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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2010.15.6.815

Uni-directional 4X4 Intra Prediction Mode for H.264/AVC Coding Efficiency  

Jung, Kwang-Su (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Park, Sea-Nae (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Sim, Dong-Gyu (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Lee, Yoon-Jin (College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University)
Park, Gwang-Hoon (College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University)
Oh, Seoung-Jun (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Jeong, Sey-Yoon (ETRI)
Choi, Jin-Soo (ETRI)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.15, no.6, 2010 , pp. 815-829 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new $4{\times}4$ intra coding method by unidirectional prediction for improvement of intra-frame coding efficiency of H.264/AVC. There are $4{\times}4$, $8{\times}8$, and $16{\times}16$ intra prediction modes in the current H.264/AVC. For the $4{\times}4$ intra prediction, coding efficiency is achieved by accurate prediction with small block size in relatively complicated regions, and the $16{\times}16$ intra prediction method can predict more accurately compared to $4{\times}4$ intra prediction with only one directional information in relatively homogeneous regions. We propose a unidirectional $4{\times}4$ intra prediction method adopting a small-size prediction and one directional prediction approaches. In order to improve coding efficiency, the proposed method is conducted by $4{\times}4$ block and their prediction directions are all the same, resulting that we need to send only one directional information for each macroblock. For intra-frame coding setting, we achieve 10.47% and 1.57% coding efficiency in BD-bitrate for only $16{\times}16$ intra mode and $4{\times}4$, $16{\times}16$ intra mode, respectively.
Keywords
H.264/AVC; intra prediction; uni-directional prediction;
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