Low-complexity motion estimation for the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC

Livio Lima; Daniele Alfonso; Luca Pezzoni; Riccardo Leonardi

doi:10.1117/12.805495

19 January 2009 Low-complexity motion estimation for the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC

Livio Lima, Daniele Alfonso, Luca Pezzoni, Riccardo Leonardi

Proceedings Volume 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009; 72570P (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805495
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The recently standardized Scalable Video Coding(SVC) extension of H.264/AVC allows bitstream scalability with improved rate-distortion efficiency with respect to the classical Simulcasting approach, at the cost of an increased computational complexity of the encoding process. So one critical issue related to practical deployment of SVC is the complexity reduction, fundamental to use it in consumer applications. In this paper, we present a fully scalable fast motion estimation algorithm that enables an excellent complexity performance.

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Livio Lima, Daniele Alfonso, Luca Pezzoni, and Riccardo Leonardi "Low-complexity motion estimation for the scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC", Proc. SPIE 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009, 72570P (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805495

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