Joint Spatial-Temporal Layer Bit Allocation with S-Domain Dependent R-D Modeling

Summary form only given. H.264/SVC, as a scalable extension of H.264/AVC, is finally standardized in 2007. Scalable video stream has achieved great flexibility and adaptability in terms of frame rates, display resolutions and quality levels. With three dimensions of the scalability, each coding unit in an H.264/SVC video is subject to highly complicated inter-dependency, which gives one of major challenges for bit allocating. In this work, we study an optimal solution to joint spatial-temporal (S-T) bit allocation problem with self-domain R-D modeling. The self-domain (ιS-domain) analysis employs the R-D characteristics of the reference layer as the observation domain of those of dependent layers.