Inter Mode Conversion of H.264 to MPEG-2 Video with Reduced Complexity

Author

Moiron, Sandro ; Faria, S. ; Assuncao, Pedro ; Silva, Vitor ; Navarro, Antonio

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Lisbon

fYear

2008

fDate

9-13 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper we propose an efficient inter mode conversion method for low complexity H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 video transcoders. The novel coding tools introduced in H.264 are exploited along with the more classic ones of MPEG-2, such that computational complexity reductions up to 60% and quality gains are achieved in comparison with full receding. The proposed method is suitable for software implementation of video transcoders in hardware platforms where the available resources are shared among multiple processes (e.g. home gateways).

Keywords

multimedia communication; transcoding; video coding; H.264/AVC; MPEG-2 video transcoders; coding tools; computational complexity reductions; hardware platforms; home gateways; intermode conversion; Application software; Automatic voltage control; Computational complexity; Context-aware services; Hardware; Multimedia systems; Telecommunications; Transcoding; Transform coding; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2008. ICCE 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1458-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1459-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2008.4587954

Filename

4587954