Efficient coding and mapping algorithms for software-only real-time video coding at low bit rates Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper presents efficient coding and mapping algorithms that lead to a significant speed improvement in low bit rate H.263/H263+ video encoding while maintaining high video-reproduction quality. First, by exploiting statistical properties of low resolution and slowly varying video sequences, we reduce significantly the computation times of the most computationally intensive components of video coding, particularly the discrete cosine transform, the inverse discrete cosine transform, quantization, and motion estimation. We also map some of the single instruction multiple fata (SIMD)-oriented functions onto Intel's MMX architecture. The developed algorithms are implemented using our public-domain H.263/H.263+ encoder/decoder software. Using the above algorithms, our H.263/H.263+ baseline video-encoder implementation can encode more than 15 fps in QCIF resolution on a Pentium MMX 200-MHz computer.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

  • Erol, B., Kossentini, F., & Alnuweiri, H.

citation count

  • 27

complete list of authors

  • Erol, B||Kossentini, F||Alnuweiri, H

publication date

  • September 2000