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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 134-139Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.913754
Keywords
human visual system (HVS); H.264/AVC; low bit-rate coding; real time video communication; region-of-interest (ROI)
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Due to the complexity of H.264/AVC, it is very challenging to apply this standard to design a conversational video communication system. This problem is addressed in this paper by using region-of-interest (1101) based bit allocation and computational power allocation schemes. In our system, the ROI is first detected by using the direct frame difference and skin-tone information. Several coding parameters including quantization parameter, candidates for mode decision, the number of referencing frames, accuracy of motion vectors and the search range of motion estimation are adaptively adjusted at the macroblock (MB) level according to the relative importance of each MB. Subsequently, the encoder could allocate more resources such as bits and computational power to the ROI, and the decoding complexity is also optimized at the encoder side by utilizing an ROI based rate-distortion-complexity (R-D-C) cost function. The encoder is thus simplified and decoding-friendly, and the overall subjective visual quality can also be improved.
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