TR2006-074

Motion and Mode Mapping for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding
Citation: Xin, J.; Vetro, A.; Sekiguchi, S.; Sugimoto, K., "Motion and Mode Mapping for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), ISBN: 1-4244-0367-7, pp. 313-316, July 2006 (IEEE Xplore)
Date:July 2006
MERL Contact:Anthony Vetro

This paper describes novel low-complexity transcoding techniques for an efficient MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoder. We present a motion and mode mapping algorithm that directly maps incoming MPEG-2 motion information to H.264/AVC motion vectors as well as coding modes. Refinement strategies are also presented to improve performance. Experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed low-complexity transcoder.

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