Frame complexity prediction for H.264/AVC rate control

  • Authors:
  • Ling Tian;Yu Sun;Shixin Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China;Dept. of Computer Science, University of Central Arkansas;College of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China

  • Venue:
  • ICME'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Rate control regulates the output bit rate of a video encoder in order to obtain optimum visual quality within the available network bandwidth and to maintain buffer fullness within a specified tolerance range. In this paper, we propose a novel rate control scheme for H.264/AVC video compression with a number of new features. We first introduce a calculation approach of frame complexity based on the linear prediction theory. Then, we propose a joint Rate-Distortion model which is an integration of a liner rate-complexity model and an exponential rate-quantization model. Finally, we develop an effective target bit estimation approach. Experimental results show that, compared with JVT-W042, our scheme achieves more accurate rate regulation, provides robust buffer control, efficiently reduces frame skipping, and improves visual quality.