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Inter and intra pre-analysis algorithm for HEVC

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The unceasing demands for high quality multimedia contents and the advent of new resolutions such as ultra high-definition motivated the development of the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, which outperforms prior standards by up to 50 % in terms of coding efficiency. While this improvement meets the aforementioned demands, it also involves a considerable increase in computational cost of the encoder. For this reason, fast and efficient coding algorithms are now a requirement for HEVC-compliant real-time encoders. In this regard, this paper proposes a pre-analysis algorithm designed to provide coding information to both the intra and the inter modules of the encoding stage. As a result, experiments show that the algorithm is able to reduce the encoding time between 12.77 and 18.32 % for random access configurations, at the expense of negligible losses in terms of coding efficiency.

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This work was jointly supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the European Commission (FEDER funds) under the project TIN2015-66972-C5-2-R, and by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under the Grant FPU13/04601.

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    Gabriel Cebrián-Márquez, José Luis Martínez & Pedro Cuenca

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Cebrián-Márquez, G., Martínez, J.L. & Cuenca, P. Inter and intra pre-analysis algorithm for HEVC. J Supercomput 73, 414–432 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-016-1882-9

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