AN ADAPTIVE COEFFICIENT SCANNING SCHEME FOR INTER-PREDICTION CODING

Transform coefficient scan is an important procedure of video coding. In video coding standards such as MPEG2, H.264 and AVS, there are zig-zag scan for frame coding and field scan for field coding. In this paper, a novel adaptive coefficient scanning scheme for inter-prediction coding is proposed. This scheme includes scanning pattern generation based on DCT energy statistical calculation and macroblock level Rate-Distortion Optimized scanning pattern selection. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive coefficient scanning scheme can achieve significant compression improvement.

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