Title
Fast mode selection to reduce the encoding complexity of H.264/AVC
Abstract
Fast mode selection is one of the hottest research topics for H.264/AVC finalized in 2003. Since the computational complexity is still a major challenge for real-time applications, simplification of mode selection is therefore very important. A fast mode selection algorithm is proposed in this paper. By removing low-probability modes according to the correlative characteristic in macroblock mode selection and the statistical characteristic of sub-macroblock mode selection, the calculation of mode selection process is significantly reduced. Based on the experimental results, the encoding time can be saved 55.91% on average, and in most cases the degradation of video quality is limited in 0.15 dB with less than 2% increase of bitrate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4542231
ISCAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
h.264/avc,encoding complexity reduction,video quality degradation,statistical analysis,encoding time,video coding,fast mode selection,computational complexity,encoding,video compression,video quality
Macroblock,Iso standards,Computer science,Algorithm,Mode selection,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Data compression,Video quality,Iec standards,Computational complexity theory,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0271-4302
978-1-4244-1684-4
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Zhan141.20
Baochun Hou261.97
Reza Sotudeh3418.69