A Fast Algorithm for HEVC Screen Content Coding

Abstract

As a high efficiency video coding (HEVC) extension, screen content coding (SCC) has a significant effect in the compressed screen content, but causes a problem encoder calculates a higher complexity. This paper proposes a fast decision method based on HEVC screen content coding. The image content is divided into a natural coding unit (NCU) and a screen coding unit (SCU). The image gradients of different properties are different, and the gini impurity classification gradient value is used to speed up the encoding speed. The experimental results show that under the frame configuration of HM-15.0 SCM-2.0, the method can save about 41.4% of the encoder time.