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H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 Video Transcoding by using Motion Vector Clustering  

Shin, Yoon-Jeong (광주대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Son, Nam-Rye (목포대학교 중점연구소)
Nguyen, Dinh Toan (전남대학교 전자정보통신컴퓨터공학부)
Lee, Guee-Sang (전남대학교 전자정보통신컴퓨터공학부)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.5, no.1, 2010 , pp. 23-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
The H.264/AVC is increasingly used in broadcast video applications such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV), digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) because of high compression performance. But the H.264/AVC coded video can be delivered to the widespread end-user equipment for MPEG-2 after transcoding between this video standards. This paper suggests a new transcoding algorithm for H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 transcoder that uses motion vector clustering in order to reduce the complexity without loss of video quality. The proposed method is exploiting the motion information gathered during h.264 decoding stage. To reduce the search space for the MPEG-2 motion estimation, the predictive motion vector is selected with a least distortion of the candidated motion vectors. These candidate motion vectors are considering the correlation of direction and distance of motion vectors of variable blocks in H.264/AVC. And then the best predictive motion vector is refined with full-search in ${\pm}2$ pixel search area. Compared with a cascaded decoder-encoder, the proposed transcoder achieves computational complexity savings up to 64% with a similar PSNR at the constant bitrate(CBR).
Keywords
H.264/AVC; MPEG-2; transcoding; motion vector; clustering;
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