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Fast mode decision for HEVC intra coding with efficient mode skipping and improved RMD

  • Xin Lu*
  • , Nan Xiao
  • , Yue Hu
  • , Zhilu Wu
  • , Graham Martin
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • University of Warwick

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Abstract

HEVC employs a quad-tree based Coding Unit (CU) structure to achieve a significant improvement in coding efficiency compared with previous standards. However, the computational complexity is greatly increased. We proposed a fast mode decision algorithm to reduce intra coding complexity. Firstly, an initial candidate list of intra modes is constructed for each Prediction Unit (PU). The prediction mode correlation between adjacent quad-tree coding levels and between temporal neighbouring frames is used to predict the most likely coding mode. The number of prediction mode that need to be evaluated in residual quad-tree (RQT) process is further reduced by taking the Hadamard cost of prediction mode into consideration. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm saves encoding time by up to 51% compared with the HM 13.0 implementation, while having a negligible impact on rate distortion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509037247
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event18th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 21 Sep 201623 Sep 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period21/09/1623/09/16

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