Model-based early termination scheme for H.264/AVC inter prediction

Lien Fei Chen*, Shin Ping Yang, Yeong Kang Lai

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Inter prediction is the most power-consumed component in H.264/AVC encoder. For the power-aware design, it is necessary to reduce the power consumption by using fast inter prediction techniques. In this paper, a system-level poweraware algorithm based on the early termination scheme of H.264/AVC inter prediction is proposed. The proposed early termination scheme for H.264 motion estimation is based on the statistical modeling of the motion compensated residual data. We develop a power-aware adaptive mechanism with multiple thresholds derived from the statistical model to early terminate the motion estimation (ME). According to the experimental results, our early termination scheme for H.264/AVC inter prediction not only preserves fine RD performance but also eliminates the unnecessary operation in both IME stage and FME stage to realize the power-aware H.264 encoder system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Proceedings, ICASSP 2009
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages597-600
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424423545
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 19 04 200924 04 2009

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period19/04/0924/04/09

Keywords

  • Early termination
  • H.264/AVC
  • Motion estimation
  • Skip mode
  • VLSI

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