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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2007.12.6.611

An Intra Prediction Method and Fast Intra Prediction Method in Inter Frames using Block Content and Dependency Probabilities on neighboring Block Modes in H.264|AVC  

Na, Tae-Young (Information and Communications University)
Lee, Bum-Shik (Information and Communications University)
Hahm, Sang-Jin (Korea Broadcasting System)
Park, Chang-Seob (Korea Broadcasting System)
Park, Keun-Soo (Korea Broadcasting System)
Kim, Mun-Churl (Information and Communications University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.12, no.6, 2007 , pp. 611-623 More about this Journal
Abstract
The H.264|AVC standard incorporates an intra prediction tool into inter frame coding. However, this leads to excessive amount of increase in encoding time, thus resulting in the difficulty in real-time implementation of software encoders. In this paper, we first propose an early decision on intra prediction coding and a fast intra prediction method using the characteristics of block contents and the context of neighboring block modes for the intra prediction in the inter frame coding of H.264/AVC. Basically, the proposed methods determine a skip condition on whether the $4{\times}4$ intra prediction is to be used in the inter frame coding by considering the content characteristics of each block to be encoded and the context of its neighboring blocks. The performance of our proposed methods is compared with the Joint Model reference software version 11.0 of H.264|AVC. The experimental results show that our proposed methods allow for 41.63% reduction in the total encoding time with negligible amounts of PSNR drops and bitrate increases, compared to the original Joint Model reference software version 11.0.
Keywords
video coding; H.264|AVC; intra prediction; block mode decision;
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