Improved rate control for advanced video coding (AVC) standard under low delay constraint

Author

Navakitkanok, Pornthep ; Aramvith, Supavadee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 April 2004

Firstpage

664

Abstract

The upcoming H.264/MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC) video compression standard promises a significant improvement over all previous video compression standards. We study the impact of low delay constraint on the rate control algorithm proposed for AVC, and show that the performance of AVC rate control is degraded under such low delay constraint. This results in PSNR degradation and many skipped frames. We then propose an improved rate control scheme to effectively allocate the number of bits and monitor the buffer fullness. Simulation results show that our proposed rate control scheme encodes the video sequences with less frame skipping and with higher PSNR compared to rate control for AVC.

Keywords

delays; image sequences; video coding; H.264/MPEG-4 advanced video coding; PSNR degradation; frame skipping; low delay constraint; rate control scheme; video compression standard; video sequence; Automatic voltage control; Degradation; Delay; IEC standards; ISO standards; MPEG 4 Standard; PSNR; Video coding; Video compression; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2108-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286730

Filename

1286730