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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2008.13.5.732

Design of video encoder using Multi-dimensional DCT  

Jeon, S.Y. (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Choi, W.J. (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Oh, S.J. (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
Jeong, S.Y. (ETRI)
Choi, J.S. (ETRI)
Moon, K.A. (ETRI)
Hong, J.W. (ETRI)
Ahn, C.B. (VIA-Multimedia Center, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.13, no.5, 2008 , pp. 732-743 More about this Journal
Abstract
In H.264/AVC, 4$\times$4 block transform is used for intra and inter prediction instead of 8$\times$8 block transform. Using small block size coding, H.264/AVC obtains high temporal prediction efficiency, however, it has limitation in utilizing spatial redundancy. Motivated on these points, we propose a multi-dimensional transform which achieves both the accuracy of temporal prediction as well as effective use of spatial redundancy. From preliminary experiments, the proposed multi-dimensional transform achieves higher energy compaction than 2-D DCT used in H.264. We designed an integer-based transform and quantization coder for multi-dimensional coder. Moreover, several additional methods for multi-dimensional coder are proposed, which are cube forming, scan order, mode decision and updating parameters. The Context-based Adaptive Variable-Length Coding (CAVLC) used in H.264 was employed for the entropy coder. Simulation results show that the performance of the multi-dimensional codec appears similar to that of H.264 in lower bit rates although the rate-distortion curves of the multi-dimensional DCT measured by entropy and the number of non-zero coefficients show remarkably higher performance than those of H.264/AVC. This implies that more efficient entropy coder optimized to the statistics of multi-dimensional DCT coefficients and rate-distortion operation are needed to take full advantage of the multi-dimensional DCT. There remains many issues and future works about multi-dimensional coder to improve coding efficiency over H.264/AVC.
Keywords
Multi-dimensional transform; DCT; Multi-dimensional quantization; Multi-dimensional coding; Integer transform;
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