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Selective B Slice Skip Decoding for Complexity Scalable H.264/AVC Video Decoder  

Lee, Ho-Young (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Jae-Hwan (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Jeon, Byeung-Woo (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.48, no.3, 2011 , pp. 79-89 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent development of embedded processors makes it possible to play back video contents in real-time on portable devices. Because of their limited battery capacity and low computational performance, however, portable devices still have significant problems in real-time decoding of high quality or high resolution compressed video. Although previous approaches are successful in achieving complexity-scalable decoder by controlling computational complexity of decoding elements, they cause significant objective quality loss coming from mismatch between encoder and decoder. In this paper, we propose a selective B slice skip-decoding method to implement a low complexity video decoder. The proposed method performs selective skip decoding process of B slice which satisfies the proposed conditions. The skipped slices are reconstructed by simple reconstruction method utilizing adjacent reconstructed pictures. Experimental result shows that proposed method not only reduces computational complexity but also maintains subjective visual quality.
Keywords
Low complexity decoder; H.264/AVC; Slice skip;
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