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http://dx.doi.org/10.13067/JKIECS.2012.7.6.1377

Initial QP Modeling for GOP Layer Rate Control  

Park, Sang-Hyun (순천대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.7, no.6, 2012 , pp. 1377-1383 More about this Journal
Abstract
The first frame of a GOP is encoded in intra mode which generates a larger number of bits. In addition, the first frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus the intial QP for the first frame affects the first frame as well as the following frames. Traditionally, the initial QP is determined among four constant values only depending on the bpp. Although this initialization scheme is simple, yet it is not accurate enough. An accurate intial QP prediction scheme should not only depends on bpp but also on the complexity of the video sequence and the output bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a traffic model for finding the optimal initial QP which maximizes the PSNR of the GOP. We also propose a method to find model parameters for real-time video encoding. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed traffic model captures initial QP characteristics effectively and the proposed method for model parameters accurately estimates the real values.
Keywords
Rate Control; Video Compression; H.264/AVC; Initial QP; Traffic Model;
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