A unified and complexity scalable entropy coding scheme for video compression
Matthias Preiss, Detlev Marpe, Benjamin A. Bross, Valeri George, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Tung Lam Nguyen, Mischa Siekmann, Jan P. Stegemann, Thomas Wiegand · 2012
The state-of-the-art hybrid video coding standard H.264/AVC defines two entropy-coding schemes with different complexity-performance trade-offs. Supporting these two schemes within a single standard raises several problems ranging from higher efforts for product development to increased silicon costs for hardware implementations. To overcome these issues, this work proposes a unified and complexity-scalable entropy-coding framework that is based on PIPE/V2V. The proposed framework uses a single set of tools for all configurations and achieves the same complexity-performance trade-offs as the existing entropy-coding schemes through scalability.