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Real-Time Rate Control with Token Bucket for Low Bit Rate Video  

Park, Sang-Hyun (순천대학교 정보통신공학부)
Oh, Won-Geun (순천대학교 정보통신공학부)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.10, no.12, 2006 , pp. 2315-2320 More about this Journal
Abstract
A real-time frame-layer rate control algorithm with a token bucket traffic shaper is proposed for low bit rate video coding. The proposed rate control method uses a non-iterative optimization method for low computational complexity, and performs bit allocation at the frame level to minimize the average distortion over an entire sequence as well as variations in distortion between frames. In order to reduce the quality fluctuation, we use a sliding window scheme which does not require the pre-analysis process. Therefore, the proposed algorithm does not produce time delay from encoding, and is suitable for real-time low-complexity video encoder. Experimental results indicate that the proposed control method provides better visual and PSNR performances than the existing rate control method.
Keywords
frame-layer rate control; token bucket traffic shaper; video traffic management;
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