A new quantizer selection scheme for digital VCR

A consumer-use digital VCR selects a quantizer for each DCT block based on CLASS and QNO. CLASS is determined for each DCT block according to the characteristic of the block, for example, the maximum value of the AC coefficients. Six DCT blocks comprise a macroblock for which a QNO is determined. Al...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on consumer electronics 1997-08, Vol.43 (3), p.879-885
Main Authors: RHEE, S, YONG JE KIM, JUN GEUN JEON, SONG, H.-Y, KYU TAE PARK
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Code standards
Digital images
Discrete cosine transforms
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
Image coding
Image reconstruction
Image segmentation
Quantization
Recording and replay of audio and video signals
Storage and reproduction of information
Streaming media
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Summary:A consumer-use digital VCR selects a quantizer for each DCT block based on CLASS and QNO. CLASS is determined for each DCT block according to the characteristic of the block, for example, the maximum value of the AC coefficients. Six DCT blocks comprise a macroblock for which a QNO is determined. All of the quantizers defined in the specifications are numbered from 0 to 15 by QNO. Different quantizers can be referenced by the same QNO and are discriminated by CLASS. We propose a new method to determine these parameters, QNO and CLASS, for the selection of a quantizer per each DCT block. We first determine QNO for a macroblock and then fine-tune the quantizers by adjusting CLASS of each DCT block, For this we propose a modified quantizer map with a reduced set of quantizers, which preserves the compatibility with the conventional one. The results of our experiment show that our method outperforms the conventional method.
ISSN:0098-3063
1558-4127
DOI:10.1109/30.628750