Abstract
Nowadays, a well-established video coding method is based on the block-matching algorithm that is in the core of all MPEG and H.26x standards. However, this method involves motion estimation and compensation; thus the computational complexity is high. However, the video coding based on three-dimensional discrete cosine transform (3D DCT) is a potential method, and the scanning order and quantisation of 3D DCT coefficients play a crucial role in coding effect. So, the statistical performances of 3D DCT are studied in this paper, and then adaptive scanning order and quantisation of 3D coefficients are proposed. The theoretical analysis and experiment results show significant improvement in performance over previously reported methods.