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Joint transform-domain-translated algorithm for MPEG-2 to H.264 downscaling intraframe transcoding

Joint transform-domain-translated algorithm for MPEG-2 to H.264 downscaling intraframe transcoding

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A joint transform-domain-translated (JTT) algorithm, which can achieve fast MPEG-2 to H.264 downscaling intraframe transcoding, is proposed. The proposed JTT algorithm effectively combines the 8×8 inverse discrete cosine transform, the 2:1 downscaler and the 4×4 integer transform without involving any complex pixel processes in the spatial domain. The authors also suggest a fast realisation of the JTT algorithm to further reduce its computation. The proposed JTT-transcoding method saves a lot of computation compared with some of the existing approaches in transcoding processing. Experimental results show that the proposed JTT algorithm effectively converts the MPEG-2 intraframe to H.264 intraframe to achieve almost identical PSNR performance compared with the pixel-domain decode-downsize-encode transcoder, which involves MPEG-2 decoding, spatial-domain downsizing and H.264 encoding processes.

Inspec keywords: transcoding; video coding; transform coding; discrete cosine transforms

Other keywords: H.264 intraframe; joint transform-domain-translated algorithm; MPEG-2 intraframe; PSNR performance; integer transform; inverse discrete cosine transform; downscaling intraframe transcoding; video transcoding

Subjects: Image and video coding; Video signal processing; Integral transforms; Integral transforms

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