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In this paper, an improved deblocking filter for intra blocks is proposed. By applying different strength of deblocking filter adaptively to intra blocks based on intra prediction mode, the proposed method not only improves visual quality but also achieves coding performance.
In this paper, we propose a novel efficient downsizing video transcoder for H.264/AVC low bit-rate compressed images. The algorithm accounts for new coding tools introduced by the H.264/AVC standard and applies directly on the transformed coefficients, thus reducing greatly the computational complexity of the transcoding algorithm. In a first approach, we restrict ourselves to 4×4 blocks intra-coded...
In traditional directional spatial prediction based video coding standards such as H.264/AVC, MPEG4 and AVS, zigzag scan is the fixed scan pattern which designed to organize quantized transform coefficients in order to bring the high-frequency components as more as possible, so that the coefficients can be encoded more efficiently using the entropy encoding. However, zigzag scan cannot efficiently...
Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is a popular topic in the research community and the past years have seen several different implementations. DVC has been proposed as a solution for applications that have limited battery resources and low hardware complexity, thus necessitating a low complexity encoder. An ideal application would be in remote surveillance/monitoring or live video conferencing. However,...
In this paper, an efficient search center definition algorithm is proposed for H.264/AVC. H.264/AVC achieved high coding efficiency by introducing some new coding tools including a new definition of the search center. However, the definition of the search center is not efficient in the case of significant motions. This work proposes some new search center candidates using spatial and temporal correlations...
In this paper, we provide a simple method for analyzing the GOP structure of an MPEG-2 or H.264/AVC decoded video without having access to the bitstream. Noise estimation is applied on the decoded frames and the variance of the noise in the different I-, P-, and B-frames is measured. After the encoding process, the noise variance in the video sequence shows a periodic pattern, which helps in the extraction...
In this paper, we propose an intra-prediction system that is both parallel friendly and with high coding efficiency. This is achieved by combining a novel prediction strategy that reduces serial dependencies and a novel, multi-directional and adaptive prediction system. The resulting technique is compared with state-of-the-art ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. We observe a 2× and 8× increase in parallelism...
H.264/AVC employs intra prediction to reduce spatial redundancy between neighboring blocks. Different directional prediction modes are used to cater diversified video content. Although it achieves quite high coding efficiency, it is desirable to analyze its drawbacks in the existing video coding standard, since it allows us to design better ones. Basically, even after intra prediction, the residue...
Today, video applications on handheld devices become more and more popular. Due to limited computational capability of handheld devices, complexity constrained video coding draws much attention. In this paper, a medium-granularity computational complexity control (MGCC) is proposed for H.264/AVC. First, a large dynamic range in complexity is achieved by taking 16×16 motion estimation in a single reference...
Despite the attention that hierarchical B picture coding has received, little attention has been given to a related technique called hierarchical P picture coding. P picture only coding without reverse prediction is necessary in constrained bit rate applications that require ultra-low delay and/or low complexity, such as videoconferencing. Such systems, however, have been using the traditional IPPP...
This paper describes a novel video coding scheme that can be considered as a generalization of the block-based hybrid video coding approach of H.264/AVC. While the individual building blocks of our approach are kept simple similarly as in H.264/AVC, the flexibility of the block partitioning for prediction and transform coding has been substantially increased. This is achieved by the use of nested...
Fast mode decision for intra mode prediction in H.264/AVC trades off between rate distortion performance and encoding complexity. Edge direction method has been certified available by reducing unlikely orientation features which are represented by eight values derived from pixel-value processing. In this paper, we proposed a new method to simplify this procedure by exploiting the correlation between...
The emerging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (H.264/SVC) requires the rate control algorithm to regulate the output bit rate of all the coarse-grain-scalability, temporal, spatial and combined enhancement layers. In this research, we propose an incremental rate control algorithm for H.264/SVC. First, a Rate-Complexity-Quantization (R-C-Q) model is extended in scalable video coding based on our previous...
In order to get the best mode, H.264 computes the cost of every mode for each block by RDO (rate distortion optimization) technique, but it increases a high computational complexity .This paper combines Pan's fast algorithm and an efficient fast mode decision for intra prediction is proposed. First, the intra prediction's types are decided by whether a block is smooth. Second, the Pan's fast algorithm...
In this paper, a rate-distortion optimized variable block transform coding scheme is proposed based on a hierarchical structured transform for macroblock (MB) coding with a set of the order-4 and -8 integer cosine transform (ICT) kernels of H.264/AVC as well as a new order-16 ICT kernel. The set of order-4, -8 and -16 ICT kernels are applied for inter-predictive coding in square (4 × 4, 8 × 8 or 16...
The objective of this work is to investigate the performance of a new inloop filter for video compression, which uses temporal rather than spatial information to improve the quality of reference frames used for prediction. The new filter has been integrated into the H.264/AVC baseline encoder and tested on a wide range of sequences. Experimental results show that the filter achieves a bit rate reduction...
We propose a novel video coding scheme targeting Super Hi-Vision (SHV) video sources. While it takes a conventional block-based MC + Transform hybrid coding approach that is suitable for hardware implementation of a SHV video codec, the proposed scheme achieved significant coding efficiency improvement by introducing several coding tools such as intra prediction and adaptive transform. According to...
Inter prediction based on block matching motion estimation is important for video coding. But this method suffers from the additional overhead in data rate representing the motion information that needs to be transmitted to the decoder. To solve this problem, we present an improved implicit motion information inter prediction algorithm for P slice in H.264/AVC based on the spatio-temporal adaptive...
Video transmission over error prone channels, such as typical for Mobile TV or IPTV systems, is constantly subject to research. Simulation is an important instrument to evaluate performance of the overall system, but the multitude of parameters often requires large and time-consuming simulation sets. In this paper, we present a mechanism for fast evaluation of error-prone H.264/AVC and SVC video transmission...
Motion compensation with quarter-pel accuracy was added to H.264/AVC to improve the coding efficiency of images exhibiting fractional-pel movement. To enlarge the reference pictures, a fixed 6-tap filter is used. However, the values of the filter coefficients are constant regardless of the characteristic of the input video. An improved interpolation filter, called the Adaptive Interpolation Filter...
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