Adaptive Frequency Weighting for High-Performance Video Coding

作者:Chen, Jianwen*; Zheng, Jianhua; Xu, Feng; Villasenor, John
来源:IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2012, 22(7): 1027-1036.
DOI:10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2189671

摘要

The benefits of utilizing the spatial-frequency sensitivity of the human visual system in video coding have been known for decades and are incorporated into video standards, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, and H.264/AVC, as well as into still image-coding standards, such as JPEG and JPEG-2000. However, all of these standards utilize frequency weighting that is adaptive only at the picture level. In contrast with such picture-level adaptive frequency-weighting algorithms, we describe a coding approach in which a macroblock-level adaptive frequency-weighting (MBAFW) algorithm is used. We show that for the bitrate, quality levels, and resolutions typically associated with high-definition video, MBAFW can lead to overall bitrate reductions typically in the 5%-9% range over the methods used in state-of-the-art video-coding standards.