Efficient background picture coding for videos obtained from static cameras

With the exponential growth of surveillance videos, conference videos and sports videos, videos with static cameras present an unprecedented challenge for high-efficiency video coding technology. The existing schemes developed for these videos mostly encode the background as the long-term reference (LTR) to further improve the coding efficiency. However, since the bit allocation of the long-term background reference is not intensively studied, the coding efficiency is still unsatisfactory. Based on the stability analysis of the video content, an efficient background picture coding algorithm for videos obtained from static cameras, which is embedded with the basic unit level bit allocation, is proposed in this paper. Experimental results reveal that on top of the default mode in HEVC, our method offers the performance with 10.8% BD-rate reduction on average. Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm, it still outperforms for kinds of test sequences with negligible increases of computational complexity in both encoder and decoder.