Grouped Approach for the Design of H.264/AVC Motion Estimation Architectures

This letter presents a novel approach for organizing computational resources into groups within H.264/AVC motion estimation architectures, leading to reductions of up to 75% in the equivalent gate count with respect to state‐of‐the‐art designs.     

一种改进的H.264帧内预测模式选择算法

针对H.264帧内预测模式选择中失真估计不准确和计算量大的问题,提出一种改进的H.264帧内预测模式选择算法。该算法首先对像素的递归失真估计方法进行改进,较为准确地估计了多种帧内预测模式下的预测失真,然后利用相邻块预测模式的相关性预先筛除部分预测模式,降低了H.264中帧内预测的复杂度。与JM参考软件的对比结果表明,该优化算法能在保证很好的图像质量的同时,将帧内预测模式选择的时间减少60%以上,有效地提高了视频图像的编码效率和视觉质量。     

快速自适应运动估计算法

为降低H.264中运动估计的复杂性,通过对自然图像序列的分析,提出了一种基于块的运动特征的快速自适应搜索算法。该算法充分利用视频序列中当前块的运动状态,根据不同块的运动情况合理选择运动搜索模板。实验表明,该算法在保证重构图像质量的前提下,编码速度有了显著提高,保证了实时应用的要求。     

一种基于H.264/AVC的快速帧间模式选择算法

为了解决帧间模式选择计算量大的问题,提出了一种快速算法。算法利用编码模式的利用率信息和时空相关性来预先判定当前宏块最可能的编码模式,从而大大加快了模式选择的过程。算法缩小了候选模式的范围,并采用阈值来提高预测准确度。仿真结果表明,该算法在编码质量只有轻微下降的情况下明显降低了计算复杂度。     

基于运动矢量分量差的视频隐写算法

针对H.264/AVC视频压缩标准,提出基于运动矢量分量差的隐写算法。根据人眼视觉特性,筛选出人眼较不敏感的运动矢量,计算其分量差以控制嵌入操作的位置,并在选定的运动矢量分量中嵌入秘密信息。由于操作具有对称性,因此对视频质量的影响较小。理论分析和实验结果证明,该算法具有较高的载体利用率和嵌入效率,能够达到视频隐蔽通信对隐蔽性和隐写容量的要求。     

H.264/AVC帧间预测编码模式快速选择算法

通过对H.264/AVC帧间预测模式选择的实验观测,发现最近采用的SKIP/DIRECT模式或者16×16宏块模式,和当前块的选择模式有着空间和时间上的关联。依据这一现象,提出了一种快速的帧间自适应宏块模式选择算法。从验证模型JM7.6上的实验结果来看,在保持图像编码质量,视频编码比特没有太大增加的情况下,该算法对变化不是很剧烈的视频序列,可节省近50%的编码时间,对变化较为剧烈的视频序列,亦可节省近10%的编码时间,降低了原标准在进行帧间预测时的复杂度,提高了编码器的工作效率。     

Efficient video encryption scheme based on advanced video coding

A video encryption scheme combining with advanced video coding (AVC) is presented and analyzed in this paper, which is different from the ones used in MPEG1/2 video encryption. In the proposed scheme, the intra-prediction mode and motion vector difference are encrypted with the length-kept encryption algorithm (LKE) in order to keep the format compliance, and the residue data of the macroblocks are encrypted with the residue data encryption algorithm (RDE) in order to keep low cost. Additionally, a key distribution scheme is proposed to keep the robustness to transmission errors, which assigns sub-keys to different frames or slices independently. The encryption scheme’s security, time efficiency and error robustness are analyzed in detail. Experimental results show that the encryption scheme keeps file format unchanged, is secure against replacement attacks, is efficient in computing, and is robust to some transmission errors. These properties make it a suitable choice for real-time applications, such as secure IPTV, secure videoconference or mobile/wireless multimedia, etc.

Motion mapping and mode decision for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding

This paper describes novel transcoding techniques aimed for low-complexity MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding. An important application for this type of conversion is efficient storage of broadcast video in consumer devices. The architecture for such a system is presented, which includes novel motion mapping and mode decision algorithms. For the motion mapping, two algorithms are presented. Both efficiently map incoming MPEG-2 motion vectors to outgoing H.264/AVC motion vectors regardless of the block sizes that the motion vectors correspond to. In addition, the algorithm maps motion vectors to different reference pictures, which is useful for picture type conversion and prediction from multiple reference pictures. We also propose an efficient rate-distortion optimised macroblock coding mode decision algorithm, which first evaluates candidate modes based on a simple cost function so that a reduced set of candidate modes is formed, then based on this reduced set, we evaluate the more complex Lagrangian cost calculation to determine the coding mode. Extensive simulation results show that our proposed transcoder incorporating the proposed algorithms achieves very good rate-distortion performance with low complexity. Compared with the cascaded decoder-encoder solution, the coding efficiency is maintained while the complexity is significantly reduced.

H.264/AVC baseline profile to MPEG‐4 visual simple profile transcoding to reduce the spatial resolution

In this study, we propose a heterogeneous transcoding method of converting an H.264/Advanced video coding (AVC) Baseline profile (BP) video bitstream into an MPEG‐4 Visual simple profile (VSP) video bitstream. The proposed method reduces the spatial resolution for mobile terminals, which support only low resolution video bitstreams. When the H.264/AVC BP video bitstream is transformed into the MPEG‐4 VSP video bitstream, the conversions between the H.264/AVC BP block types and the MPEG‐4 VSP block types are performed by analyzing the macroblocks (MBs) conversion probability and calculating the difference values of motion vector. The proposed transcoding method runs on average 5.5 times faster than the cascaded transcoding methods, for a degradation of the PSNR (peak‐signal‐to ratio) of less than 0.5 dB. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 16, 24–33, 2006     

H.264/AVC快速帧内预测模式选择算法

基于像素块的纹理特性,相邻块预测模式的相关性提出了一种H.264/AVC快速帧内预测算法,该算法将4×4亮度块的候选模式从9种降低到1～4种。实验结果表明,与H.264编解码器JM8.6相比,I帧编码时间降低50%～60%,而PSNR和输出码率基本保持不变。