High speed intra mode and direction prediction for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC realtime transcoder

Tarek A. Elarabi, Ahmed M. Ragab, Hanan Mahmoud, Magdy Bayoumi

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Abstract

The paper presents a significantly fast INTRA mode and direction prediction algorithm for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC time sensitive transcoders for mobile applications. The mode and direction prediction in H.264/AVC encoder is responsible for a huge portion of the delay in the transcoder. An efficient transcoder would take advantage of the information stored in MPEG-2 bitstream (i.e. DCT coefficients) to simplify the IN-TRA prediction in H.264/AVC. Based on the spatial activity analysis using a smoothness determining factor and an edge orientation detector, an early mode decision technique and an INTRA direction prediction for each mode are proposed. The proposed algorithm utilizes the DCT coefficients of the MPEG-2 to eliminate redundant operations in the H.264/AVC encoder part of the transcoder. The Experimental results; using frames with different resolution; show 92% transcoding time elimination at slight PSNR degradation (less than 3.5%) compared with the conventional transcoder.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011, Proceedings
Pages78-83
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011 - Beirut, Lebanon
Duration: Oct 4 2011Oct 7 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011, Proceedings

Other

Other2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2011
Country/TerritoryLebanon
CityBeirut
Period10/4/1110/7/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing

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