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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2011.14.7.872

An Efficient Mode Decision Method for Fast Intra Encoding in the SVC Enhancement Layer  

Cho, Mi-Sook (부산대학교 정보전산원)
Kang, Jin-Mi (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Chung, Ki-Dong (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Abstract
SVC is an emerging video coding standard as an extension of H.264/AVC. This standard uses inter prediction, intra prediction and a new inter-layer prediction to improve coding performance of enhancement layers. However, it has high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an efficient intra prediction mode decision method in the spatial enhancement layer to reduce the computational complexity. The proposed method consists of two phases. In the first phase, Intra_BL mode is selected using the RD cost of Intra_BL in advance. We exploit the fact that the RD cost and prediction mode are similar to those of neighbor macroblocks. In the second phase, we predict the enhancement layer mode using correlation between intra mode of enhancement layer and that of the base layer. Experimental results show that the proposed method could save from 48.15% to 56.32% in encoding time while degradation in video quality is negligible.
Keywords
SVC; Intra Coding; Fast Prediction Mode Decision;
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