Fast intra mode decision for high efficiency video coding (HEVC)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 660-668

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Ma, Zhan ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAMSUNG RESEARCH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC); Intra prediction; Mode decision; Video coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; ENCODING ALGORITHMS; FAST INTRA MODE DECISIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING; INTRA PREDICTION; MODE DECISION; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 84897993086     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2290578     Document Type: Article

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