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A fast intra 4×4 mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC down rate transcoding

  • Zhihang Wang*
  • , Luhong Liang
  • , Shengfu Dong
  • , Wen Gao
  • , Debin Zhao
  • , Qingming Huang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Computing Technology
  • Peking University
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

H.264/AVC adopts 9 intra 4×4 prediction modes to improve the intra frame compression efficiency. This makes the intra frame coding and transcoding very complex. In this paper, a fast intra 4×4 mode decision algorithm is proposed to reduce the intra transcoding complexity. Firstly, the surrounding modes in the high bitrate and the modes of the neighboring blocks in the current bitrate are used to form the candidate modes. Secondly, the variance and mean of the intra prediction residual are used to further reduce the size of the candidate mode set. Thirdly, the intra mode context model is built from the high bitrate modes and updated by the low bitrate modes to order the candidate modes. An early skip scheme is used to terminate the mode decision process. Experimental results show that about 50% intra 4×4 modes can be saved with a penalty on coding efficiency less than 0.1dB. The transcoding performance can even gain up to 0.6 dB on some sequences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVisual Communications and Image Processing 2010
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventVisual Communications and Image Processing 2010 - Huangshan, China
Duration: 11 Jul 201014 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7744
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceVisual Communications and Image Processing 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHuangshan
Period11/07/1014/07/10

Keywords

  • Down rate transcoding
  • Fast intra mode decision
  • Transcoding

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