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Efficient Differential Pixel Value Coding in CABAC for H.264/AVC Lossless Video Compression

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Since context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) as the entropy coding method in H.264/AVC was originally designed for lossy video compression, it is inappropriate for lossless video compression. Based on the fact that there are statistical differences of residual data between lossy and lossless video compression, we propose an efficient differential pixel value coding method in CABAC for H.264/AVC lossless video compression. Considering the observed statistical properties of the differential pixel value in lossless coding, we modified the CABAC encoding mechanism with the newly designed binarization table and the context-modeling method. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an approximately 12% bit saving, compared to the original CABAC method in the H.264/AVC standard.

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Heo, J., Ho, YS. Efficient Differential Pixel Value Coding in CABAC for H.264/AVC Lossless Video Compression. Circuits Syst Signal Process 31, 813–825 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-011-9338-1

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