A simplified rate control algorithm for H.264/SVC

Guang Y. Zhang; Abdelrahman Abdelazim; Stephen James Mein; Martin Roy Varley; Djamel Ait-Boudaoud

doi:10.1117/12.886988

3 June 2011 A simplified rate control algorithm for H.264/SVC

Guang Y. Zhang, Abdelrahman Abdelazim, Stephen James Mein, Martin Roy Varley, Djamel Ait-Boudaoud

Proceedings Volume 8056, Visual Information Processing XX; 80560V (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886988
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The objective of scalable video coding is to enable the generation of a unique bitstream that can adapt to various bitrates, transmission channels and display capabilities. The scalability is categorised in terms of temporal, spatial, and quality. Effective Rate Control (RC) has important ramifications for coding efficiency, and also channel bandwidth and buffer constraints in real-time communication. The main target of RC is to reduce the disparity between the actual and target bit-rates. In order to meet the target bitrate, a predicted Mean of Absolute Difference (MAD) between frames is used in a rate-quantisation model to obtain the Quantisation Parameter (QP) for encoding the current frame. The encoding process exploits the interdependencies between video frames; therefore the MAD does not change abruptly unless the scene changes significantly. After the scene change, the MAD will maintain a stable slow increase or decrease. Based on this observation, we developed a simplified RC algorithm. The scheme is divided in two steps; firstly, we predict scene changes, secondly, in order to suppress the visual quality, we limit the change in QP value between two frames to an adaptive range. This limits the need to use the rate-quantisation model to those situations where the scene changes significantly. To assess the proposed algorithm, comprehensive experiments were conducted. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces encoding time whilst maintaining similar rate distortion performance, compared to both the H.264/SVC reference software and recently reported work.

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Guang Y. Zhang, Abdelrahman Abdelazim, Stephen James Mein, Martin Roy Varley, and Djamel Ait-Boudaoud "A simplified rate control algorithm for H.264/SVC", Proc. SPIE 8056, Visual Information Processing XX, 80560V (3 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886988

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Scalable video coding

Computer programming

Video

Video coding

Distortion

Algorithm development

Detection and tracking algorithms

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