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High-performance adaptive group-of-picture rate control for H.264/AVC

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In this paper, an adaptive group-of-picture (AGOP) control is proposed to improve the coding performance for the H.264/AVC system. The efficient algorithm is developed to find the quantized parameter with temporal correlation between inter-frames. According to the estimated parameters, the GOP coding type can be adaptively selected as AGOP or BGOP (basic GOP). The rate control with some decision functions is proposed to modify the quantization parameter (QP). The coding rate can accurately meet the target rate with adjusting QP value dynamically, while keeping low computational overhead. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve PSNR by about 1 dB in average compared with the original H.264/AVC reference software (JM12.4), from various sequences testing.

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  1. Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan, ROC

    Shih-Chang Hsia

  2. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan, ROC

    Shih-Chang Hsia & Szu-Hong Wang

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This work was supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, under NSC94-2213-E-327-004.

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Hsia, SC., Wang, SH. High-performance adaptive group-of-picture rate control for H.264/AVC. SIViP 5, 155–163 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-009-0150-3

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