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

Table 3

Average SSIM comparison of the proposed, PRDO, and JM10.1 algorithms (QP = 28).

Sequence	Target bit rate (kbps)	JM10.1	PRDO	Proposed
Crew	64	0.6330	0.6409	0.6434
Carphone	64	0.7703	0.7788	0.7819
Highway	64	0.7748	0.7815	0.7846
Foreman	64	0.7611	0.7686	0.7717
Claire	64	0.7135	0.7215	0.7250
Crew	128	0.7710	0.7791	0.7815
Carphone	128	0.8430	0.8497	0.8529
Highway	128	0.8142	0.8198	0.8219
Foreman	128	0.8263	0.8332	0.8359
Claire	128	0.7753	0.7829	0.7855
Crew	256	0.8614	0.8678	0.8706
Carphone	256	0.8770	0.8829	0.8864
Highway	256	0.8428	0.8477	0.8503
Foreman	256	0.8862	0.8908	0.8942
Claire	256	0.8319	0.8378	0.8409
Crew	512	0.9236	0.9275	0.9296
Carphone	512	0.9071	0.9122	0.9146
Highway	512	0.8694	0.8742	0.8775
Foreman	512	0.9328	0.9359	0.9380
Claire	512	0.8437	0.8491	0.8524