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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2014.19.5.627

An Early Termination Algorithm of Prediction Unit (PU) Search for Fast HEVC Encoding  

Kim, Jae-Wook (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace University)
Kim, Dong-Hyun (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace University)
Kim, Jae-Gon (School of Elec., Telecom. & Comp. Eng., Korea Aerospace University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.19, no.5, 2014 , pp. 627-630 More about this Journal
Abstract
The latest video coding standard, high efficiency video coding (HEVC) achieves high coding efficiency by employing a quadtree-based coding unit (CU) block partitioning structure which allows recursive splitting into four equally sized blocks. At each depth level, each CU is partitioned into variable sized blocks of prediction units (PUs). However, the determination of the best CU partition for each coding tree unit (CTU) and the best PU mode for each CU causes a dramatic increase in computational complexity. To reduce such computational complexity, we propose a fast PU decision algorithm that early terminates PU search. The proposed method skips the computation of R-D cost for certain PU modes in the current CU based on the best mode and the rate-distortion (RD) cost of the upper depth CU. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the computational complexity of HM12.0 to 18.1% with only 0.2% increases in BD-rate.
Keywords
HEVC; Fast encoding; CU; PU;
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