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Low-Cost H.264/AVC Inter Frame Mode Decision Algorithm for Mobile Communication Systems

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One of the important issues of green mobile networking is the low energy consumption for either mobile devices or transmissions. To adapt this, a low-cost Inter frame mode decision (MD) algorithm is proposed for H.264/AVC encoder to reduce the computational complexity of the original encoding procedure in this paper. The information extracted from macroblock (MB), such as energy, temporal domain mode similarity and so on, which can be used to pre-estimate the optimal mode of the MB is investigated and utilized to eliminate the redundant mode candidates. The performance evaluations including quantitative analysis and PC simulations show that the proposed algorithm is an energy-efficient source coding because it can reduce around 85% Inter frame encoding time with little quality loss. It can be widely implemented in green mobile networking systems with H.264/AVC standard to realize the real-time video signal coding.

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This work has been supported by Yonsei University Institute of TMS Information Technology, a Brain Korea 21 program, Korea, partially supported by the ITRC Support Program supervised by the NIPA (NIPA-2010-C1090-1001-0006) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2011-0009454).

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  1. School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    Xingang Liu

  2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

    Xingang Liu & Kwanghoon Sohn

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Meikang Qiu

  4. College of Information and Communications, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

    Minho Jo & Hoh Peter In

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Liu, X., Sohn, K., Qiu, M. et al. Low-Cost H.264/AVC Inter Frame Mode Decision Algorithm for Mobile Communication Systems. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 110–118 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0315-5

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