Fast CU splitting and pruning for suboptimal CU partitioning in HEVC intra coding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1555-1564

  Cho, Seunghyun ^a   Kim, Munchurl ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fast encoding algorithm; HEVC; intra prediction; quad tree coding

Indexed keywords

FAST ENCODING ALGORITHMS; HEVC; HIGH-EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING; INTRA PREDICTION; QUAD TREES; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEXTURE CHARACTERISTICS; VIDEO CODING STANDARD;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 84883762073     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2249017     Document Type: Article

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