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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2016.21.3.341

Down Sampling for Fast Rough Mode Decision for a Hardware-based HEVC Intra-frame encoder  

Jang, Ji Hun (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Univ. of Inha)
Rhee, Chae Eun (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Univ. of Inha)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.21, no.3, 2016 , pp. 341-348 More about this Journal
Abstract
HEVC is the next compression standard and is expected to be used widely replacing the conventional H.264/AVC standard. The compression ratio of the HEVC is twice times than H.264/AVC, whereas its computational complexity is increased by up to 40%. Many research efforts have been made to reduce the computational complexity and to speed up encoding. For intra coding, the rough mode decision (RMD) is commonly applied. The rate-distortion optimization (RDO) process to decide the best mode is too complex so that RMD chooses the candidate modes with a simple process and sends the candidates to RDO process. However, for large-size blocks, the RMD also requires considerable computations. In this paper, a down-sampling scheme is proposed for the RMD process. The reference pixel loading, predicted pixel generation are performed using the down-sampled pixel data. When the proposed scheme is applied to the RMD, the computational complexity is reduced by 70% with a marginal bitrate increase of 0.04%. In terms of area of hardware-based RMD, the gate count and the buffer size is reduced 33% and 66%, respectively.
Keywords
Down-sampling; Rough mode decision; HEVC; intra prediction;
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