion vector composition scheme, which can reuse the information in the input pre-encoded videos to handle the spatial resolution down-scaling. Experimental results showed that our algorithm is about four times faster than the Cascaded-Decoder-Encoder method and has negligible PSNR drop and little bit rate increase.
文摘Although H.264 video coding standard provides several error resilience tools, the damage caused by error propagation may still be tremendous. This work is aimed at developing a robust and standard-compliant error resilient coding scheme for H.264and uses techniques of mode decision, data hiding, and error concealment to reduce the damage from error propagation. This paper proposes a system with two error resilience techniques that can improve the robustness of H.264 in noisy channels. The first technique is Nearest Neighbor motion compensated Error Concealment (NNEC) that chooses the nearest neighbors in the reference frames for error concealment. The second technique is Distortion Estimated Mode Decision (DEMD) that selects an optimal mode based on stochastically distorted frames. Observed simulation results showed that the rate-distortion performances of the proposed algorithms are better than those of the compared algorithms.
基金The National High Technology Research andDevelopment Program of China (863 Pro-gram) (No2002AA1Z1190)
文摘Mode decision based on rate-distortion optimization algorithm brings high compression efficiency to H.264/AVC. However, heavy computation load is also added to the encoder at the same time. In order to reduce the computation burden of mode decision, this paper presented a fast mode decision method based on mode information of the previously coded frame. Moreover, all coding modes were activated when scene change occurs and a scheme to detect scene change was proposed. The simulation results show that compared to the original encoder, the proposed method achieves a reduction of over 38% encoding time and keeps almost the same PSNR and bitrate for a wide range of quantization parameter.
基金Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 60332030）, and National Technologic Innovation Foundation of China（ Grant No. 01BK-272）
文摘In this paper, a fast mode decision algorithm for inter macroblocks in H.264/AVC is proposed, The algorithm is able to classify all modes by both gradient operator and comparison of space-time correlation. Because only part of modes is used to compare with each other the computational complexity can be reduced greatly. The simulation results show that it takes about 75 % of encoding time for other algorithm with similar visual quality.
文摘H.264 video coding standard introduces motion estimation with multiple block sizes to achieve a considerably higher coding efficiency than other video coding algorithms. However, this comes at the greatly increased computing complexity at the encoder. In this paper, a method is proposed to eliminate some redundant coding modes that contribute very little coding gain. The simulation results show that the algorithm can remarkably decrease the complexity at the encoder while keeping satisfying coding efficiency.
