IMPACT OF H.264 ADVANCED VIDEO CODING INTER-FRAME BLOCK SIZES ON VIDEO QUALITY

Harilaos Koumaras, Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, Drakoulis Martakos, Christian Timmerer

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we present a perceptual-based encoding benchmarking of the H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) inter-frame prediction variable block sizes for various spatial and temporal contents. This paper in order to quantify the impact on the video quality of the AVC inter-frame variable block sizes and the responsible prediction algorithm has disabled the motion estimation mechanism of the encoder and manually each block size is selected. Thus each time only one available block size out of the total seven is available to be searched for each MB and it is possible to examine the video quality impact of each block size independently to the remaining ones. The scope of this paper is to study if the use of sophisticated predictions algorithms and variable block sizes enhance the perceived quality of the encoded video signal or if there is not any significant quality degradation when the option of variable size is disabled.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koumaras H., Kourtis M., Martakos D. and Timmerer C. (2012). IMPACT OF H.264 ADVANCED VIDEO CODING INTER-FRAME BLOCK SIZES ON VIDEO QUALITY . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 118-122. DOI: 10.5220/0003846401180122

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Harilaos Koumaras and Michail-Alexandros Kourtis and Drakoulis Martakos and Christian Timmerer},
title={IMPACT OF H.264 ADVANCED VIDEO CODING INTER-FRAME BLOCK SIZES ON VIDEO QUALITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={118-122},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003846401180122},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - IMPACT OF H.264 ADVANCED VIDEO CODING INTER-FRAME BLOCK SIZES ON VIDEO QUALITY
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Koumaras H.
AU - Kourtis M.
AU - Martakos D.
AU - Timmerer C.
PY - 2012
SP - 118
EP - 122
DO - 10.5220/0003846401180122