Fast reference frame selection based on content similarity for low complexity HEVC encoder

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 516-524

  Pan, Zhaoqing ^a   Jin, Peng ^b   Lei, Jianjun ^b   Zhang, Yun ^c   Sun, Xingming ^a   Kwong, Sam ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Early termination; HEVC; Prediction unit; Reference frame; Video coding

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORECASTING; IMAGE CODING; SIGNAL DISTORTION; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EARLY TERMINATION; HEVC; HIGH-EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING; INTER FRAME PREDICTION; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE-REFERENCE FRAMES; RATE DISTORTION PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE FRAME;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 84990990335     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2016.07.018     Document Type: Article

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