Rate model considering inter-symbol dependency for HEVC inter-frame coding

In this paper, an accurate rate model is proposed for inter-frame coding of high-efficiency video coding, which is useful for rate control. The proposed model considers the effect of entropy coding where the inter-symbol dependency is exploited in context- adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) for saving coded bits. The mutual information is first predicted to measure the reduction of uncertain information in CABAC, and then the conditional entropy is calculated to estimate the output bit-rate of inter-frame residues. Since the source characteristic also significantly impacts on the building of rate model, a joint Laplacian distribution source at the transform unit levels is employed in the proposed rate model. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves a better rate-distortion performance in rate control. The proposed approach can be also extended to other video codecs using CABAC for the design of rate models.