An Efficient Motion Estimation Method for H.264-Based Video Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Conversion
Jiao Wang, En‐hui Yang, Xiang Yang Yu · 2007
Motivated by the wide adoption of H.264 and the demand of universal multimedia data access over the expanding network with diverse devices, this paper studies H.264-based video transcoding with spatial resolution conversion. First, a practical solution for efficiently determining a reference frame is proposed to take advantage of the new feature of multiple references in H.264. Then, a motion vector estimation algorithm based on a multiple linear regression model is proposed to utilize the motion information in the original scenes for efficiently predicting motion vectors in the down-scaled scene. Experimental results show that, compared with a benchmark solution, the proposed method significantly reduces the transcoding complexity by 16 times while maintaining comparable rate distortion performance with a decrease of 0.06 dB in PSNR and 4% increase in the bit rate.