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Survey and Pareto Analysis Method for Coding Efficiency Assessment of Low Complexity H.264 Algorithms

2006-09-01, Ivanov, Yuri, Bleakley, Chris J.

A large number of algorithms have been proposed by researchers to reduce H.264computational complexity. Currently there is no method for reliably comparing theeffectiveness of these algorithms. This paper proposes a method that allows direct comparison of the results obtained for various previously published low complexity H.264 encoding algorithms. The method is based on a new coding efficiency metric for unified bit rate and quality assessment. Pareto analysis is used to derive an optimal reference efficiency complexity curve using standard H.264 encoding tools and parameters. The paper demonstrates application of the method to the assessment of recently published low-complexity algorithms. The method shows that some published low complexity algorithms can be outperformed by simply adjusting the standard video encoder parameters.

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Dynamic Complexity Scaling for Real-Time H.264/AVC Video Encoding

2007-09-28, Ivanov, Yuri, Bleakley, Chris J.

The H.264 video encoding standard can achieve high coding efficiency at the expense of high computational complexity. Typically, real-time software implementation requires omission of most optional encoding tools leading to significantly reduced coding efficiency. This paper proposes a novel method for real-time H.264 encoding based on dynamic control of the encoding parameters to meet real-time constraints while minimizing coding efficiency loss. Experimental results show that the method provides up to 19% lower bit rate than conventional real-time encoding using fixed parameters with the same visual quality. The method allows real-time 30fps QCIF encoding on a Pentium IV with similar coding efficiency to full search baseline profile encoding.