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Spatio-temporal Mode Selection Methods of Fast H.264 Using Multiple Reference Frames  

Kwon, Jae-Hyun (동국대학교 정보통신공학과)
Kang, Min-Jung (동국대학교 정보통신공학과)
Ryu, Chul (동국대학교 정보통신공학과)
Abstract
H.264 provides a good coding efficiency compared with existing video coding standards, H.263, MPEG-4, based on the use of multiple reference frame for variable block size motion estimation, quarter-pixel motion estimation and compensation, $4{\times}4$ integer DCT, rate-distortion optimization, and etc. However, many modules used to increase its performance also require H.264 to have increased complexity so that fast algorithms are to be implemented as practical approach. In this paper, among many approaches, fast mode decision algorithm by skipping variable block size motion estimation and spatial-predictive coding, which occupies most encoder complexity, is proposed. This approach takes advantages of temporal and spatial properties of fast mode selection techniques. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can save encoding time up to 65% compared with the H.264 standard while maintaining the visual perspectives.
Keywords
Mode Selection; Multiple Frames; Video Coding; Fast Algorithm;
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