The high efficiency video compression standard (HEVC) is the latest video engineering marvel that is designed to launch video coding towards the domain of the 8K. This new standard with all the advanced video coding t...
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The high efficiency video compression standard (HEVC) is the latest video engineering marvel that is designed to launch video coding towards the domain of the 8K. This new standard with all the advanced video coding techniques built into it has an overload of computational complexities, which result to very high latency in the encoding process. modedecision in this standard is one of the units that constitutes a significant fraction of the complexities. This work utilizes prediction residuals in the inter 2N x 2N part mode, in depths two and three, to prune down decisions over the four asymmetric motion partitions in each of these depths. Experimental results show that this algorithm offers a speedup of 72% at best when linked with the modedecision scheme implemented in HM14 reference software.
In the intra prediction process, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) provides a quadtree-based coding unit (CU) block partitioning structure and up to 35 kinds of prediction modes to improve the coding performance. Th...
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In the intra prediction process, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) provides a quadtree-based coding unit (CU) block partitioning structure and up to 35 kinds of prediction modes to improve the coding performance. These technologies improve the coding efficiency significantly while the coding complexity is simultaneously increased rapidly as well. In this paper, a novel fast CU size decision and mode decision algorithm is proposed for the intra prediction of HEVC. The overall algorithm consists of two processes, the fast CU size decision and fast modedecision. In the fast CU size decision process, we adopt an adaptive discretization total variation (DTV) threshold-based CU size determination algorithm to skip some specific depth levels. In the fast modedecision process, an orientation gradient-based modedecision is proposed to reduce the candidate modes involved in the rough modedecision (RMD) and the rate distortion optimization (RDO) process. The experimental results on the HEVC reference software HM demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the coding time with negligible performance loss.
With the advance of 3D display and related technologies, 3D video applications have been booming up recently. The color plus depth-map 3D video gains the attention for its relatively low storage and transmission bandw...
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With the advance of 3D display and related technologies, 3D video applications have been booming up recently. The color plus depth-map 3D video gains the attention for its relatively low storage and transmission bandwidth requirements as compared with stereo and multi-view videos. The color plus depth-map 3D video provides the depth information about the recorded content which brings new rooms for video processing and compression. This work reveals the usage of depth information for speeding up video encoding process. A novel fast mode decision algorithm based on depth information is proposed. The algorithm is also applicable to videos in which the associated depth-maps are not the ground-truth. By utilizing the depth information, we can classify scenes according to the associated depth and assign the appropriate modes. We can also deduce the configuration of the given macroblock by the associated depth information and select the suitable mode candidates;therefore, the encoding process will be speeded-up accordingly. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is faster than existing modedecision approaches with similar coding efficiency. The entire encoding time is reduced by about 63% for Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) formats while the Rate-Distortion (RD) performance is almost the same as compared with the exhaustive full modedecision approach.
The full search scheme employed in H.264/AVC significantly improves the coding performance, but it also introduces a very high computational complexity which limits the applications in resource-constrained mobile devi...
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The full search scheme employed in H.264/AVC significantly improves the coding performance, but it also introduces a very high computational complexity which limits the applications in resource-constrained mobile devices. In this study, the authors firstly present a discretisation total variation and orientation gradient-based hierarchical intra-prediction modedecision method for mobile video applications. By shrinking the candidate mode set in the rate-distortion optimisation (RDO) process, the proposed algorithm reduces the computational complexity and power consumption of the encoder. Furthermore, they extend the hierarchical algorithm to a complexity scalable version in which the coding complexity is measured on five levels by reserving various numbers of modes for RDO. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed mode decision algorithm reduces the coding complexity significantly with negligible performance degradation and the proposed complexity scalable algorithm is effective and efficient for mobile video application.
The newly proposed video coding standard H.264/AVC by JVT can achieve much higher efficiency than previous standards. Unfortunately this comes at a cost in greatly increased complexity at the encoder mainly due to Mot...
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The newly proposed video coding standard H.264/AVC by JVT can achieve much higher efficiency than previous standards. Unfortunately this comes at a cost in greatly increased complexity at the encoder mainly due to Motion estimation (ME) and inter /intra prediction block modedecision. In this paper, we propose a fast mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC based on all-zero blocks predetermination. According to the characteristics of H.264/AVC integral DCT transform and quantization, we present the adaptive detection thresholds and early termination conditions for the inter/intra prediction mode. Then these thresholds are further applied to the fast mode decision algorithm from various encoding modes, which reduce the search complexity of modedecision. The experimental results show that, compared with other mode decision algorithms, our algorithm achieves approximately 21%-41% computational saving without video-quality degradation and bit-rate increase.
The newly proposed video coding standard H.264/AVC by JVT can achieve much higher efficiency than previous standards. Unfortunately this comes at a cost in greatly increased complexity at the encoder mainly due to Mot...
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The newly proposed video coding standard H.264/AVC by JVT can achieve much higher efficiency than previous standards. Unfortunately this comes at a cost in greatly increased complexity at the encoder mainly due to Motion estimation (ME) and inter/intra prediction block modedecision. In this paper, we propose a fast mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC based on all-zero blocks predetermination. According to the characteristics of H.264/AVC integral DCT transform and quantization, we present the adaptive detection thresholds and early termination conditions for the inter/intra prediction mode. Then these thresholds are further applied to the fast mode decision algorithm from various encoding modes, which reduce the search complexity of modedecision. The experimental results show that, compared with other mode decision algorithms, our algorithm achieves approximately 21%41% computational saving without video-quality degradation and bit-rate increase.
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