In real-time, two way video communications, how to minimize the end-to-end delay for transmitting video data is very important. Since the delay produced by bits accumulated in the encoder buffer must be very small, we need an improved rate control to encode the video with high quality and maintain low buffer fullness. One approach to reduce the buffer fullness is to skip the encoding frames, but the frame-skipping will produce undesirable motion discontinuity in the encoded video sequence. In this thesis, we study the impact of low delay constraint in H.264 rate control and its improvements. The drawback of the H.264 rate control is it cannot handle the frame-skipping mechanism well. To modify this, we control the quantization parameter of each I-frame to avoid the buffer overflow and frame-skipping. Since encoding the I-frame by different quantization parameter will generate different rate and distortion for a group of pictures (GOP), we use Lagrangian optimization to find the tradeoff between rate and distortion for a GOP. By the estimation models of rate and distortion for a GOP, calculate the Lagrangian cost for each possible quantization parameter of I-frame, the quantization parameter with minimum Lagrangian cost will be our choice for I-frame. Simulation results show that our proposed rate control encode the video sequence with less skipped frames and with higher PSNR compared to H.264 rate control under low delay constraint.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0817104-152738 |
| Date | 17 August 2004 |
| Creators | Wu, Sheng-Wang |
| Contributors | Mon-Yen Lwo, Wen-Shyong Hsieh, Lih-Shyang Chen, Chu-Sing Yang, Tsung-Chuan Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0817104-152738 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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