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http://dx.doi.org/10.13067/JKIECS.2015.10.9.1009

Optimal QP Determination Method for Adaptive Intra Frame Encoding  

Park, Sang-Hyun (순천대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.10, no.9, 2015 , pp. 1009-1018 More about this Journal
Abstract
In video coding, 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 encoding affects the first frame as well as the following frames. To determine the initial QP that maximizes the PSNR of a GOP, several algorithms which uses the ratio of the PSNR of the I frame and the PSNR of P frames of a GOP have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new traffic model that can be used to determine the optimal initial QP simply and exactly in algorithms that use the PSNR ratio. We first analyze the characteristics of the PSNR ratio of I and P frames and the PSNR of a GOP, and then propose a new traffic model which can represent the characteristics and determine the optimal intial QP. It is shown by experimental results that the initial QP determination method with the proposed model can predict an optimal initial QP whose difference from the optimal value is less than 2. The proposed scheme can also generate the PSNR performance better than that of the existing JVT algorithm.
Keywords
Rate Control; Video Compression; H.264/AVC; Initial QP;
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