Determining the best partitioning structure for a given Coding Tree Unit (CTU) is one of the most time consuming operations within the HEVC encoder. The brute force search through quadtree hierarchy has a significant impact on the encoding time of high definition (HD) videos. This paper presents a fast coding unit size decision-taking algorithm for intra prediction in HEVC. The proposed algorithm utilizes a low complex texture analysis technique based on the local range property of a pixel in a given neighborhood. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves an average of 72.24% encoding time efficiency improvement with similar rate distortion performance compared to HEVC reference software HM12.0 for HD videos.
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Conference paper published in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
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IEEE
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AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Citation
Mallikarachchi, T., Fernando, A. and Arachchi, H.K. (2014) 'Efficient coding unit size selection based on texture analysis for HEVC intra prediction', IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Chengdu, China, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2014.6890319.