FastCoding Unit Size Selection for HEVC based on Bayesian Decision Rule
Abstract—HighEfficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is being developed by JointCollaborative Team on Video Coding (JCTVC).The new standardaims at a significant improvement on Rate Distortion (RD)performance over state-of-the-art video coding standards.Some new efficient coding tools are adopted,such as flexibledata structure representation: Coding Unit(CU), PredictionUnit (PU), and Transform Unit (TU).Meanwhile, these newtools impose lots of complexity. We propose a CU sizeision algorithm that greatly reduces the complexity of HEVC.The proposed algorithm collects relevant andcomputational-friendly features to assist decisions on CU splitting. Tominimize the RD loss of the fast algorithm, a Bayesian decisionrule is defined, based on which the encoder can save 41.4% encodi