Transcoding method from H.264/AVC to high efficiency video coding based on similarity of intraprediction, interprediction, and motion vector

Mei-Feng Liu; Guo-Yun Zhong; Xiao-Hai He; Lin-Bo Qing

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.25.5.053028

14 October 2016 Transcoding method from H.264/AVC to high efficiency video coding based on similarity of intraprediction, interprediction, and motion vector

Mei-Feng Liu, Guo-Yun Zhong, Xiao-Hai He, Lin-Bo Qing

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 25, Issue 5, 053028 (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.5.053028

Abstract

Currently, most video resources on line are encoded in the H.264/AVC format. More fluent video transmission can be obtained if these resources are encoded in the newest international video coding standard: high efficiency video coding (HEVC). In order to improve the video transmission and storage on line, a transcoding method from H.264/AVC to HEVC is proposed. In this transcoding algorithm, the coding information of intraprediction, interprediction, and motion vector (MV) in H.264/AVC video stream are used to accelerate the coding in HEVC. It is found through experiments that the region of interprediction in HEVC overlaps that in H.264/AVC. Therefore, the intraprediction for the region in HEVC, which is interpredicted in H.264/AVC, can be skipped to reduce coding complexity. Several macroblocks in H.264/AVC are combined into one PU in HEVC when the MV difference between two of the macroblocks in H.264/AVC is lower than a threshold. This method selects only one coding unit depth and one prediction unit (PU) mode to reduce the coding complexity. An MV interpolation method of combined PU in HEVC is proposed according to the areas and distances between the center of one macroblock in H.264/AVC and that of the PU in HEVC. The predicted MV accelerates the motion estimation for HEVC coding. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm achieves significant coding time reduction with a little loss in bitrates distortion rate, compared to the existing transcoding algorithms and normal HEVC coding.

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Mei-Feng Liu, Guo-Yun Zhong, Xiao-Hai He, and Lin-Bo Qing "Transcoding method from H.264/AVC to high efficiency video coding based on similarity of intraprediction, interprediction, and motion vector," Journal of Electronic Imaging 25(5), 053028 (14 October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.25.5.053028

Published: 14 October 2016

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