Reducing the number of used tested modes in inter mode decision for H.264/AVC and accelerating with multithreading

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊科學與工程研究所 === 100 === Mode decision at the encoder processing of H.264 is a bottleneck due to its time complexity. In this paper, we propose a new method to reduce the original 7 inter modes to 3. In particular, we identify the smallest 2 light-weight costs of inter modes, and che...

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Main Author: 葉柏宏
Other Authors: Lin, Cheng-Chung
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93625941449072968167
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Summary:碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊科學與工程研究所 === 100 === Mode decision at the encoder processing of H.264 is a bottleneck due to its time complexity. In this paper, we propose a new method to reduce the original 7 inter modes to 3. In particular, we identify the smallest 2 light-weight costs of inter modes, and check if they are neighbors or not, to determine whether to save or discard some of the modes. We also parallelize a part of the code to speed up the executing time. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods improve the performance in terms of executing time, regardless of the video types in consideration, and still keep almost the same video quality with almost no change in encoded video size.