Efficient rate control schemes for H.264/AVC

In this work, a novel coding characteristics prediction scheme is presented to improve R-D modeling, by exploiting spatio-temporal correlations. Two different approaches to the problem of optimum bit allocation at a macroblock-by-macroblock basis are achieved, one of which is developed on a modified MPEG-4 Q2 rate model and the other on a linear rate model. Extensive experiments show that the linear scheme is a bit more accurate than the quadratic one while they achieve similar coding performance. It's also shown that both the two schemes significantly exceed JVT G012, the current standardized RC scheme.