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Efficient Intra Prediction Mode Decision Using DCT Coefficients for the Conversion of MPEG-2 to H.264 Standard in Ubiquitous Communication Environment  

Kim, Yong-Jae (엠텍비젼 개발4부 시스템그룹)
Lee, Chang-Woo (가톨릭대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Abstract
The H.264/AVC video coding standard provides higher coding efnciency compared to the conventional MPEG-2 standard. Since a lot of videos have been encoded using MPEG-2, the format conversion from MPEG-2 to H.264 is essential. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the conversion of DCT coefficients to H.264/AVC transform coefficients. This conversion is essential, since $8{\times}8$ DCT and $4{\times}4$ integer transform are used in MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively. The mathematical analysis and computer simulation show that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced compared to the conventional algorithm, while the loss caused by the conversion is negligible.
Keywords
Video Transcoding; H.264/AVC; MPIG-2; Intra Prediction; Discrete Cosine Transform;
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