Title
H.264 intra mode decision for reducing complexity using directional masks and neighboring modes
Abstract
The computational complexity for the RDO-based intra prediction in H.264 is very high due to many coding modes. There are 9 modes for 4×4 luma blocks, 4 modes for 16×16 luma blocks and 4 modes for 8×8 chroma blocks, respectively, so that all possible combinations of coding modes per MB are 592. We propose an intra mode decision algorithm for reducing complexity using directional masks and neighboring blocks' modes. The proposed algorithm has a very simple structure and reduces the number of mode combinations into 132 at the most. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces the encoding time up to 70% with negligible PSNR loss and bit-rate increase compared with exhaustive testing of H.264.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11949534_96
PSIVT
Keywords
Field
DocType
neighboring mode,mode combination,coding mode,intra mode decision algorithm,h.264 intra mode decision,directional mask,chroma block,encoding time,rdo-based intra prediction,luma block,computational complexity,proposed algorithm
Transmission loss,Algorithm complexity,Computer science,Image processing,Algorithm,Coding (social sciences),Luma,Encoding (memory),Computational complexity theory
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4319
0302-9743
3-540-68297-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.42
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jongho Kim111.09
Kicheol Jeon211.09
Jechang Jeong31002141.22