The H. 264/AVC standard is a video compression standard that was jointly developed by the
ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Motion Picture Experts Group. The H …

To improve coding efficiency, the H. 264/AVC video coding standard uses new coding tools,
such as variable block size, quarter-pixel-accuracy motion estimation, multiple reference …

In this paper, a new fast mode-selection approach is proposed. This algorithm combines the
proposed approaches of mode pre-decision and precise large-small mode decision, by …

In order to reduce the heavy computation burden of H. 264 encoder, an adaptive scheme is
proposed to jointly optimize motion estimation and mode decision process. The proposed …

The emerging H. 264/AVC video coding standard improves coding performance significantly
by adopting many advanced techniques. This is achieved at the expense of great increase …

Compared to contemporary video coding standards, the H. 264 standard achieves higher
compression efficiency at the expense of high computational complexity at the encoder to …

The macroblock mode decision in inter frames is computationally the most expensive
process due to the use of features such as variable block size, motion estimation and quarter …

The outstanding coding performance of H. 264 comes with the cost of significantly higher
complexity, making it too complex to be applied widely. This work aims at accelerating the H …

To achieve high coding efficiency, the new H. 264/AVC standard developed more advanced
coding tools than previous standards such as powerful prediction techniques and rate …

H. 264 provides various useful features such as improved coding efficiency and error
robustness. These features enable mobile device to adopt H. 264/AVC standard to achieve …