Adaptive frame level rate control in 3D-HEVC

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new frame level rate control algorithm for the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) based 3D video (3DV) compression standard. In the proposed scheme, a new initial quantization parameter (QP) decision scheme is provided, and the bit allocation for each view is investigated to smooth the bitrate fluctuation and reach accurate rate control. Meanwhile, a simplified complexity estimation method for the extended view is introduced to reduce the computational complexity while improves the coding performance. The experimental results on 3DV test sequences demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve better R-D performance and more accurate rate control compared to the benchmark algorithms in HTM10.0. The maximum performance improvement can be up to 12.4% and the average BD-rate gain for each view is 5.2%, 6.5% and 6.6% respectively.