Rate estimation for CABAC with low complexity

Kwanghyun Won, Byeungwoo Jeon

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Abstract

The context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) in the H.264/AVC is known to be one of the key technologies to improve coding efficiency. H.264/AVC encoding under rate-distortion optimization demands a lot of computations, especially, in the rate calculation for deciding the best coding mode. In this paper, a fast rate estimation method for CABAC is proposed with its application in mind for such cases of rate-distortion optimized encoding. It estimates the rate utilizing two proposed equations which only refer to the probability state index (pStateIdx) and the indication of whether or not the most probable symbol (MPS) match with the current binary to be coded. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves run-time saving of about 19.27% (up to 22.46%) on average with no degradation or additional memory requirement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBMSB 2013 - IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781467360470
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event8th IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, BMSB 2013 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 4 Jun 20137 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, BMSB
ISSN (Print)2155-5044
ISSN (Electronic)2155-5052

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, BMSB 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period4/06/137/06/13

Keywords

  • CABAC
  • complexity
  • mode decision
  • rate-distortion optimization

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