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Complexity Control Based on a Fast Coding Unit Decision Method in the HEVC Video Coding Standard

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicacioneses
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Procesado Multimediaes
dc.contributor.authorJiménez Moreno, Amaya
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Enríquez, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorDíaz de María, Fernando
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T10:03:30Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T10:03:30Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-01
dc.description.abstractThe emerging high-efficiency video coding standard achieves higher coding efficiency than previous standards by virtue of a set of new coding tools such as the quadtree coding structure. In this novel structure, the pixels are organized into coding units (CU), prediction units, and transform units, the sizes of which can be optimized at every level following a tree configuration. These tools allow highly flexible data representation; however, they incur a very high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an effective complexity control (CC) algorithm based on a hierarchical approach. An early termination condition is defined at every CU size to determine whether subsequent CU sizes should be explored. The actual encoding times are also considered to satisfy the target complexity in real time. Moreover, all parameters of the algorithm are estimated on the fly to adapt its behavior to the video content, the encoding configuration, and the target complexity over time. The experimental results prove that our proposal is able to achieve a target complexity reduction of up to 60% with respect to full exploration, with notable accuracy and limited losses in coding performance. It was compared with a state-of-the-art CC method and shown to achieve a significantly better trade-off between coding complexity and efficiency as well as higher accuracy in reaching the target complexity. Furthermore, a comparison with a state-of-the-art complexity reduction method highlights the advantages of our CC framework. Finally, we show that the proposed method performs well when the target complexity varies over time.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been partially supported by the National Grant TEC2014-53390-P of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationIEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (2016), 18(4), pp.: 563 - 575.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2016.2524995
dc.identifier.issn1520-9210
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage563
dc.identifier.publicationissue4
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage575
dc.identifier.publicationtitleIEEE Transactions on Multimediaen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume18
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/30843
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000017928
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. TEC2014-53390-Pes
dc.rights© 2016 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.en
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.subject.ecienciaTelecomunicacioneses
dc.subject.otherComplexity Control (CC)en
dc.subject.otherFast coding unit decisionen
dc.subject.otherHEVCen
dc.subject.otherOn the fly estimationen
dc.titleComplexity Control Based on a Fast Coding Unit Decision Method in the HEVC Video Coding Standarden
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