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Efficient De-quantization Method based on Quantized Coefficients Distribution for Multi-view Video Coding  

Park, Seung-Wook (LG Electronics Digital Media Lab.)
Jeon, Byeong-Moon (LG Electronics Digital Media Lab.)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.11, no.4, 2006 , pp. 386-395 More about this Journal
Abstract
Multi-view video coding technology demands the very high efficient coding technologies, because it has to encode a number of video sequences which are achieved from a number of video cameras. For this purpose, multi-view video coding introduces the inter-view prediction scheme between different views, but it shows a limitation of coding performance enhancement by adopting only new prediction method. Accordingly, we are going to achieve the more coding performance by enhancing dequantizer perfermance. Multi-view video coding is implemented basically based on H.264/AVC and uses the same quantization/de-quantization method as H.264/AVC does. The conventional quantizer and dequantizer is designed with the assumption that input residual signal follows the Laplacian PDF. However, it doesn't follow the fixed PDF type always. This mismatch between assumption and real data causes degradation of coding performance. To solve this problem, we propose the efficient de-quantization method based on quantized coefficients distribution at decoder without extra information. The extensive simulation results show that the proposed algorithm produces maximum $1.5\;dB{\sim}0.6\;dB$ at high bitrate compared with that of conventional method.
Keywords
multi-view video coding; quantization; de-quantization; Laplacian PDF;
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