Scene change based output rate control strategy for constant bit rate video coding

Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Xiangzhong Fang ◽  
Wemjun Zhang ◽  
Songyu Yu
1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Simon ◽  
Paulo Villegas ◽  
Javier C. Caballero ◽  
Miguel Roser

Author(s):  
Marwa Meddeb ◽  
Marco Cagnazzo ◽  
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

This paper presents a novel rate control scheme designed for the newest high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, and aimed at enhancing the quality of regions of interest (ROI) for a videoconferencing system. It is designed to consider the different regions at both frame level and coding tree unit (CTU) level. The proposed approach allocates a higher bit rate to the region of interest while keeping the global bit rate close to the assigned target value. The ROIs, typically faces in this application, are automatically detected and each CTU is classified in a region of interest map. This binary map is given as input to the rate control algorithm and the bit allocation is made accordingly. The algorithm is tested, first, using the initial version of the controller introduced in HEVC test model (HM.10), then, extended in HM.13. In this work, we first investigate the impact of differentiated bit allocation between the two regions using a fixed bit rate ratio in intra-coded frames (I-frames) and Bidirectionally predicted frames (B-frames). Then, unit quantization parameters (QPs) are computed independently for CTUs of different regions. The proposed approach has been compared to the reference controller implemented in HM and to a ROI-based rate control algorithm initially proposed for H.264 that we adopted to HEVC and implemented in HM.9. Experimental results show that our scheme has comparable performances with the ROI-based controller proposed for H.264. It achieves accurate target bit rates and provides an improvement in region of interest quality, both in objective metrics (up to 2 dB in PSNR) and based on subjective quality evaluation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 333-335 ◽  
pp. 783-786
Author(s):  
Shu Qian He ◽  
Chun Shi ◽  
Zheng Jie Deng

In this paper, we describe our rate distortion optimization framework for H.264/AVC standard. We investigate that the R-D characteristics of H.264 video signal in traditional transform-based video coding systems should be modeled for the Texture and Header components separately. Based on the proposed model, a R-D cost estimation function is also proposed to give a more accurate R-Q model. Built upon the above ideas, a rate control (RC) algorithm is developed for the H.264 encoder under the constant bit rate constraint. It is shown by experimental results that the new scheme can achieve better results in control bit rate and R-D performance compared to previously proposed approaches.


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