Adaptive intra mode bit skip in intra coding

Abstract

To reduce spatial redundancies in intra coding, Intra 4times4 mode provides nine directional prediction modes for every 4times4 block. In this paper, an adaptive intra mode bit skip method is proposed to improve coding efficiency in intra coding. The proposed method improves coding efficiency and reduces encoding complexity. Experimental results show that the average bit-rate reduction of 2.86% and 6.58% are achieved at the medium bitrate and low bitrate, respectively. In addition to that, encoding complexity is saved about 42% at the QP values of 27 and 32.