Reducing Complexity of HEVC: A Deep Learning Approach.

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) significantly reduces bit rates over the preceding H.264 standard but at the expense of extremely high encoding complexity. In HEVC, the quad-tree partition of the coding unit (CU) consumes a large proportion of the HEVC encoding complexity, due to the brute-force search for rate-distortion optimization (RDO). Therefore, this paper proposes a deep learning appro...