Fig. 1. (a) a 4 x 4 block with pixels (a-p) which are predicted by neighboring pixels (A-M). (b) Nine modes in 4 x 4 intra-prediction. There are two kinds of intra-prediction for luma block in H.264 baseline profile: I4MB and I16MB. In I4MB type, nine different modes are defined as illustrated in Fig. 1(b). Each 4 x 4 block is predicted from the spatial adjacent samples which have already been encoded and recon- structed. The 16 samples of the prediction block which are labeled as a-p are predicted by the neighboring pixels labeled as A-M as shown in Fig. 1(a). For example, mode 0 Fig. 2. RDO computation. re SESH SS aia be eer ee “Let C denote a 2’ x 2 block. Bo, B;, Bz and B3 denote intensity sum of four non-overlap sub-block in a given block C, which are shown in Fig. 4. Then, the four NHT From (1) and (2), it can be known that choosing I16MB means that fewer bits are used to signal the mode type and other information, but the residue may contain higher energy, especially in sequences with more details. On the other hand, choosing I4MB may give a lower energy residual after intra-prediction but it needs to use more bits to signal the mode types and other information. Fig. 4. Possible edge orientation in the given block. Fig. 3. (a) The multi-resolution representation of 2-D NHT. (b) Block features at different levels. The relationship between the prediction modes and the edge modes for 4 x 4 luma block Table 1 type will be skipped and computational cost will be saved. The procedure for checking the homogeneity of the macroblock is described as follows. First the three AC NHT coefficients are computed for the given macroblock. If any one of the following three conditions is satisfied, this macroblock will be considered as homogeneous. mode 0, mode 3 and mode 7 are chosen as the candidates according to Table 1. Fig. 5. The framework of the edge classification method. where n stands for the number of encoded macroblocks in past, N, Z;, E, are the values of the three corresponding components of the kth MB, R; is the real consumed bits for coding the quantized coefficients of the kth MB. Fig. 6. Correlation between actual bits and predicted bits. For intra-mode decision, H.264/AVC combines luma and chroma components together to perform RDO opera- tion since a symbol named CBP is related to not only chroma intra-mode type, but also luma intra-mode type. In order to obtain the accurate RDcost where bits for Fig. 7. The total number of RDO operations in inter mode decision [2]. Since the bits for encoding CBP is very few, luma and chroma components can be considered approxima- tively independent when performing intra-mode selec- tion. By trading off accuracy vs. complexity in intra-mode decision, RDO computation for chroma and luma compo- nents can be performed separately to choose the best chroma mode and luma mode. In this case the total number of computed RDcost is given by (13), and only 164 RDO operations are needed instead of original 640 Fig. 8. The total number of RDO operations in intra-mode decision [2]. RDO operations. Coding performance compared with JM10.1 RDOp, (all intra-frame) Table 3 Coding performance compared with JM10.1 RDOo,(All intra-frame) Table 4 Coding performance compared with JM10.1 RDOo, (IPPPP....mode) Table 5 Fig. 9. Rate-distortion curves (for all I-frames): (a) Foreman (QCIF). (b) Carphone (QCIF). (c) Bus (CIF). (d) News (CIF). Coding performance compared with JM10.1 RDOo, (IPPPP....mode) Fig. 10. Rate-distortion curves (IPPP... Mode): (a) Foreman (QCIF). (b) Carphone (QCIF). (c) Bus (CIF). (d) News (CIF).
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