A region-based H.263+ codec and its rate control for low VBR video

  • Authors:
  • Hwangjun Song;C. -C.J. Kuo

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Electr. Eng., Hong-ik Univ., Seoul, South Korea;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a region-based video codec, which is compatible with the H.263+ standard, and its associated rate control algorithm for low variable-bit-rate (VBR) video. The proposed region-based coding scheme is a hybrid method that incorporates traditional block DCT coding as well as object-based coding. To achieve this, we adopt H.263+ as the platform, and develop a fast macroblock-based segmentation method to implement the new region-based codec. The associated rate control solution includes rate control in three levels: encoding frame selection, frame-layer rate control and macroblock-layer rate control. The goal is to improve human visual perceptual quality at low bit rates. The efficiency of the proposed rate control algorithm applied to the region-based H.263+ codec is demonstrated via several typical test sequences.