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Fast Mode Decision for H.264/AVC Using Mode Prediction

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Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2006)

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In this paper, we present a new method to speed up the mode decision process using mode prediction. In general, video coding exploits spatial and temporal redundancies between video blocks, in particular temporal redundancy is a crucial key to compress video sequence with little loss of image quality. The proposed method determines the best coding mode of a given macroblock by predicting the mode and its rate-distortion (RD) cost from neighboring MBs in time and space. Compared to the H.264/AVC reference software, the simulation results show that the proposed method can save up to 53% total encoding time with up to 2.4% bit rate increase at the same PSNR.

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Ri, SH., Ostermann, J. (2006). Fast Mode Decision for H.264/AVC Using Mode Prediction. In: Blanc-Talon, J., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11864349_32

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