中国邮电高校学报(英文) ›› 2010, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 116-121.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(09)60516-1

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Rate control for hierarchical B-frames in H.264/AVC

常侃1,门爱东2,张文豪3   

  1. 1. 广西大学
    2. 北京邮电大学
    3. 北京邮电大学信息与通信工程学院
  • 收稿日期:2009-10-30 修回日期:2010-05-17 出版日期:2010-10-30 发布日期:2010-10-31
  • 通讯作者: 常侃 E-mail:changkan0@gmail.com
  • 基金资助:

    国家级.国家自然科学基金

Rate control for hierarchical B-frames in H.264/AVC

  1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2009-10-30 Revised:2010-05-17 Online:2010-10-30 Published:2010-10-31
  • Contact: CHANG Kan E-mail:changkan0@gmail.com

摘要:

Hierarchical B-frames can bring high coding performance when introduced into H.264/AVC. However, the traditional rate control schemes can not work efficiently in such new coding framework. This article presents a rate control algorithm for hierarchical B-frames in H.264/AVC. Taking the feature of the dyadic hierarchical coding structure into consideration, the proposed algorithm includes group of pictures (GOP) layer, temporal layer and frame layer bits allocation. After frame layer bits allocation is complete, frame layer quantization parameters (QP) determination strategy is responsible for calculating the final QP. Experimental results show that compared with other rate control algorithms, the proposed one can improve the coding performance and reduce the mismatch of target bit rate and real bit rate.

关键词:

H.264/AVC, hierarchical B-frames, rate control

Abstract:

Hierarchical B-frames can bring high coding performance when introduced into H.264/AVC. However, the traditional rate control schemes can not work efficiently in such new coding framework. This article presents a rate control algorithm for hierarchical B-frames in H.264/AVC. Taking the feature of the dyadic hierarchical coding structure into consideration, the proposed algorithm includes group of pictures (GOP) layer, temporal layer and frame layer bits allocation. After frame layer bits allocation is complete, frame layer quantization parameters (QP) determination strategy is responsible for calculating the final QP. Experimental results show that compared with other rate control algorithms, the proposed one can improve the coding performance and reduce the mismatch of target bit rate and real bit rate.

Key words:

H.264/AVC, hierarchical B-frames, rate control