An efficient scalable intra coding algorithm for spatial scalability in enhancement layer
Zhang Wang, Lijun Lu · International Journal of Electronics · 2011
Scalable video coding (SVC) is attractive due to the capability of reconstructing lower resolution or lower quality signals from partial bit streams, which allows for simple solutions adaptted to network and terminal capabilities. This article addresses the spatial scalability of SVC and proposes an efficient H.264-based scalable intra coding algorithm. In comparison with precious single layer intra prediction (SLIP) method, the proposed algorithm aims to improve the intra coding performance of the enhancement layer by a new inter layer intra prediction (ILIP) method. The main idea of ILIP is that up-sampled and reconstructed pixels of the base layer are very useful to predict and encode those pixels of the enhancement layer, especially when those neighbouring pixels are not available. Experimental results show that the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) data of luminance component of encoded frames are improved, and both bit-rates and computation complexity are maintained very well. For sequence Football, the average increase of PSNR is up to 0.21 dB, while for Foreman and Bus, they are 0.14 dB and 0.17 dB, respectively.