An effective variable block-size early termination algorithm for H.264 video coding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 784-788

  Yang, Libo ^a   Keman, Yu ^b   Li, Jiang ^b   Li, Shipeng ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Early termination; H.264; Motion estimation; Variable block size

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION ESTIMATION;

EARLY TERMINATION; H.264; HEXAGON-BASED SEARCH (HBS); VARIABLE BLOCK-SIZE;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 20444440357     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.848306     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Z. B. Chen, P. Zhou, and Y. He, "Fast integer pel and fractional pel motion estimation for JVT," presented at the JVT-F017, 6th Meeting, Awaji, Japan, Dec. 5-13, 2002.
2. A. Yu, R. Lee, and M. Flynn, "Performance enhancement of H.263 encoder based on zero coefficient prediction," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Nov. 1997, pp. 21-29.
3. A. M. Tourapis, "Enhanced predictive zonal search for single and multiple frame motion estimation," in Proc. VCIP, Jan. 2002, pp. 1069-1079.
4. J. F. Yang, S. H. Chang, and C. Y. Chen, "Computation reduction for motion search in low rate video coders," in IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 12, Oct. 2002, pp. 948-951.
5. C. Zhu, X. Lin, L. P. Chau, K. P. Lim, H. A. Ang, and C. Y. Ong, "A novel hexagon-based search algorithm for fast block motion estimation," in Proc. ICASSP, vol. 3, May 2001, pp. 1593-1596.
6. X. Zhou, Z. H. Yu, and S. Y. Yu, "Method for detecting all-zero DCT coefficients ahead of discrete cosine transform and quantization," Electron. Lett., vol. 34, no. 19, pp. 1839-1840, Sep. 1998.
7. JVT Reference Software Version 6. le. [Online]. Available: http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/tml/download/old_jm/