Lagrange multiplier selection for rate-distortion optimization in SVC

Li X, Amon P, Hutter A, Kaup A (2009)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, other

Publication year: 2009

Article Number: 5167399

Event location: Chicago, IL US

ISBN: 9781424445943

DOI: 10.1109/PCS.2009.5167399

Abstract

The Lagrangian multiplier based rate-distortion optimization (RDO) has been widely employed in single layer video coding. During the development of scalable video coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC, it was directly applied in a multilayer scenario. However, such an application is not very efficient since the correlation between layers is not considered in the Lagrange multiplier selection. To improve the overall performance, in this paper a new selection algorithm is presented for RDO in SVC. Simulations show that the proposed method outperforms the recent SVC reference software. With a tiny computational cost, average gains of 0.22 dB and 0.35 dB were achieved in the tests of four-layer quality scalability and three-layer spatial scalability, respectively.

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APA:

Li, X., Amon, P., Hutter, A., & Kaup, A. (2009). Lagrange multiplier selection for rate-distortion optimization in SVC. In Proceedings of the 2009 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2009. Chicago, IL, US.

MLA:

Li, Xiang, et al. "Lagrange multiplier selection for rate-distortion optimization in SVC." Proceedings of the 2009 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2009, Chicago, IL 2009.

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