Abstract
The emerging H.264-AVC video coding standard aims to significantly improve compression performance compared to all existing video coding standards. In order to achieve this, a robust rate-distortion optimization (RDO) technique is employed to select the best coding mode and reference frame for each macroblock. As a result, the complexity and computation load increase drastically. This paper presents a fast mode decision algorithm for H.264 intra prediction based on local edge information. Prior to intra prediction, an edge map is created and a local edge direction histogram is then established for each sub-block. Based on the distribution of the edge direction histogram, only a small part of intra prediction modes are chosen for RDO calculation. Experimental results show that the last intra mode decision scheme increases the speed of intra coding significantly with negligible loss of PSNR.
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