Video Compression Algorithm Based on All Phase Biorthogonal Transform and MPEG-2

As the international video coding standard, MPEG-2 has been widely used in today’s digital video applications. However, its quantization operation is complex. To simplify this operation, we propose a new algorithm for the intra frame transform-coding in this paper, instead of the conventional algorithm that using discrete cosine transform (DCT). This new algorithm is based on the all phase biorthogonal transform (APBT) theory, which has three kinds of forms in accordance with different transform matrices, referred to as the all phase Walsh biorthogonal transform (APWBT), the all phase discrete cosine biorthogonal transform (APDCBT), and the all phase inverse discrete cosine biorthogonal transform (APIDCBT). Compared with the conventional DCT, APBT reduces the inter-pixel redundancy and the computational complexity using the uniform quantization for the intra frames transform-coding. Experimental results show that the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) of the proposed algorithm performs close to the DCT for the tested frames, and there is no difference in visual quality.