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Rate Control based on linear relation for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC  

Na Hyeong-Youl (Dep. of Internet Engineering, Sejong University)
Lim Sung-Chang (Dep. of Internet Engineering, Sejong University)
Lee Yung-Lyul (Dep. of Internet Engineering, Sejong University)
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Abstract
The main purpose of rate control is to achieve the highest video quality when bandwidth or storage capacity is limited. For this purpose, we need a rate control algorithm which is adaptively controlled by the motion information of sequences, scene change, buffer capacity and time-varing bandwitdh channels. A rate-control method in the encoder requires the accurate estimation of target bit for each frame and the low end-to-end delay for transmitting video data by intelligent selection of encoding parameters. In this paper, we suggest three kinds of linear relation in the encoder to satisfy the characteristics of rate control. The first relation is that between the percentage of zero quantized transformed coefficients(p) and coded bits. Second relation is that between the PSNR of encoded frame and its Quantization parameter(QP). Finally, we can find out a linear approximation between QP and p. According to the experimental analysis, the proposed method results in an efficient rate control in terms of the bit estimation, the buffer capacity, and PSNR compared with the existing rate control in the H.264 JM 9.3.
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PSNR; H.264; MPEG-4 AVC;
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