Abstract
The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard significantly improves coding efficiency over H.264/AVC, at the cost of heavy encoding and decoding complexity. For reducing HEVC decoding complexity to a target, we propose in this paper a Subjective-Quality-Optimized Complexity Control (SQOCC) approach, which optimizes subjective quality loss caused by the decoding complexity reduction. First, a saliency detection method in HEVC domain is developed as the preliminary of subjective quality metric. Based on detected saliency, we establish a formulation to minimize subjective quality loss at the constraint of specific decoding complexity reduction, via disabling the deblocking filters of some Largest Coding Units (LCUs). Next, we utilize least square fitting to model functions in our formulation. We then provide a solution to our formulation, achieving subjective-quality-optimized complexity control for HEVC decoding. Finally, the experimental results show the effectiveness of our SQOC-C approach in terms of both control accuracy and subjective quality.