SMOOTHED REFERENCE PREDICTION FOR IMPROVING SINGLE-LOOP DECODING PERFORMANCE OF H.264/AVC SCALABLE EXTENSION

So-Young Kim, Woo-Jin Han

2007

Abstract

It is well-known that multi-layer extension of H.264/AVC shows good spatial scalability performance mainly due to its efficient inter-layer prediction techniques. Although single-loop decoding is a kind of technique to reduce the decoder-side computational complexity by performing only one motion compensation to decode multi-layer data, its limited use of inter-layer prediction sometimes degrades the performance especially for fast-motion sequences. In this paper, smoothed reference prediction technique is proposed to improve the single-loop decoding performance by replacing base-layer information with current-layer information and simple block-based smoothing function. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the coding efficiency with all benefits of single-loop decoding mode. In addition, the proposed method was adopted to scalable extension of H.264/AVC standard Working Draft.

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Kim S. and Han W. (2007). SMOOTHED REFERENCE PREDICTION FOR IMPROVING SINGLE-LOOP DECODING PERFORMANCE OF H.264/AVC SCALABLE EXTENSION . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-13-5, pages 67-71. DOI: 10.5220/0002135800670071


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap07,
author={So-Young Kim and Woo-Jin Han},
title={SMOOTHED REFERENCE PREDICTION FOR IMPROVING SINGLE-LOOP DECODING PERFORMANCE OF H.264/AVC SCALABLE EXTENSION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={67-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002135800670071},
isbn={978-989-8111-13-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)
TI - SMOOTHED REFERENCE PREDICTION FOR IMPROVING SINGLE-LOOP DECODING PERFORMANCE OF H.264/AVC SCALABLE EXTENSION
SN - 978-989-8111-13-5
AU - Kim S.
AU - Han W.
PY - 2007
SP - 67
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0002135800670071