Constant distortion rate control for H.264/AVC high definition videos with scene change

In this paper, we propose a constant distortion rate control algorithm for H.264/AVC high definition videos with scene change. With the rate and distortion information of each frame, the frame scene complexity is modeled and the scene change is detected in the first pass encoding. In the second-pass encoding, the expected distortion of each GOP under the constraint of target bits is derived based on the first-pass statistics. And the quantization step (Q-step) of each frame can be obtained with a linear distortion-quantizer (D-Q) model by considering the parameter update of this model at scene change. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can provide more constant quality among different video scenes, compared to traditional joint model (JM) rate control algorithm.