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Optimal Mode Decision Method for Interframe Prediction in H.264/AVC
Hongjin Zhu1, Honghui Fan1, *, Zhenqiu Shu1, Congzhe You1, Xiangjun Chen1, Qian Yu1, Pengzhen Gan2
1 College of Computer Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, 213001, China.
2 Department of Technology Development, Management System Integrator, Yamagata, 990-2473, Japan.
* Corresponding Author: Honghui Fan. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 65(3), 2425-2439. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011841
Received 31 May 2020; Accepted 25 July 2020; Issue published 16 September 2020
Abstract
Studies show that encoding technologies in H.264/AVC, including prediction
and conversion, are essential technologies. However, these technologies are more
complicated than the MPEG-4, which is a standard method and widely adopted worldwide.
Therefore, the amount of calculation in H.264/AVC is significantly up-regulated compared
to that of the MPEG-4. In the present study, it is intended to simplify the computational
expenses in the international standard compression coding system H.264/AVC for moving
images. Inter prediction refers to the most feasible compression technology, taking up to
60% of the entire encoding. In this regard, prediction error and motion vector information
are proposed to simplify the computation of inter predictive coding technology. In the
initial frame, motion compensation is performed in all target modes and then basic
information is collected and analyzed. After the initial frame, motion compensation is
performed only in the middle 8×8 modes, and the basic information amount shifts. In order
to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method and assess the motion image
compression coding, four types of motion images, defined by the international
telecommunication union (ITU), are employed. Based on the obtained results, it is
concluded that the developed method is capable of simplifying the calculation, while it is
slightly affected by the inferior image quality and the amount of information.
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Cite This Article
H. Zhu, H. Fan, Z. Shu, C. You, X. Chen
et al., "Optimal mode decision method for interframe prediction in h.264/avc,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 65, no.3, pp. 2425–2439, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011841