中国邮电高校学报(英文) ›› 2019, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (5): 72-81.doi: 10.19682/j.cnki.1005-8885.2019.0027

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Early termination strategy of HEVC based on statistical models

Liu Yitong,Tian Wang, Li Yuchen, Yang Hongwen   

  1. 1. 北京邮电大学
    2. 北京邮电大学112信箱
  • 收稿日期:2019-03-11 修回日期:2019-07-28 出版日期:2019-10-31 发布日期:2019-11-06
  • 通讯作者: 刘奕彤 E-mail:13810018556@139.com

Early termination strategy of HEVC based on statistical models

Liu Yitong , Tian Wang, Li Yuchen, Yang Hongwen   

  • Received:2019-03-11 Revised:2019-07-28 Online:2019-10-31 Published:2019-11-06
  • Contact: Yitong Liu E-mail:13810018556@139.com

摘要: High efficiency video coding (HEVC) uses half of the bitrate compared to H.264/advanced video coding(AVC) for encoding the same sequence with similar quality. Because of the advanced hierarchical structures of coding units (CUs), predicting units (PUs), and transform units (TUs), HEVC can better adapt when encoding full high definition (HD) and ultra high definition (UHD) videos. At the expense of encoding efficiency, the complexity of HEVC sharply increases compared to H.264/AVC, mainly due to its quad-tree structure that splits pictures. In this study, the probability distribution, which is generated by a rate distortion optimizing (RDO) cost, is analyzed. Then, an early terminating method is proposed to decrease the complexity of the HEVC based on probability distributions. The experiment shows that the coding time is reduced by 44.9% for HEVC intra coding, at the cost of a 0.61% increase in the Bjøntegaard delta rate (BD-rate), on average.

关键词: HEVC、提前终止、统计模型、快速终止算法

Abstract: High efficiency video coding (HEVC) uses half of the bitrate compared to H.264/advanced video coding(AVC) for encoding the same sequence with similar quality. Because of the advanced hierarchical structures of coding units (CUs), predicting units (PUs), and transform units (TUs), HEVC can better adapt when encoding full high definition (HD) and ultra high definition (UHD) videos. At the expense of encoding efficiency, the complexity of HEVC sharply increases compared to H.264/AVC, mainly due to its quad-tree structure that splits pictures. In this study, the probability distribution, which is generated by a rate distortion optimizing (RDO) cost, is analyzed. Then, an early terminating method is proposed to decrease the complexity of the HEVC based on probability distributions. The experiment shows that the coding time is reduced by 44.9% for HEVC intra coding, at the cost of a 0.61% increase in the Bjøntegaard delta rate (BD-rate), on average.

Key words: HEVC, early termination, statistical model, fast algorithm