CNN-based rate-distortion modeling for H. 265/HEVC

B Xu, X Pan, Y Zhou, Y Li, D Yang… - 2017 IEEE Visual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based rate-distortion (RD)
modeling method for H. 265/HEVC. A fully convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed …

Hybrid distortion-based rate-distortion optimization and rate control for H. 265/HEVC

H Yuan, Q Wang, Q Liu, J Huo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mean squared error (MSE) is adopted as the distortion metric for the rate-distortion
optimization (RDO) and rate control (RC) in most of the existing video coding standards, eg …

Machine learning-based rate distortion modeling for VVC/H. 266 intra-frame

M Wang, J Zhang, L Huang… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rate-distortion (RD) optimization has been widely adopted to improve the coding efficiency
on the video encoder side. However, there are few studies related to modeling the RD …

Decoder-side HEVC quality enhancement with scalable convolutional neural network

R Yang, M Xu, Z Wang - 2017 IEEE International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has been increasingly used to generate
video streams over Internet. However, the decoded HEVC video streams may incur severe …

Perceptually weighted mean squared error based rate-distortion optimization for HEVC

X Wu, H Wang, S Hu, S Kwong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The process of rate-distortion (RD) optimization plays a key role for video coding, which
aims to achieve a tradeoff between compression efficiency and video quality distortion …

Efficient rate-distortion optimization for HEVC using SSIM and motion homogeneity

J Qi, X Li, F Su, Q Tu, A Men - 2013 Picture Coding Symposium …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rate-distortion optimization is widely used in modern video codecs to make various encoder
decisions in order to optimize the trade-off between bit-rate and quality. The distortion …

An LSTM method for predicting CU splitting in H. 264 to HEVC transcoding

Y Wei, Z Wang, M Xu, S Qiao - 2017 IEEE Visual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For H. 264 to high efficiency video coding (HEVC) transcoding, this paper proposes a
hierarchical Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) method to predict coding unit (CU) splitting …

Perceptual based SAO rate-distortion optimization method with a simplified JND model for H. 265/HEVC

K Yang, S Wan, Y Gong, HR Wu, Y Feng - Signal Processing: Image …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the latest H. 265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, the sample adaptive
offset (SAO) filter technique is adopted to improve the quality of the reconstructed video. But …

Fully connected network for HEVC CU split decision equipped with Laplacian transparent composite model

H Amer, A Rashwan, E Yang - 2018 Picture Coding Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) improves rate distortion (RD) performance
significantly, but at the same time is computationally expensive due to the adoption of a …

Predicting video rate-distortion curves using textural features

AV Katsenou, M Afonso, D Agrafiotis… - 2016 Picture Coding …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of predicting the compression efficiency of a video codec
solely from features extracted from uncompressed content. Towards this goal, we have used …