Bit rate reduction of H.264/AVC video coding for mobile applications

The increasing use of mobile applications requires higher compression efficiency for video coding. However, in mobile applications, the capability of the processor is limited and the channel is unreliable. Since the emerging H.264/AVC video coding standard provides superior compression performance compared to all the existing video coding standards, many research efforts concentrate on the compression efficiency of intra-frame coding in H.264/AVC. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to reduce the bit rate compressed by H.264/AVC intra-frame coding. We focus on the method to code the intra-frame prediction modes. Our proposed method significantly reduces the bits used to code the modes and do not change the syntax of the bit stream. Experimental results demonstrate it is effective and efficient

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