2nd International ICST Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications

Research Article

Fast rate-distortion optimization in the H.264/AVC standard

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1374296.1374338,
        author={Tea Anselmo and Daniele Alfonso},
        title={Fast rate-distortion optimization in the H.264/AVC standard},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2006},
        month={9},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1145/1374296.1374338}
    }
    
  • Tea Anselmo
    Daniele Alfonso
    Year: 2006
    Fast rate-distortion optimization in the H.264/AVC standard
    MOBIMEDIA
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1374296.1374338
Tea Anselmo1,*, Daniele Alfonso2,*
  • 1: Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • 2: Advanced System Technology Labs., Agrate Brianza, Italy
*Contact email: anselmo@sequoia.polito.it , daniele.alfonso@st.com

Abstract

Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) is a new feature of JVT H.264/AVC video encoder that enables a substantial enhanced efficiency with respect to all previous video coding standards. However, RDO causes a considerable increase in encoding computational complexity, proportional to the square of the search window size when the Full-Search motion estimation algorithm is applied. In this paper, a fast block-based predictive-recursive motion estimation algorithm is illustrated in combination with RDO algorithms. Extensive simulations show that, using the proposed algorithms, the time devoted to RDO is significantly reduced while keeping performance extremely close to JVT reference software JM8.6.