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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JEB.2011.16.6.1036

Non-fixed Quantization Considering Entropy Encoding in HEVC  

Gweon, Ryeong-Hee (DMS Lab. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sejong University)
Han, Woo-Jin (Dept. of Software Design & Management, Kyungwon University)
Lee, Yung-Lyul (DMS Lab. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sejong University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.16, no.6, 2011 , pp. 1036-1046 More about this Journal
Abstract
MPEG and VCEG have constituted a collaboration team called JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding) and have been developing HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) standard. All transform coefficients in a TU(Transform Unit) have been equally quantized according to the quantization and inverse quantization method which is used in HEVC standard. Such an equal quantization is not efficient because the transformed coefficients in the TU are not eqully distributed. Furthermore, the quantized coefficients which is positioned in later scanning order cannot be efficient due to the entropy scanning method. We suggest an algorithm that transform coefficients are quantized at different values according to the position in TU considering a scanning order of entropy encoding to improve the coding efficiency. The principle of this algorithm is that quantization and inverse quantization are carried out according to the scanning order which is in accordance with the statistical characteristic of distribution of quantized transform coefficients. The proposed algorithm shows on the average of 0.34% Y BD-rate compression rate improvement.
Keywords
High Efficiency Video Coding; Non-fixed quantization; Scanning order; Entropy encoding;
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