INTELLIGENT VIDEO ENCODING FOR MPEG-1/2 VIDEO

  • Arachchi, H.Kodikara (Telecommunications Program, Asian Institute of Technology) ;
  • Fernando, W.A.C. (Telecommunications Program, Asian Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2002.07.01

Abstract

Even though digital video coding techniques have been developed very rapidly, rate controlling is still an unsolved problem. This paper presents a new scene adaptive video encoding scheme for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video encoders. Degradation of picture quality at scene changes due to poor prediction of global complexity measure is addressed. The proposed scheme determines the picture types adaptively based on scene contents of each video frame. The effective placement of reference and inter-reference frames is studied at sudden scene changes and gradual scene changes respectively. Results show that the proposed scheme demonstrates a significant improvement in performance compared to TM5〔1〕.

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