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Efficient Bitrate Control Scheme for Scalable Video Codec  

Park Nae-Ri (Dept. of Information & Communications Engineering, Sejong University)
Jeon Dong-San (Broadcasting Media Research Group, ETRI)
Kim Jae-Gon (Broadcasting Media Research Group, ETRI)
Han Jong-Ki (Dept. of Information & Communications Engineering, Sejong University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.10, no.4, 2005 , pp. 488-504 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new bitrate control scheme to improve the quality of image encoded by SVC and to resolve the problems of conventional scheme. In JSVM2.0, bitrate of a frame is controlled by an initial quantization parameter and scaling factor that it hasdifferent value according to frame. Itis difficult to get the best of video quality at arbitrary bitrate because the conventional scheme has two defects. One is that we have to know proper initial QP's fur all sequences. Another is that QP's control skill for macroblocks is very inefficient. In this paper, we propose an efficient bit allocation algorithm to reduce the effect of the initial QP and to increase the efficiency of bit allocation by using proper QP's for macroblocks. In simulation results, it can be seen that using the proposed scheme enables the SVC encoder to control the bitrate by the macroblock unit and outperforms the conventional schemes in the respect of rate-distortion.
Keywords
scalable video codec(SVC); rate control;
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