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Alternative Transform Based on the Correlation of the Residual Signal  

Lim, Sung-Chang (DMS Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University)
Kim, Dae-Yeon (DMS Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University)
Lee, Yung-Lyul (DMS Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University)
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Abstract
Many predominant video coding tools in terms of coding efficiency were adopted in the latest video coding standard, H.264/AVC. Regardless of development of these predominant video coding tools such as the variable block-size motion estimation/compensation, intra prediction based on various directions, and so on, the discrete cosine transform has been continuously used starting from the early video coding standards. Generally, the correlation coefficient of the residual signal is usually less than 0.5 when this residual signal is actually encoded. In this interval of correlation coefficient, the discrete cosine transform does not show the optimal coding gain, and the discrete sine transform which is a sub-optimal transform when the correlation coefficient is in the interval from -0.5 to 0.5 can be used in conjunction with the discrete cosine transform in the video coding. In this paper, an alternative transform that alternatively uses the discrete sine transform and integer cosine transform in H.264/AVC by using rate-distortion optimization is proposed. The proposed method achieves a BD-PSNR gain of up to 0.71 dB compared to H.264/AVC JM 10.2 at relatively high bitrates.
Keywords
Alternative Transform; Discrete Cosine Transform; Discrete Sine Transform; H.264/AVC;
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