The SP- and SI-frames design for H.264/AVC

Author

Karczewicz, Marta ; Kurceren, Ragip

Author_Institution

Nokia Res. Center, Nokia Inc., Irving, TX, USA

Volume

13

Issue

7

fYear

2003

fDate

7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

637

Lastpage

644

Abstract

This paper discusses two new frame types, SP-frames and SI-frames, defined in the emerging video coding standard, known as ITU-T Rec. H.264 or ISO/IEC MPEG-4/Part 10-AVC. The main feature of SP-frames is that identical SP-frames can be reconstructed even when different reference frames are used for their prediction. This property allows them to replace I-frames in applications such as splicing, random access, and error recovery/resilience. We also include a description of SI-frames, which are used in conjunction with SP-frames. Finally, simulation results illustrating the coding efficiency of SP-frames are provided. It is shown that SP-frames have significantly better coding efficiency than I-frames while providing similar functionalities.

Keywords

IEC standards; ISO standards; code standards; data compression; video coding; H.264/AVC; I-frames; ISO/IEC MPEG-4/Part 10-AVC; ITU-T Rec. H.264; SI-frames design; SP-frames; SP-frames design; coding efficiency; error recovery/resilience; frame types; random access; splicing; video coding standard; Automatic voltage control; Decoding; IEC standards; ISO standards; MPEG 4 Standard; Predictive coding; Redundancy; Resilience; Splicing; Video coding;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8215

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSVT.2003.814969

Filename

1218196