A Research of Intra Prediction Coding with Variance of Prediction Mode Number

Abstract:

Intra prediction is a key step in H.264/AVC to improve the coding performance with the idea that removing the directional redundancy among neighboring blocks. In order to cover more directional information existed in the image frames, there are usually many prediction modes can be selected in the state-of-the-art coding frameworks, but more bits are also needed to encode the prediction mode index information, then how to achieve the maximum overall bit-rate reduction became a problem. In this paper, 16 kinds of prediction modes are adopted by considering the direction information for 8x8 image blocks. Through calculating the bit-rate both for the mode index and residual image under different number of prediction modes, we obtain the most suitable prediction mode number relatively from the graphs. Experimental results show that, with the increase of prediction mode number, the residual information decreases obviously, and the sum of residual information and prediction mode index information also decreases but levels off after reaching a certain mode number, even has an obviously rising trend.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 719-720)
• Pages: 1177-1183
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.719-720.1177
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Wei Zheng*, Long Ye, Jing Ling Wang, Qin Zhang
• Keywords: Intra Prediction, Mode Index, Prediction Mode, Side Information, Video Coding

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