An Efficient Fast Mode Decision Algorithm Based on Motion Cost for H.264 Inter Prediction

H.264 adopts variable block size motion estimation and mode decision with rate-distortion optimization to improve video quality and decrease bit rate. However,these techniques increase the computation complexity and the encoding time enormously. An efficient macroblock level fast mode decision algor...

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Main Authors: Weipeng Ma, Shuyuan Yang, Li Gao, Chaoke Pei
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bit rate
Chaos
Cost function
Encoding
fast mode decision
H.264
Information technology
Lagrangian functions
Motion estimation
Partitioning algorithms
Quadratic programming
rate distortion optimization
Rate-distortion
video coding
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Summary:H.264 adopts variable block size motion estimation and mode decision with rate-distortion optimization to improve video quality and decrease bit rate. However,these techniques increase the computation complexity and the encoding time enormously. An efficient macroblock level fast mode decision algorithm is proposed in this paper. Macroblocks which are likely to choose a large block size during mode decision are detected early and those smaller size modes are rejected for these macroblocks. Experimental results show that 40.52% encoding time is saved with only 0.01 dB PSNR drop on average.
DOI:10.1109/IITA.Workshops.2008.157