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Optimal GOP Size of H.264/AVC Temporal Scalable Coding

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 21))

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Scalable video coding (SVC) encodes image sequences into a single bit stream that can be adapted to various network and terminal capabilities. The H.264/AVC standard includes three kinds of video scalability, spatial scalability, quality scalability, and temporal scalability that renders different frame rates from coded bit streams. The set of pictures from one temporal base layer to the next is referred to as a group of pictures (GOP). In this paper, we investigate the GOP size that achieves the best rate-distortion performance. The factors that affect the optimal GOP size, such as video characteristics and quantization parameter (QP), are explored as well.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan

    Wei-Lune Tang & Shih-Hsuan Yang

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  1. of Applied Sciences, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University, Jiàngōng Road, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan R.O.C.

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

  2. , Department of Computer Science and, National Dong Hwa University, #1, Sec. 2, Da Hsueh Rd., Hualien, Taiwan R.O.C.

    Ching-Nung Yang

  3. , Department of Computer Science and, Providence University, #200, Chung-shi Rd., Taichung, Taiwan R.O.C.

    Chia-Chen Lin

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Tang, WL., Yang, SH. (2013). Optimal GOP Size of H.264/AVC Temporal Scalable Coding. In: Pan, JS., Yang, CN., Lin, CC. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35473-1_41

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