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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2012.17.5.716

Spatial Correlation Based Fast Coding Depth Decision and Reference Frame Selection in HEVC  

Lee, Sang-Yong (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace Univ.)
Kim, Dong-Hyun (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace Univ.)
Kim, Jae-Gon (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace Univ.)
Choi, Hae-Chul (Dept. of Info. and Comm. Eng., Hanbat National Univ.)
Kim, Jin-Soo (Dept. of Info. and Comm. Eng., Hanbat National Univ.)
Choi, Jin-Soo (Realistic Media Research Team, ETRI)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.17, no.5, 2012 , pp. 716-724 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a fast decision method of maximum coding depth decision and reference frame selection in HEVC. To reduce computational complexity and encoding time of HEVC, two methods are proposed. In the first method, the maximum depth of each coding unit (CU) in a largest CU (LCU) is constrained by using the maximum coding depth used by adjacent LCUs based on the assumption that the spatial correlation is very high and rate-distortion (R-D) cost. And we constrain the number of reference pictures for prediction unit (PU) performing motion estimation by using the motion information of the upper depth PU. The proposed methods reduce computational complexity of the HEVC encoder by constraining the maximum coding depth and the reference frame. We could achieve about 39% computational complexity reduction with marginal bitrate increase of 1.2% in the comparison with HM6.1 HEVC reference software.
Keywords
HEVC; coding unit (CU); depth of CU; fast CU depth decision; multiple reference pictures;
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