Title :
HEVC intra mode decision acceleration based on tree depth levels relationship
Author :
Leal da Silva, Thaisa ; da Silva Cruz, Luis A. ; Agostini, Luciano V.
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Telecomun. - IT, Univ. of Coimbra - UC, Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract :
The new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is achieving higher encoding efficiency when compared to its predecessors such as H.264/AVC. One of the factors responsible to this improvement is the intra prediction method, which introduces a larger number of prediction directions resulting in an enhanced rate-distortion (RD) performance at the cost of a higher computational complexity. This paper proposes an algorithm to accelerate the intra mode decision, reducing the complexity of intra coding. The acceleration procedure takes into account the edge direction information and explores the correlation of intra modes across levels of the HEVC hierarchical tree structure. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides a decrease of up to 40.82% in the HEVC intra prediction processing time, with a small degradation in encoding efficiency (BD-PSNR loss of 0.1 dB on average).
Keywords :
computational complexity; rate distortion theory; trees (mathematics); video coding; H.264/AVC; HEVC hierarchical tree structure; HEVC intra mode decision acceleration; computational complexity; edge direction information; encoding efficiency; high efficiency video coding; rate-distortion performance; tree depth levels relationship; Algorithm design and analysis; Complexity theory; Correlation; Encoding; Prediction algorithms; Standards; Video coding; HEVC; computational complexity; edge orientation; inter-levels relationship; intra coding;
Conference_Titel :
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2013
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0292-7
DOI :
10.1109/PCS.2013.6737737