Efficient Software HEVC to AVS2 Transcoding

Yucong Chen; Yun Zhou; Jiangtao Wen

doi:10.3390/info7030053

Information (Sep 2016)

Efficient Software HEVC to AVS2 Transcoding

Yucong Chen,
Yun Zhou,
Jiangtao Wen

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Yucong Chen: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Yun Zhou: Academy of Broadcasting Science, State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of The People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT), Beijing 100045, China
Jiangtao Wen: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/info7030053
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 3
p. 53

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The second generation of Audio and Video coding Standard (AVS) is developed by the IEEE 1857 Working Group under project 1857.4 and was standardized in 2016 by the AVS Working Group of China as the new broadcasting standard AVS2. High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) is the newest global video coding standard announced in 2013. More and more codings are migrating from H.264/AVC to HEVC because of its higher compression performance. In this paper, we propose an efficient HEVC to AVS2 transcoding algorithm, which applies a multi-stage decoding information utilization framework to maximize the usage of the decoding information in the transcoding process. The proposed algorithm achieves 11×–17× speed gains over the AVS2 reference software RD 14.0 with a modest BD-rate loss of 9.6%–16.6%.

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ISSN: 2078-2489 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Technology (General): Industrial engineering. Management engineering: Information technology
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