Myoung-Jin Kim, Min-Cheol Hong
School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
Abstract— The purpose of this paper is to improve allocation of the number of bits without skipping the frame by accurately estimating the target bits in H.264/AVC rate control. In our scheme, we propose an enhancement method of the target frame rate based H.264/AVC bit allocation. The enhancement uses a frame complexity estimation to improve the existing mean absolute difference (MAD) complexity measurement. Bit allocation to each frame is not just computed by target frame rate but also adjusted by a combined frame complexity measure. Using the statistical characteristic, we obtain change of occurrence bit about QP to apply the bit amount by QP from the video characteristic and applied in the estimated bit amount of the current frame. Simulation results show that the proposed rate control scheme could not only achieves time saving of more than 99% over existing rate control algorithm, but also increase the average PSNR of reconstructed video for around 0.02~0.78 dB in all the sequences.
Keywords— H.264, Computational Complexity, Mean Absolute Difference, Rate Control, Peak Signal-to-Noise Ration
Manuscript Number: 1674-8042(2010)supp.-0151-04
dio: 10.3969/j.issn1674-8042.2010.supp..41
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