Radial basis function video rate estimator for constant bit rate MPEG coders

The authors apply a radial basis function (RBF) network to constant bit rate control for an MPEG2 video encoder. The non-stationary property of the video data has been exploited effectively by using the RBF network as a rate estimator in a feedforward rate control algorithm. The performance of this scheme is evaluated in comparison with Test Model 5 (TM5), by measuring video rate and picture quality.