Rate-distortion model for motion prediction efficiency in scalable wavelet video coding

Chia-Yang Tsai, Hsueh-Ming Hang
2009 2009 17th International Packet Video Workshop  
A rate-distortion model for motion prediction efficiency in scalable wavelet video coding is proposed in this paper. The Lagrangian multiplier is widely used to solve the ratedistortion optimization problems in video coding, especially on mode decision and rate-constrained motion estimation. Different from the non-scalable video coding, the scalable wavelet video coding needs to operate under multiple bitrate conditions and it has an open-loop structure. Therefore, the conventional
more » ... on optimization technique is not suitable for the scalable wavelet case. By analyzing the ratedistortion trade-off due to different bits allocated to motion information, we propose a motion prediction gain (MPG) metric to measure motion coding efficiency. Based on the MPG metric, a new cost function for mode decision is thus proposed. Compared with the conventional Lagrangian multiplier optimization method, our experiments show that the new mode decision procedure can generally improve the PSNR performance for, particularly, the combined SNR and temporal scalability. *
doi:10.1109/packet.2009.5152160 fatcat:777kc4nbwfgv7bxxcp4cjb4l2e