Adaptive frame layer rate control for H.264

Author

Li, Z.G. ; Pan, F. ; Lim, K.P. ; Feng, G.N. ; Lin, X. ; Rahardja, S. ; Wu, D.J.

Author_Institution

Signal Process. Program, Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive frame layer rate control scheme for H.264 by introducing a linear model to predict the mean absolute difference (MAD) of current frame by that of previous one. The target bit rate for each frame is computed by adopting a fluid flow traffic model and linear tracking theory. The corresponding quantization parameter is computed by using a quadratic rate-distortion model. The rate distortion optimization (RDO) is then performed for all macroblocks (MBs) in the current frame by the quantization parameter. Both constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) cases are studied. The average PSNR is improved up to 0.75 dB compared to an encoder with fixed quantization parameter.

Keywords

adaptive control; flow; optimisation; quantisation (signal); rate distortion theory; tracking; variable rate codes; video coding; PSNR; adaptive frame layer rate control; constant bit rate; fluid flow traffic model; linear tracking theory; macroblocks; mean absolute difference; quadratic rate-distortion model; quantization parameter; rate distortion optimization; variable bit rate; Adaptive control; Bit rate; Fluid flow; Fluid flow control; Predictive models; Programmable control; Quantization; Rate-distortion; Target tracking; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7965-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2003.1220984

Filename

1220984