Video compression using nested quadtree structures, leaf merging, and improved techniques for motion representation and entropy coding

D Marpe, H Schwarz, S Bosse, B Bross… - … on Circuits and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A video coding architecture is described that is based on nested and pre-configurable
quadtree structures for flexible and signal-adaptive picture partitioning. The primary goal of …

Perceptual rate-distortion optimization using structural similarity index as quality metric

YH Huang, TS Ou, PY Su… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rate-distortion optimization (RDO) framework for video coding achieves a tradeoff
between bit-rate and quality. However, objective distortion metrics such as mean squared …

Fast decision of block size, prediction mode, and intra block for H. 264 intra prediction

YH Huang, TS Ou, HH Chen - … on circuits and systems for video …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spatial-domain intra prediction scheme of H. 264 has high computational complexity,
especially for the High Profile as it incorporates the additional intra 8× 8 prediction mode. To …

Novel statistical modeling, analysis and implementation of rate-distortion estimation for H. 264/AVC coders

X Zhao, J Sun, S Ma, W Gao - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In H. 264/advanced video coding, the encoder employs the rate-distortion optimization
(RDO) to select the optimal coding mode of each block. Although it is effective to employ the …

Direct intermode selection for H. 264 video coding using phase correlation

M Paul, W Lin, CT Lau, B Lee - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The H. 264 video coding standard exhibits higher performance compared to the other
existing standards such as H. 263, MPEG-X. This improved performance is achieved mainly …

Hierarchical intra mode decision for H. 264/AVC

H Zeng, KK Ma, C Cai - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The intra mode prediction via exhaustive mode decision exploited in the H. 264/advanced
video coding effectively improves the coding efficiency, but at the expense of yielding higher …

Stakeholder identification in agile software product development organizations: A model for understanding who and what really counts

K Power - 2010 Agile Conference, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stakeholder Theory is an area of strategic management that defines a stakeholder as
someone who affects or is affected by the actions of the organization. The principles and …

Window-level rate control for smooth picture quality and smooth buffer occupancy

L Xu, D Zhao, X Ji, L Deng, S Kwong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In rate control, smooth picture quality and smooth buffer occupancy are both important but
contrary to each other at a given bit rate. How to get a good tradeoff between them was not …

Fast inter mode decision based on textural segmentation and correlations for multiview video coding

W Zhu, X Tian, F Zhou, Y Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiview video coding (MVC) plays a critical role in reducing the ultra high data bandwidth
of 3-D video. However, the heavy computational complexity of MVC slows down its …

Context adaptive Lagrange multiplier (CALM) for rate-distortion optimal motion estimation in video coding

J Zhang, X Yi, N Ling, W Shang - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an efficient and practical algorithm to dynamically adapt the
Lagrange multipliers for each macroblock based on the context of the neighboring or upper …