Macroblock Layer Rate Control Based on Structural Similarity and Mean Absolute Difference for H.264

Table 2

Average SSIM comparison of the proposed, PRDO, and JM10.1 algorithms (QP = 23).

Sequence	Target bit rate (kbps)	JM10.1	PRDO	Proposed
Crew	64	0.6032	0.6113	0.6140
Carphone	64	0.7851	0.7926	0.7954
Highway	64	0.7810	0.7879	0.7908
Foreman	64	0.7365	0.7468	0.7500
Claire	64	0.7498	0.7569	0.7597
Crew	128	0.7495	0.7560	0.7581
Carphone	128	0.8252	0.8321	0.8348
Highway	128	0.8235	0.8341	0.8362
Foreman	128	0.8452	0.8515	0.8540
Claire	128	0.8015	0.8078	0.8107
Crew	256	0.8634	0.8694	0.8722
Carphone	256	0.8853	0.8911	0.8943
Highway	256	0.8481	0.8544	0.8565
Foreman	256	0.8984	0.9025	0.9058
Claire	256	0.8433	0.8494	0.8519
Crew	512	0.9249	0.9280	0.9305
Carphone	512	0.9105	0.9146	0.9173
Highway	512	0.8742	0.8787	0.8815
Foreman	512	0.9368	0.9402	0.8424
Claire	512	0.8566	0.8619	0.8648