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An Efficient Intra Prediction Mode Decision for Spatial Enhancement Layer

공간 향상 계층에서 효율적인 화면 내 예측 모드 선택 방법

  • 명진수 (광운대학교 VIA-Multimedia Center) ;
  • 박성재 (광운대학교 VIA-Multimedia Center) ;
  • 오승준 (광운대학교 VIA-Multimedia Center) ;
  • 심동규 (광운대학교 VIA-Multimedia Center) ;
  • 김병규 (한국전자통신연구원)
  • Published : 2007.09.29

Abstract

In this parer, we propose an efficient intra prediction mode decision scheme in Scalable Video Coding(SVC) which is an emerging video coding standard as an extension of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC(Advanced Video Coding). The proposed method in base on the characteristic of macroblock smoothness follows the statistical analysis of intra prediction mode in an enhancement layer and it decides a candidate intra prediction mode. We also propose an early termination scheme for Intra_BL mode decision where the RD cost value of Intra_BL is utilized. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces 54.67% of the computation complexity of intra prediction coding, while the degradation in video quality is negligible; for low QP values, the average PSNR loss is very negligible, equivalently the bit rate increases by 0.011%. For high QP values, the average PSNR loss is less than 0.01dB, which equals to 0.249% increase in bitrate.

본 논문에서는 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC의 확장표준으로 제정된 SVC(Scalable Video Coding)에서 화면 내 예측 모드를 효율적으로 선택하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 공간 향상 계층에서의 화면 내 예측 모드의 통계적 분석을 기반으로 매크로블록의 복잡도 특성에 따라 화면 내 예측 모드를 결정하고 Intra_BL 모드의 RD 값을 사용하여 Intra_BL 모드를 선 결정한다. 실험결과 제안한 방법은 화면 내 예측 모드의 부호화 시간을 54.67% 감소시키는 것에 반해 화질의 열화가 매우 작음을 보였다. 특히 낮은 QP 값에서는 미비한 PSNR의 감소와 약 0.011% 정도의 비트율 증가를 보였고, 높은 QP 값에서는 약 0.01dB 미만의 PSNR 감소와 0.249% 정도의 비트율이 증가하였다.

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