Optimize x265 Rate Control : An Exploration of Lookahead in Frame Bit Allocation and Slice Type Decision

To improve the Rate-Distortion (R-D) quality, x265 rate-control made a variety vital decisions, such as scene cut detection, slice type decision, and coding-unit quantization parameter (QP) offsets, leveraging on lookahead to evaluate the information propagation through the current and the near futu...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - (2018) vom: 17. Dez.
1. Verfasser: Liu, Zhenyu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Libo, Li, Xiaobo, Ji, Xiangyang
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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