Fast adaptive GOP design for H.264/SVC

In order to concurrently provide different video services for diverse access devices, the scalable quality and complexity services in a single bit stream offered by H.264-based scalable video coding (H.264/SVC) has gained a lot of attentions recently. However, the motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) structure consumes a large amount of operation time when combined with Core Experiment 2 (CE2), which implements adaptive GOP detection (AGD). In this paper, we suggest a video content variation (VCV) feature to implement fast AGD method by using block-based classification before executing MCTF. Based on the JSVM 7.0 software, the simulation results show that the proposed method reduces about 67% of the operation time consumed on average as compared to the CE2.