Adaptive quantization in a perceptive uniform color space: an application to H.263 coding

Gaetano Scarano; Stefania Colonnese; S. Pratico; Giuseppe Russo

doi:10.1117/12.263214

10 January 1997 Adaptive quantization in a perceptive uniform color space: an application to H.263 coding

Gaetano Scarano, Stefania Colonnese, S. Pratico, Giuseppe Russo

Proceedings Volume 3024, Visual Communications and Image Processing '97; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.263214
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this work we propose a method for adaptive quantization of motion compensation residuals, in an H.263 coding scheme, based on color information. In the proposed strategy, the perceptive distance between the original and the predicted version of each macroblock is evaluated in the perceptive uniform color space L, a, b. Exploiting the properties of the perceptive uniform color spaces, the color distance is easily evaluated by means of the Euclidean distance, and its average value is compared with a threshold in order to choose the suitable quantization. Simulation results show that the adaptive quantization is very efficient in reducing the bit-rate when the sequences exhibit slow regular motion, and the quantization performances are upper-bounded by the motion compensation performances. In fact, for sequences with low-medium amount of motion, the block-based motion compensation efficiently predicts the actual frame from adjacent ones and the residuals are due to noise, or to small color variations. Then, in these cases, the adaptive quantization can provide significant bit-rate reduction, without subjective quality degradation. The proposed strategy is strictly compatible with the H.263 coding standard; however it is quite general, and can be useful exploited in different coding frameworks, based on various motion compensation techniques, whenever motion compensation residuals are evaluated.

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Gaetano Scarano, Stefania Colonnese, S. Pratico, and Giuseppe Russo "Adaptive quantization in a perceptive uniform color space: an application to H.263 coding", Proc. SPIE 3024, Visual Communications and Image Processing '97, (10 January 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.263214

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