Ultra Fast H.264/AVC to HEVC Transcoder

被引:30
作者
Shen, Tong [1 ]
Lu, Yao
Wen, Ziyu [1 ]
Zou, Linxi [1 ]
Chen, Yucong [1 ]
Wen, Jiangtao [1 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
来源
2013 DATA COMPRESSION CONFERENCE (DCC) | 2013年
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D O I
10.1109/DCC.2013.32
中图分类号
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号
081202 ;
摘要
The emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard achieves significant performance improvement over H.264/AVC standard at a cost of much higher complexity. In this paper, we propose a ultra fast H.264/AVC to HEVC transcoder for multi-core processors implementing Wavefront Parallel Processing (WPP) and SIMD acceleration, along with expedited motion estimation (ME) and mode decision (MD) by utilizing information extracted from the input H.264/AVC stream. Experiments using standard HEVC test bitstreams show that the proposed transcoder achieves 70x speed up over the HEVC HM 8.1 reference software (including H.264 encoding) at very small rate distortion (RD) performance loss.
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页码:241 / 250
页数:10
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