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

Berna Erol, Faouzi Kossentini, Hussein Alnuweiri

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)843-856
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Volume10
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2000
Externally publishedYes

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