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To improve video quality and coding efficiency, H.264/AVC [1] has adopted several newer coding tools such as a 4×4 integer DCT and a method for calculating half pixels than the previous standards. However, these tools require additional work to transcode video content for pre-coded in the previous standards to H.264/AVC in the DCT domain. In this paper, we propose, as far as we know, the first half-pixel correction method for MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding in the DCT domain. In the proposed method, an MPEG-2 block is added to the correction block obtained from the difference between half-pixel values of the two standards using a DCT reference frame. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better quality than the pixel based transcoding method.
The work was supported by Pusan National University Research Grant.
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Kwon, Sy., Lee, Jk., Chung, Kd. (2005). Half-Pixel Correction for MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding. In: Roli, F., Vitulano, S. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005. ICIAP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3617. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553595_71
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