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An Effective of Rate Control for Scene Change in H.264/AVC  

Son, Nam-Rye (Konkuk University, Dept. of Internet&Media)
Shin, Yoon-Jeong (Gwangju University, Dept. of Computer Science)
Lee, Guee-Sang (Chonnam National University, Dept. of Computer Science)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.44, no.1, 2007 , pp. 26-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, rate control is an important technique in real time video communication applications using H.264/AVC. Many existing rate control algorithms employ the quadratic rate-distortion model, which is determine the target bits for each P frame. In this paper, a new rate control algorithm for transmission of H.264/AVC video bit stream through CBR(Constant Bit Rate) channel is proposed. The proposed algorithm predicts an adaptive QP(Quantization Parameter) for improving video distortion, due to high motion and abruptly scene change, which target bit rate and MAD(Mean of Absolute Difference) for current frame considering image complexity variance between previous and current frames. Additionally, it uses frame skip technique to maintain bit stream within a manageable range and protect buffer from overflow or underflow. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives a quality improvement of about 0.5dB when compared to previous rate control algorithm. Also our proposed algorithm encodes the video sequences with less frame skipping compared to the existing rate control for H.264/AVC.
Keywords
H.264/AVC; rate control; Mean Absolute Difference; quadraic rate-distortion model;
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