An incremental basic unit level QP determination algorithm for H.264/AVC rate control

Yu Sun; Yimin Zhou; Zhidan Feng; Zhihai He

doi:10.1117/12.806049

19 January 2009 An incremental basic unit level QP determination algorithm for H.264/AVC rate control

Yu Sun, Yimin Zhou, Zhidan Feng, Zhihai He

Proceedings Volume 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009; 72571N (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.806049
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an incremental-based basic unit (BU) level quantization parameter (QP) determination algorithm for H.264/AVC rate control. Unlike traditional BU level QP computation in existing rate control schemes, the proposed algorithm does not perform target bit allocation and predict coding complexities. Instead, it exploits bit increment to directly determine QP for a BU, aiming at reducing the variations of encoding bits used among BUs within a frame and improve subjective visual quality. To better handle buffer fullness and reduce buffer overflow/ underflow, we explore an enhanced Proportional-Integral-Derivative buffer controller. In addition, the algorithm can also effectively intra-code all frames in a video sequence and has low computational complexity making it suitable for real-time applications. Our experimental results demonstrate that, the proposed algorithm outperforms the rate control algorithm JVT-W042, adopted in the recent H.264/AVC reference model JM13.2, by achieving accurate rate regulation, reducing frame skipping, decreasing quality fluctuation, and improving coding quality up to 1 dB.

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Yu Sun, Yimin Zhou, Zhidan Feng, and Zhihai He "An incremental basic unit level QP determination algorithm for H.264/AVC rate control", Proc. SPIE 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009, 72571N (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.806049

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