O.G. Guleryuz, Beckman Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
M.T. Orchard, Beckman Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
We consider the temporal DPCM loop at the heart of most modern high performance video coders. Targeting low bitrate-low complexity video applications, it is shown that DPCM is inefficient in this region. The DPCM codec is analyzed in the low bitrate region and rate-distortion optimal modifications are proposed that do not violate the low complexity requirement. The proposed modifications involve negligible added complexity at the encoder and no added complexity at the decoder and are thus compatible with standard coders and bit streams.
Index Terms:
differential pulse code modulation; video codecs; video coding; data compression; rate distortion theory; filtering theory; computational complexity; rate-distortion based temporal filtering; video compression; temporal DPCM loop; high performance video coders; low bitrate-low complexity video applications; DPCM codec; rate-distortion optimal modifications; low bitrate region; low complexity requirement; bit streams
Citation:
O.G. Guleryuz, M.T. Orchard, "Rate-distortion based temporal filtering for video compression," dcc, pp.122, Data Compression Conference (DCC '96), 1996