It is known that quality fluctuation has a major negative effect on visual perception. In previous work, we introduced a
constant-distortion bit allocation method [1] for H.263+ encoder. However, the method in [1] can not be adapted to the
newest H.264/AVC encoder directly as the well-known chicken-egg dilemma resulted from the rate-distortion optimization
(RDO) decision process. To solve this problem, we propose a new two stage constant-distortion bit allocation (CDBA)
algorithm with enhanced rate control for H.264/AVC encoder. In stage-1, the algorithm performs RD optimization
process with a constant quantization QP. Based on prediction residual signals from stage-1 and target distortion for
smooth video quality purpose, the frame-level bit target is allocated by using a close-form approximations of ratedistortion
relationship similar to [1], and a fast stage-2 encoding process is performed with enhanced basic unit rate
control. Experimental results show that, compared with original rate control algorithm provided by H.264/AVC
reference software JM12.1, the proposed constant-distortion frame-level bit allocation scheme reduces quality
fluctuation and delivers much smoother PSNR on all testing sequences.
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