Macroblock-Level Rate Control Scheme for Video Encoders

Rate control plays an important role in video coding.An algorithm is proposed by Tsai et al in which maeroblock's coding order is rearranged to improve the coding quality.However,the complexityis very high due to the change of macrobiock's coding order.In this paper,a macroblocl-level rate control algorithm is proposed which recalculates the quantization parameter of each macroblock based on its significance.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm not only achieves 0.1-0.6 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) but also reduces 33%-55% total encoding time compared to Tsai's algorithm.