Rate-Distortion Optimization of Rate Control for H.264 With Adaptive Initial Quantization Parameter Determination

A rate-distortion (R-D) optimization rate control (RC) algorithm with adaptive initialization is presented for H.264. First, a linear distortion-quantization (D-Q) model is introduced and thus a close-form solution is developed to derive optimal quantization parameters (Q_p)for encoding each macroblock. Then we exploit to determine the initial Q_p efficiently and adaptively according to the content of video sequences. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve better R-D performance than that of other two RC algorithms including the algorithm JVT-G012 which is the current recommended RC scheme implemented in the H.264 reference software JM9.5.