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Real-time video compression applications such as Digital Video Camera (DVC), Television Studio Broadcast, and Surveillance video utilize the H.264/AVC video encoder in intra-only encoding mode. The H.264/AVC standard supports multiple intra-prediction modes to reduce spatial redundancy in the video frame. The intra-prediction process for a current pixels block requires the reconstructed pixels from...
The future of video coding for 3DTV lies in the combination of depth maps and corresponding textures. Most current video coding standards, however, are only optimized for visual quality and are not able to efficiently compress depth maps. We present in this work a content adaptive depth map meshing with tritree and entropy encoding for 3D videos. We show that this approach outperforms the intra frame...
RGB color signals encoding is more desirable for high resolution and accurate definition for saturations and hue. This paper presents a region adaptive inter-color prediction scheme for 4:4:4 RGB signals, which treats G component as a primary component and predicts B/R component from G component with different weighting factors based on different texture regions. The proposed algorithm demonstrates...
In this paper, we propose a new intra prediction scheme based on hard thresholding applied on shift-DCT coefficients. The explored intra prediction method, validated in an H.264/AVC framework, aims at better predicting complex 2D patterns that cannot be properly extrapolated using H.264/AVC directional intra prediction modes. The basic explored algorithm makes use of neighbor pixels of the current...
In this paper, the intra residual macroblock produced by H.264 is investigated. Based on its characteristics, an efficient two-layer coding scheme for the intra residual macroblock is developed. The rate-distortion performance for the proposed coding scheme is evaluated. Experimental results show that our algorithm can achieve better coding performance.
In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm designed for the hierarchical prediction structure in H.264/MPEG scalable video coding (SVC). It can efficiently reduce the heavy computational burden in performing the bi-directional (BI) prediction. We carefully examine the correlation of motion-rate costs and distortion values between BI and FW (forward) and BW (backward) prediction types. Then we construct...
Intra prediction applied in H.264/AVC improves compression efficiency greatly. But the full search algorithm is computationally expensive and there exist conflicts with some real time applications. In order to promote encoding speed, this paper proposed a fast algorithm based on actual predictive conditions of the 4times4 blocks. The simulation result shows that the proposed algorithm can save about...
In this paper, a novel weighted cross prediction (WCP) mode is proposed to replace DC mode in Intra_4times4 prediction of H.264/AVC. In the proposed scheme, the upper right part of one 4times4 block mainly employs vertical prediction while the lower left part mainly uses horizontal prediction, predicting both in vertical and horizontal directions in one block. This scheme uses simple prediction equations...
This paper proposes an improved intra prediction method for H.264/AVC. The conventional method uses only adjoining pixels as reference pixels. The residual energy is increased if the decoded pixels are occluded, which would result in low coding efficiency. In addition, the conventional prediction method copies the same weighted prediction value to several of the pixels lying in the prediction direction...
This paper presents a new transform framework, intra-predictive transforms, for block-based image coding. The proposed framework unifies cross-block prediction and transforms within a block. Thus, it can exploit both the intra- and inter- block correlations. The intra-prediction in H.264 can be viewed as a special case of intra-predictive transforms. The new framework provides more flexibility to...
Transporting hybrid coded video over wireless channel is very challenging. Efficient coding and compression techniques are required to meet the QoS (Quality of Service) requirements of such services. H.264, the latest coding and compression standard from ITU-T, is currently dominating the field by offering a flexible architecture and compression gain of up to 50%. In H.264, intra frame prediction...
In order to facilitate the H.264/AVC implementation in application system with low bit rate; its coding algorithm should be optimized. In this paper, through analysis of the motion vector distribution in the video image and the serial search strategy, a type of parallel program based on the cross search algorithm is presented, designed and implemented. Finally this design program is played in the...
In the novel video coding standard H.264/AVC, motion estimation is allowed to adopt multiple reference frame in order to improve the coding efficiency. However, the computational cost of multiple reference frame motion estimation is very high. In this paper, we proposed a fast multiple reference frame motion estimation algorithm which takes into account the correlation and center-biased characteristic...
In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture for a real time H.264/AVC intra predictor generator that can support 1920times1080@60fps. The proposed hardware architecture can generate 16 intra predictors for all 4 times 4 and 16 times 16 intra prediction modes in one clock, in comparison, previous implementations could only generate 4 predictors.
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