Hardware/Software Codesign of a Low-Cost Rate Control Scheme for H.264/AVC

Chih Hung Kuo, Li Chuan Chang, Bin Da Liu, Kuan Wei Fan

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Abstract

This paper presents a low-complexity rate control (RC) framework for H.264/advanced video coding (AVC) encoders on embedded systems. We consider not only the rate-distortion performance but also its implementation complexity using an efficient hardware/software codesign. The proposed cost-effective macroblock level RC module works in hardware, and the frame-level RC is executed on the system CPU as software. It is less complex than the RC module adopted by H.264/AVC JM reference software, making it more suitable for embedded systems. Experiment results show that the proposed RC outper-forms H.264/AVC JM, and the hardware implementation cost is low for an H.264/AVC video encoder.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)250-261
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Feb

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Media Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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