Efficient h.264 encoding based on skip mode early termination

Authors:
Tien-Ying Kuo;Hsin-Ju Lu
Affiliations:
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Venue:
PSIVT'06 Proceedings of the First Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In order to increase the coding efficiency, the H.264 video coding standard introduces the variable block size motion compensation for a better inter frame coding, which adopts seven modes of different block sizes as well as a special mode, the skip mode. Due to the complex nature of the variable block size motion estimation, finding the best inter coding for H.264 would take up a significant complexity. Thus, in this paper, we propose an efficient skip mode detection out of all inter modes to speed up the encoding process. The proposed approach is based on the result of a simple test on 8x8 motion search. The experiment results show that our proposed algorithm is simple yet effective.