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Efficient Fast Multiple Reference Frame Selection Technique for H.264/AVC  

Lee, Hyun-Woo (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과 영상통신 및 신호처리 연구실)
Ryu, Jong-Min (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과 영상통신 및 신호처리 연구실)
Jeong, Je-Chang (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터통신공학과 영상통신 및 신호처리 연구실)
Abstract
In order to achieve high coding efficiency, H.264/AVC video coding standard adopts the techniques such as variable block size coding, motion estimation with quarter-pel precision, multiple reference frames, rate-distortion optimization, and etc. However, these coding methods have a defect to greatly increase the complexity for motion estimation. Particularly, from multiple reference frame motion estimation, the computational burden increases in proportion to the number of the searched reference frames. Therefore, we propose the method to reduce the complexity by controlling the number of the searched reference frames in motion estimation. Proposed algorithm uses the optimal reference frame information in both $P16{\times}16$ mode and the adjacent blocks, thus omits unnecessary searching process in the rest of inter modes. Experimental results show the proposed method can save an average of 57.31% of the coding time with negligible quality and bit-rate difference. This method also can be adopted with any of the existing motion estimation algorithm. Therefore, additional performance improvement can be obtained.
Keywords
Frame Selection; Motion Estimation; Fast Algorithm; Video Coding; H.264/AVC;
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