Fast coding unit selection method for high efficiency video coding intra prediction

Jian Xiong

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071504

4 March 2013 Fast coding unit selection method for high efficiency video coding intra prediction

Jian Xiong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 7, 071504 (March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071504

Abstract

The high efficiency video coding (HEVC) video coding standard under development can achieve higher compression performance than previous standards, such as MPEG-4, H.263, and H.264/AVC. To improve coding performance, a quad-tree coding structure and a robust rate-distortion (RD) optimization technique is used to select an optimum coding mode. Since the RD costs of all possible coding modes are computed to decide an optimum mode, high computational complexity is induced in the encoder. A fast learning-based coding unit (CU) size selection method is presented for HEVC intra prediction. The proposed algorithm is based on theoretical analysis that shows the non-normalized histogram of oriented gradient (n-HOG) can be used to help select CU size. A codebook is constructed offline by clustering n-HOGs of training sequences for each CU size. The optimum size is determined by comparing the n-HOG of the current CU with the learned codebooks. Experimental results show that the CU size selection scheme speeds up intra coding significantly with negligible loss of peak signal-to-noise ratio.

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Jian Xiong "Fast coding unit selection method for high efficiency video coding intra prediction," Optical Engineering 52(7), 071504 (4 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071504

Published: 4 March 2013

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