A New Fast Encoding Algorithm Based on an Efficient Motion Estimation Process for the Scalable Video Coding Standard

In this paper, a new fast encoding algorithm based on an efficient motion estimation (ME) process is proposed to accelerate the encoding speed of the scalable video coding standard. Through analysis of the ME process performed in the enhancement layer, we discovered that there are redundant MEs and...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on multimedia Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 477 - 484
Main Authors: Moon, Yong Ho, Yoon, Kun Su, Park, Sang-Taick, Shin, Il Hong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.04.2013
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Coding, codes
Computer science; control theory; systems
Encoding
Exact sciences and technology
Fast encoding
Information, signal and communications theory
inter-layer prediction
Motion estimation
Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry
Prediction algorithms
scalable video coding
Signal and communications theory
skip criterion
Static VAr compensators
Telecommunications and information theory
Video coding
Video coding
inter-layer prediction
skip criterion
Image coding
Fast encoding
Motion estimation
Scalability
Redundancy
Rate distortion theory
scalable video coding
Fast algorithm
ISSN:1520-9210, 1941-0077
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Summary:In this paper, a new fast encoding algorithm based on an efficient motion estimation (ME) process is proposed to accelerate the encoding speed of the scalable video coding standard. Through analysis of the ME process performed in the enhancement layer, we discovered that there are redundant MEs and some MEs can simply be unified at the fully overlapped search range (FOSR). In order to make the unified ME more efficient, we theoretically derive a skip criterion to determine whether the computation of rate-distortion cost can be omitted. In the proposed algorithm, the unnecessary MEs are removed and a unified ME with the skip criterion is applied in the FOSR. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves computational savings of approximately 46% without coding performance degradation when compared with the original SVC encoder.
ISSN:1520-9210
1941-0077
DOI:10.1109/TMM.2012.2232648