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High throughput entropy decoder design for H.265/HEVC

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The H.265/high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard employs context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) as a single entropy coding method. Despite the high coding efficiency of CABAC, its context modeling process limits the throughput and prevents effective parallelization, particularly at the decoder. In this paper, we design a new joint rate distortion-decoding complexity (RDDC) cost function to improve the throughput performance at the H.265/HEVC decoder side. The proposed RDDC cost function includes the complexity term based on a newly designed complexity model using the linear regression. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the number of context-coded bins up to 19.8 % without significant coding loss.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2011-0030079).

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  1. Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea

    Jung-Ah Choi & Yo-Sung Ho

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Choi, JA., Ho, YS. High throughput entropy decoder design for H.265/HEVC. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 9877–9890 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3583-z

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