A Fast Multiple Reference Frame Selection Algorithm Based on H.264/AVC

H.264/AVC uses multi-reference frames to enhance the coding efficiency; the quantity of increased computation is linearly proportional to the number of reference frames. On the study of the multi-macro-block motion estimation of H.264 standard, a low-complexity and fast multi-frame selection method is proposed. The experimental results show that the speed of the proposed method is over two times faster than that of the original scheme adopted in JVT reference software JM10.2 while keeping the similar video quality and bit-rate.