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Efficient block size selection for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding

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Gao Chen,

Yong-dong Zhang,

Shou-xun Lin,

Feng DaiAuthors Info & Claims

MULTIMEDIA '04: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

Pages 300 - 303

https://doi.org/10.1145/1027527.1027596

Published: 10 October 2004 Publication History

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In this paper, an efficient block size mode selection algorithm for the variable-sizes block-matching (VSBM) in the MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding is presented. Depending on leveraging the available motion information carried by the MPEG-2 bit-streams, the proposed algorithm is used to determine which one of the 16x16, 16x8, 8x16, and 8x8 block size modes should be used for each macroblock (MB). The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is close to that of a cascaded pixel-domain transcoder (CPDT) when all the seven block size modes are enabled and the exhaustively full search method is used to determine the best block size modes. The whole transcoding time can be efficiently reduced by 22% on the average while the bit rate is slightly increased (2.9%).

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MULTIMEDIA '04: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

October 2004

1028 pages

ISBN:1581138938

DOI:10.1145/1027527

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