Fast Inter Block Mode Decision Using Image Complexity in H.264/AVC 


Vol. 33,  No. 11, pp. 925-931, Nov.  2008


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  Abstract

In video coding standard H.264/AVC, variable block size mode algorithm improves compression efficiency but has need of a large amount of computation for various block modes and mode decision. Meanwhile, decided inter block modes depend on the complexity of a block image, and then the more complex a macroblock is, the smaller its block size is. This paper proposes fast inter block mode decision algorithm. It limits valid block modes to the block modes with a great chance for decision using the image complexity and carries out motion estimation rate-distortion optimization with only the valid block modes. In addition to that, it applies fast motion estimation PDE to the valid block modes with only the 16×16 block mode. The reference software JM 9.5 was executed to estimate the proposed algorithm’s performance. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm could save about 24.12% of the averaged motion estimation time while keeping the image quality and the bit rate to be ?0.02㏈ and ?0.12% on the average, respectively.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Kim and J. Oh, "Fast Inter Block Mode Decision Using Image Complexity in H.264/AVC," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 925-931, 2008. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Seong-hee Kim and Jeong-su Oh. 2008. Fast Inter Block Mode Decision Using Image Complexity in H.264/AVC. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 33, 11, (2008), 925-931. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Seong-hee Kim and Jeong-su Oh, "Fast Inter Block Mode Decision Using Image Complexity in H.264/AVC," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 925-931, 11. 2008.