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A Real-Time Low-Rate Video Compression Algorithm Using Multi-Stage Hierarchical Vector Quantization

Kazutoshi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiko TERADA, Hidetoshi ONODERA, Keikichi TAMARU

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We propose a real-time low-rate video compression algorithm using fixed-rate multi-stage hierarchical vector quantization. Vector quantization is suitable for mobile computing, since it demands small computation on decoding. The proposed algorithm enables transmission of 10 QCIF frames per second over a low-rate 29.2 kbps mobile channel. A frame is hierarchically divided by sub-blocks. A frame of images is compressed in a fixed rate at any video activity. For active frames, large sub-blocks for low resolution are mainly transmitted. For inactive frames, smaller sub-blocks for high resolution can be transmitted successively after a motion-compensated frame. We develop a compression system which consists of a host computer and a memory-based processor for the nearest neighbor search on VQ. Our algorithm guarantees real-time decoding on a poor CPU.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E82-A No.2 pp.215-222
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1999/02/25
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Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI for Digital Signal Processing)
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