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The H.264/AVC provides gains in compression efficiency of up to 50% over a wide range of bit rates and video resolutions compared to previous standards. However, these features incur a considerable increase in encoder complexity, mainly because of mode decision. In this paper, we propose an efficient method of fast Inter-skip mode selection algorithm for inter frame coding in H.264/AVC. Firstly, we select skip mode or inter mode by considering the temporal correlation. Secondly, we select variable block size on inter mode by considering the spatial correlation. Simulations show that the proposed method reduces the encoding time by 64% on average without any significant PSNR losses.
This work was supported by the Brain Korea 21 Project in 2007.
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Jeon, SH., Kim, SM., Chung, KD. (2007). Fast Inter-skip Mode Selection Algorithm for Inter Frame Coding in H.264/AVC. In: Gervasi, O., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007. ICCSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4705. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74472-6_56
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